The Prettiest Girl

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"God help you if you are an ugly girl,

Course too pretty is also your doom

Because everyone harbours a secret hatred

For the prettiest girl in the room.

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God help you if you are a phoenix

And you dare to rise up from the ash,

A thousand eyes will smoulder with jealousy

While you are just flying back..."

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(Lyrics: "32 Flavors" Ani Difranco)

Basilique Sainte-Anne de Beaupre

"Learning is finding out what you already know.

Doing is demonstrating that you know it.

Teaching is reminding others that they

know just as well as you.

We are all Learners, Doers, Teachers."

Richard Bach

Kevin Zegers

“I'm not supposed to love you,

I'm not supposed to care,

I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there.

I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do...

I'm sorry I can't help myself,

I'm in love with you.”

August 2009

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

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

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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Go Where There is No Path & Leave a Trail

"Looking back, I have this to regret;

That too often when I loved, I did not say so."
- David Grayson

I Hope You Dance

"I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger

May you never take one single breath for granted

God forbid love ever leave you empty handed

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking
Loving might be a mistake, but it's worth making

Promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance..."

"I Hope You Dance!"

- Lee Anne Womack

A Place In This World

"Got the radio on, my old blue jeans

And I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve
Feeling lucky today, got the sunshine
Could you tell me what more do I need?

And tomorrow's just a mystery, oh yeah

But that's ok..."

"...I'm alone, on my own, and that's all I know

I'll be strong, I'll be wrong, oh but life goes on

I'm just a girl, trying to find a place in

This world!"

Live Forever With You

"We want to live forever for the same reason

that we want to live tomorrow.

Why do we want to live tomorrow?

It is because there is someone who loves you,

and whom you want to see tomorrow,

and be with, and love back."

- Henry Drummond

Something To Be

"To be yourself in a world

that is constantly trying to

make you something else

is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Invisible

Go ahead, Walk on by, You don't know I'm alive,

Maybe one day you'll find, You should open your eyes,

You don't know me."

- Ashlee Simpson

"I Want To Be a Vampire. They're the Coolest Monsters"

"Are you on our side

and want to be Different,

or are you on that side and want to

throw a football

at my head?

- Gerard Way

Keys to My Heart

"After silence, that which comes nearest to

expressing the inexpressible

is music"

- Aldous Huxley

Playground Past

"There is a garden in every childhood,

an enchanted place where

colours are brighter, the air softer,

and the morning more fragrant than ever again."

- Elizabeth Lawrence