#life

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"She was stuck in between two worlds while her heart was pulling them both together. In a perfect world, she'd have both, or none at all. The symbol for love is two circles trying to merge in a Venn diagram that comes to a point down below, and only mostly separate are the two orbs one whole heart.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

"Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn’t be a Surplus if you were loved."

"Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time."

"Missed Childhood [10w] + {Couplet} Adolescence spent upon a cross,regrettably is childhood's loss."

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

"We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves."

"When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way."

"It’s easier to hide your smoking habit on a foggy day. Let that be a lesson for you and your secret lover."

"There's More Than Two Choices [10w] Don't take the road less traveled;blaze your own path."

"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."

"Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now."

"You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds."

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

"In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories."

"You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process."

"Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood."

"In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master."

"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand."