I Want to Live

Sometimes I wonder
Why I work so hard to guard my heart
Till I hardly feel anything at all
I've spent my whole life building up this ivory tower
And now that I'm in it, I keep wishing it would fall
So I could feel the ground beneath me
Really taste the air I'm breathin'
And know that I'm alive
I want to cry like the rain
Cry like the rain
Shine like sun on a beautiful mornin'
Sing to the heavens like the church bells ringin'
Fight with the devil and go down swingin'
Fly like a bird, roll like a stone
Love like I ain't afraid to be alone
Take everything that this world has to give
I want to live

~Josh Gracin, "I Want to Live"

Life

"Life is beautiful, but it's complicated, we barely make it, we don't need to understand, there are miracles."

~Vega4, "Life is Beautiful"

I Want To

"I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down these walls
The hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name."

~U2, "Where the Streets Have no Name"

Nobody

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Say

"Have no fear for giving in
Have no fear for getting older
You better know that in the end its better to say to much
Than to never to say what you need to say again
Even if your hands are shaking
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closing
Do it with a heart wide open
Why?
Say what you need to say"

~John Mayer, "Say"

Pack That

"Listen, Lloyd, I want you to put all my files, folders, binders, *everything* into a box! If you find a used condom, an executioner's mask, and a fucking spike paddle, don't think, just pack that bitch! Chop suey!"

~Ari Gold, Entourage

Charlie Bit My Finger

"Ouch Charlie that really hurt..."

Time

"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

~Andy Warhol

Believe

"Everything is going to be alright. Be strong. Believe."

~Yellowcard, "Believe"

Each Day

"Finish each day and be done with it, you have done what you could, some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day, begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yourself

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hearts

"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable."

~Wizard of Oz

Smile

"At first when I see you cry,
yeah it makes me smile, yeah it makes my smile
At worst I feel bad for a while,
but then I just smile I go ahead and smile."

~Lily Allen, "Smile"

Standing Still

"It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives."

~From "Running for Mortals"

Teardrops

"He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar
The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart
He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do
He's the time taken up, but there's never enough
And he's all that I need to fall into.."

~Taylor Swift, "Teardrops on my Guitar"

Great Things

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

-Vincent Van Gogh

It's a Wonderful Life

"Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends."

~Clarence, It's a Wonderful Life

Lie Here With Me

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

~Snow Patrol, Chasing Cars

How Far I Haven't Come

Every mile, a memory; every song, another scene,
From some old movie going back in time you and me.
Every day, a page turned down; every night, a lonesome sound,
Like a freight train rollin' through my dreams:
Every mile, a memory.

Funny how no matter where I run,
Round every bend I only see,
Just how far I haven't come.

~Dierks Bentley, Every Mile a Memory

Like an Anchor

"Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be."



~Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City