from where you are

"so far away from where you are..i'm standing underneath the stars, and i wish you were here." -lifehouse

dwell on dreams

"it does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." -harry potter and the sorcerer's stone

sweet serendipity

"i don't ask for a lot, no..nothing more than i need..because i love what i got..don't need to play the lottery, i just want to be strong." -lee dewyze

firework

"you don't have to feel like a waste of space..you're original, cannot be replaced..if you only knew what the future holds..after a hurricane comes a rainbow. maybe your reason why all the doors are closed, so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road..like a lightning bolt, your heart will glow..and when it's time, you'll know." -katy perry

worst of times

"it's what we do in the worst of times that tells the world who we really are." -the deep end

improper use

"improper use of words is forgivable, compared to improper use of their meaning.” -anonymous

peace within

"may today there be peace within. may you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. may you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. may you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. may you be content with yourself just the way you are." -mother teresa

minds

 "great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." -eleanor roosevelt

wish others greatness

"may every wish that you wish another, be a wish that you wish for yourself. for, in fact, it is. wish others greatness." -suze orman

Life is a Theater

Life is a Theater - Invite Your Audience Carefully

Author Unknown

"Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front-row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance.

It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not going anywhere relationships and friendships. Observe the relationships around you.

Pay close attention.

Which ones lift and which ones lean? Which ones encourage and which ones discourage? Which ones are on a path of growth and which ones are going downhill? When you leave the company of certain people, do you feel better or worse? Which ones always have drama, or don’t really understand, know, or appreciate you? Which ones always condemn, criticize, grudge or put you down even in little ways?

The more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.

Remember the people we hang with will have an impact on the quality of our lives and our own moral, spiritual, and emotional well-being. And so, we must be careful to choose the people we hang out with, as well as the information about ourselves that we choose to share with them. We should not share our dreams with negative people, nor feed them with personal information, which they can turn into something negative."

to still be standing

"maybe we're not supposed to be happy. maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. appreciating small victories. admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. and maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. at the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate." -grey's anatomy

my unexpected miracle

"you are my unexpected miracle. i have loved loving you, learning how to love from you. love is a meeting of the minds, a recognition of spirit, a conversation between two hearts..it requires appreciation and acceptance." -general hospital

many things cannot fly

"do not feel sad, it is alright..many things cannot fly - rocks, trees, sticks, spike." -the land before time

well done

"well done is better than well said." -benjamin franklin

who i am

"when i make a big mistake, when i fall flat on my face, i know i'll be alright..should my tender heart be broken, i will cry those teardrops knowing i will be just fine cause nothing changes who i am." -jessica andrews

the lion king

"oh yes, the past can hurt. but the way that i see it - you can either run from it or learn from it." -the lion king

some birds

"some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright...and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice...but still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone." -the shawshank redemption

love

"one word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love." -sophocles

get married or learn something

"people say everything happens for a reason..these people are usually women..and these women are usually sorting through a breakup..it seems that men can get out of a relationship without even a goodbye but, apparently, women have to either get married or learn something." -sex and the city

love me for me

"my head is spinning but my heart is in the right place.. sometimes it has to have itself a little earthquake" -ashlee simpson

broken

"the broken clock is a comfort, it helps me sleep tonight..maybe it can stop tomorrow from stealing all my time." -lifehouse

taking time

"why is just taking time a waste of it?" -perfect match

love the way you lie

"you ever love somebody so much you can barely breathe? when you're with them, you meet and neither one of you even know what hit em..got that warm fuzzy feeling." -eminem

shakespeare sonnet 116

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."

-Shakespeare Sonnet 116

difficult to just believe

"as we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. it's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened that we just can't." -now and then

the decision to try

"every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." -unknown

a wise man

"he is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." -epictetus

practice being brave

"takes chances, make mistakes. that's how you grow. pain nourishes your courage. you have to fail in order to practice being brave." -mary tyler moore

fate

"fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." -the matrix

live a little

"step back, smell the rose, feel the sand between your toes..unplug, unwind, step out in the sunshine..need to live a little, have some fun, take some time, waste it on number one." -kenny chesney

the earth turned

"the earth turned to bring us closer..it spun on itself and within us, and finally joined us together in this dream." -eugenio montejo

who you are

"it's hard enough figuring out who you are, why mess that up by trying to be someone else? who you are is both unique and new and it may be just what the world needs right now." -willie nelson

understood

"some people aren't meant to be understood." -jo dee messina

felt with the heart

"the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched..they must be felt with the heart." -the little prince

give till it hurts

"the joy supposedly is in the giving..so when the joy is gone, when the giving starts to feel more like a burden, that's when you stop..but if you're like most people i know, you give till it hurts..and then you give some more." -grey's anatomy

accept who you are

"forget about what you thought you were and just accept who you are." -jersey girl

life is a journey

"all of life is a journey; which paths we take, what we look back on, and what we look forward to is up to us. we determine our destination, what kind of road we will take to get there, and how happy we are when we get there." -anonymous

innocent

"lives change like the weather, i hope you remember today is never too late to be brand new." -taylor swift

fantasies

"the fantasy is simple - pleasure is good and twice as much pleasure is better..pain is bad and no pain is better. but the reality is different..the reality is that pain is there to tell us something..and there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomachache. and maybe that's okay, maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live in our dreams." -grey's anatomy

all beautiful things

"by means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful." -socrates

the unexpected

"we all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met..but sometimes expectations sell us short, sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected..we cling to our expectations because the expected is what keeps us steady, standing. still, the expected is just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives." -grey's anatomy

where is home

"where is home? home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace." -vernon baker

true love

"i pray you will realize that a happy ending is not the same as happily ever after..and that fairy tales are fiction, but love - true love that is trustworthy, steadfast, and reliable - is not." -how it ends

can they suffer

"the question is not 'can they reason?' nor 'can they talk?' but rather 'can they suffer?'" -jeremy bentham

look it up

"how about forever, just look it up..it means through thick and thin and pitchin in even when the times get tough." -ashton shepherd

any time i want

"what do you want to marry me for anyhow?" "so i can kiss you any time i want." -sweet home alabama

great enough for love

"heart, are you great enough for a love that never tires? o heart, are you great enough for love?" -alfred lord tennyson

what if

"'what' and 'if' are two words as non-threatening as words can be. but put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: what if? what if? what if?" -letters to juliet

pretending to be normal

"sometimes it's reassuring knowing i'm not the only one pretending to be normal." -dexter

smile

"it took one look and now i'm not the same..you said 'hey' and since that day, you stole my heart and you're the one to blame...and that's why i smile..it's been a while since everyday and everything has felt this right..and now you turn it all aPost Optionsround and suddenly you're all i need...the reason why i smile." -avril lavigne

the house that built me

"you leave home and you move on and you do the best you can..i got lost in this old world and forgot who i am..i thought if i could touch this place or feel it, this brokenness inside me might start healing..out here it's like i'm someone else, i thought that maybe i could find myself..if i could walk around i swear i'll leave..won't take nothing but a memory from the house that built me." -miranda lambert

the best any of us can do

"i admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit..but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got." -sex and the city

together

"we might not have it all together, but together we have it all." -anonymous

the future

"we spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow..but the future is always changing, the future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes..but one thing is certain - when it finally reveals itself, the future is never the way we imagined it." -grey's anatomy

believe in yourself

"believe in yourself and what you have to offer and so will everyone around you." -times union horoscope

last kiss

"hope it's nice where you are..and i hope the sun shines and it's a beautiful day" -taylor swift

hammer and nail

"when the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail" -abraham maslow

miracle

"when this memory fades, i'm gonna make sure it's replaced with chances taken, hope embraced" -paramore

ava maria

"where does everybody go when they go? they go so fast, i don't think they know. we hate so fast and we love too slow." -pink

from now on

"who cares what you didn't do, could have done, should've done? it's what you do now and from now on that really matters." -lipstick jungle

suffering and compassion

"without suffering there would be no compassion." -a walk to remember

ordinary

"you are anything but ordinary" -grey's anatomy

life can be difficult

"life can be difficult sometimes..it gets bumpy, what with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned..but that's what makes it interesting..in life, the first act, always exciting..the second act, that's where the depth comes in." -grownups

enough is enough

"i have to ask you a question. it's a good one so think about it. if two people love each other, but they just can't seem to get it together, when do you get to that point of enough is enough?" "never." -the mexican

strong and gentle

"nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength." -st francis de sales

sunshine

"those who bring sunshine to the lives of others can not keep it from themselves" -dove chocolate wrapper

the best love

"the best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds..and that's what you've given me..that's what i hope to give to you..forever." -the notebook

get anything you want

"you can get anything you want from people if you approach them the right way...five steps..one, make the mark smile..smile at him, people usually smile back..and once they smile, they relax. two, get him to say yes..to anything..if you can get somebody to say yes to something, he's likely to keep on saying it..you're setting up a pattern so that he associates talking with you with saying yes. then three, make him feel superior to you..it increases his confidence and he'll get careless..this is lulling him into a false sense of security. now he's feeling pretty good around you so you want to reinforce that..so on four, you give him something..like a compliment or half of your candy bar..something that makes him feel like he's the one who's ahead in the conversation. then you move in for the kill..on five, ask for what you want but do it so that he thinks you're doing him a favor by taking it. but don't ever push it..if it's not working, drop it and find another way in on another day" -faking it

with you in it

"my world is a better place with you in it." -grey's anatomy

always in your heart

"maybe our mistakes are what make our fate..without them, what would shape our lives? perhaps if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love, or have babies, or be who we are..after all, seasons change, so do cities..people come into your life and people go..but it's comforting to know the ones you love are always in your heart." -sex and the city

little old ladies

"let's become little old ladies together - we'll stay up late looking at old pictures, telling 'remember when' stories, and laughing till our sides ache. let's become eccentric together - the kind of old ladies who take long walks, wear silly hats, and get away with acting outrageous in public places. and if anybody should ask how long we've been friends, we'll say 'oh, forever - since before you were even born!' let's become little old ladies together - because a friendship that's as special as ours can only grow better through the years." -sarah-laney long

relationships

"later that day i got to thinking about relationships...there are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back..but the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself..and if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous." -sex and the city

being who you are

"just being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion." -unknown

at the beginning

"in the end i want to be standing at the beginning with you." -richard marx and donna lewis

do it all the same

"if i had my life to live over, i'd do it all the same." -joan mcintosh

runaround

"i want more than a touch, i want you to reach me..and show me all the things no one else can see..so what you feel becomes mine as well..and soon if we're lucky we'd be unable to tell what's yours and mine." -blues traveler

together all the time

"i think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long..if we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time." -calvin and hobbes

santa claus

"i never believed in santa claus, i never believed in true love..but now that i've met you, do you think santa claus likes peanut butter cookies?" -unknown

forever changed

"i love you..very very simply, very truly..i can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you..i can't look into your eyes without feeling that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels..i can't talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are...please know that i am forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me." -chasing amy

rest of your life

"when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. -when harry met sally

nothing else matters

"i live my life a quarter mile at a time..and for those 10 seconds or less, nothing else matters." -the fast and the furious

best of everybody

"i always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble." -rudyard kipling

unbreakable

"hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable." -the wizard of oz

i use what i got

"give until i ain't got nothin left then i give it some more." -jason aldean

every minute counts

"every minute counts. it's in your kitchen and carpool and office, all of those places, that the value of your life is measured." -elizabeth edwards

impossible

"every great achievement was once considered impossible." -unknown

sing for you

"when the radio dies, will you sing for me?" "i'll break the radio just to sing for you." -unknown

enjoy the breeze

"even if life is flying by, you don't have to catch up to it..just enjoy the breeze it creates." -jeff pirro

dreams are the answers

"dreams are the answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask." -the x-files

return to innocence

"don't be afraid to be weak, don't be too proud to be strong..don't care what people say, just follow your own way." -enigma

i breathe in, i breathe out

"breathe in and breathe out..put one foot in front of the other..take one day at a time until you're fine." -chris cagle

strength and courage

"being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -lao tzu

the way i felt

"and most of all, i'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way i felt when i was with you." -dirty dancing

fight like a girl

"baby you're brave and you're beautiful so hold your head high..don't ever let them define the light in your eyes..love yourself, give them hell..you can take on this world, you just stand and be strong and then fight like a girl..with style and grace, kick ass and take names." -bomshel

spectacular view

"at some point, you have to make a decision. boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in. life is messy, that's how we're made..so you can waste your life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them..but there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross. here's what i know - if you're willing to throw caution to the wind and take a chance, the view from the other side is spectacular." -grey's anatomy

lessons learned

"and all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong..you can't change the past cause it's gone..and you just gotta move on because it's all lessons learned." -carrie underwood

wish we didn't

"advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -erica jong

what he can't

"a man's got to do what a man's got to do..a woman must do what he can't." -rhonda hansome

the song in your heart

"a friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." -unknown

nothing to lose

"careful son, a man with nothing to lose has nothing to live for." -general hospital