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“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.”





“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
~Steve Jobs





"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
-Christopher Robin





A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
-Joe DiMaggio





"Promise me you will never forget me, because if I thought you would I'd never leave."
-Winne the Pooh






Calvin: "Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak."
Hobbes: "Probably so we can think twice."





"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad that they have to get better. " ~Malcolm Forbes





"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."





"There are 6 admonishments in the Bible concerning homosexual activity and our enemies are always throwing them up to us, usually in a vicious way and very much out of context. What they don't want us to remember is that there are 362 admonishments in the Bible concerning heterosexual activity. I don't mean to imply by this that God doesn't love straight people, only that they seem to require a great deal more supervision." - Lynn Lavner.





Don't "darling", me, Darling. Look at you. You've got a face like a cat's arse.





"Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace... But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank."





It lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted - unbidden - it will stir, open it’s jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us. Passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have?





"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well"





"Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists may call on us to, well, you know, do it like crazy for the sake of humankind. "





"I want to grow old without face lifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face that I have made."
---Marilyn Monroe





“Inside here it is sterile, it is drab, the light is artificial and too bright, but at least no one can touch me.”
-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel.





"...what I really need, what I'm really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it."
-Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation.





"I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together...can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out ****ed and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out."
-Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation.





"All of a sudden, I feel like an emotional paraplegic. I feel that all of my gains and insights are based on control and denial. I'm worried that I'm so profoundly sick as to appear healthy and together."
-Augusten Burroughs, Dry.





"I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention."
-Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors.