~unfortunately I don’t know the source of all of these.. if there are any that you know, please tell me!

"In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, who, squatting upon the ground, held his heart in his hands, and ate of it. I said 'is it good friend?' 'it is bitter-bitter.
But I like it, because it is bitter
and because it is my heart'"
~Stephan Crane

"Think of me what you will, I've got a little space to fill"
~Tom Petty

"the rats in your brain rule the world from the comfort of your living room"

~Matt Good

"I do what the voices in my head tell me to"

"music is the glue of the world… its what holds it all together.
Without this, life would be meaningless"
~Empire Records

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend."

"For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior."

"I've learned that no matter how good a friend someone is, they're going to hurt you every once in awhile and you must forgive them for that."

"If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them." -Charles Morley

"We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be." -Gladys Taber

"There are many things I can say I need in life, but when it comes down to it, the only thing that will make me happy when I'm having a bad day is knowing I'm wanted, that people would rather have me in this world than not. Because there are those times when you forget how it feels to be alive, you forget you would rather be in this world than not be in it."-Heather Wolf-Smith

"There are so many people I need to talk to, but I can't." -Holly Deal

"Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand." -Sara Ohotto

"It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends."

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

"If you do something that turns out wrong, you can almost always put it right, get over it, learn from it, or at least deny it. But once you've missed out on something, it's gone. There will be the girl you never got to say the right words to, the band you never got to see live, the winning streak you never got to cheer on, the brilliant retiring professor whose class you never took, the relative you never got very close with. It's a long list no matter what. Try to keep it as short as possible." -Gordon Drizschilo

"Take opportunities as they come. If you miss them, don't dwell on them."-Peter Hazen

"I'd rather be mad with the truth than sane with lies."-An anonymous psychiatric patient and poet

"You shouldn't be going out with someone just to say you're going out with them. You're going out with them, hopefully, because you enjoy who they are and they enjoy who you are. You have to be true to yourself, and I think that if you're not yourself anymore and you're not happy with what you're doing, then you've crossed the line." - Seventeen 1994 -Sarah Michelle Geller

"Just remember all...that words are powerful, so very powerful, that it can change attitudes (for the better or for the worse), with or without provocation. They can be triggers, reminders, movers, and emotives...Be kind with your words and listen to positive messages in things that we have in common... Communication in the ways that make a positive impact and even possibly profitable (new friendships, good feelings, etc.) for all parties, is the key." –Seona

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night." -Margaret Mead

"We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same." -Anne Frank

"Life still owes me so much..."

"I have always felt alienated from words, attacked by them, silenced by them, ignored by them, words have never been fast friends. I listen to the voices that come from my heart, and scream from my guts, I am more than what you see. I say this only to myself, sure no one will listen, and terrified everyone will..." -Lani Kahumanu

"I am more than I know myself to be."

"Sometimes you have to grow farther apart to keep growing together."

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." -Jean Baez

"It's easier to walk away than to deal."

"Goodnight, goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."

~Shakespeare

"When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen to you: either there will be something solid for you to stand on, or, you will be taught how to fly."-Patrick Overton

"Most people think I'm too quiet and too nice... and then there's the people that really know me. I don't talk much around most people, but I'm completely different around my friends. I just can't talk to some people... I guess that's just how I am." -Jennifer Whaley

" My goal is not to wake up at forty with a bitter realization that I wasted my life at a job I hate because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens." -Daria

"Jane: Wanna get our fortunes told?
Daria: I'll pass, it's bad enough knowing the present. "
-Daria

"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."-Jean Kerr

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." ~Herman Melville

"God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it"

~Sheri S. Tepper, - Beauty

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. "
Edgar Allen Poe - Eleonora

"Let these describe the indescribable. "
Lord Byron

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes

"Make the most of life before most of life is over.

"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have." -Life's Little Instructions Calender

"You can't always sit in your corner of the forest and wait for people to come to you... you have to go to them sometimes." -Winnie the Pooh

"Don't worry about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." -Charles Schultz

"If this is a crush, then I don't know if I could take the real thing if it happens." -Chasing Amy

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."-George Bernard Shaw

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." -George Washington Carver

"I'm bisexual.. I really think that everyone is, to some degree.. but things in their lives, and society.. has made it impossible for some people to be attracted to the same sex, and others to be attracted to people of the opposite sex.. I know I could fall in love with a girl, same as a guy. I don't differentiate.. its almost a philosophy for me. why limit myself, block out people that I could easily love, if society hadn't taught me "it isn't right"

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." -Leo Buscaglia

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Anonymous

"If practice makes perfect, and nobodies perfect, then what's the point in practicing?" ~Billy Corgan

"Eat Drink And Be Merry, for tomorrow we die!"

"I see my hell, it’s the closet I'm stuck inside, can't see the light"

~Dave Matthews

"You try to be everything to everyone"

""the Prozac doesn't do it for me anymore. yeah you ought to take your medication everyday, be a good dog, live a life in a wonderful way, tell me why you wanna be blind, I don’t wanna be normal like you"

"lets live the way we want to live and hope they go away"

~Everclear

"Life goes by fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it."

-Ferris Beuler

"I try not to let my schooling get in the way of my education." -Mark Twain
"Just keep truckin' on!" -Grateful Dead
"Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime, if you don't lay 'em down." -Grateful Dead
"These are the days that the pages of history teaches us are best spent lying in bed!" -Uncle Willy (Philidelphia Story)
"Verbing weirds language" -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
"He's only MOSTLY dead" -Billy Crystal (The Princess Bride)
"Never trust a Prankster" -Ken Kesey
"You're either on the bus, or off the bus." -Ken Kesey
"There is no spoon." -Keanu Reaves (The Matrix!)
"I've got a bad feeling about this..." -EVERY main character ever to appear in a Star Wars movie
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate." -Shakespeare
"To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days." -Shakespeare
"My wit's diseased!" -Shakespeare
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein
"Always look on the bright side of life." -Monty Python
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" -Monty Python
"Olga?: He'll have an enormous svwanschtuker!
Frankenstein: Yes, that goes without saying...
Igor: He'll be very popular!" -Young Frankenstein
"And these children that you spit on
as they try to change their worlds
are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware of what they're going through" -David Bowie
"If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have enough nerve to become homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts!"
-Kurt Vonnegut
"No day but today" -Jonathan Larson
"Can I buy back my introduction to you?" -Groucho Marx
"Was that you or the duck?" -Groucho Marx
"The opposite or war isn't peace, it's creation!" -Jonathan Larson
"All you need is love" -John Lennon
"And my essays lying scattered on the floor fulfill their need just by being there." -David Bowie
"The future is no place to place your better days." -Dave Matthews
"A friend of the devil is a friend of mine" -Grateful Dead
"I'm as free as a bird now, and this bird you cannot change!" -Lynyrd Skynyrd
"When life is hard you have to change" -Blind Melon
"And when your deepest thoughts are broken, keep on dreamin' boy, 'cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die!" -Blind Melon
"Ain't there one damn song that can make me break down and cry?" -David Bowie
"Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da, life goes on." -Beatles
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need." -Rolling Stones
"Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd something more to say..." -Pink Floyd
"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means." -Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead)
"I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon the dewdrop"-Kahlil Gibran
"Be here now!" -Ram Dass
"Turn on, tune in, drop out" -Timothy Leary
"Everybody must get stoned" -Bob Dylan
"Freedom's just another word for nothing to lose" -Janis Joplin
"Don't pretend that you know me, 'cause I don't even know myself!" -the Who
"LOVE, REIGN O'ER ME!" -the Who
"No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, behind blue eyes." -the Who
"You're a rock n' roll suicide" -David Bowie
"Walking in space we find the purpose of peace
The beauty of life you can no longer hide" -Hair
"What a piece of work is man." -Shakespeare
"Beads, flowers, freedom, happiness!" -Hair
"All we are saying, is give peace a chance!" -John Lennon
"LET THE SUNSHINE IN!" -Hair
"The early worm gets eaten by the bird"
"the time will come, one day you'll see, when we can all be friends" ~Queen, the miracle
"Follow me.. I'm lost" ~Peter Hazen
"Death just means you are the advance guard for the next plane." --Tim Leary
"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways." --source unknown
"It is not what a teenager knows that bothers his parents, it is how he found out." --source unknown
"Life is sexually transmitted." --source unknown
I'm going to be just as nasty as you are--but I'm going to do it with more style."
--Vanyel Ashkevron, from Magic's Pawn, by Mercedes Lackey
"I love peace; it's gooey in a good way."
~Pinky (Pinky and the Brain)
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time." -Calvin and Hobbes