It's Out There

“Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.”

~Josh Hartnett

Histories

"Sometimes the most important histories are the histories you make today."

~Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy

What Makes My Stomach Drop

"You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."

~Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice (the movie)

Be Who You Are

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

~Dr. Seuss

Change

"You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant."

~Life as a House

New Deep

I'm so alive
I'm so enlightened
I can barely survive
A night in my mind
I've got a plan
I'm gonna find out just how boring I am
And have a good time

Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine
I've been cool
With my new golden rule

Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap it's been
Is there a God?
Why is he waiting?
Don't you think of it odd
When he knows my address?
And look at the stars
Don't they remind you of just how feeble we are?
Well it used to, I guess

Cause ever since I tried
Trying not to find
Every little meaning in my life
It's been fine I've been cool
With my new golden rule
Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
And talk is the same cheap
It's been

I'm a new man
I wear a new cologne and
You wouldn't know me if your eyes were closed
I know what you'll say 'This won't last longer than the rest of the day'
But you're wrong this time
You're wrong

Numb is the new deep
Done with the old me
I'm over the analyzing
Tonight

Stop trying to figure it out
(you try to figure, you try to figure it out)
It will only bring you down
You know, I used to be the backporch poet with my book of rhymes
Always open knowing all the time I'm problably
Never gonna find the perfect rhyme
For 'heavier things'

Hiphopopotamus

"Did Steve tell you? Steve..."

Too Short

"Life's too short to be wearing a bad outfit."

~Project Runway contestant

Hopes

"It's a long way down when your hopes are high as mountains."

~Ronnie Day

Wrong Time

Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time
where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme.

~Keane, "Is it any Wonder?"

The Departed

Lazio: "Do you have anyone in with Costello presently?"

Dignam: "Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself."

~The Departed

Dealing with Problems

"Stop can't you see it’s not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way."

~Mat Kearney, "Girl America"

Hope

“Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?’”

~Jancarl Campi

Expectations

We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

~Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy

Wait for Me

"Hold my hand inside your hands,
I need someone who understands.
I need someone, someone who hears,
For you, I've waited all these years.
For you, I'd wait 'til kingdom come.
Until my day, my day is done.
And say you'll come, and set me free,
Just say you'll wait, you'll wait for me."

~Coldplay, "Til Kingdom Come"

Mistakes

It turns out, sometimes you have to do the wrong thing. Sometimes you have to make a big mistake to figure out how to make things right. Mistakes are painful, but they're the only way to find out who you really are.

~Denny Duquette, Grey’s Anatomy

Living

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air..."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

That's Cool

knowing where you're going
embracing where you've been
being criticized for standing strong
in battle you cant win
living in a moment you may never see again
let your heart break some rules,
now that's cool

~blue county

Cracked Glass

Someone asked me the other day if my glass was HALF EMPTY or HALF FULL? I was going to say its empty, but that’s not completely true. My life isn't void and I have plenty of happy moments; but they usually just seem to disappear, or turn for the worse. SO MY GLASS IS CRACKED. Yes, cracked. It gets filled up with happiness and hope, but it always ends up escaping my grasp. It always ends up emptying out. It will never be full because it’s always leaking. And one day, it will get thrown away, because no one wants a broken glass.

~Anonymous

Life

“This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.”

~Fight Club

Beautiful

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”

~Sophia Loren

You Choose

You choose…whether to give up at the first obstacle or give it your all, to speak up or stay silent, to change what you don’t like or let it change you. With every word, every step you take, you define who you are—and create your future.

~Anonymous

Responsibility

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.

~Anonymous

Tough

“You don’t have to be tough every minute of every day, it’s ok to let down your guard, in fact there are moments when it’s the best thing you could possibly do. As long as you choose your moments wisely.”

~Meredith Grey

Crazy Dreams

Hello you long shots
You dark horse runners
Hairbrush singers
Dashboard drummers
Hello you wild magnolias just waiting to bloom
There's a little bit of all that inside of me and you
Thank God even crazy dreams come true

I've stood at the bottom of some walls I thought I couldn't climb
I've felt like Cinderella at the ball just runnin' out of time
So I know how it feels to be afraid
To think that it's all gunna slip away
Hold on, hold on

Here's to you free souls
You firefly chasers
Street climbers
Porch swingers
Air guitar players
Here's to you fearless dancers shaking walls in your bedrooms
There's alot of wonder left inside of me and you
Thank God even crazy dreams come true

Never let a bad day be enough to go and talk you into giving up
Sometimes everbody feels like you
Oh, feels like you
Just like youI've met some go-getters
Some difference makers
Small town heros
And big chance takers
I've met some young hearts with something to prove
Oh yeah

Hello you long shots
You dark horse runners
Hairbrush singers
Dashboard drummers
Here's to you wild magnolias just waiting to bloom
There's a little bit of all that inside of me and you
Thank God even crazy dreams come true
Thank God even crazy dreams come true

~Carrie Underwood, "Crazy Dreams"

All I Need

"The walls are shaking, I hear them sound the alarm
Glass is breaking so don't let go of my arm
Grab your bags and a picture of where we met
All that we'll leave behind and all that's left
If everything we've got is blowing away
We've got a rock and a rock till our dying day
I'm holding on to you, holding on to me
Maybe it's all we got but it's all I need
You're all I need"

~Mat Kearney, "All I Need"

Laughing

"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane."

~Jimmy Buffet, "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"

Heart of Life

"You know, it's nothing new, bad news never had good timing, but, then your circle of friends will defend the silver lining; Pain throws your heart to the ground, love turns the whole thing around, no it won't all go the way it should, but I know the heart of life is good"

~John Mayer, "The Heart of Life"

Jelly

"I don't even give a shit about the hives. I want jelly in the fucking house! STAT! PRONTO! TONIGHT! I don't give a-I will break your neck and pour jelly all over your body and PRAY TO THE GODS OF JELLY TO BURN YOUR SOUL IN A JELLY-LIKE HELL. Now GET THE JELLY!"

~Dane Cook