“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“The only decision left is the one that I need to make with myself, to stop running once and for all… I mean I know who I’m supposed to be with, I’ve always known. But, then the fear takes over: the free floating anxiety ridden fear in the pit of my stomach that makes me run.”

“Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people–they always go away sooner or later. You can’t hold them anymore than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.” ~Bruce Coville

“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.” ~George Eliot

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.” ~Oscar Wilde

“When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air,

you suddenly know what you are hoping for.”

“wake up, wake up wake up. we are only a part of a dream. all the things in your heart, like the things in your head are only what they seem.” ~Dr. Dog, Wake Up

“Was I ever truly over her? At one time I was sure that the answer was yes. But if seeing her again – and merely touching her hand – could peel back so many layers of my heart, then did I ever stop loving her the way you’re supposed to stop loving everyone but the one you’re with?”

“Sometimes all I really want to do is sit beside you. I want to watch cheesy and crappy movies with you, and we will laugh at them together. I want to plan things with you, things we’ll never do, but for some reason just planing them with you is fine with me. I want to talk to you about everything and anything. I want to goof around with you and make jokes that aren’t funny but we’ll laugh nonetheless.”

“We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes, we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.”