once a beginner

"the expert at anything was once a beginner." -helen hayes

the point of a relationship

"the point of a relationship is to see each other, know each other..the warts, the work in progress..free to be who you are, what you are, all you are, trusting that none of it will be rejected." -private practice

passive aggresiva

"there's a land called passive aggresiva and i am its queen." -grey's anatomy

how you made them feel

"i've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -maya angelou

shut out the world

"things will happen in your life that you can't stop. but that's no reason to shut out the world." -now and then

wait, don't go

"this is the part where you're suppose to say 'wait'. yeah see, i'm supposed to start to leave and that's when you forgive me for being such a coward and for being the last one to figure out what everyone already knew. then you call out 'wait, don't go!' and i stop and we hold each other..and then we know that everything's going to be ok." -bed of roses

smile in my heart

"there's a smile in my heart, that i have waited my whole life for." -shyla

time of your life

"time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go..it's not a question, but a lesson learned in time..it's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right..i hope you had the time of your life." -green day

joys we give

"time is not measured by the years we live, but by the deeds we do and the joys we give." -helen steiner rice

just do it

"too often we are scared. scared of what we might not be able to do. scared of what people might think if we tried. we let fears stand in the way of our hopes. we say no when we want to say yes. we sit quietly when we want to scream. and we shout with the others, when we should keep our mouths shut. why? after all, we do only go around once. there's really no time to be afraid. just do it." -nike

mutually satisfying weirdness

"we're all a little weird..and life is a little weird..and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness..and we call it love - true love." -robert fulghum

means nothing

"well if this turns into an 'either or' you pick the person you love, end of story. all of this means nothing if you’re alone." -grey's anatomy

meant to be

"what is meant to be will always find a way." -trisha yearwood

listening or waiting

"when someone else is talking are you listening or waiting to talk?" -pulp fiction

i'll say you

"when they ask what i liked most about life, i'll say you." -city of angels

a new beginning

"who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? it's not on the calendar, it's not a birthday, it's not a new year. it's an event, big or small, something that changes us. ideally, that gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, a way of letting go of old habits, old memories. what's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning, but it's also important to remember that, amid all the crap, there are a few things worth holding on to." -grey's anatomy

worrying

"worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere." -van wilder

extraordinary

"you are not a loser. you are an extraordinary person. you are funny. you are scary smart and intense and gorgeous and larger than life. you deserve to be loved because of those things not in spite of them." -lipstick jungle

missing an opportunity

"you do not get unlimited chances to have the things we want..this i know..nothing is worse than missing an opportunity that could change your life." -grey's anatomy

candles

"you don't have to blow out anybody else's candles to make yours shine brighter." -unknown

bad times

"you have to go through the bad times to get to the good." -christina griffin

stand alone

"you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes, you have to stand alone." -queen latifah

do what you can

"you just have to know. and when you don't know? no one can fault you for it. you do what you can, when you can, while you can. when you can't, you can't." -grey's anatomy

handle it all

"you know when you love somebody, you think you can handle it all." -grey's anatomy

the biggest day of your life

"you never know the biggest day of your life is the biggest day...not until it's happening. you don't recognize the biggest day of your life..not until you're right in the middle of it. the day you commit to something or someone, the day you get your heart broken, the day you meet your soulmate, the day you realize there's not enough time because you wanna live forever..those are the biggest days, the perfect days." -grey's anatomy

once in a life time

"you only meet a once-in-a-life-time friend, once in a life time." -the little rascals

loves of her life

"you're the loves of her life and a guy's just lucky to come in fourth." -sex and the city

perfection

"it's amazing how fleeting perfection can be." -veronica mars

stay here

"i want the future to be unknown..i want to become a whole person again..i want this to be the present..i want to stay here..in this time...with you." -12 monkeys

achieve nothing

"if you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing." -margaret thatcher

luck

"you know what luck is? luck is believing you are lucky, that’s all." -stanley kowalski

just love

"love can't always be perfect..love..is just love." -the wedding planner

simple things in life

"it's funny how it's the simple things in life that mean the most..not where you live, what you drive, or the price tag on your clothes..there's no dollar sign on a peace of mind this i've come to know." -zac brown band

all of us

"in each of us, there is a little of all of us." -georg christoph lichtenberg

lesson about faith

"i think we all learned a valuable lesson about faith. you give it to the people you love. but the people who really deserve it, are the ones who come through even when you don't love them enough." -veronica mars

i choose you

"i get to make my own decisions, have my own life, do whatever the damn hell i choose. now here's the good part, so you listen close. what i choose...is you. you're who i want to wake up with and go to bed with and do everything in between with. i get a choice now. i get to choose. i choose you." -grey's anatomy

destiny

"i don't know if we each have a destiny or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze..but i think maybe it's both..maybe both is happening at the same time." -forrest gump

failure

"failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success." -denis waitley

let your guard down

"everybody thinks that you're their friend okay..but the fact of the matter is that there's not one person that i know that you trust enough that you let close enough that they could hurt you..and her big problem is you really liked her, i mean she was the one girl that you really liked..and no matter what she did or ...how hard she tried you were never gonna let your guard down..that poor girl never stood a chance." -the breakup

be yourself

"don't lose any sleep tonight, i'm sure everything will end up alright..you may win or lose but to be yourself is all that you can do." -audioslave

deserve what you want

"don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want." -10 things i hate about you

everybody is free

i couldn't decide on just one part of this song, it's too full of great advice..so here's the whole thing:

Everybody is Free (To Wear Sunscreen) by Baz Luhrman 

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '99,

Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term
benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more
reliable then my own meandering experience.  I will dispense this advice....now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, nevermind, you won't understand the power and
beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of
yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous
you really looked.

You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future, or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra
equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind: the kind that blindsides you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you. 

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts; don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.  Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.  The race is
long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive; forget the insults. (if you succeed in doing this, tell me how).

Keep your old love letters; throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life.  The most interesting people
I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of Calcium.

Be kind to your knees -- you'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't.  Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't.  Maybe you'll
divorce at 40; maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either.  Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body: use it every way you can.  Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it; it's the
greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance...even if you have no where to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions (even if you don't follow them).

Do not read beauty magazines; they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents; you never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings: they're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but what a precious few should hold on.  

Work hard to bridge the gaps and geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old; and when you
do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children
respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you.  Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse,
but you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you are 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.  Advice is a form of nostalgia;
dispensing it is a way of wishing the past from the disposal--wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and
recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me, on the sunscreen.

go for the great

"don't be afraid to give up the good, to go for the great." -kenny rogers

get a little messed up

"doesn't matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. it follows us home, it changes our lives..trauma messes everybody up. but maybe that's the point..all the pain and the fear and the crap...maybe going through all of that is what keeps us moving forward..it's what pushes us..maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we can step up." -grey's anatomy

sweat or struggle

"do not feel entitled to anything you do not sweat or struggle for." -marian wright edelman

what's in the middle

"beginnings are scary. endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. so, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. and it will." -hope floats

look at you

"because when i look at you, i can feel it..i look at you and i'm home..i don't want that to go away..i don't want to forget." -finding nemo

to be close to somebody

"when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody..so this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. so we pick and choose who we want to remain close to..and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by no matter how much we hurt them..the people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping." -grey's anatomy

be better than yourself

"always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. try to be better than yourself." -william faulkner

loves you just the same

"a friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same." -elbert hubbard

live for yourself

"always live for yourself, no matter how selfish it seems. you are the one staying up in the middle of the night thinking and reviewing all that you didn’t do, and knew you could have done." -unknown

no matter what

"well maybe sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people you trust." "why? why? why is that?" "because you know they'll always love you, no matter what." -the sisterhood of the traveling pants

the truth

"the truth may set you free but first it's gonna piss you off." -gloria steinem

you're right

"whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. -henry ford

self-discipline

"self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not." -elbert hubbard

in a great way

"if you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way." -napoleon hill

worst things in life

"some of the worst things in my life never happened.” -mark twain

pretty simple

"i want to wake up and feel good about who i am. i want to go to sleep knowing i made my family happy, i made myself happy, and i worked hard in all aspects of my life...it's really pretty simple." -katie holmes

be yourself

"be yourself..everyone else is already taken.” -oscar wilde

everything that's yours

"when you love someone, you've got to trust them..there's no other way. you've got to give them the key to everything that's yours..otherwise what's the point?" -casino

all things are possible

"love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility..for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible." -thomas kent

level of thinking

"problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." -albert einstein

sun upon your face

"may the winds always be at your back, and the sun upon your face...and may the winds of destiny carry you up to dance with the stars." -blow

love is everything

"love is everything it's cracked up to be. that's why people are so cynical about it. it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. and the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." -erica jong

first or last time

"look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." -betty smith

our best

"life isn't simple, it's complicated...we're all just thrown in here together..in a world full of chaos and confusion, a world full of questions and no answers..death always lingering around the corner..and we do our best..we can only do our best. you have to go for what you want in life because you never know how long you're going to be here..and whether you succeed or you fail, the most important thing is to have tried..and apparently no one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself...you have to grow up yourself." -death at a funeral

possibilities

"in this life, there are nothing but possibilities." -empire records

fruit loop

"in a world full of cheerios, be a fruit loop." -unknown

deserve me

"i'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. i make mistakes, i am out of control and at times hard to handle. but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." -marilyn monroe

women usually are

"i'm not a child anymore. i'm tall enough to reach for the stars. i'm old enough to love you from afar. too trusting? yes. but then, women usually are." -fleetwood mac

time after time

"if you're lost you can look and you will find me..if you fall i will catch you, i'll be waiting..time after time" -cyndi lauper

man and woman

"if you want something said, ask a man. if you want something done, ask a woman." -margaret thatcher

no obstacles

"if you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." -frank a. clark

everything is ready

"if we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin." -ivan turgenev

effort

"if things aren't going your way, you aren't putting in enough effort." -robert boyle

make it better

"if i go back to the beginning..i could start it over again..i could go line by line..try and find a shorter way...i could try to make it..better." -proof

interested

"you can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." -dale carnegie

stumblings

"i rather like my stumblings. sometimes they lead me to some pretty great places." -jennifer aniston

choose to be

"i believe that we are who we choose to be. nobody is going to come and save you, you’ve got to save yourself. nobody is going to give you anything, you’ve got to go out and fight for it. nobody knows what you want except you, and nobody will be as sorry as you if you don’t get it." -barry manilow

to be with you

"i know what i want. i want to be with you and i'm willing to do whatever it takes to make that happen." -lipstick jungle

key to success

"i don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -bill cosby

loved another

"i am nothing special, of this i am sure. i am a common man with common thoughts and i've led a common life. there are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but i've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." -the notebook

create it herself

"how wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." -anais nin

kindergarten's over

"here's some free advice. kindergarten's over. training wheels are off. nobody's gonna catch you if you fall. you don't like your life, you do something about it. you reach down, you pull one foot out of the mud then the other. you walk away from it. you can't walk, you crawl. you do something." -private practice

no words

"for some moments in life there are no words." -willy wonka and the chocolate factory

a fool

"every person is a fool in somebody's opinion." -spanish proverb

do what you feel

"do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. you'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't." -eleanor roosevelt

makes you laugh

"after a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh." -sex and the city

a woman's purse

"a woman's purse, it's her secret source of power...there are many dark and dangerous things in there that we, the male species, should know nothing about." -how to lose a guy in 10 days

chew it

"bite off more than you can chew, then chew it." -ella williams

forget to be afraid

"become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." -lady bird johnson

never have to work

"choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." -confucius

do or do not

"do or do not. there is no try." -yoda

lucky

"do you know how lucky we are to have found each other?" -american beauty

what's money

"what's money anyhow? a man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." -bob dylan

strongly wrong

"i'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right." -tallulah bankhead

the way we planned

"as you go through life you will see there is so much that we don't understand. and the only thing we know is things don't go the way we planned." -we are one

stand up

"fall seven times, stand up eight." -japanese proverb

resolve to be

"you may be whatever you resolve to be." -stonewall jackson

two hands

"for attractive lips, speak words of kindness. for lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. for beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day. for poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. people, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. as you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others." -audrey hepburn

success

"to laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded." -ralph waldo emerson

love yourself

"a million adoring guys can't make you happy if you don't love yourself." -lisa gilbert

to make us happy

"we act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." -albert einstein

courage

"courage does not always roar. sometimes courage is the small, quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'i will try again tomorrow.'" -mary anne radmacher

sensible about love

"people who are sensible about love are incapable of it." -douglas yates

miss you

"i miss you a little, i guess you could say...a little too much, a little too often, a little more every day." -john michael montgomery

crooked path

"i believe things happen for a reason, even though you might not see it at the time..cause now i know every plan that came unraveled, every crooked path i traveled in my life, led me here to your side." -jason aldean

what we see

"what we see depends mainly on what we look for." -sir john lubbock

Be proud of you...

‎"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." - Elenaor Roosevelt

talents

"use what talents you possess. the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best." -henry van dyke

true measure

"the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." -ann landers

family

"the most important thing in life is your family..there are days you love them and others you don't..but in the end, they're the people you always come home to..sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself." -sex and the city

tragedy

"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." -veronica mars

love not fear

"be friendly to everybody..protect yourself..people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason..and always do things out of love not fear." -rashida jones

to hold your hand

"cause with you i'd withstand all of hell to hold your hand..i'd give it all, i'd give for us, give anything but i won't give up." -nickelback

all that matters

"it's not about what you look like, or your job, or how successful you are..it's about having people in your life that you love and who love you...that's all that matters." -grey's anatomy

goodness

"you tell them that our lives can change with every breath we take...and to hold on like hell to what they've got. you tell them we've all got bad in us but we've got goodness too..and the only thing worth living for is the good. that's why we've got to make sure we pass it on." -where the heart is

history

"our history is what shapes us, what guides us..our history resurfaces time after time after time..so we have to remember sometimes the most important history is the history we’re making today." -grey's anatomy

love like crazy

"be a best friend, tell the truth, and overuse i love you...go to work, do your best, don't outsmart your common sense..never let your prayin' knees get lazy..and love like crazy." -lee brice

sun shines

"look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are..good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you..the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. that's the kind of person that's worth sticking with" -juno

monopoly money

"it's 2006, can we all just get along? can we just have coke and pepsi in the same building? is it that big a deal? 'what would you like to drink?' 'can i have a coke?' 'is pepsi ok?' 'is monopoly money ok???'" -john caparulo

somebody loves you

"and while you're out there getting where you're getting to, i hope you know somebody loves you." -rascal flatts

beautiful

"god gave you the shoes that fit you..so put them on and wear them..be yourself man, be proud of who you are..even if it sounds corny, don't ever let no one tell you you ain't beautiful." -eminem

second chance

"this isn't a disaster, it's a chance. a chance to start again. a chance to think about what we want..and go for it...we can do anything we like. go anywhere we want...you know, in a strange way, i'm quite excited. how many people get the opportunity to change their lives completely? how many people are given a second chance?" -sleeping arrangements

saying goodbye

"how lucky i am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." -annie

people you need

"life doesn't give you the people you want, it gives you the people you need. to help you. to hurt you. to love you. to leave you. to make you into the person you were meant to be." -unknown

grain of sand

"it isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe." -robert service

eyes of a child

"in the eyes of a child you will see...the world as it should be." -unknown

settling

"some people are settling, some people are settling down, and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies." -sex and the city

the best we can

"how many of us turn out the way we wanted to be, really? how many of us turn out to be astronauts or prima ballerinas? we all just turn out the best we can." -the kid

real life

"real life is hard, real stuff takes work, real life is sometimes thoughtless and mean..but that doesn't cancel out the love." -private practice

epic

"i thought our story was epic, you know? you and me..spanning years and continents..lives ruined and bloodshed..epic." "come on. ruined lives? bloodshed? you really think a relationship should be that hard?" "no one writes songs about the ones that come easy." - veronica mars

expectations

"why should i live up to other people's expectations rather than my own?" -10 things i hate about you

self-love

"self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self..it's about accepting all of yourself. you've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin on." -tyra banks

more cynical

"have you ever had that feeling that something's too good to be true? actually i don't think that you have, you expect good things and they come to you..i'm more cynical..maybe it's genetic, a trait passed down from my dad, or maybe it's watching a lot of happily ever afters that weren't..but you came and you loved me and..i want to believe that this could last forever..i just want to be like you and trust but what if i'm wrong? what if one day i look back and i see what i can't see now? that some moment, even this moment, was the beginning to the end.." -general hospital

fairy tales

"at the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. it turns up when you don’t really expect it. it’s like one day you realize that the fairy tale is slightly different than your dream. the castle, well it may not be a castle. and it’s not so important that it’s happily ever after, just that it’s happy right now. see, once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you. and once in awhile, people may even take your breath away." -grey's anatomy

human nature

"it's not a piece of paper or vows that make a difference..it's just human nature that messes things up..you know, we have unrealistic expectations..we think that if a person truly loves us they should act the way we want them to, say the right thing, buy the right gift or whatever..and we assume that we know each other so well and we should be able to read each others' minds..and all of those assumptions, over time, just lead to a lot of disappointments..but look, if a guy ever tells you that you complete him..run..just run for the hills..because we're no good to anyone if we're not a whole person ourselves. -general hospital

every step

"every step i've taken has led me here to where you are." -daughtry

society

"if your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed." -madonna

my heart

"you own my heart. whatever else you do or don't have, you'll always own my heart." -lipstick jungle

applebee's alone

"you think that you're going to find somebody that just caters to you no matter what, that you're not going to have to work at it, that's going to be, like, psyched to go to applebee's with you every friday night and hear the same football stories about how you rocked in high school? but whoever that person is, you have to listen to their stories too or they're not going to go to applebee's with you. you're not going to have someone to go to applebee's with. you'll be sitting by yourself, eventually, at applebee's all alone. and who wants to go to applebee's by themselves?" -couples retreat

fork in the road

"alice came to a fork in the road. 'which road do i take?' she asked. 'where do you want to go?' responded the cheshire cat. 'i don't know,' alice answered. 'then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'" -alice in wonderland

anyway friend

"because you are my anyway friend..an anyway friend is the one person in your life who no matter what they say or do, no matter what they've been through with you, they love you anyway." ~private practice