It doesn't matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar.
It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point.
All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all of that is what keeps us moving forward.
Its what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we can step up♥

Life is always better with a smile

Faith allows things to happen. It is the power that comes from a fearless heart,
and when a fearless heart believes, miracles happen.

You are every reason, every hope, and every dream
I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future
every day we are together is the greatest day of my life.
i will always be yours. And, my darling, you will always be mine.
-- The Notebook

There's a part of me that's going to be in love with you for the rest of my life.

So good that I'm so bad. I guarantee I'd be the greatest thing that you ever had.

At the time my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. –Fight Club

Life is your professor, know that bitch is gonna test you.

The best will come, eventually.

Don’t waste your time on people who aren’t kind to you. In the long run, karma will always come into play and if you just take the high road, you’ll be fine.

It’s time to love who you are and look forward to who you’re going to be.

I fall hard and I fall fast. I fall into things that aren't meant to last.

Love is rare, life is strange. Nothing lasts, people change.

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the doers, the planners, the successful, people with their feet on the ground and their heads in a cloud. Let their spirits ignite a fire within you to leave this world a better place than you found it.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

What makes some people important? It's not just the happiness that you feel when you see them, but it's also the pain you feel when you miss them.

Words are bullets and they kill as good as any gun.

I guess now I am realizing that my heart is too big for any guy out there because I get hurt all the time. I have beginning to get used to it and it fucking sucks but now I would rather be single then be treated like shit. I don't need a guy to make me happy.

Your heart grew cold and mine grew smarter.

No more kissing clocks or throwing coins into wishing wells to try and fix the way I fucked myself. When it’s finally here, it’s never enough. And when it’s finally gone, it’s never coming back.

I trust the sun will set. I trust the world will end. I trust my gut. I trust death. I trust life. I trust anything that has not fallen through. I trust everything that has given me a reason.

I've spent my entire life wanting more. Of reaching my hand out for that which I could never reach. Of never being enough. I've realized that it wasn't so much a case of never being able to reach, but of always reaching my hand out again. We always want what we don't have, and we always will. But acknowledging that fact is half of the fight.

I'm not saying I'm the nicest. I just live life like it.

Independent, motivated, the only thing I'm chasing is my ambitions.

You will always be a part of my life. A happy memory, a good laugh, a tear or two. I won't forget you.

I can take on as many classes as I want and go out every chance I get, but there's still always room for you in my mind.

I've been watching, but the stars refuse to shine. I've been searching, but I just don't see the signs. I know that it's out there. There's gotta be something for my soul, somewhere.

A player might take an occasional timeout, but he'll always return to the game.

as we sit here tonight, this is not just an ending, but also a beginning, today is the last day of our high school lives and the first day of whatever we choose to do tomorrow, some of us may be attending a college or a university, while others may not yet be sure what path they want to take through their lives, either way, today is a beginning for a new phase of our life, on this day, we close the door to our past and look through the window to our future, there are some things from our high school experience that we will carry with us for the rest of our lives and some memories that we will choose to forget, but whether or not we choose to remember them, we will have no choice but to learn from them, that is what our lives are about, learning from our past and preparing for our future, so that we can succeed.

You were my lesson I had to learn. I was your fortress you had to burn.

At the time my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. –Fight Club

Don't lose yourself in attempt to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you.

So good that I'm so bad. I guarantee I'd be the greatest thing that you ever had.

Life is your professor, know that bitch is gonna test you.

Have faith in yourself and in the future. The best will come, eventually.

You’re gonna realize you miss this.

Don’t waste your time on people who aren’t kind to you. In the long run, karma will always come into play and if you just take the high road, you’ll be fine.

It’s time to love who you are and look forward to who you’re going to be.

Love is rare, life is strange. Nothing lasts, people change.

I wish I could understand how you don’t care, how you could get to know someone as well as you know me, think they’re beautiful, tell them everything, get along with them fine and still never love them.

When you smiled you had my undivided attention.
When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you.
When you cried you had my urge to hold you.
When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever

The other boys just won't do, because boy - all I want is you.
You light up my eyes; you're the star in my sky. We're the perfect two & I know it's true.
Because when I think of love, I think of you.

There's always something left, if two people really loved each other.

Love without trust is like a car without an engine.You can try to push, but it won’t get you far.

Smile it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

RISK more than others think is safe.
CARE more than others think is wise.
DREAM more than others think is practical.
EXPECT more than others think is possible.

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

Sure, there's plenty of fish in the sea. But there's also sharks, seaweed, and toxic waste.

A teenager once asked an old man, "in a relationship, which is more important: to be loved or to love?"
Then he replied, "which is more important to a bird? The left wing or the right?"

Don't repeat chapters,
the ending of the story will never change.

The truth of the matter is, people are always going to
stay in our hearts, whether or not they are in our lives.

Do you remember what it was like before? It's been months, and everyday I remember something new.
It's like little pieces of wood floating to the surface, only hinting at the shipwreck beneath.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a child-hood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moon-lit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad august in a mid-western town. Smells denote softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. They hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

2. What they say, life goes on, is mostly true. The mail is delivered, and the christmas lights go up and down from the houses, and the ladders get put away, and you open yet another box of cereal. In time, the volume of my feelings would be turned down in gentle increments to near quiet, and yet the record would still spin, always spin.

"A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty." - Marley and Me by John Grogan

Sometimes we don't ever move on...it's kind of like if someone was to dig a huge hole in the street, the first few times you would forget it's there and fall into it and get injured. But, as time goes on you rememer that it's there and you start reminding yourself to walk around it.

That's why I don't do drugs or drink. I want everything I say or write to come from the heart, not a pill or a pipe.

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

"The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough."

In life you are the author of your own book. Writing in pen doesn't come out so easily. When you make a mistake you can't just erase it and pretend as if nothing happened. You can always try to cover it up with white out, but it's still there. Forget it, just turn the page over and have a fresh start. Remember your mistake from before, this is the time to make things right.

You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and
yet you were the one who taught me the value of love.

Be thankful for hard times in your life. Try not to look at them
as bad things, but as opportunities to grow and learn.

I know you're upset about him. It's okay, be upset, cry, scream into your pillow till you think you've lost your voice. But looking back on this stupid boy who broke your heart in the future, you'll laugh at him, Laugh because he thought he was doing the right thing at the right time. Turns out he wasn't because he lost something amazing. And you'll thank him. Thank him for making you stronger, and to say to hell with him, I'm great. But most importantly you'll appreciate what he did, because without him leaving you wouldn't have found the amazing boy you're with now.

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

When we first met, you were the sweetest boy i'd ever met. I was sure you'd treat me right. Now, i don't even know what i saw in you. Seriously, you are the biggest player at my school, but i didn't see it till now. Fuck that sparkle in your eye, you take advantage of it.

Maybe that’s my problem. I open up to too many people, expecting them
to do the same for me. And being crushed when i find out I’m just not worth it.

Don't keep the past in your mind. Don't stress over the future. Because if you're too worried about what has already happened and what might happen, you can't focus on what's right in front of you. The present is what makes the future and what helps you move on from the past