Words to Live By
Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change.
The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us, and the light goes out.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
I believe in colors. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
‘Cause if we stand for nothing, then we’ll fall for anything.
People throw rocks at things that shine.
Spend life with who makes you happy, not who you have to impress.
Let your faith be bigger than your fear.
Her beauty and humanity shine through…she is the kind of artist one does not come on every day in the week.
You may think the grass is greener on the other side, but if you take the time to water your own grass it would be just as green.
Everybody talks and everybody listens, but somehow its the truth that always ends up missing.
The satisfaction that no longer comes from using the commodities produced in abundance is now sought through recognition of their value as commodities. Consumers are filled with religious fervor for the sovereign freedom of commodities whose use has become an end in itself. Waves of enthusiasm for particular products are propagated by all the communications media. A film sparks a fashion craze; a magazine publicizes night spots which in turn spin off different lines of products. The proliferation of faddish gadgets reflects the fact that as the mass of commodities becomes increasingly absurd, absurdity itself becomes a commodity. Trinkets such as key chains which come as free bonuses with the purchase of some luxury product, but which end up being traded back and forth as valued collectibles in their own right, reflect a mystical self-abandonment to commodity transcendence. Those who collect the trinkets that have been manufactured for the sole purpose of being collected are accumulating commodity indulgences — glorious tokens of the commodity’s real presence among the faithful. Reified people proudly display the proofs of their intimacy with the commodity. Like the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures, the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent exaltation. All this is useful for only one purpose: producing habitual submission.
The best things in life aren’t things.
Don’t define your world in black and white…because there is so much hiding amongst the greys.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Some say tragedy is hard to get over but sometimes that what tragedy means; it’s over.
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its trouble. It empties today of its strength.
This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often. If you don’t like something, change it. If you don’t like your job, quit. If you don’t have enough time, stop watching tv. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love. Stop over analyzing, life is simple. All emotions are beautiful. When you eat, appreciate every last bite. Open your mind, arms, and heart to new things and people, we are united in our differences. Ask the next person you see what their passion is, and share your inspiring dream with them. Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself. Some opportunities only come one, seize them. Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them; so go out and start creating. Life is short. Live your dream, and wear your passion.
Confidence is a choice. Force yourself to take it.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Always accept and feel comfortable with your flaws, that way no one can ever use them against you.
Maybe that’s what it all comes down to, love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to committing to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate you friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone
What doesn’t kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn’t mean I’m over cause you’re gone
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, is the greatest accomplishment.
Let your smile change the world but don’t let the world change your smile.
Open your mind before your mouth.
Sometimes we have to lose something precious in order to gain something priceless.
Sometimes god doesn’t give you what you want, not because you deserve it, but because you deserve better.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearning lies, and hurting.
Would you walk to the edge of the ocean; Just to feel my jar with sand? Just in case I get the notion to let it run through my hands.
Once you have feelings for someone, those feelings will always be there. You may not like them anymore but you still care.
Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find these things are empty too, and they keep running.
People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who won’t be born for 500 years. Your writing will be a record of your time. It can’t help but be that. But more importantly, if you’re honest about who you are, you’ll help that person be less lonely in their world because that person will recognise him or herself in you and that will give them hope. It’s done so for me and I have to keep rediscovering it. It has profound importance in my life. Give that to the world, rather than selling something to the world. Don’t allow yourself to be tricked into thinking that the way things are is the way the world must work and that in the end selling is what everyone must do. Try not to.
This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And babe, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up becuase if you give up, you’ll never find your soul mate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Of the two of us, you may be prettier than me, have a higher friend count on Facebook, and be able to afford a pair of pants worth more than double my paycheck. You may have more guys chasing you, begging for your number, and attend more parties in a month than I have all year. Maybe you have tossed school right off the list of priorities, while I work day and night to produce the best possible work in my capacity. You might be carefree, unlike me. But one day, you’re going to wish that you stayed true to the person that you really were, like me. Because without morals, standards, and friends who would give the world for you, you have nothing. So ridicule my choices,mock my morals, and laugh at my lifestyle all you want, because one day, you may just wish it was yours.
The happiest people dont have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.
She understands when you say forget it, waits forever when you say just a minute, stays when you say leave me alone, and opens the door before you can say come in. Finally, she is the person that you call when music can’t express how you feel, tears aren’t enough to wash away your sadness, and anger was never an option.
