This is an absolutely miscellaneous compilation of quotations that I happen to like. I wrote some of them, my friends wrote some of them, famous people wrote some of them, and some of them, I don’t know who wrote. I included some because they helped me to do the right thing, and others simply because I liked they way they put things. I left quotation marks out because they’re annoying, and because I can.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle ~ U2

What becomes of the broken-hearted, who had love that has now departed?

And at the end, if we are brave enough to love, strong enough to rejoice in another’s happiness, and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all, then we will achieve a fufillment that no other living creature will ever know.

I’ve loved you all my life - even before I knew you. I loved the promise of you with all my heart.

I remember thinking . . . sometimes we walk, sometimes we run away, but I know - no matter how fast we are running, somehow we’ll keep up with each other

Do what you will, always. Walk where you like, your steps. Do as you please, I’ll back you up.
Dave Mattews Band

I fix broken hearts, I’m your handyman ~ James Taylor

Even dangerous men can respond to an act of love.

Reality obstructs one’s view of his dreams.

. . . And I want you here with me, from tonight until the end of time.

After all that we've been through, I will make it up to you . . .I promise to. ~ Chicago

Risk taking is inherently failure prone. Otherwise it would be called sure thing taking.

I learned to let go of the illusion that we can possess. ~ Madonna

Seems like I should say, as long as this is love, that it’s not all that easy. ~ Counting Crows

Never explain: your friends don’t need it and others don’t care.

Start every day with your favorite music.

Never give up on anyone: Miracles happen every day.

And everyone here knows everyone here is thinking about somebody else. ~ Matchbox 20

Do you believe in always? The wind said to the rain.

With the pale important stars and the humorous moon.

. . . A keen city which nobody’s ever visited, where always it’s spring and everyone’s in love, and flowers pick themselves. ~ e. e. cummings

It is the things we always hold that we must lose someday, the only things we ever keep are those we give away.

Fire in the heart sends smoke to the brain.

We act empty and innocent, but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent, trading misfortunes.

I could go crazy on a night like tonight, when summer’s beginning to give up her fight. . . and every thought’s a possibility. ~ Indigo girls

Weep not for memories

You’re so careful when I’m in your arms.

So afraid to love you,
but more afraid to lose
clinging to a past that doesn’t let me choose. ~ Sarah McLachlan

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it. ~ William Saroyan

Always believe the best and handle the worst, otherwise you’ll be chasing the worst while the best is happening. ~ me

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake or watch or weep tonight.

You’ll say you understand, but you don’t understand
You’ll say you’d never give up seeing eye to eye
But never is a promise, and you can’t afford to lie.

You say love is a hell you cannot bear
I say give me mine back and then go there for all I care. ~ Fiona Apple

Have a heart that never hardens a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts. ~ Charles Dickens

A thousand roses will not do, I ache for the smell of you.

I always knew I’d laugh thinking of the things I cried about. . . but I never knew I’d cry thinking of the things I laughed about.

Do any humans realize how beautiful earth is while they’re alive? Every every minute?

No, the poets and the saints, they do some. ~ Thornton Wilder

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