"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."
"it's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance, it is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance, it is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live." -better middler
"and god help you if you are an ugly girl; course too pretty is also your doom. cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room." - Ani DiFranco, '32 flavors'
"At the end of the day, dealing with your own anguish is easy enough compared to dealing with the pain you've caused." - My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
"One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." - Dale Carnegie
"I'm just trying to tell you that every guy who grows up to be one of the good ones, he was probably a dweeb with girls when he was fifteen, too." - Dawson's Creek