beside you

this entry is for all of my favorite quotes, and I will continue to update it as I come across more.  (:
(these are in no particular order)


"Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."  - from Ferris Bueller's Day Off


"It is silliness to live, when to live is torment; and then we have a prescription for death, when death is our physician."  - from Othello, by Shakespeare


"Every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around."  - from Vanilla Sky


"Take the risk, take the fall, if it's what you want then it's worth it all."  - Unknown


"We're all pretty bizarre, some of us are better at hiding it, that's all."  - from The Breakfast Club


"Meglio un giorno de leone de che cento da pecora."  - Italian Proverb
("Better one day as a lion than a hundred as a sheep.")


"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn.  My god, do you learn."  - CS Lewis


"We accept the love we think we deserve."  - from The Perks of Being a Wallflower


"The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return."  - from Moulin Rouge 


"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."  - from A Thousand Splendid Suns (by Khaled Hosseini)


"I'd always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all. It stretches on forever, like an ocean of time. For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout Camp, watching falling stars. And yellow leaves from the maple trees that lined our street. Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper. And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand-new Firebird. And Janie... and Janie. And... Carolyn. 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 stop trying 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. But don't worry, you will someday."
"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I realized there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."
- (both) from American Beauty


"Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange"  - from Wristcutters: A Love Story

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.'  I do not agree.  The wounds remain.  In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone."  - Rose F Kennedy

"It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes.”  - from Running With Scissors (Augusten Burroughs)



as you can tell, a lot of my favorite quotes come from movies. 
but, that's all for now, so I'll be updating this as I come across more awesome quotes.  (: