”I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me. But it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once... and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember... to relax, and not try to hold on to it. And then it flows through me like rain. And I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. Don't worry... you will someday.” Lester Burnham -American Beauty
“I'll always be your brother. I'll always be your friend." Lines Upon Your Face Vertical Horizon
"And someday when you're feeling awkward
And someday when you're down
Come to me I will give you anything
I'll turn your frown around
What you've done for me is more that I could hope for
Oh you are my friend
And I'll be there for you through happiness and sad times
Oh our love will pull us through"
The Mountain Song Vertical Horizon
"To all my friends for pointing out all my flaws. I know you do it because you love me." Kevin Spacey 03-26-00 after winning the Oscar for Best Actor (American Beauty)
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies" Aristotle
“To be more is in the first place to know more” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Sj.
“Character cannot bee developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the sould be streghthend, ambition inspired and success achieved.” Helen Keller
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imataation.” Herman Melville
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion- you must set yourself on fire” Reggie Leech
"Success will not just fall into you’re lap. You have to be determined. You must be unstoppable and believe without a doubt that you can achieve your goal." Anikka
"Bid me run and I will strive for things impossible” Shakespeare
“We were raised on television to believe that we'd all be millionares, movie gods, rock stars, but we won't. And we're starting to figure that out.” “Tyler Durden – Fight Club
“Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the decision to live an ordinary life is no longer an option.” Peter Parker- Spiderman
“It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.” Ursula K. Le Guin
“Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it yourself.” Walt Whitman
“Do not go where the pay may lead; go instead where there is no path and leavea trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everyone is as unique and as beautiful as a butterfly. Life is a long process, like a caterpillar waiting inside a cocoon. We are just waiting to break out and show the world who we really are." Anikka
“God never meant to make life easy, He meant to make men and women great.” Anonymous
“On the day you cease to change, you cease to live.” Anthony De Mello, SJ.
“This isn't life, it's just stuff. And it's become more important to you than living. Well, honey, that's just nuts.” Lester Burnham -American Beauty
"There are always others who will accept you for who you are. They will change you're life and give the ideas and confidence to do things you never thought you could or would do before." Anikka
"It's something unpredictable but in the end it's right. I hope you've had the time of your life."Good Ridance Greenday
"Live you’re life ready to 'roll with the flow'" Anikka
“Change can be so constant, you don't even feel the difference until there is one.” George - Life As a House
”Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.” George -Life As a House
"There is no one path of life designed for all. You design, make, and take your own path." Anikka
"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get” Forest Gump
“You will find as you look back upon your life, that the movments when you have truly lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” Henry Drummond
"You're lucky to be one of the few to find somebody who can tolerate you." Go Home Barenaked Ladies
"Though the night be dark as dungeon
Not a star to be seen above,
I will be guided without a stumble
To the arms of me own true love."
I'm a Rover Great Big Sea
"An angel without wings can hardly fly and love without a dream it will not survive." Angel Without Wings Vertical Horizon
“Now that the world isnt ending, its love that Im sending to you. It isn’t the love of a hero, and thats why I fear it won’t do.” Hero Chad Kroeger
"Anyone perfect must be lying. Anything easy has its cost. Anyone plain can be lovely. Anyone loved can be lost." Falling For the First Time Barenaked Ladies
"Hon.." Anikka
"This is how I think. I don't think in straight lines. I think in squiggles." Opal (7-15-00)
"He needs a throw rug!" Anikka re:Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Contestant
"You've got princess hands." Mom
"I love your nails Dad. Can I paint them?" Anikka
“Bloody” Leo
"I can't afford to lose more sleep. I get ill when I get tired." Leave Barenaked Ladies
“With insomnia, you're never really asleep; you're never really awake.” Narrator – Fight Club
"I saw a young man by a telephone. He was sitting alone in the rain. I said, 'Hey, young man what you doing here?'He said, 'Sir, I'm going insane'"
Japan Vertical Horizon
"I'm so sane its driving me crazy." Falling For the First TimeBarenaked Ladies
“"Sometimes sanity takes vacation time on me" The Best Thing Savage Garden
“I ran for three years, five months, and two days. When I was hungry, I ate. When I was tired, I slept. When I had to go, you know, I went!” Forest Gump –Forest Gump
“What seizes your imagination will affect everything! It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekend, what you read, what you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.” Fr. Pedro Arrupe (former Superior General of the Society of Jesus)
“The sould would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.” John Vance Cheney