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Favorite Quotes - “Personal” Category

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Updated: August 24, 2011

“I don’t know what to believe… but I love my life. I… wake up most mornings pinching myself that I get to take even a small part in all of this. But… I can’t help but feel like it’s all an illusion. You know? I mean, it’s like it’s all just one moment away from disappearing forever.” - Dawson’s Creek

“I’m always wishing… even in non-eyelash moments.” - Felicity

“I’ve stumbled and picked myself up, and stumbled and picked myself up … over and over again with no safety net.” - Dawson’s Creek

“I dreamed of a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.” -chinese proverb

“If I meet a 100 year old man and have something teach him, I will teach.. if I meet an 8 year old boy and he has something to teach me, I will learn.”

“There’s no point to any of this. It’s all just a…a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know…a quarter-pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter becomes a cackle.” - Reality Bites

“And I’ve been changing. I think it’s funny how no one knows.” - Matchbox 20

“I wish somehow I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.” - Toby Keith

“I’m not trying to give my life meaning by demeaning you and I would like to state for the record, I did everything I could do. I’m not saying that I’m a saint, I just don’t want to live that way. No, I will never be a saint.” - Ani DiFranco ‘32 Flavors’

“What’s the big deal? Get over it … relax; just ‘cause I do up in your face what other people do behind your back.” - Ani DiFranco, ‘born a lion’

“I just write about what I should have done; I just sing what I wish I could say, and hope somewhere some woman hears my music — and it helps her through her day.” - Ani DiFranco, ‘i’m no heroine’

“I make promises and I break them all apart. I’m lying like a sidewalk… a typical ‘loves me, loves me not.’” - Jann Arden, ‘i only wanted sex’

“Everything you haven’t done, I have.” - Dawson’s Creek

“I mean I can’t help it, okay? Happiness freaks me out. It’s like all those perfectly manicured lawns at the beginning of Blue Velvet. You just know something evil lurks beneath.” - Dawson’s Creek

“Why when something so wrong runs out of my life…I chase it…but when something so right is trying so hard to get into my life….I push it away?” - Brittaney Thayer H.

“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when, shouldn’t it be the other way around?” - You’ve Got Mail

“I have this great imaginary world, but sometimes I just need things to happen for real.” - Ally McBeal

“Even if I did get passed all my problems, I’m just gonna get out and get new ones. I like being a mess, it’s who I am.” -ally mcbeal

“He said something that didn’t mean as much then as it does now. He told me that things happen in life that you can’t stop, but it wasn’t a reason to shut out the world. I realize that I have been so afraid of the bad things that I missed out on the good.” - Now and Then

“Hope last night doesn’t wake up this morning and tell tomorrow what I’ve done.” - strangefolk

“There’s this guy I know… we used to be something… now, we’re just people.”

“If I had a crystal ball, I would throw it against the wall, ‘cause some things, you just don’t wanna know.” - Amanda Marshall, “the gypsy”

“I learned to be unfaithful from my parents. Not infidelity in the classic sense — but I was always prepared for the unhappy ending, which made me less willing to work toward a happy one. I was unfaithful to the idea of a well-adjusted future.” - Girls’ Poker Night by Jill A. Davis

“Have you ever written your name, or seen it printed somewhere, and thought it looked unfamiliar? Like maybe you spelled it wrong or something? It used to happen to me all the time. But then again, I’m only the strangest person I’ve ever met.” - Girls’ Poker Night by Jill A. Davis

“Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don’t have the courage to go after the life you really want. That’s what makes me do it — make one of those decisions — the kind that bends your future in a whole new direction.” - Girls’ Poker Night by Jill A. Davis

“I had to stop my head from taking over my life and learn to take things one day at a time.” - My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

“Time was always NOW, in big, bold, uppercase letters. The future just wasn’t my concern.” - My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

“I’ve never been a dreamer, and if I aspire to any form of mystery at all, it is one defined by rules of the International Revenue Service and codified by law.” - The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks

“The real truth is I probably don’t want to be too happy… or content, because then what? I actually like the quest, the search… that’s the fun. the more lost you are, the more you have to look forward to.” - Ally McBeal

“I’m still not ready to move on. It’s sort of like what you were saying how on the one hand, expectations can inspire you, but, then again, they can really let you down. I’m not ready to be let down quite yet. But I still have hope, that one day, I’ll take a chance again, in the horrible face of expectation. And it’ll be worth it. I’ve become a real believer in not defining every single thing. Seems like every time you think you’ve figured out what something is, it just becomes something else.” - Felicity

“When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.” - when harry met sally

“I’m looking for a ‘dare to be great’ situation.” - Say Anything

“Seems like everything’s the same around me; then I look again and everything has changed.” - hillary duff

“I’ve been waiting all this time to be something I can’t define.” - The Format

“I know things change, I know people move on. I’m not stupid. But, well, I really like my life right now. I wanna hang on to it.” - Jack and Jill

“I learned some things about myself. I guess it came the hard way. Now I know what counts.” - Bouncing Souls

“I’m not sure I’ll ever see the day I’m not confused.” - Ultimate Fakebook, “circus horrors”

“I’m comfortably confused.” - Taking Back Sunday, “set phases to the sun”

“I’m growing up again…I’m learning to accept that all good things must come to an end. I’m growing up again…I’m trying to understand what it’s like to let go of a friend.” - The Ataris, “in spite of the world”

“maybe i needed to take more risks. maybe a checkered, goofy love life full of tragedy and strife, full of hideous lows and delusional highs, was better than a long blank period jam-packed with nothing. maybe this was the message the universe was trying to give me. it was instructing me to stop worrying about trying to get things right and just do something, anything. be vulnerable. don’t think so much. live.” - It’s My F—-ing Birthday by Merrill Markoe

“For all the things in life I had to struggle through, yell through, things in life I just had to get through; I’m grateful for them. If I had a choice between living happily ignorant, knowing nothing about life and experiences, or a life with challenges, frustration and obstacles, I’d pick the second life. Without all the complications what would you ever learn? You would have no depth. In the second life, when things are harder, you only want to work harder, and once you accomplish what you want, the feeling is overwhelming and even greater than not having struggled through it at all.”

“I’m a tough tough game that no one can master, I’m a tall tall tale no one believes. I’m a long, dark night with no morning after. Lucky you, you get the best of me.” - Amanda Marshall, “best of me”

“And every tear that had to fall from my eyes.  Everyday I wondered how I’d get through the night.  Every change life has thrown me.  I’m thankful, for every break in my heart.  I’m grateful for every scar.  Some pages turned.  Some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned.” - Carrie Underwood, “lessons learned”

“There’s mistakes that I have made.  Some chances I just threw away.  Some roads I never should’ve taken.  Been some signs I didn’t see.  Hearts that I hurt needlessly.  Some wounds that I wish I could have one more chance to mend, but it don’t make no difference: The past can’t be rewritten.  You get the life you’re given.” - Carrie Underwood, “lessons learned”

“I didn’t mean to alarm you.  Subtlety’s my weakness.” - Saving Jane, “sleep on it”

“I have this unrealistic view of things.  I believe life should be a series of seamless transitions.  When it’s not, I’m shocked and disappointed.” - Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

“I never believed in the straight and narrow, always took the rocky road.” - Martina McBride, “walk the line”

“I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.” Sophia Loren

“I just am not the type to settle, you know? It’s like when I go shopping. I have to have the most expensive thing. Not because it’s expensive, but because it costs more.” - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“I’d rather do nothing and be happy than do something I know I don’t love.” - What Happens in Vegas

“I have a habit of saying the wrong thing when I’m upset. I mean, if you could fill this room with everybody I’ve offended, people would probably think you’re a much better rabbi than you are.” - Ally McBeal

“If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.” - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.” - Edgar Allan Poe

“It’s not as if I’m never friendly. Okay, maybe I don’t go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are too hard to come by, but I do care for some people.” - Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)

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