Quotes

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying. ~Grey's Anatomy

You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true. ~Grey's Anatomy

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it's not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away. ~Grey's Anatomy

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just said it would be worth it. ~Author Unknown...

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~Eleanor Roosevelt...

There are two types of fisherman- those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. ~Author Unknown...

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson...

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein...

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. ~Author Unknown...

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens...

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson...

God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way. ~Author Unknown...

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. ~Lois Wyse...

Never let the hand you hold, hold you down. ~Author Unknown...

Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you can't get them back. So I'm gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you. ~Author Unknown...

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally...

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings...

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein...

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955...

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

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss...

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~Johann von Goethe...

You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason...

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ~John Powell...

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown...

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ~Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed