What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?
What am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're okay?
I'm falling to pieces, yeah.
I'm falling to pieces.

I long to see the sun.
my legs try to carry me,
but my heart weighs me down.

In the day by day collision called the art of growing up,
there's an innocence we look for in the stars.
To be taken to the younger days,
when there was no giving up on the people we held closest to our hearts.

I've laid for seven years
here inside my mind.
Alone in my inaction,
doubt has left me blind.

Everybody just keeps on moving on in this crazy,
messed up world. That's all you can do anyways.
You keep smiling, you keep moving, you just keep on living.
'cause who knows, you might just be the only thing
keeping somebody else from stopping.
You might be someone's everything and not even know it.
If you stop moving, what's to keep them from stopping too?

You ever wake up from a really good dream,
and try to get back to sleep?
Or you got the flu and you promise yourself
you will appreciate normal so much more,
if you can just get back to it? That's the way I feel.
I just want things to go back to the way they were

Here am I, going nowhere.
Here am I, growing older.
Here am I, getting lost and lonely.
Why sometimes does my life feel so tame?

And our vices make it bearable enough, to know our lives are shit, but to not give a fuck.
They make it bearable enough to help us on our way.
But it still feels nice to feel alive.
To try and find home or someplace to thrive.
It feels great to be alive except for all those times we feel dead.

You can't breathe until you choke.
You gotta laugh when you're the joke.
There's nothing like a funeral to make you feel alive.

I know what it's like to be afraid.
I said I know, I feel it every goddamn day.
And I know what it's like to be angry all the time.
I know what it's like to always be the last in line.

Take a broken girl, treat her like a famous princess, give her the best seats in the house. Buy her coffee and cigarettes for the coming down, books and bathroom things for the days ahead. Tell her something true when all she's known are lies. Tell her God loves her. Tell her about forgiveness, the possibility of freedom, tell her she was made to dance in white dresses. All these things are true. -To Write Love on Her Arms

Is that it? Are you the only person in the world that's been let down? The only one that's been hurt, abandoned? What gives you the right to act like you are?

You spend so much time expecting the worst that you don't even notice the moments when people are loving you.

I've been living in slow motion for two days shy of four months and my critics are the best friends I swear I knew once. And in the end, I guess I really never was enough

Try and expect nothing,
but be open for anything.
Don't look for happiness,
but don't settle for anything less.

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'this is what it is to be happy'

All I want to do is help.
I want to help because I don't think people
should suffer as they do,
because if there's no bigger meaning,
then the smallest act of kindness
is the greatest thing in the world.

When you remember how hard it is to change yourself, you begin to understand what little chance we have of changing others.

The littlest things make me laugh.
It's not hard to please me.
I'm a free-spirit. I'm strong and determined.
I love to look at the stars. I'm just a girl.
& all i wanna be is yours.

"Our hearts are drunk with a beauty
our eyes could never see."
-George W. Russell-

"The only normal people are the
ones you don't know very well."
-Joe Ancis-

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art: write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
-Neil Gaiman-

Rule number one:
Always stick around for one more drink.
That’s when things happen.
That’s when you find out everything you want to know.

And I'm content to walk a little slower,
because there's nowhere that I really need to be.
And I find that life's easier,
when it's just a blur with no details
to confuse who or what or where I was.

But I will say that if you're alive,
you got to flap your arms and legs,
you got to jump around a lot,
you got to make a lot of noise,
because life is the very opposite of death
and therefore, as I see it,
if you're quiet, you're not living.
You've got to be noisy
or at least your thoughts should be noisy
and colorful and lively.

"Every sunset brings peace, every sunrise brings hope."

"Now that it's all over, what did you really
do yesterday that's worth mentioning?"
-Coleman Cox-

You wear the tie because it never occurred to you not to. You eat eggs every morning but never at night. you feel excitement and companionship when rich men you've never met put a ball through a net or over a goal line, you feel guilty and a little suspicious every time you see a Salvation Army Santa ringing his bell, you look down at least half a second if a woman leans foward and your stomach rumbles every time you drive by a golden arch, even if you weren't hungry before. Everybody's programmed.
-Dollhouse

Sometimes when I'm driving I wonder
where the other cars are going, where
they are headed, and if they're
just as lonely as I am.

Passion. It lies in all of us, sleeping, waiting. and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us. Passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? 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. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

"If we were to wake up some morning
and find that everyone was the same
race, creed, and color, we would find
some other cause for prejudice by noon."
-George Aiken-

"Dreaming permits each and every one
of us to be quietly and safely insane
every night of our lives."
-William Dement-

Every kid needs a hero - everybody knows that. They teach us about courage, about ideals… about life. Sometimes heroes are easy to spot. But sometimes… they turn up in unlikely places.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

"There are moments when it's too quiet.
particularly late at night or early in the mornings.
that's when you know there's something
lacking in your life. you just know."
-Frank Sinatra-

And then my soul saw you and it kind of went,
"Oh there you are; i've been looking for you."

I don’t know why, with such a glorious world as we’ve been provided, with birds, sunshine, beautiful trees and flowers, and the radio, why people don’t get on better than they do.
-The Fortune

There isn't anyone you couldn't love, once you've heard their story.

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen

Take a broken girl, treat her like a famous princess, give her the best seats in the house. Buy her coffee and cigarettes for the coming down, books and bathroom things for the days ahead. Tell her something true when all she's known are lies. Tell her God loves her. Tell her about forgiveness, the possibility of freedom, tell her she was made to dance in white dresses. All these things are true. -To Write Love on Her Arms

Eat that damn chocolate cake, get your hair wet, love someone, dance in those muddy puddles, tell someone off, draw a picture with crayons like you're still 6 years old and then give it to someone who is very important to you. Take a nap, go on vacation, do a cartwheel, make your own recipe, dance like no one sees you, paint each nail a different color, take a bubble bath, laugh at a corny joke. Get on that table and dance, pick strawberries, take a jog, plant a garden, make an ugly shirt and wear it all day, learn a new language, write a song, date someone you wouldn't usually go for, make a scrap book, go on a picnic, relax in the sun, make your own home video, kiss the un-kissed, hug the un-hugged, love the unloved, and live your life to the fullest. So when you're standing in front of heaven's gate that chosen day, you'll have no regrets, no sorrows, no disappointments.