Hope for the Hopeless

Lovelies, 

I started this blog with a heavy emphasis on the power of words, of quotes, to explain our feelings and say the words that express the feelings we often are too overwhelmed by emotion to find. The inspiration that comes from reading a particular quote that matches exactly what you are going through and says what you cannot, is an experience unlike any other. It's comforting to know you are not alone. We all have stories, problems, and dreams and everyone of you is important. There is hope out there, miracles occur in the face of impossibility and improbability, and when your time is right, once upon a time, we find magic in the form of love that defies everything.

That being said, I think it's quote time :)
<3 C

"Peace of mind is something I'll never find. It's something I'll never know until I find you. I'm out of time, blame it on the doubts of mine. Blame it on the thoughts I refuse to face. A love lost wasn't love. Quit blaming yourself. I get lost in the words we choose to say. We get lost inside of ourselves but found in someone else."

-Jacob Gann

"A deep understanding runs through us even in the midst of misunderstanding."

-Cassia Reyes, Matched

"Is falling in love with someone's story the same as falling in love with the person himself?"

-Cassia, Matched

"Let me believe in this, all of this, and you believe in it, too."

-Ky Markham, Matched

"Now I live in his story. Now I am a part of his, and he of mine, and the part we write together sometimes feels like the only part that matters."

-Cassia, Matched

"I believe in you. That's more faith that I ever thought I'd have."

-Ky, Matched

"The chance to glimpse what was lost distracted me from what must be found."

-Cassia, Matched

"You don't play with other people's lives."

-Ky, Matched

"Sometimes it feels like everything I've done has been to help you be ready for someone else."

-Xander Carrow, Matched

"Because in the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go."

-Ky Markham, Crossed

"Do you know what it's like for someone to choose to leave you?"

-Xander Carrow, Crossed

"Much as I love looking at the stars, I never learned to guide by them. I mark my course by people."

-Cassia Reyes, Crossed

"I climb into the dark for you

Are you waiting in the stars for me?"
-Cassia, Crossed

"Her beauty always makes me ache."

-Ky, Crossed

"I think of how many invisible injuries are possible. Ones scored on your heart, your brain, your bones. How do we all stand? I wonder. What is it that keeps us moving?"

-Cassia, Crossed

"I know what it's like to miss someone. I know what it's like to miss the past, to wish you could go back in time. But you need to realize that you can't. You can't miss it anymore, because you can't go back. You need to stop building the memories up in your head, and see them for what the really were. A few great days surrounded by a lot of terrible ones. And you need to realize that you deserve someone who makes everyday great."

"I could build a dream that we won't ever wanna wake up from."

-Kris Allen

"The light of love flows out of our soul, but often it's blocked by our fear to show it."

-Paulo Coehlo

"I find myself thinking more about the people I've never met, rather than the people I see on a daily basis."

"Life is impossible. And miraculous."

-Caterina Scorsone

"We create our own destiny."
-Alex Karev

"Your life is a gift, accept it, no matter how screwed up or painful it seems to be. Somethings are going to work out as if they were destined to happen. As if they were just meant to be."

-Meredith Grey Webber

"Understand that the past cannot and will not take you down. If it didn't then, it certainly can't now."

-Maggie Lyon

"I vow to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands."

-The Vow

"You can't give up on the things you love. Not ever."

-Charlotte King

"Astronomers have attempted to count the number of stars in the universe. One group of scientists estimates that the number of stars within range of our telescopes is 10 times greater than all the grains of sand on the world's beaches and deserts. That is a paradox of man:compared to God, man is nothing:yet we are everything to God.

God knows that some of the greatest souls who have ever lived are those who will never appear in the chronicles of history. They are the blessed, humble souls who emulate the Savior's example and spend the days of their lives doing good."

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"In the family relationship love is really spelled t-i-m-e."

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"My strength as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure."

-Alfred Lord Tennyson

"It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee, and though you may call me a dreamer or fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible."

Noah Calhoun, The Notebook

"Miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things."

-Noah, The Notebook

"It had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person."

-Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

"A 'living poem' had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others."

"Poetry wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding."

-Allie, The Notebook

"Everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours."

-Noah, The Notebook

"Everything good happens after 2am."

-Brie

"Forever is composed of nows."

"I had to know he existed, that was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed."

"What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't happened yet."

"I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability to astonish myself. I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself."

"Promises are like the full moon. If they are not kept at once, they diminish day by day."

-German proverb

"Time passes quickly. We cannot call back time that is past, we cannot stop time that now is, and we cannot experience the future in our present state. Time is a gift, a treasure not to be put aside for the future but to be used wisely in the present."

-Thomas S. Monson

"We are unaware of hosts of blessings that we receive from day to day."

-Quentin L. Cook

"There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent or hinder of control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
-Marion D. Hanks

"Thee lift me and I'll lift thee, and we will ascend together."

-Proverb

"We can't predict all the struggles and storms in life, not even the ones just around the next corner, but as persons of faith and hope, we know beyond the shadow of any doubt that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true and the best is yet to come."

-L. Tom Perry

"I am only a blurry, in-between face, easy to forget. Not pretty. Not ugly, either. Just plain, like a thousand other faces you would see on the street."

-Lena, Delirium

"You have to go forward no matter what happens."

-Lena, Delirium

"Love: It will kill you and save you, both."

-Lena, Delirium

"I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took."

-Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

"So many things become beautiful when you really look."

-Sam, Before I Fall

"Everyone can be fixed."

-Sam, Before I Fall

"I marvel at how even the wrong choices can keep us on the right path. How the worst mistake can wind up being the best thing that ever happened to us. Even if you chose a fairly rocky journey, everything seemed to come full circle to bring you back to this one, perfect moment: exactly where you're meant to be."

-Jaden, Cross My Heart

"When you love someone you love them. And every day you sit back pretending that you don't is one less day you have with them."

-Phillip, Cross My Heart

"Shouldn't you be with your friends, staring at yourselves in the mirror?"

-Veronica "Ronnie" Miller, The Last Song

"Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

-Anna Karenina

"This is who I am, and this is what I enjoy, and of all the people I know right now, I want to enjoy this experience with you."
-Will Blakelee, The Last Song

"There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person: The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite frankly, are hard to find. But it's the serious ones I'm interested in, and it takes time to find a guy like that whom I'm equally interested in. I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?"

-Megan Blakelee, The Last Song

"IMTF=In My Thoughts Forever."

-Will, The Last Song

"In the end, you should always do the right thing even if it's hard."

-Ronnie, The Last Song

"It was incredible to think that after weeks of absolutely nothing happening, everything she'd been waiting for would be over in a matter of minutes."

-Ronnie

"It's not like it changes anything, but everything has changed."

-Ronnie

"In hindsight, the pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart."

-Ronnie

"Nothing is more fulfilling than love itself."

-Steve Miller, The Last Song

"I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell. God always answers."

-Pastor Harris, The Last Song

"Never take anyone for granted."

"In the state of grace you trust in yourself and destiny. You can celebrate other people's blessings, knowing that their gifts are right and appropriate for them and that fate has your gift right around the corner."

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
-Thomas Edison

"Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold onto, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness."

-Lena, Pandemonium

"You can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time."

-Lena, Pandemonium

"There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people. It is all glass."

-Lena

"There are some things, I guess, that come naturally, even if you've never done them before."

-Lena

"Distance does not ruin people's relationships. You don't have to see someone everyday to be in love."

-Paige-Madison

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
-The Dalai Lama

"A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and over think and hesitate."

"Your biggest challenge isn't someone else. It's the voice inside you that yells, 'I can't!' But you do not listen. You must push forward. Then you hear that voice fade away and start to whisper, 'I can.' That is the moment you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are."

"What happened to old fashion love? When the guys chased the girls. When guys would run to open the car door for you. When you could talk to each other in the middle of the grass. When you could spontaneously start dancing in the middle of the street. When saying I love you meant I love you. What happened?"

-Brett Williams

"In some cultures, when they mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful."

"I know life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point is to find the things that matter, and hold onto them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."

-Lena, Delirium

"Hate is the ugliest form of human behavior. Learn to love."

"You think you know someone and then something happens that changes things and forces you to come to the realization that you don't know them at all. Trust is such a rare thing but it means everything."

-Charley Brooke

"Look at the stars. Look how they shine for you."

-Coldplay

"Not knowing is a thousand times more horrible than facing your fear."

Lone Wolf, Jodi Picoult

"Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know you're avoiding them."

-Lone Wolf, Jodi Picoult

"Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might chance. That is the reason that dancers learn, early on, how to spot while doing pirouettes:we all want to be able to find the place where we started."

-Lone Wolf

"Doubt is like dye. Once it spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain."

-Lone Wolf

"Because when you get down to it, the only person you can trust is the one you'd lay down your own life for."

-Lone Wolf

"The scariest thing in the world is thinking that someone you love is going to die."

-Lone Wolf

"Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence."

-Jodi Picoult

"Can you really be mad at someone for doing something stupid if they truly, one hundred percent, thought they were doing what was right?"

-Jodi Picoult

Water for Elephants & Other Quotes

“Life is the most spectacular show on earth.”           -Water for Elephants

“With a secret like that at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

-Water for elephants

“When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It’s fate.”

-Water for elephants

“The more distressing the memory, the more persistent its presence.”

-Water for elephants

“I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.”

-water for elephants

“I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased on my skin. I want.”

-Water for elephants

“With girls the first thing I notice is their eyes and smile. I’m not a big make-up fan—I like them to be natural.”

-Shane West

“Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”

“Just because something is beautiful doesn’t mean it’s good.”

“Every girl pretends to be a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.”

-Beastly

“Don’t do anything halfway unless you’re willing to be half happy.”

-How Do you know

“Do me a favor…Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there’s an entire planets—worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.”

-Chad Sugg

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

-Marilyn Monroe

“if something is not happening for you it does not mean it’s never going to—it just means that you’re not ready for it yet.”

“Life is too ironic to fully understand. It takes sadness to know what happiness is. Noise to appreciate silence. And absence to value presence.”

“If you ever doubt the power of language, listen more closely. Witness the magic the first time someone whispers ‘I love you’. Watch a woman put on head phones, close her eyes, and have her life changed by a lyric. See a bad moment flipped upside down by a well timed joke. Words propel us, empower us, make us human and more than human. We constantly struggle to say what we mean and mean what we say. To ‘wrestle with words and meanings’. That’s what T.S. eliot calls is. But as we whisper and shout, stutter and spin, we create order out of the chaos around us. We are built of words, and we live by them, too.”

“It’s a funny thing about life… if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”

-W. Somerset Maughemh

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.”

-Harriet beecher stowe

“You can’t go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have… is now.”

-jay asher

“we do not do what we want, and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is the fact. Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”

-nicolas de chamfort

“We don’t see things how they are, we see things how we are.”

“There is no telling how many miles you will have to run when chasing a dream.”

“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’—otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”

-C.S. Lewis

“The past: Our cradle, not our prison.

There is danger as well as appeal in its glamour.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation.

For continuation, not repetition.”

“you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

-The dark knight

“Opportunity does not knock, then knock again, and then leave a note saying, ‘sorry I missed you.’”

-that 70’s show

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes. It’s a universal truth. But the good part is, you get to decide how you mess it up.”

-Marilyn Monroe

“The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.”

-Megan Mcaffery

“The higher you raise your hopes, the further you have to fall.”

-Jodi picoult

“Pick the day. Enjoy it—to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come. The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present—and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”

-Audrey Hepburn

“You must not lose your faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean—if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

-Gandhi

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

“Memories are worth the sleepless nights it takes to make them.”

“I may not have an umbrella to block the rain… but it doesn’t mean I’m not ready to weather the storm.”

-Arminda meer

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people in the whole world. I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid worlds. Not just one world, hundreds of them, maybe thousands.”

-Neil gaiman

“It happens as you grow up—you find out who you are, and what you want, and then you find out that people you’ve know forever don’t see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”

“There’s some illogical part of me that still believes if you want superman to show up, first there’s got to be someone worth saving.”

-Jodi picoult

“I wish you were here. Not sure who you are yet but… I want you here.”

“I’d rather be anything but ordinary.”

-avril lavigne

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

-John Pierpont

“Don’t turn a slip into a fall.”

-Charlotte king

“The world is a better place with you in it.”

“Oh I wonder when did it all stop making sense? I don’t understand. Can we ever go back? Can we ever go back again?”

-Joy Williams

“Sometimes I wonder…will anyone ever see the real me? I don’t try to hide it… it’s just no one ever asks…”

“Rumors are just that… rumors. In the end If you just be kind and be yourself people will know who you are. That goes for anyone I think.”

-Justin bieber

“I like to believe that everyone has the ability to love.”

-Keegan allen

“Just when we think we’ve figured things out, the universe throws us a curve ball. The universe has a funny way of doing things, but we always end up right back where we belong.”

-Meredith Grey

“There’s always something in the way. And I find peace when I’m confused. I find hope when I’m let down. Not in me. But in you.”

-Switchfoot

“I won’t force myself to have a space in your life, because if you know my worth, you’ll create one for me.”

“You’ll never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.”

-Charles buxton

“But in your dreams, whatever they be, dream a little dream of me.”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

-Thomas paine

“Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.”

-e.e. cummings

“Do you have a passion? Find something that you love. Run with it, don’t stop for anyone else. No one can get you down. You are better than that. Fight your passion. Be knowledgeable of your roots and proud of what you’ve become. If what you love reflects yourself inside out, it is not a trend. So many people will never find true love and all the passion that can flow from it. Everyone is so quick to judge. But while they’re just watching, we’ll run past them.”

“know you are loved. Share your joy. Do your best. Sing a little, dance a lot. Return what you borrow. Share. Do what is right. Speak kindly of others. Tell the truth. Play nice, play fair. No whining or complaining. Be forgiving, patient, grateful.”

“As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts—what doesn’t, doesn’t. time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.”

-Haruki murakami

“You can escape from liability,

But you cannot escape from regret.

You can escape from school,

But you cannot escape from knowledge.

You can escape from your enemies,

But you cannot escape from fear.

You can escape from jail,

But you cannot escape from guilt.

You can escape from commitment,

But you cannot escape from love.

You can escape from life,

But you cannot escape from death.

You can escape from others,

But you cannot escape from yourself.”