What Life Is About

(Zooey Deschanel)

"Life is about who you love and who you hurt.

It's about how you feel about yourself.

It's about trust, happiness and compassion.

It's about sticking up for your friends and

replacing inner hate with love.

Life is about avoiding jealousy,

overcoming ignorance and

building confidence.

It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have.

Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to

touch someone else's

in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise.

These choices are what life's about."

~Katie Leicht

Worth Fighting For

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?

Love is everything it's cracked up to be...

That's why people are so cynical about it.

It really is worth FIGHTING for,

BEING BRAVE for,

RISKING EVERYTHING for...

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything,

you risk even more."

~ Erica Jong

Secret Love

"I hid my love when young til I / Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly; / I hid my love to my despire / Till I could not bear to look at light: / I dare not gaze upon her face / But left her memory in each place; / Where e'er I saw a wild flower lie / I kissed and bade my love goodbye. / I met her in the greenest dells / Where dewdrops pearl the wood blue bells / The lost breeze kissed her bright blue eye, / The bee kissed and went singing by, / A sunbeam found a passage there, / A gold chain round her neck so fair; / As secret as the wild bee's song / She lay there all the summer long. / I hid my love in field and town / Til e'en the breeze would knock me down, / The bees seemed singing ballads oer, / The fly's bass turned a lion's roar; / And even silence found a tongue, / To haunt me all the summer long; / The riddle nature could not prove / Was nothing else but secret love."

by John Clare

Reason to Live

"It's all kinds of these profound things

crashing on you when your child arrives into the world.

It's like you've met your reason to live."

~ Johnny Depp

Real, Unconditional Love

"I have never met a person whose greatest need

was anything other than

REAL, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

You can find it in a simple act of kindness

toward someone who needs help...

...There is no mistaking LOVE.

You FEEL it in your HEART.

It is the common fiber of LIFE,

the FLAME that heats our SOUL,

ENERGIZES our SPIRIT &

supplies PASSION to our LIVES.

It is our connection to GOD and to EACH OTHER."

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Twilight

"It's Twilight. It's the safest time of day for us...

The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...

The end of another day, the return of the night...

Darkness

is so predictable, don't you think?"

Just Give

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally,

without expecting anything in return. To just give...

That takes courage,

because we don't want to fall on our faces

or leave ourselves open to hurt."

~ Madonna

Perfect love is rare indeed -

...for to be a lover will require that you continually have

the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child,

the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the foritude of the certain.

- Leo Buscaglia

Come Clean

"Let the Rain Fall Down & Wake my Dreams,

Let it Wash Away my Sanity.

'Cause I Wanna Feel the Thunder, I Wanna Scream.

Let the Rain Fall Down.

I'm Coming Clean, I'm Coming Clean."

- Hilary Duff

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