courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. -
Winston Churchill "Open your eyes look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?" -Bob Marley "You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down." -Charles Chaplin "For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." -Sren Kierkegaard "You cant put life on hold, it doesnt wait for you." -Charlie St. Cloud (2010) An unfulfilled life makes a hard man. - Bruce Springsteen, I Wanna Marry You "I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else." -Marilyn Monroe "It doesnt matter who you are. What matters is your plan." -The Dark Knight Rises (2012) "The opportunities of most people are determined by forces they do not even see." -Che: Part One (2008) "The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise." -Maya Angelou We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney "Live for yourself and you will live in vain; live for others, and you will live again." -Bob Marley "Wake up and live." -Bob Marley "There is no Them. There are only facets of Us." - John Green "Choose your love. Love your choice." -Thomas S. Monson "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." -Eleanor Roosevelt "The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter." -Mark Twain "Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks." -Holly Black "It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required." -Winston S. Churchill "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." -Charles Dickens "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." -Albert Einstein "No friendship is an accident." -O. Henry "Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle." -Lewis Carroll Life is for the living; death for the dead. Let life be like music and death a note unsaid. - Langston Hughes It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog Archie Griffen. Nothing lasts forever. Not even your troubles Arnold H Glasgow There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle Albert Einstein Take 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 Being strong means rejoicing in who you are, complete with imperfections Margaret Woodhouse If you dont go after what you want, youll never have it. If you dont ask, the answer is always no. If you dont step forward, youre always in the same place Nora Roberts I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed Michael Jordan. The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary May V. Smith Where hope grows, miracles blossom Elna Rae A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing George Bernard Shaw Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent Eleanor Roosevelt It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes Sally Field I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down Allen H. Neuharth Hope never abandons you, you abandon it George Weinberg Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you Ralph Waldo Emerson Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust Jesse Owens People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within Elisabeth Kbler-Ross Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance Bruce Barton Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it John Maxwell Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway Mary Kay Ash Even though some of you are pretty thin, you all have fat hearts, and thats what counts. - Fat Amy (Pitch Perfect, 2012) There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Les Miserables My friends, don't ask me what your sacrifice was for! Empty chairs at empty tables, where my friends shall sing no more. Marius, Les Miserables "Tomorrow we'll discover what our God in Heaven has in store." Les Miserables "Not being heard is no reason for silence." Les Miserables Here they talked of revolution, here it was they lit the flame. Here they sang about tomorrow, and tomorrow never came. Marius, Les Miserables If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow. Les Miserables A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Les Miserables Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Les Miserables Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life. Les Miserables "To love another person is to see the face of God." Les Miserables Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face. Les Miserables For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. Les Miserables The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten. Les Miserables Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Les Miserables Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables have no fear of robbers or murderers. they are external dangers, petty dangers. we should fear ourselves. prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. the great dangers are within us. why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? let us think instead of what threatens our souls. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness, but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness, but I shall have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. Les Miserables The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. Victor Hugo, Les Misrables "People are afraid of me because I am different." - Edward Scissorhands (1990) "I have a crush on your mind, I fell for your personality, and your looks are just a big bonus." - The Notebook (2004) "We were just there together. And that was enough." -The Perks of Being Wallflower (2012) "We accept the love we think we deserve." -The Perks of Being Wallflower (2012) "Do you know how it feels to let go of someone you really love for a long time, just for them to be happy?" -Charlie St. Cloud (2010) "Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself." -Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) "I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all." -10 Things I Hate About You (1999) "Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything happens is accidental." -Sleepless in Seattle (1993) "You know the place between sleep & awake, the place where you still remember dreaming? Thats where I'll always love you." -PeterPan (2003) If a problem can be solved, there is no use worrying about it.. -Seven Years in Tibet (1997) People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water. Charles Bukowski We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. Veronica Roth, Divergent