If it makes you happy
Don't listen to anyone
Only you know what you want

Your breaking into my heart
And I'm letting you

because it's only when you're tested
that you truly discover who you are.
and it's only when you're tested
that you discover who you can be.
the person that you want to be exists,
somewhere in the other side of
hard work and faith, and belief
and beyond the heartache and fear
of what life is going to throw at you.

sometimes i feel like the heart and mind play tricks on each other.
that just when you have got yourself convinced with one
that something is what you want,
the other steps in and makes you feel nothing but doubt.

I don’t know what’s in store for us,
I don’t know how long this will last,
and I don’t know if we're meant to be.
But I do know that I love being in your arms,
I know that I love being by your side,
and I know that I love you.

A warning to the curious,
a message for the meek. It's better
not to be in love, than to be in between.

please stop jumping into my life.
i can't stand to let you toy with my emotions any longer.
if i can't have you, then at least let me live without you.

well you might hide behind your computer screen.
& I might hide behind my music,
& she might hide behind her sports.
but the truth of it is,
we all have something that we're hiding.
& maybe we should stop running for cover,
cause what might happen when those things can't defend us anymore?

He saw me. And his eyes changed.They went from being open & curious & ready to take it all in like they always are to suddenly looking all soft & slept &--I know it sounds weird but--tender. The skin at the edges of his eyes crinkled just slightly, like he was beginning to smile but didn't want to rush it. And his lips curved up just the barest amount, like the look between us was a secret we shouldn't give away. And for that one moment it was like I was the only person in the room as far as he was concerned, & he was so happy to see me, & what's more, he fully expected me to be as happy to see him, which I was.  And that's how I knew.

Time stays long enough
for anyone who will use it.

I'd like to think I never did
those things, or never said that
to you. But the truth is, I did
and that's apart of me. I make
mistakes, and I know who I am
because of them. I lost you
because of it, but to lose
you meant to gain myself.

This is the greatest paradox : the emotions cannot
be trusted, yet it is they that tell us the greatest truths

Everybody is in favour of progress,
provided they can have it without change

It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it. And it isn't
enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live
our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Is that your own life you're living?

The heart may think it knows better: the senses
know that absence blots people out.
We have really no absent friends.

Ask that woman trying to make the rent and pay the bills and feed the kids.
Six months ago, their daddy walked away.
Ask that man whose family stayed around cause he finally put that bottle down.
Now he has to fight that battle everyday.
Hey, how much does the world weigh?

There have to be clouds for
there to be silver linings.

There are two things to aim at in life : first,
to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it
Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second

The nice part about being a pessimist
is that you are constantly being either
proven right or pleasantly surprised.

I cannot get out of this place that I am in.
When every one of your words,
they mean nothing,
where do you get off telling me constantly what I'm gonna be?
I'll be just fine.

So i would just like the xanga community to know that i am a horrible awful person
i went on a date tonight, with a very attractive guy and he seems so together
exactly what i want
too bad i have no feelings for him.
and i have every intention to go out with him again.
i'm playing the same game that broke my heart.
except i never claimed to love him.
maybe i'm not so bad.
=] 

i feel like i have no one in life to talk to anymore
i feel like i lost my best friend...

Sometimes you need to step outside,
get some air,
and remind yourself of who you
are and where you want to be.

You said I was great. You said I could be great.
You said we were destined to be together.
You said it to the world, you said it to me.
And I wish you never had, because you didn’t mean any of it.

There’s a look in your eye, and it’s screaming goodbye.

I finally learned what life’s about,
Hanging on when your heart’s had enough,
and giving more when you want to give up.

love doesn't walk away, people do.

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and
happiness. Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

honey, if it's the right guy, then he won't leave.

When people can walk away from you, let them walk. Don't try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring for you, coming to see you, or staying attached to you. When people can walk away, let them walk.
Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.

She has always been like this when she's sad, like she wants to be pressed to me but also distant, next to me & far away from me at the same time. Like she is practicing being gone. And I don't really get it, how she can turn from me when she's at her most miserable, times when all I want to do is hold her & never let go. It's like the sadness pushes me, pulls her. And her pulling away makes things worse, way worse, for me, but I can't ever tell her that, because then she's even more sad, for hurting me. Too many layers of hurt, & it starts to suffocate us both

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new and that is ultimately good for the soul.

I guess what I'm saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it's not mine to be familiar about. I just know that another kid has felt this. And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. And you know that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing "unity." It's like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to always feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too

There are only 2 known beings that would give their life for you;
Jesus Christ and an American soldier.
Their only difference is that one died for your soul, 
and the other died for your freedom.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world
 is also a confession of their character .

In your whole life, nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself and the limit of your self abuse is exactly the limit of abuse that you will tolerate from someone else

If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves. 

As long as I have you there is just one
other thing I'll always need -
tremendous self control.

The best time to hold your tongue is the
time you feel you must say something or bust.

So I say a thousand stupid things and half
The time I never mean them. But this time I'm
Serious. I'm never going to talk to you first
So if I mean anything, anything to you at all
The you can talk to me because I give up

I can't imagine being anywhere else
My mistakes made me who I am
And im perfectly fine with that

we can't forget where we've been.
it's not starting over.
it's starting again.

Love is needing someone
Love is putting up with someones
Bad qualities because
They somehow complete you<3

But it was okay not to fit in everywhere
As long as you did somewhere

It seemed no matter where I turned
Someone was telling me to change

But that was the problem with having the answers
It was only after you gave them
That you realized they sometime weren't
What people wanted to hear

It was becoming clear to me
That I shouldn't bother to
Get too attached to anything
Turn your back and you lose it
Just like that

 am not a spontaneous person
But when you're alone in the world
Really alone, you have no choice
but to be open to suggestions

Shoulda, coulda, woulda
Its so easy in past tense

There are some things in this world
You rely on, like a sure bet
And when they let you down
Shifting from where you've carefully placed
Them, it shakes your faith
Right where you stand

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part
of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for
people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to
make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee.
Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc.
So people who don't know what the hell they're doing
or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just
a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self:
Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino.

Sometimes I wonder about my life.
I lead a small life. Well, not small, but valuable.
And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I
like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much
of what I see reminds me of something I read in a
book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

I don't really want an answer.

Hello xanga.
awesome day today
for randomly no good reason at all maybe
bc it's so true when they sat that
"one day you wake up and it just doesn't hurt the same."
for me it's more one day you wake up and realize
that you just don't need them the way you did
i always want him i guess
but people want me too
so
i guess not needing him,
not having to depend on him to be happy
is the smart
that's all i got
=]

She knows herself enough to be confident,
with enough control to bite back the words
that are not meant to be said

On his face was a expression of love.
Ardent, undisguised love, such as I would never see when he looked at me

I learned a lot of lessons awful quick and now I'm telling you
that they were not the nice kind,
and it's been so long since I've felt fine.

He's unresponsive 'cause you're irresponsible.

theres more to life then trying to survive...

You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are and you have to have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your dreams

I've blocked out the past for a good reason. When someone that means everything to you tells you that you mean nothing to them, you forget the good times and just remember the bad ones, so that its easier to move on.

Time never had a chance to heal your heart. Just a number counting down to a new start. If you always knew the truth, then the world would spin around you. Are you dizzy yet?

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-contered; forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of being selfish and having ulterior motives; be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.
The good that you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between only you; it was never between you and them anyway.

Sometimes, someone comes into your life
that changes everything. Raises your standards,
makes you laugh, and makes you feel like you.
There is something about him that you can't put
into words