My Favorite Miscellaneous Quotes I

Sometimes I wish time could be turned back and slates could be wiped clean of all the wrongs...there are so many regrets, so many things I sought to change to regain the happiness that once possessed my soul...all that is but a memory and the fire of my soul ceases to burn...great uncertainty lingers in my sound...a soul once lost...a soul that seeks to be found...the world is filled with pain and hurt...but what drives us is hope that things in the end will turn out as we have hoped and that goodness truly is imprinted in the depths of mankind...~Nilu Roodsari

As I walk along the ocean, the wind caresses my hair. The subtle waves beckon me…. they call out to me, but I’m too afraid to respond. I stand there frozen as the wind circles around me. It touches my face, but not my spirit. I long for an awakening, a realization that will never come…I stand there paralyzed, waiting, searching, hoping…. The fire that once burned and shed light within my soul has died out. Now only darkness lingers trapping my spirit in ever-bounding chains. The darkness within is not one of night, but of evil, of wrongdoing, the same evil that is within the depths of all man. It locks my soul in chains and I attempt to release it from the darkness that is overbearing, steadily growing, and engulfing my soul. But my spirit is weak, weak from all the hurt…from all the wounds that have scarred me and have ceased to heal. When will my soul be saved from the anguish and who will save it?  Only I can take up the task to free my suffering soul…. to break the bonds and unlink the chains, fort hen I can gain everlasting peace…but, what if I’m not strong enough to fight the darkness? I am just one person, all alone against a powerful force…but, still I struggle to find myself and to find the strength I need to fight…I am a fighter…and in the end I will be victorious… ~Nilu Roodsari

“Innocence, the very essence of childhood…you hear the laughter of a child that is hard at play. Does the child not see the pain around them or does the child choose to ignore it? Only down the street you hear the cry of a woman who has been beaten...who has suffered unimaginable hurt…how could these two people share the same world…be of the same existence? The child’s innocence is intertwined with blindness, unintentional blindness to the evils around them…the evils so greatly rooted within society. So I ask myself, once this innocence is lost, can it ever be regained, or is that part of life…a step in our journey to finding ourselves. I envy the child who does not see…who does not feel pain and hurt, or maybe the child does see, but doesn’t know how to express it. Every man wears a mask to hide his soul; a child does not need one…their soul is pure and untouched…I yearn to remove the mask I have worn and free my soul from this confinement, to show the world who I am, but there is fear. Fear for acceptance; for belonging…so does that woman wear a mask? A mask to hide all the pain and suffering…and why can’t the mask be removed? It may be so enrooted as a part of us, that without it we lose our identity…I hope to regain the innocence once lost, to be blinded to the darkness around us…but innocence can’t be regained...once it is lost, it is forever gone…once a person is exposed, they are forever marked…to erase this mark is impossible because one cannot step back in life, only forward. So, I chose to step forward, with my mask, and with my new power to see the world around me…my only hope is that I can handle what I see…” ~Nilu Roodsari  

Some things I know, some things I guess, some things I wish I could learn to express, like the way I feel as I stare at the sky and I remember your voice and the sound of goodbye. ~ Unknown

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. ~ Olin Miller

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. ~ Abraham Lincoln

To different minds, the same world is a hell and a heaven. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die. ~ Joe Louis

What does not destroy me makes me strong. ~ Fredrick Nietzsche

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. ~ Mark Twain

If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done. ~ Anonymous

Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else. ~ Judy Garland

When one door closes, another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which had opened for us. ~ Alexander Graham Bell

If I’m dreaming never let me wake.  If I’m awake, never let me sleep. ~ Chinese Proverb

I wish they would only take me as I am. ~ Vincent Van Gough

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life; it goes on. ~ Robert Frost

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. ~ Dolly Parton

You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are.  And if people still like you, that’s fine.  If they don’t that’s their problem.  ~Sting

Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your own nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed. ~ Southern California Oracle

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we lease expected generally happens. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

If a government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years, they’d have a shortage of sand. ~ Milton Friedman

When one door of happiness closes, another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one, which had been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~ Jacques Prevert

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ~ Alan Wilson Watts

I’ll be the in to your sane. ~ Numan

If your confident after you’ve just finished an exam, it’s because you don’t know enough to know better. ~ Jay Weisman

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life. ~ Wyston Hugh Auden

You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. ~ Charles F. Kettering

In his private heart no man much respects himself. ~ Mark Twain

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. ~ Stanislaw J. Lea

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him ~ Booker T. Washington

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~ Unknown

Today is always here, tomorrow never. ~ Toni Morrison, Beloved

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. ~ Albert Einstein

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~ Cythina Nelms

The amount of sleep required by the average person is just five minutes more. ~ Anonymous

If you want the rainbow, you must first go through the rain. ~ Unknown

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.  After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. ~ Colette

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~ Unknown

Cherish your today’s for they will become the yesterday’s which can never be brought back. ~ Unknown

You are who you are today because of what you lived yesterday. ~ Unknown

If you see someone without a smile, give one of yours. ~ Anonymous

You don’t have to hold onto the pain to hold on to the memory. ~ Janet Jackson

Just be yourself, whatever happens people can’t take that away from you. ~ Unknown

Life doesn’t come with erasers. ~ Unknown

I miss you when I’m sad, I miss you when I’m lonely, but most of all I miss you when I’m happy. ~ Unknown

Life is a book, some chapters are closed and some are not meant to be finished. ~ Unknown

I’ve learned that trust takes years to build, but mere seconds to destroy.  And then it’s going to take you even longer to rebuild it. ~ Unknown

The dreams of yesterday are today’s goals and tomorrow’s successes. ~ Unknown

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterson

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ~ Unknown

If I could have one lifetime wish,
One dream that would come true
I would pray to God
With all my heart
For yesterday and you
Anonymous

Everything that’s meant to happen does. ~ Unknown

You all laugh because I am different, I laugh because you are all the same. ~ Unknown

Don’t pretend you know me, because I don’t even know myself. ~ Unknown

Everyone sees who you seem to be, but very few understand who you really are. ~ Unknown

You know what the best thing about pictures is?  Pictures never change, even though the people in them do. ~ Unknown

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us.  But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~ Unknown

Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad.  And I’m tired of making other people feel good about themselves. ~ The Simpsons

Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through.  No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep believing, the dream that you wish will come true. ~ Cinderella

You spend your whole life believing your on the right track, only to discover your on the wrong train. ~ Unknown

You told me to choose vanilla or chocolate, I chose strawberry, how was I supposed to know you hated the color pink?  You asked my opinion brown or black shoes, I said blue.  How was I supposed to know you hated the color blue?  You wanted to meet my best friend, I brought her over and you walked away, how was I supposed to know you hated the color black? ~ Unknown

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you can’t do. ~ Unknown

On the remote of life, there is no rewind button. ~ Unknown

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you knew that they seldom do. ~ Unknown

We do not remember days, we remember moments. ~ Unknown

Bad things happen in life, but unfortunately we don’t have the power to go back and make it better.  The only thing you can do is smile and believe it or not it will get you through. ~ Unknown

We could learn a lot from crayons.  Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others [are] bright, some have weird names, but they have all learned to live in the same box. ~ Unknown

It’s so easy to make a single motion and so easy to say a single word, so why is it so hard when the motions are a wave and the word’s goodbye? ~ Unknown

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