We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go -
Rank after Rank, with even feet -
And uniforms of Snow.
~Emily Dickinson

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see the written on the skin at all and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.  ~Daniel Webster

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.  We grow old by deserting our ideals.  Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.  ~Samuel Ullman

Maybe he's wondering why I quit calling. Maybe he's actually missing me… maybe he's thought about calling me. Or maybe right this moment he's sitting in his room laying oh so casually on his bed, talking on that cell phone of his and tricking another girl to fall in love with the sound of his words, and I'm not a glimmer of a thought in his mind.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.  ~Maurice Chevalier

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.  ~Groucho Marx

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.  I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.  I was naïve.  I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.  It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:  that I am nobody but myself.  ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.  ~Laurens van der Post

Forever is a long time, and time has a way of changing things. The littlest things make me laugh. It's not hard to please me. I'm a free-spirit. I'm strong and determined. I love to look at the stars. I'm just a girl, and that's all I wanna be.

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  ~Stacia Tauscher

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.  ~Author Unknown

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and to be useful. - The Dalai Lama

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.  ~Sophia Loren

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.  ~Diane de Poitiers

The distance between insanity and genius is only measured by success - Bruce Feirstien

The sad thing is I know I should hate you, but I still don't. I know that I should move on, but I just can't do it. I know that you don't love me anymore, but I still love you. And the saddest thing is I'm still holding onto you, when you're already gone.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

After all I'm still a jerk playing with matches; It's just that he's not here to play along. Ya, I'm still an asshole playing with candles...blowing out wishes, blowing out dreams. Just sitting here trying to decipher what's written in braille upon my skin.
-Regina Spektor, Braille.