Life 58....

They say that from the instant he lays eyes on her, a father adores his daughter. Whoever she grows up to be, she is always, to him, that little girl in pigtails. She makes him feel like Christmas. In exchange, he makes a secret promise not to see the awkwardness of her teenage years, the mistakes she makes or the secrets she keeps. Some fathers may enjoy the pedestal their daughters place them on, but the best ones step down and allow their flaws to be seen. It is from these unsung fathers that daughters learn what’s most important in this life – how to embrace joy, how to endure sorrow and how to live each day to the fullest … not knowing which of those two is on the horizon. -Everwood

Don't stress the could haves. If it should have, it would have.

There are moments of such pure, sublime, unparalleled perfection that they will force you to close your eyes and hold on to them as best you can. Life is a series of these moments. Everything else is just waiting for them. -Iain Thomas

Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass. -Chuck Falcon

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches. -Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all. -Janet Finch

The bottom line is, life is about learning, whether you’re in school or not. We are human. We make mistakes. But your lowest moment might also be the one where you begin to rise, and rise. So double back. Regroup. Brush yourself off, and try again. -Sarah Dessen

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. -Frank Lloyd Wright

Here’s one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It’s like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there’s no one around to hear it. You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That’s how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth. You’d be surprised at how easy it is to bust out of orbit, to spin out to a place where no one can touch you. To lose yourself—to get lost. -Zoe Thirlby

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems. -H. Jackson Brown

Nostalgia - It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It let’s us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.

It’s not about who you’ve been with, it’s about who you end up with. Sometimes, the heart doesn’t know what it wants until it finds what it wants. -The Office

We all lead secret lives, even if only in our heads. I guess the question is: Why? Aren’t there easier ways to pinch myself awake? I’m not asking forgiveness for the things I’ve done. my sins are mine to live with. I guess it was just one of those moments, a unique detail in an otherwise ordinary life. -The Babysitters

And the truth is, sometimes you can prepare for something, be sure it’s the right choice, and yet still wake up one day, look around you, and think, “I made a mistake.” It would be great you hadn’t, but you did. -Sarah Dessen

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. -Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. -Segei Rachmaninov

This is failure. It’s that moment when you realize that a choice you made, or something you did, has fully changed the course of your life. But what matters even more than this truth is what you do choose to do once you know it. The tendency may be to curl up in the fetal position and wait for things to improve. But if you can somehow manage to take a breath and look around you, you might just spot another path you hadn’t seen before. It may not be easy to walk, especially the beginning. But all that really matters is that it’s there. -Sarah Dessen

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. -John Pierpont

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. -Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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