redgeek: Quotes that inspire me

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"What you’ve been through, and what you still carry, has made you into who you are. And for better or worse it’s you, man." - Shawna Howson
"I don't care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back." - Hayley Williams
"If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." - Fred Rogers
"The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies, that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die, but thing as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on forever." - Chuck Palahniuk
"You can choose to blame your circumstances on fate, or bad luck, or bad choices, or you can fight back. Things aren’t always gonna be fair in the real world, that’s just the way it is. But for the most part you get what you give. Let me ask you all a question; what’s worse, not getting everything you wished for or getting it all and finding out it’s not enough? The rest of your life is being shaped right now with the dreams you chase, the choices you make, and the person you decide to be. The rest of your life is a long time and the rest of your life starts right now." - 'One Tree Hill'
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher
"Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason" - Adele
"Your good intentions mean absolutely nothing. So you want to make better choices? Then make better choices. Smarten up and change if it’s that important to you." - Shawna Howson
"It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." - 'Batman Begins'
"To anyone that ever told you that you're no good... they're no better." - Hayley Williams
“Sometimes, the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes, people deserve to have their faith rewarded.” - 'The Dark Knight'
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” - 'One Tree Hill'
"The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art." - Chuck Palahniuk
“ I know that when you're a teenager — sometimes when you're an adult — what sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it's not. A lot of the time, it's what makes you great. ” - Emma Stone
"Do one positive thing each day to get yourself closer to the person you want to be" - Hayley Williams
"If you're not willing to risk it all then you don't want it bad enough." - unknown
"Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?" - 'What a Girl Wants'
"Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself." - Hayley Williams
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off''
"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love" - 'The Notebook'
"Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them." - 'Good Will Hunting'
"People are gonna label you. Its how you over come those labels, that’s what matters.” - 'One Tree Hill'
"When we think we know people inside out and we think we know what's best for them we should try to remember we don't even know what's best for ourselves." - Hayley Williams
"We are who we choose to be" - 'Green Goblin'
"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want." - '10 Things I Hate About You'
"A life without love is no life at all" - 'Ever After: A Cinderella Story'
"The brave do not live forever but the cautious do not live at all." - 'The Princess Diaries'
"You are your own torch carrier. Don't let anyone steal your light." - Hayley Williams
"We walk away from our dreams afraid we may fail, or worse yet, afraid we may succeed." - 'Finding Forrester'
“Happiness comes in many forms. In the company of good friends. In the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dreams come true. Or in the promise of hope renewed. It’s okay to let yourself be happy, because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.” - 'One Tree Hill'
"When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen" - Unknown
“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.” - Hayley Williams
"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do" - John Wooden
"Everybody does stupid things, it shouldn't cost them everything they want in life." - 'House'
"That's how life can be. Any struggle or pain you experience just gets to the top. And you can't get there without making the climb. A few years later, you won't remember exactly the way the pain felt or how long it took. You'll just remember the view from the top. In fact, you might smile at the fact you had to work to get there" - Hayley Williams
"Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." - Ray Bradbury
"Don’t judge. Don’t stay inside all the time. Get out and let somebody know who you are." - Hayley Williams
“If you had a friend, you knew you’d need never see again - what would you say? If You Could do one last thing for Someone you love. What would it be? Say it. Do it. Don’t wait. Nothing lasts forever.” - 'One Tree Hill'
"You are gorgeous. and honestly, whether you are super thin or bigger than most... you could lose weight, gain weight or stay the same forever and you know what wouldn't change? Your heart. It will always be what makes you even more beautiful." - Hayley Williams
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
When you’re at the lowest you can possibly go, it’s kind of freeing. Because the very worst thing that could possibly happen has happened, so what is there left to be afraid of? You won’t be happy forever, but you won’t be sad forever. You know, it’s like a tipping point.” - Florence Welch
“Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.” - Jamie Tworkowski
"There’s no need for drama and hate, y’all. Let’s love each other! We’re all human, right?" - Taylor York
"You don't need courage to live fully. I mean, to an extent I guess you do... but really it's just about even opening up your mind enough to accept that behind someone's shell is an entire being. A whole lifetime of stories. Experiences that shaped that person. I think I just lived a few good long years feeling like I was closing out the world and when I finally quit trying to fit into one mold and quit living in a bubble, I realized how much I was missing out on. I don't mean that there was all this fun to be had as in some new crazy lifestyle... but like, people and stories and wisdom... that sort of thing" - Hayley Williams
“I feel like people get lost when they think happiness as a destination. We always think that someday we’ll be happy. When we get that car or that job or that person in our lives who will fix everything. But happiness is a mood and it’s a condition, not a destination. It’s like being tired or hungry. It’s not permanent. It comes and goes and that’s okay. And if people would think that way, they’d find happiness more often.” - 'One Tree Hill'
"When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone." - Chuck Palahniuk
"Everything will work out! There's a purpose for everything, good or bad." - Taylor York
"Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or in our own destruction.” - Hayley Williams
"You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it"
"Its all about your mindset. Like if you want to be miserable you can absolutely be miserable. Or if you kind of just want to point out the good things then you can make the best of it." - Taylor York
"If you’re feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place but it would be lonelier without you in it." - Hayley Williams
"One day, you'll be just a memory for some people. Do your best to be a good one" - Unknown
"Please know there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self-conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because. I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim to numerous knifings, but it will always heal, even if you don't want it to keep going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It is up to you to find them." - Chuck Palahnuik
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with." - Harry Crews
"There’s so many people in the music business or even in general who will tell you that you can’t do this or that just because you haven’t already had success but I feel like anyone can do anything they put their mind to as long as they stay devoted and stay passionate." - Jeremy Davis
I don't think things should be weighed on finance. If I'm doing what I love and am making enough to live then I am happy. If I make more than what I need, I am ecstatic. Go where your passions take you, my friend. Don't worry about the end result. Work hard, do well, make enough to eat - Shawna Howson
There comes a time when every life goes off course. In this desperate moment you must choose your direction. Will you fight to stay on the path while others tell you who you are? Or will you label yourself? Will you be honored by your choice? Or will you embrace your new path? Each morning you choose to move forward or to simply give up. - 'One Tree Hill'
"The night is coming to an end. The sun will rise, and we will try again" - 'Truce'
"Don’t let someone steal your tenderness. Don’t allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a rain drop, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep…feel it all – look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.” - Zooey Deschanel
"Did you ever look at a picture of yourself and see a stranger in the background? It makes you wonder how many people have pictures of you, how many moments of other people's lives we've been in. Were we part of someone's life when their dream came true, or were we there when their dreams died? Did we keep trying to get in, as if we were somehow destined to be there? Or did the shot take us by surprise? Just think, you could be a big part of someone else's life, and not even know it... " - 'One Tree Hill'
"Do you ever wonder if we make the moments in our lives? or if the moments in our lives make us?" - 'One Tree Hill'
“It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think." - Queen Latifah
"Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"Memories are what make up our human lives. The experiences we can take with us and the people we hold in our minds can shape us." - Hayley Williams
"Your illness is the negativity within you. Turn negative energy into positive energy. Your persona becomes the positivity within you." - Audrey Kitching
"We often forge the bonds of our llives from the scraps of one that were broken" - Jamie George
"You are confined only by the walls you build yourself" - Andrew Murphy
"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good.’" - Stephen R Covey
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"Love people, not things. Use things, not people." - Hayley Williams
"There’s nothing romantic about death. Grief is like the ocean. It’s deep and dark and bigger than all of us". - 'One Tree Hill'
"There is a voice inside of you that whispers all day long,"I feel this is right for me,I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend or wise man can decide what's right for you--just listen to the voice that speaks inside.” - Shel Silverstein
"If I was a good friend I could right this wrong. I'd kick away your crutches and make you walk on your own" - 'Chaos and Piss' by Pink
"I don't wanna be flawless, When I go I want the cuts to show" - 'Timebomb' by Pink
"Everyone starts off as a kid without a clue. Why not be someone who does something about it? Become someone. Some day kids somewhere might wonder if you ever felt small like them. And the ones who realize you did might become something better because of it." - Shawna Howson
"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt" - Sylvia Plath
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." - Andy Pausch
"I'd rather be a comma than a full-stop" - 'Every Teardrop is a Waterfall'
"Sanity is not statistical." - '1984'
"All that is waiting for you won't come any closer you've got to reach a little more" - 'Careful'
"Be unforgettable." - Hayley Williams
"Nothing's going to stand in my way, 'cause I'm not done, even if the sun sets I will start a fire to change your mind." - 'Crystal Clear' by Young Guns
"My horizon lies a jagged line, I can clearly see the mountains that I've yet to climb, I'll get there if it kills me." - 'Weight of the World' by Young Guns
"A scar is just a mark, not a burden but a start of something new." - 'Crystal Clear' by Young Guns
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi
"Want to be one of a kind? Be yourself." - Hayley Williams
"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for." - Ray Bradbury
"Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try." - Michael Jordan
"What's more important? What we become or how we become it?" - 'One Tree Hill'
"We can be our own knights in shining armour. We can be our own damn horse." - Sophia Bush
"We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." - Anais Nin
"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing." - Sylvia Plath
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." - Marin Luther King Jr.
"Just because I'm hurting doesn't mean I'm hurt." - 'Lost'
"You don't need anyone's permission to be exactly who you want to be."
"Love yourself as best you can" - Hayley Williams
"What I have done is not who I will be." - 'One Tree Hill'
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins
"Our scars remind us that the past is real." - 'Scars'
"One of the scariest moments in life is when you come to the realisation that the only person that can save you is yourself." - Demi Lovato
"Let's believe that if we all stand together, we're a force that can shake the whole world." - 'This is The House That Doubt Built'
"Don't let pain define you. I do that a lot... but we can fight it all together. That's what I love about us and our fans. we fight together." - Hayley Williams
"I can't control my destiny. I trust my soul." - 'Another Day'
"Life is a huge opportunity to interact with people totally different than you and find out you have even one thing in common." - Hayley Williams
"I guess I'm learning that you can't prove to anyone who you are, you just have to be it."
“She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn’t come along, she went over to the palace and got him” - Walt Disney on Cinderella
"If you give up, you'll get what you deserve" - 'For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic'
"No-one is worth you hurting yourself."
"If love isn't the foundation then things will fall. For even if they stand, they mean nothing." - Pink
"There was never a good war or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin
"Always use humour as your therapy." - 'Stand Up'
"Perception is real, even when it is not reality." - Edward De Bono
"Life is way too extraordinary to be ungrateful." - Mindy White
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock
"Were you born to resist or be abused?" - 'Best of You'
"Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you." - Chuck Palahniuk
"Maybe I'm not perfect, at least I'm working on it." - 'Hello Cold World'
"I want to be important by being different." - Sylvia Plath
"Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars." - 'Who You Are'
"You are important, you have a story to tell, and we are on your side." - Hayley Williams
"You've hit your one wall, now find a way around." - 'For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic'
"To me mood is the equivalent of weather. Weather is real. That’s the important thing to remember about weather. It is absolutely real. When it rains it rains. It is wet. You get wet. There is no question about it. It’s also true about weather that you can’t control it. You can’t say if I wish hard enough it won’t rain and it’s equally true that if the weather is bad one day it will get better." - Stephen Fry
"Negativity destroys more souls than wars, plagues and earthquakes. Don't let it destroy you." - Philip Arnold
"Don't feel discouraged. Being who you are is all about not knowing who you are. But I think sometimes it can be just as important to know who you aren't!" - Hayley Williams
"Be a voice for the voiceless y'all. This world needs more love and hope!" - Taylor York
"We are not our losses. We are only the extent to which we love" - 'The Castle Builders'
"It's what you do right now that makes a difference" - 'Black Hawk Down'
"We're broken but still breathing, we are wounded but we are healing" - Hairline Fracture'
"You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts." - Ray Bradbury
"The best gift you can give yourself is an open mind." - Hayley Williams
"Nobody gets to name you. You are not forgettable. You are not replaceable. You are not your pain. You are sacred and special and alive." - Jamie Tworkowski
"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up." - 'Batman begins'
"You are alive tonight for a reason. You were created to love and to be loved. You were not meant to be alone. You are not alone. You were meant to do life with other people. You need people who know you. You need to know people. Your voice matters. We are certainly strong. But we are also certainly fragile." - Jamie Tworkowski
"Some cause happiness wherever they go some whenever they go" - Oscar Wilde
"Even if the whole world's forgot, try hard to remember" - Emeli Sande
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong" - Joseph Chilton Pearce
" I know these will all be stories someday. And our pictures will become old photographs. We’ll all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now these moments are not stories. This is happening, I am here and [...] I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive." - 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'
"It isn't what we say or think that defines us but what we do" - 'Sense and Sensibility'
"Life is hills and valleys. As low as you feel, you will have triumphs in your life that far outweigh the trials" - Hayley Williams
"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most." - Buddha
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix
"I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done" - Marilyn Monroe
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"If you never fail, you never have any opportunities for growth. Welcome failure because you'll become a stronger person in the end" - Lindsey Smith
"Believe your voice can mean something" - 'Futures'
"Life is like photography, we develop from the negatives"
"Every day is a chance to change the story" - 'I Was Born, I Have Lived, I Will Surely Die'
"It can be easy to forget that we all have a story worth reading. We're all significant and precious. Whether the world knows your name, or you fade out of existence without ever having your story told, no-one is more or less important to God than you." - Kyle Rictor
"No one can be you as good as you can" - Hayley Williams
"Most of us idolise all the wrong people, and barely glance at the true life-changers" - Mindy White
"Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you." - Chuck Palahniuk
"If you aren't happy being single, you'll never be happy in a relationship. Get your own life first, then share it."
"I don't think anyone loses by trying to be loyal to their dreams." - Hayley Williams
"Life is not about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself" - George Bernard Shaw
"Do what you do because you love to do it. Not for anyone else or any impression. Life shouldn't have to be a chore" - Tay Jardine
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted" - 'The Lion and the Mouse'
"Get out there, take risks, work your butt off, but never get so caught up in your dreams that you turn into something that you're not." - Mindy White
"There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet." - Curt Mega
"When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love." - Demi Lovato
"What's love got to do with it if you don't love yourself?" - Emeli Sande
"Never let success get to your head, never let failure get to your heart." - Curt Mega
"Tie a noose around your mind, loose enough to breath fine and tie it to a tree, tell it, "You belong to me, this ain't a noose, this is a leash and I have news for you, you must obey me"." - 'Holding Onto You'
"I am strong, because I've been weak. I am fearless, because I've been afraid. I am wise, because I've been foolish" - unknown
"Write hard and clear about what hurts." - Ernest Hemingway
"If you’re gonna put your faith in something, then it better shape who you are and what people see in you." - Hayley Williams
"Sometimes you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be — the person you wanted to be — the person you are.” - 'One Tree Hill'
"Behind my eyelids are islands of violence. My mind’s shipwrecked. This is the only land my mind could find. I did not know it was such a violent island, full of tidal waves, suicidal crazed lions. They’re trying to eat me, blood running down their chin and I know that I can fight or I can let the lion win. I begin to assemble what weapons I can find, ‘cause sometimes to stay alive you got to kill your mind" - 'Migraine'
"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind." - C.S. Lewis
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart" - Helen Keller
"Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose" - C.S. Lewis
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts" - Charles Dickens
"The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do" - unknown
"The palest ink is better than the strongest memory" - Mark Matteson
"You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you have to change." - J. Cole
"We are defined by our actions toward others. Not others actions toward us" - Unknown
"An artist who stops making art is committing emotional suicide. Get off the couch and start painting again"
"Don't be scared to embrace the way that it hurts just to grow. You'll look back and your heart will thank you for not standing still when what you needed the most was to move forward" - Hayley Williams
"It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled up and silent with chests rising and falling with our own rhythm. We don’t see ourselves reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing. You don’t see yourself looking at someone with love and care inside your heart. There’s no mirror in your way when you’re laughing and smiling and happiness is leaking out of you. You would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are if you saw yourself in the moments where you are truly yourself."
"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are" - Tim Menchen
"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself" - Mark Twain
"Never undervalue who you are and what you're capable of"
"Actions prove who someone is. Words prove who someone wants to be." - Kemmy Nola
"It's hard to wait around for something you know may never happen but it's even harder to give up when it's everything you ever wanted."
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." - Jim Rohn
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi
"This world is but a canvas to our imagination." - Henry David Thoreau
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"There are 6,775,235,842 people in the world. Why are you letting one of them ruin your life?" - Alfredo Flores
"Success breeds success. Happiness breeds happiness. The more you are of what you want, the more of what you want to be will be a part of you." - Audrey Kitching
"Never be ashamed of how you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion you want and do what makes you happy." - Demi Lovato
"Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well." - Unknown
"Judging a person by their weakest attribute is like judging the ocean by observing a single wave."
"Create a life that feels good on the inside, not one that just looks good on the outside" - unknown
"When people hurt you over and over, think of them like a sandpaper. They may scratch you and hurt you a bit but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless" - 'The Fighting Temptations'
"Be a voice, not an echo" - unknown
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles" - Charlie Chaplin
"The want for new friends doesn't negate the importance of current ones" - Shawna Howson
"In the moments that you feel change happening and you feel your heart, mind, body and soul resisting it with all your might, try not resisting for only a moment" - Hayley Williams

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Quotes that inspire me