Quotes

Well, I've been dumbstruck yet again by the Complex Infrastructure Known as the Female Mind... or in this case, heart. So I think I'll just let others who have already spoken do the talking for me. Note: I'm not usually emo, I'm just leaning that direction for now.

I've learned
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• I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be some that can be loved. The rest is up to them.
  
• I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.
  
• I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
  
• I've learned that it's not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts.
  
• I've learned that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you'd better know something.
  
• I've learned that you shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do.
  
• I've learned that you can do some thing in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
  
• I've learned that it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
  
• I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
  
• I've learned that you can keep going long after you can't.
  
• I've learned that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel. That either you control your attitude or it controls you.
  
• I've learned that heroes are the people who do what has to be done regardless of the consequences.
  
• I've learned that money is a lousy way to keep score.
  
• I've learned that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
  
• I've learned that the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to pick you back up.
  
• I've learned that sometimes when I'm angry I have the to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
  
• I've learned that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
  
• I've learned that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
  
• I've learned that you should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if they believed it.
  
• I've learned that no matter good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
  
• I've learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
  
• I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
  
• I've learned that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.
  

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' -- Erich Fromm
(oops, looks like I'm still in the immature love phase.)

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it oepns up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
-=- Neil Gaiman

“If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.”
Doug Horton

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
-- Kahlil Gibran

“It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love is eternal. If you think that you were once in love, but fell out of it, then it wasn't love you were in. There are no 'exit' signs in love, there is only an 'on' ramp.”

"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable." Dr. Joyce Brothers
(I'm working on this. It's not going so well.)

"When love hurts you, dare to love again." Steve Maraboli, from Dare To Be

and finally...
My quote for life:

"Live well, Learn plenty, Laugh often, Love much." -Ralph Waldo Emerson