A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know.
( Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury )

I believe in true love. I believe in love at first sight. I believe love conquers all. And that doesn't mean there's not gonna be hard days or difficult things to deal with, because there will be. But finding that person who does it for you and knowing that person loves you back, it just makes everything so much easier.
( One Tree Hill )

To laugh often and to love much, to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sing with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived - this is to have succeeded.
( Ralph Waldo Emerson )

Lift your head, baby, don't be scared of the things that could go wrong along the way. You'll get by with a smile. Now it's time to kiss away those tears goodbye.
( With a Smile | Eraserhead )

The hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when feelings got too strong I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them, in fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't want to ever forget that.
( The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks )

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses. All of us. Didn't your father ever tell you that? Didn't he?
( A Little Princes by Frances Hodgson Burnett )

In short, I have no real faith in my own happiness. And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.
( Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin )

When you truly care for someone, you don't look for faults. You don't look for answers. You don't look for mistakes. Instead, you fight the mistakes. You accept the faults and you overlook excuses. The measure of love is when you love without measure. There are rare chances that you'll meet the person you love and who loves you in return. So once you have it, don't let it go. The chance may never come your way again.

I never used to be jealous, then I liked you. now I'm jealous of just about every girl that you talk to, smile at, or even wave at. All because in those seconds when you looked into her eyes, I wasn't on your mind.

I'd rather have the down-right, honest to God truth, even if it hurts me. Are you interested in me? Or are you not? Stop strining me along and face me. Please, tell me the truth so I could either love you completely or move on.

A drop in the ocean. A change in the weather. I was praying you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert, but I'm holding you closer than most, 'cause you are my heaven.
( A Drop in the Ocean | Ron Pope )

You're wishing for something you could never have, ignoring the good in all you've always had. Stop running away, stop lying to yourself. Because no matter what, you'll always ask for another chance.

Sometimes the best things in life are worth waiting for. But sometimes you have to go out there and get what you want yourself.

Do you know what hurts most about a broken heart? Not being able to remember how you felt before. Try and keep that feeling because if it goes, it never gets back.
( Skins )

That's the point. If life doesn't make you crazy, then why bother living it? I know that's how I want it.
( Smallville )

A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the woman he loves. If he's not calling you to tell you he loves you and wants you back, it should only be because he's showing up at your new residence to do it in person... if he's not doing any of that, he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately, he's just not that into you. Stop taking his calls and let him know what it's like to live without you.

One day, you're going to want that specific girl. That one that wasn't perfect but tried to be for you.The girl who wanted nothing more than to be there for you, and love you the only way she knew she could. The girl who sees your flaws, but values them as much as your strengths. That girl who still cant bring herself to hate you, even though you probably deserve it. That girl who saw past your pretty face and treasured parts of you that no one else appreciated. And by the time you realize that's the girl you've always been looking for, she might not be there anymore.

You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when it’s right, it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Truth about girls: it doesn't matter who dumped who or why. Whenever we see an ex with another girl, it always bothers us. Not because we're not over you, but because we know that we used to be that girl.

And I can’t promise you fucking fairy tale shit and I can’t tell you that I’m not capable of doing some really shitty things, because I am. But, I’ll never be someone you can’t trust. That promise, I can make.

I know he's not perfect, but he tries so hard for me. and i thank God that he isn't, cause how boring would that be? it's the little imperfections, its the sudden change in plans when he misreads the directions, and we're lost but holding hands. yeah i live for little moments when he steals my heart again and doesn't even know it. yeah i live for little moments like that.

i'm not that good of a person. i make mistakes, i have regrets, and i act like i'm alot smarter than i actually am. i cry, i laugh way too loud, and things just seem to get to me. basically, i'm saying i'm not perfect but when i'm with you, i forget that, and it just doesn't matter anymore.

I've never been scared of someone before, sometimes a little intimidated, but never scared. But you, you scare me. With your beautiful eyes and your amazing smile. I'm scared that I'll want to love you forever and you'll only want me for a few moments in your life.

He brings out the best in me. He helped me remember what it was like, to, I don't know, be content with my life? He picked up the pieces to the puzzle you gave up on when things got the least bit challenging, and hell, he finished the damn thing, too.

Take chances, alot of them. because honestly no matter where you end up and with who, it always ends up the way it should be. your mistakes make you who you are. you learn and grow with each choice you make. everything is worth it. say how you feel, always be you, and be okay with it.

Everyone always wishes that they were prettier, smarter, skinnier, richer. But do you really want that? Think about it, if one little thing in your life was different, maybe you wouldn't have met your best friends or your boyfriend. Maybe you wouldn't have experienced half the things you have been through. Don't ever wish you were someone else, because youre here for a reason. Youre here to change someones life and you can only do that by being who you are.

At some point, you’ve got to man up and jump. you’ve got to quit being scared of the “maybes” and “what-ifs” and just freaking jump. quit cheating yourself out of the best thing that could ever happen to you, quit cheating him out of what he’s wanted for so long, and just fall. fall hard, fall long, and fall forever. And yes, it turns out that sometimes you have to do the wrong thing. Sometimes you have to make a mistake to figure out how to make things right. Mistakes are painful, but they are the only way to figure out who you really are.

Behind every beautiful girl there’s a dumb ass boy who’s done her wrong and made her strong.

Never expect, never assume, never ask and never demand. Just let it be. Because if it’s meant to be, it will happen the way you want things to be.

i find it really weird that the person you are going to marry is walking the earth right now and you may have seen them somewhere in the past but they were a stranger to you at that moment in time.

I may be a little lonely. I may text you a lot or want to talk to you as much as possible. But at least I'm putting myself out there, and one day I will find love. I will find someone that makes me happy for all the right reasons. Just you wait and see.

The best relationship is when you two can act like lovers and best friends. It’s when you have more playful moments than serious moments. It’s when you can joke around, have unexpected hugs, and random kisses. It’s when you two give each other that specific stare and just smile. It’s when you rather chill inside to watch movies, eat junk food, and cuddle than go out all the time. It’s when you’ll stay up all night just to settle your arguments and problems. It’s when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are.

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

I get the whole "He's the only guy i've ever really been in love with" part. It's hard to let go, hard to move on to someone else and think you'll never find anyone with such characteristics or chemistry like you two had, but I promise you, once you let go and move on, you'll find out that, deep down, the only feelings you have for him might be just the fact that you'll always love him.

There comes a point where you miss someone so much that you can hear their voice echo in your head and you can hear the names that they used to call you; the words they used to tell you. You memorized their laugh, their smile and their silly ways. You can also feel their arms around you and you don't want to let go even though you know that it's just an illusion. Every time your phone rings, you smile because it's them that's calling you. Every time you hear their name, your heart beats a hundred times faster and sometimes, you can't even breathe. You knew that looking back on the tears would make you laugh but you never knew that looking back on the laughs would also make you cry. And all you would want is to go back in time. Not to the time that you first met, to the time that you were known as nothing but strangers. But no matter what, you're in denial. You hide your feelings, so no one would know. You put on a fake smile and don't let a single tear break through. You're so used to hiding your feelings that you don't even realize the pain you're causing for yourself. Your thoughts become invisible. It's still there, but no one knows. Like a love letter you didn't show. And you're hurting no one but yourself.

promise me, that's all i want. just promise me that you'll never forget me. tell me i changed you somehow. let me know that i had an impact on your life. promise me that you'll always remember me. losing you was hard enough, but i don't want to go on knowing i mean absolutely nothing to you.

How many times do we forgive someone just because we don't want to lose them, even though they don't deserve our forgiveness?

I love that moment. When you're on a long car ride, or listening to music, or reading. And you completely zone out. You forget your troubles, and everyone around you. You're focused on that one thing, and that one thing only. You're content, and everything seems peaceful.

Don't ever use someone's past against them. You're just reminding them of the mistakes they made back then. If you watch their facial expression carefully, then you'll see the hurt in their eyes as they reminisce everything that happened. Never use emotion as a weapon, it strikes deeper than you can imagine.

I am strong because I am weak. I am beautiful because I know my flaws. I am a lover because I am a fighter. I am fearless because I have been afraid. I am smart because I have been stupid. And I can laugh because I've known sadness.

Maybe some people don't change, you just never knew who they really were.

& I swear, Every boy wants better than what he already has. And THEN guys wonder why girls are so insecure. It seems like we’re never truly good enough for them.

He's gonna be so sorry he lost you, so stop worrying. Forget the past, forget the pain, and remember what an incredible woman you are. When you do that, is when he realize what he's lost.

We cling to music, to poems, to quotes, to writing, to art, because we desperately want to feel together. We want to know that we are not going crazy and that somewhere else out there, someone is feeling exactly what you are feeling. We love everything that is tied up neatly, easily, and simply but when we can not find that, it scares the hell out of us, to not know the next step, or where things are headed. Being unsure is never part of our plan. But it's those moments, the ones where you risk it and take a chance regardless of how vulnerable it makes us, that help us remember that life is larger than we'll ever know

And in that moment I just wanted him to push me hard against a wall and kiss me. I didn't want to think anymore, I didn't want to question it. I just wanted to feel it. Sometimes all we need is just to feel it.

I want to wear your sweatshirt to bed, watch scary movies with you, talk on the phone till sunrise, sneak out at night to look at the stars with you, play your favorite video game, make you watch chick flicks, kiss you in the rain, go on walks with you, laugh until i cant breathe, hold hands, build a fort and have a snowball fight. i want to fall hopelessly in love with you

The most important thing in life is to find yourself, know yourself, and stand up for yourself.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all
- the whole world - had cookies and milk about
3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down
with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic
policy in our nations to always put things back
where we found them and cleaned up our own
messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you
are, when you go out into the world, it is
better to hold hands and stick together.
 ~Robert Fulghum

And I can't stand the way people say,"When I
was a child, I loved elephants," "When I was a
child, I loved ballons." Are they trying to say
that if they stopped and looked at a balloon
today or an elephant, they would not love
them? Why wouldn't they love them?
I think we still love what we always loved.
 ~Wallace Shawn

~It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
~Walt Disney

I like to pretend everything is fine
because when everyone else believes
it, sometimes I do too.

Tragedy blows through your life like a
tornado, uprooting everything, creating
chaos. You wait for the dust to settle,
and then you choose, you can live in the
wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion
you remember or you can crawl from the
rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after
disaster strikes, the important thing is
that you move on, but if you're like me..
you just keep chasing the storm.

No government has the right to tell its
citizens when or whom to love.  The
only queer people are those who
don't love anybody. 
~Rita Mae Brown

That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot
wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred
years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million
dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand.
Every single successful love story has those
unbearable and unbearably exciting moments
of hand holding.
~Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Read, every day, something no one else
is reading.  Think, every day, something
no one else is thinking.  Do, every day,
something no one else would be silly
enough to do.  It is bad for the mind to
continually be part of unanimity. 
~Christopher Morley

He's gorgeous, but gorgeous is an understatement. More
like you're startled every time you see him because
you notice something new in a "Where's Waldo?"
sort of way. More like you can't stop writing third
grade run-on sentences because you can't even
remotely begin to describe something, someone,
so inherently amazing. More like you're afraid
that if you stare at him too long, you'll prove your
parents right that, yes, your face will get stuck that
way. But you don't mind.

Awkward moments define me. I'd sleep
all day if i could. I lack the capability
to keep my mouth closed. Yeah,
everyone has bad days, i just have
more frequent ones. If you don't like
me, don't act like you do; it really
won't offend me. I've made mistakes.
I've let people take advantage of me
and I have accepted way less
than I deserve.

There's only so many times you can allow
someone to let you down before you can't
handle the disappointment anymore. when
things change, people change. there's a
point in life where you get tired of chasing
everyone tryingto fix things, but it's not giving
up, you've got to do what's right for you,
even if it hurts.

you can tell a lot about a person by
the way
they handle four things:
a rainy day; the elderly;

lost luggage; & tangled christmas lights.

At least I expected the disappointment,
right?  I mean, I can't say I was surprised
you hurt me once again. But I can't
say it hurt any less, either.

there was a girl i used to know but i haven’t
seen her in awhile. she was beautiful, smart,
confident, free spirited. she could turn
an uneasy silence into a conversation. she
could make you smile just like that, and
she could even make you cry just like that.
she felt like she could change the world,
paint it different colors. she could conquer
anything. she believed in fairytales, dreams,
and love. until that day when he took his
love away. her smile faded and turned
to tears. and now that the tears have run
dry she feels empty, lonely, even though
she’s not alone. her pride has faded. her
hope seems lost. she doubts herself, no
longer feels worth or beautiful. now the
silence is her own. her eyes have dulled.
her laugh is forever changed. the colors she
tries to paint are now dried up and grey. her
dreams have disappeared. her fairytale is
just a memory that’s long gone all because
he took his love away. i miss that girl. i wonder
if she’ll ever be the same.

People should take there
"i want you to like me" stickers
off their foreheads and put them
where they'd really do some good.
on their mirrors.

New update during school. Prolly short.. might do another one next hour.. and as for the pictures in this post, they're going to focus on color splash photography. :)

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that way we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. --Alexandre Dumas

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy because we will always want to have something else or something more.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. --Dale Carnegie

Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

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Posting a new entry while sitting in class. :)

"I don't scratch my head unless it itches and
I don't dance unless I hear some music. I will
not be intimidated - that's just the way it is."

i wish you luck with a capital F

Dear new girlfriend, treat him okay, he always acts
tough around his friends, but it's just an act. Laugh
at his jokes, even when they're not funny. It makes
him happy. Never be the one to let go of his hugs
first, it puts a huge smile on his face. Realize you
have a great guy when you're dating him...
because i never did.

Some doors, once they're opened, can never be closed again.
Just as some trust, once it's lost, can never be won back.

If your life is so damn comfortable, then why do you
complain? A reflection in the alcohol you're pouring
down the drain. Just because you paint a picture
doesn't mean it fits the frame.

It's been tested by research, that he who
fucks a nun will later join the church..

No one deserves to be treated that way. So even if
you love with your entire heart, every fiber of your
being, with so much passion that it hurts to think
about it, you need to forget what you want and
remember what you deserve.

You tell me, what does it get you if you can
square root a triangle and then some terrorist
shoots you in the head?

You'll never know how strong you are until
being strong is the only choice you have.

I never asked for it to be over. Then again, I never asked
for it to begin. That's the way it is with life, some of the most
beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most
beautiful days have their sunsets.

I think it's important to take the time to tell the people you
love how much you love them while they can hear you.

do you remember what you told me once?
that every passing minute is another chance
to turn it all around.

"When I fell to the floor tonight, I was so scared, I was so
terrified. Then I saw you and I promise myself that if I could
just get up, I'd walk over to you. I'd tell you how much I need
you and how much I want you and how nothing else matters."

There's love enough in this world for
everybody, if people will just look.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly,
laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late,
get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much and pray
too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced
our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

Nothing. Nothing is wrong. And asking is against the rules.
Crying is against the rules. You're strong, don't let them break
you. They're trying to destroy you.

And at some point, I'll call you and tell you I miss you
and tell you, you are the point of my day and my face
will get flushed and my throat will choke up when you
tell me that you feel the same.

Overdose was a success, humiliation was too great.
Now with your estate foreclosed, you will surely lose
your head. Was in a bad place when you punched
your supervisor in the throat, an inadvertent fatal blow,
were the words your lawyer used on the unsympathetic
judge, who was having a bad day, so he threw your life
away. Is faith still comforting you?

A piano might fall on your head but it also might
not and in the meantime you never know, something
nice might happen.

I was surprised that you seemed to understand
that you might never love someone as hard as
you had the first time you'd fall in love. I was even
more surprised to learn that maybe you could.

As long as we're alive, it's nothing more than a bad day.

"You have to forget what other people say, when
you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed
to be loving. You have to forget about these things.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like
heaven." - Jimi Hendrix

The truly painful goodbyes are the ones
that are never said, and never explained.

I've learned that I'm miserable because I can be,
I'm happy when it suits me and I'm lonely because
I choose to be.

That's all for now. :)