“Scars show that you’ve survived.” –Unequaled Retreat
“I have cancer, cancer doesn’t have me.”
"Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I scream. It's all a part of healing...” -Christina Applegate
“Where does my help come from? It comes from You, Lord.” –CA
"Impossible means nothing to me.” –Kate Voegele
"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. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up… before we can step up." –Grey’s Anatomy
"They're inpatient. It's been a long time. But they always come. They're my people. People keep you going. People are better than no people." –Grey’s Anatomy
"You know what I figured out today? Maybe God... has a bigger plan for me, than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick.... to help me through all this. You're my angel." –A Walk to Remember
”There can’t be really good news till there is really bad news.”
Tibby: “Are you scared?”
Bailey: “Not of dying really… it’s more that I’m afraid of… time, and not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss…” –Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“There’s something so very healing of knowing that someone is with you.” –Mark, Fusion. December 12, 2008
“Now alone or not--you've got to walk ahead... The thing to remember is, if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.” –P.S. I Love You
“A few years ago I couldn’t imagine something like this ever happening to me. A few years later I can’t imagine if this never happened to me.” –Rob Bell
“All of a sudden you’ve suffered… and you can’t pretend anymore.” –Rob Bell
“She sleeps grasping the barf bowl and that in some unimaginable way brings safety to her.” –Lisa Murray
“When storms of life come, learn to dance in the rain.” –Lisa Murray
“You need to know that kids beat the odds. Every single day.” –My Sister’s Keeper
“A real friend isn’t capable of feeling sorry for you.” –My Sister’s Keeper
“’I always wanted to be a ballerina.’ Her arm goes up, a weak arabesque. ‘You know what ballerinas have?’
Eating disorders, I think.
‘Absolute control. When it comes to their bodies, they know exactly what’s going to happen, and when.’ Kate shrugs, coming back to this moment, this hospital room. ‘Anyways,’ she says.” –My Sister’s Keeper
“It is the nurses who are the seasoned sergeants-the ones who are there when your baby is shaking with such a high fever she needs to be bathed in ice, the ones who can teach you how to flush a central venous catheter, or suggest which patient floor kitchens might still have Popsicles left to be stolen, or tell you which dry cleaners know how to remove the stains of blood and chemotherapies from clothing. The nurses know the name of you daughter’s stuffed walrus and show her how to make tissue paper flowers to twine around her IV stand. The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. You get to know them as they know you, because they take the place of friends you once had in a previous life, the one before the diagnosis.” –My Sister’s Keeper
“’Don’t say it. Don’t tell me that nobody’s going to stare at me, because they will. Don’t tell me it doesn’t matter, because that’s a lie.’ Her eyes, lash-bare, fill with tears. ‘I’m a freak, Mom. Look at me.’” –My Sister’s Keeper
“When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself… is that what love’s like?” –My Sister’s Keeper
“I have unanswered prayers
I have trouble I wish wasn’t there
And I have asked a thousand ways
That You would take my pain away
You would take my pain away” –JJ Heller
“Pain became my constant companion. For a long time I would not know what it was like not to hurt all over my body.” –Don Piper
“Sometimes I’d wake up and see people standing in front of my bed and would wonder, Am I really here or am I just imagining this?” –Don Piper
“One of the most difficult things for me--aside from my own physical pain—was to see the reaction of my family members and close friends.” –Don Piper
“During my recovery, even the tiniest movement was a miracle. Every time I relearned how to do something, it felt like an achievement.” –Don Piper
“I wanted to be able to walk out of the hospital on my own two legs and go back to my former way of life. No one was willing—or able—to give me those assurances.” –Don Piper
“Without question, I am still alive because people prayed for me.” –Don Piper
“’We’re taking over from here. You don’t have to do a thing to survive. We’re going to pray you through this.’
I know I wasn’t going to die. God’s people wouldn’t let me.” –Don Piper
Don’t be afraid for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will uphold you with my victorious right hand. –Isaiah 41:10
“Besides the pain and the flow of people in and out of my room, I lived in depression. A large part of it may have been the natural result of the trauma to my body and some of it may have been my reaction to the many drugs. I believe, however, that because I faced an unknown outcome and the pain never let up, I kept feeling I had little future to look forward to. Most of the time I didn’t want to live.” –Don Piper
“Pain has become a way of life for me…” –Don Piper
“Always, however, I came back to one thing: God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that.” –Don Piper
"At twenty years of age I'm still looking for a dream
A war's already waged for my destiny
But You've already won the battle
And You've got great plans for me
Though I can’t always see" -Francesca Battistelli
"Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am faint; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony. My soul is in anguish. How long, O, Lord, how long? Turn, O Lord, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love." -Psalm 6:2-4
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.'" -Jeremiah 29:11-13
I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil. -Job 3:26
He carries out his decree against me, and many such plans he still has in store. That is why I am terrified before him; when I think of all this, I fear him. -Job 23:14-15
In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. -Proverbs 16:9
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" -Isaiah 6:8
Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe. -Philippians 2:14-15
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6
Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. -1 Timothy 4:12
"Tina's losing faith in what she knows! Hates her music, hates all of her clothes! Thinks of surgery and a new nose! Every calorie is a war! And while she wishes she was dancer, and that she never heard of cancer, she wishes God would give her some answers, and make her feel beautiful!" -David Cook
"No day, but today." -RENT
"At the end of the day, did I laugh and dance enough? Did I tell my friends how much they really mean to me? At the end of the day, did I really push myself? Or was I too afraid to give my heart away?" -Kellie Coffey
"Thought I could be strong, but it's killing me. Does someone hear my cry? I'm dying for new life. I want to be beautiful. Make you stand in awe. Look inside my heart and be amazed. I want to hear you say, who I am is quite enough. Just want to be worthy of love, and beautiful." -Bethany Dillon
"You know I'm more and more convinced the longer that I live. Yeah, this can't be, no this can't be, no this can't be all there is. Lord, I raise my hands, bow my head, finding more and more truth in the words written in red. They tell me that there's more to life than just what I can see. Oh I believe." -Brooks & Dunn
“I don't know just where I'm going. And tomorrow is a little overwhelming. And the air is cold, and I'm not the same anymore. If this is the moment I stand here on my own. If this is my right of passage that somehow leads me home. I might be afraid, but it's my turn to be brave." -Idina Menzel
"When you feel like you're alone in your sadness, and it seems like no one in this whole world cares, and you want to get away from the madness, you just call My name and I'll be there." -Third Day
"And I hear them saying, 'You'll never change things. And no matter what you do it's still the same thing.' But it's not the world that I am changing, I do this so, this world will know, that it will not change me." -Garth Brooks
"I can almost see it, that dream I'm dreamin’, but there's a voice inside my head saying, 'You'll never reach it.' Every step I'm taking, every move I make feels lost with no direction. My faith is shaking. But I, I gotta keep trying, gotta keep my head held high. There's always gonna be another mountain. I'm always gonna wanna make it move. Always gonna be an uphill battle. Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose. Ain't about how fast I get there. Ain't about what's waiting on the other side. It's the climb. The struggles I'm facing. The chances I'm taking, sometimes might knock me down, but no I'm not breaking." -Miley Cyrus
"She is running a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction. She is trying, but the canyons ever widening in the depths of her cold heart. So she sets out on another misadventure just to find she's another two years older and she's three more steps behind. Does anybody hear her? Can anybody see?" -Casting Crowns
"The day you realize that there's not enough time... because you want to live forever. Those are the biggest days, the perfect days." -Grey's Anatomy
"In the arms of Your mercy I find rest." -Casting Crowns
"The angels warn me never to fall down." -Barcelona
"You walked with me, footprints in the sand, and helped me understand where I'm going. You walked with me when I was all alone, with so much unknown along the way. And then I heard You say, 'I promise you I'm always there when your heart is filled sorrow and despair. I'll carry you when you need a friend. You'll find My footprints in the sand.'" -Leona Lewis
“Two months is too little. They let him go, they had no sudden healing. To think that providence would take a child from his mother while she prays is appalling. Who told us we’d be rescued? What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares? We’re asking why this happens to us who have died to live. It’s unfair.” –Natalie Grant
“’Cure’ to most of us that are childhood cancer survivors is about retrieving from cancer whatever aspects of childhood and adolescenthood cancer might have tried to take away from us. Almost anybody’s reaction to cancer is, ‘Oh my God, cancer, it’s death, you’re gonna die, end of life.’ To me it’s incredibly sad and pretty intense that an adolescent in some ways would rather die than be left alone in the world. Would rather die than not fit in to the crowd because they don’t have any hair. For many of them death seems better than being alone, than chemo, than having no hair, and most importantly than having all your friends run for the hills.” -Tavo Zavala, Teen Impact
“You will notice me. I’ll be leaving my mark like initials carved in an old oak tree. You wait and see. Maybe I’ll write like Twain wrote. Maybe I’ll paint like Van Gogh. Cure the common cold… I don’t know, but I’m ready to start ‘cause I know in my heart… I wanna do something that matters. Say something different. Something that sets the whole world on its ear. I wanna do something better with the time I’ve been given. And I wanna try to touch a few hearts in this life. And leave nothing less than something that says ‘I was here.’” –Lady Antebellum
“All I want is a family, like everyone else I see. And I won’t understand it if it’s not meant to be. 'Cause I would die for that. Just to have one chance to hold in my hands all that they have. I would die for that. And I want to know what it's like to bring a dream to life. For that kind of love, what I'd give up! I would die for that.” –Kellie Coffey
“The heart is stronger than you think, like it can go through anything. And even when you think you can’t, it finds a way to still push on. Sometimes you want to run away. Ain’t got the patience for the pain, and if you don’t believe it look into your heart, the beat goes on.” –Just Stand Up! (single)
“And every tear that had to fall from my eyes. And every day I wondered how I’d get through the night. And every change life has thrown me. I'm thankful for every break in my heart. I’m grateful for every start. Some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned.” –Carrie Underwood
“She’s desperate for hope, darkness clouding her view, she’s looking to You.” –Casting Crowns
“There are times in life when you gotta crawl, lose your grip, trip and fall. When you can’t lean on no one else that’s when you find yourself. I’ve been around and I’ve noticed that walkin’s easy when the road is flat. Them danged 'ole hills will get you every time. Yeah, the good Lord gave us mountains so we could learn how to climb.” –Lonestar
“Down the road the sun is shining. With every cloud there’s a silver lining. Just keep holding on. Every heartache makes you stronger, and it won’t be much longer. You’ll find love, you’ll find peace, and the you you’re meant to be. I know right now that’s not the way you feel, but one day you will.” –Lady Antebellum
“Will you think that you’re all alone when no one’s there to hold your hand? And all you know seems so far away and everything is temporary, rest your head. I’m permanent. I know he’s living in hell every single day. And so I ask, ‘Oh God, is there some way for me to take his place?’ And when they say, ‘it’s so touch and go,’ I wish I could make it go away.” –David Cook
“I’ll praise You in this storm and I will lift my hands, for You are who You are no matter where I am. And every tear I’ve cried You hold in your hand. You never left my side. And though my heart is torn, I will praise You in this storm.” –Casting Crowns
“For just this morning right there on her pillow was the cruelest of innocent cries. And she cried when she gathered it all in her hands, the proof that she couldn’t deny. Sarabeth closes her eyes… She dreams she dancing around and around without any cares. And her very first love is holding her close and the soft wind is blowing her hair.” –Rascal Flatts
“How long have I been in this storm? So overwhelmed by the oceans shapeless form. The water’s getting harder to tread, with these waves crashing over my head.” –Lifehouse
“Sometimes I take on this world by myself. Thinkin’ I got all the answers, don’t need anybodies help. God was right there waiting for me all along to fall down on my knees and surrender all. Things that matter, things that don’t.” –Rascal Flatts
“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.” –Garth Brooks
“Everybody falls sometimes. You gotta find the strength to rise from the ashes and make a new beginning. Anyone can feel the ache, you think it’s more than you can take, but you’re stronger, stronger than you know. I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains. Hope that doesn’t ever end even when the sky is falling. I’ve seen miracles just happen. Silent prayers get answered. Broken hearts become brand new. That’s what faith can do. It doesn’t matter what you’ve heard impossible is not a word, it’s just a reason for someone not to try. Everybody’s scared to death. You may decide to take that step out on the water, but it’ll be all right.” –Kutless
“Who told you life wasn’t worth the fight??!! They were wrong!!! They lied!!! Now you’re gone, and we cry!! ‘Cause it’s not like you to walk away in the middle of a song. Your beautiful song…” –Rascal Flatts
"I feel like I'm a million miles away from myself, more and more these days. I've been down so many open roads, but they never lead me home. And now I just don't know who I really am, how it's gonna be, is there something that I can't see? I want to understand. Maybe I will never be who I was before. Maybe I don't even know her anymore. Maybe who I am today, aint so far from yesterday. Can I find a way to be every part of me?" -Miley Cyrus
"I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness. For once I'm at peace with myself." -Rascal Flatts
"Little girl don't be so blue. I know what you're going through. Don't let it beat you up. Hitting walls and getting scars only makes you who you are, only makes you who you are. No matter how much your heart is aching, there is beauty in the breaking." -Lindsey Haun
I have it all planned out--plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. -Jeremiah 29:11
"I know you've got a little life in you yet. I know you've got a lot of strength left. I should be crying, but I just can't let it show. I should be hoping but I can't stop thinking. All the things we should've said that we never said. All the things we should've done that we never did. All the things we should've given, but I didn't. Oh darlin', make it go. Just make it go away." -Maxwell
"What an important piece of work. How many millions and millions and millions of women--people--have... if they have not experienced cancer first hand, have known someone to either fight it or not fight it. And the journey that you go on with them because everyday they want to believe that they can beat it. And that's the hardest thing. And they always want you to be okay. Always about you being okay as they try to keep that focus... 'I'm gonna beat this. I'm gonna beat this.'" -Mia Michaels
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I've been told that I'm dying, he thought while staring at it, and the doctor wants me to talk about it. But there's nothing really to say, is there? -The Last Song
"If you weren't going to tell me, why did you bring me down here? So I could watch you die?"
"No, sweetie. Just the opposite." He rolled his head to face her. "I asked you to come so I could watch you live." -The Last Song
She was glad she finally knew his secret, even as she wished she didn't. She felt him running his fingers through her hair. There would come a time when he would no longer be able to do this, when he would no longer be around, and she squeezed her eyelids shut, trying to block out the future. She needed more time with him. She needed him to listen as she whined; she needed him to forgive her when she made mistakes. She needed him to love her the way he had this summer. She needed all of it forever, and she knew it wouldn't happen. She allowed her dad to hold her and wept like the child she no longer was. -The Last Song
"I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell." -The Last Song
Melissa: "It makes me happy that you are making jokes and not being 100% sadness."
Me: "Thats my way of pretending I'm strong."
"Hey baby, what's your sign?"
"Cancer."
"You're a Cancer?"
"No, I'm a Leo, but I have cancer." -My Sister's Keeper
"I do not need a reason to be angry with God." -A Walk To Remember
"Well you know what they say, science only goes so far and then comes God." -The Notebook
Because of the extravagance of those revelations, and so I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan's angel did his best to get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my knees. No danger then of walking around high and mighty! At first I didn't think of it as a gift, and begged God to remove it. Three times I did that, and then he told me, "My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness." Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my weakness. Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size—abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become. -2 Corinthians 12:7-10
"You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you." -Matthew 5:4
Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. -Romans 8:26-28
"Don't panic. I'm with you. There's no need to fear for I'm your God. I'll give you strength. I'll help you. I'll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you." -Isaiah 41:10
"I feel so selfish and then I'm like wait.... I have cancer. I can be a bitch! Whatever. We're special." -Hannah Komai (hehee... the truth)
"She is fine most of the time. She takes her days with a smile. Moves like a dancer in lights spinning around to the sound. But sometimes she falls down... Beathe. Just breathe. Take the world off your shoulders and put it on me. Breathe. Just Breath. Let the life that you live be all that you need...... Let go of the fear. Let go of the doubt. Let go of the ones that try to put you down. You're gonna be fine. Don't hold it inside. If you hurt right now, then let it all come out." -Ryan Star
"If I die young bury me in satin. Lay me down on a bed of roses. Sink me in the river at dawn. Send me away with the words of a love song. Lord make me a rainbow, I’ll shine down on my mother. She'll know I’m safe with You when she stands under my colors. Oh and, life ain't always what you think it ought to be, no. Ain't even gray, but she buries her baby. The sharp knife of a short life, well, I’ve had just enough time. And I’ll be wearing white when I come into Your kingdom. I’m as green as the ring on my little cold finger. I’ve never known the lovin' of a man, but it sure felt nice when he was holding my hand. There’s a boy here in town says he’ll love me forever. Who would have thought forever could be severed by the sharp knife of a short life." -The Band Perry
"If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell." -Lance Armstrong
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." -Christopher Reeve
"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
"Tell me I belong..." -Joshua Radin
"Jesus saves. Chemo scores." -My Sister's Keeper
"We'd been flying high, but we were forced to land abruptly." -Jorge Posada
"I can't get to bed, but I'm really tired." -Joshua Radin
"I remember feeling low. I remember losing hope. I remember all the feelings and the day they stopped." -David Cook
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with the hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. -Romans 15:13
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. -Job 8:21
"The leadership instinct you are born with is in the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." -Elaine Agather
"Don't get me wrong, I love who I am. I don't want to be ungrateful. It probably sounds strange. I really love the role I play, the songs I sing, but with all the fame... the things that seem so simple suddenly are so far out of reach. Wish that they could see it underneath... I'm just an ordinary girl. Sometimes I'm lazy. I get bored. I get scared. I feel ignored. I feel happy. I get silly. I choke on my own words. I make wishes. I have dreams. And I still want to believe that anything can happen in this world for an ordinary girl." -Miley Cyrus
"Long walks in the dark through woods grown behind the park, I asked God who I'm supposed to be. The stars smiled down on me, God answered in silent reverie. I said a prayer and fell asleep." -Priscilla Ahn
All of us must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent me, because there is little time left before the night falls and all work comes to an end. -John 9:4
"Doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream." -Juno
"Did you say it? I love you. I dont ever want to live without you. You changed my life. Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it. But every now and then... look around. Drink it in. 'Cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow.' -Grey's Anatomy
"Someday you'll be back here, honey... on your terms." -Juno
"My form of cancer is so rare, even my doctors aren't sure they're pronouncing it correctly."
"When people call to ask how you are, they really don't want to hear the truth. 'This morning I had a massive vomiting session and didn't make it to the toilet in time. I also had severe nosebleeds, feel bloated, and lost two pounds. Other than that, I'm fine and dandy. How are you?' Better to just tell them 'I'm ok' or 'I'm as well as can be expected.'"
"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." -Orison Swett Marden
I'm not saying that I have this all together, that I have made it. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. -Philippians 3:12
"If leaders are filled with high ambition and if they pursue their aims with audacity and strength of will, they will reach them in spite of all obstacles." -Carl von Clausewitz
Pursue a righteous life--a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, coutresy. Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses. -1 Timothy 6:11-12
"Those who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about." -Melvin J. Evans
There is no greater bond than two people who have suffered.
Henry: "We could adopt."
Clare: "What's wrong with me wanting one normal thing in my life? I..I want to be a mother. I want to bear a child, your child. Why can't I have that?" -The Time Traveler's Wife
"Jesus is all the world to me, my life, my joy, my all; He is my strength from day to day, without Him I would fall." -W.A. Thompson
"The way is dark, heavenly Father, cloud upon cloud is gathering thickly above my head. Lord, the thunder roars above me; Father, I stand like one bewildered! Dear Father, take my hand and through the gloom lead safely home thy child." -Margaret Fishback Powers
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. -Psalm 23:4
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." -Isaiah 30:21
"O Sheltering Heavenly Father, shadows may gather around me, as on my journey I go. Yet they can never confound me, sunshine will come soon, I know." -G.C. Tullar
FOOTPRINTS
One night I dreamed a dream.
I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
one belonging to me and one to my Lord.
When the last scene of my life shot before me
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
There was only one set of footprints.
I realized that this was at the lowest and saddest times of my life.
This always bothered me
and I questioned the Lord
about my dilemma.
"Lord, you told me when I decided to follow You,
You would walk and talk with me all the way.
But I'm aware that during the most troublesome
times of my life there is only one set of footprints.
I just don't understand why, when I needed You most,
You leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child,
I love you and will never leave you
never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints
it was then that I carried you."
"Someone once told me that to write well you have to write what you know. This is what I know...." -Never Been Kissed
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." -Joshua J. Marine
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." -Dale Carnegie
"What can't be cured must be endured." -Unknown
"Impossible means nothing to me... So can you lift me up, and turn the ashes into flames? 'Cause I have overcome more than words will ever say. And I've been given hope that there's a light on up the hall. And that a day will come when the fight is won, and I think that day has just begun. Somewhere, every body starts there. I'm counting on a small prayer, lost in a nightmare. But I'm here, and suddenly it's so clear. The struggle through the long years; it's taught me to outrun my fears. Everything that's worth having comes with trials worth withstanding." -Kate Voegele
We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts. -Romans 5:3-5
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -Dale Carnegie
“How long had it been since she’d done something that felt normal?” –Safe Haven
“’That’s the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn’t easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it. Do you know what I mean?’” –Safe Haven
“These were ordinary events in an ordinary life. The concept felt alien, like she was learning the customs of a foreign land, and it left her feeling strangely elated and wary at exactly the same time.” –Safe Haven
“Deep in her heart, she wasn’t sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed… normal.” –Safe Haven
“She tried to tell herself that it was an adventure and everything would be okay.” –Safe Haven
“’It’s not the kind of life I ever imagined for myself.’” –Safe Haven
“’I’m not sure anyone’s life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.’” –Safe Haven
“There are dreams that visit us and leave us fulfilled upon waking, there are dreams that make life worth living.” –Safe Haven
“…but she learned long ago that nothing wonderful lasted forever.” –Safe Haven
“But my prognosis scares me.” –Safe Haven
“Dying is a strange business, and I’m not going to bore you with the details. I might have weeks or I might have months and though it’s cliché, it’s true that so many of the things I once believed to be important no longer are.” –Safe Haven
“Then, when it seems we will never smile again, life comes back.” –Mark M. Baldwin
“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.” –Tom Claney
There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. –Proverbs 23:18
“One day you'll grow up. One day you'll walk out in this big world on your own. And they'll be days when your heart will break, and you'll swear that all your strength is gone. Then you'll find a way to carry on… Heaven knows that it’s a crazy ride. It's never perfect all the time. It’ll pull you down and send you flyin'. So baby hold on tight on this crazy ride.” –Michelle Branch
"I think you're either born simple, or you're born.......... me." -Grey's Anatomy
"This pain is not a dying pain. It's a healing pain. It's the victory pain. You won. You won." -Grey's Anatomy
"When we say things like, 'People don't change,' it drives scientists crazy. Because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy, matter, it's always changing, morphing, merging, growing, dying. It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what the way things were instead of letting them be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing, despite every scientific indication, that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change... that's up to us. It can feel like death. Or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Like at any moment we can be born all over again." -Grey's Anatomy
"You know, some people are clearly just angels sent down to earth to take care of the rest of us." -One Tree Hill
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." -Art Linkletter
"There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, There's no joy in merely doing things which anyone can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make."
"You can't experience success beyond your wildest dreams until you dare to dream something wild!" -Scott Sorrell
God can do anything, you know--far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams. -Ephesians 3:20
"I broke down and fell asleep to your beating heart, your beating heart, your beating heart." -Brendan James
"You don't have to stay the broken girl..... Let your tears touch the ground. Lay all your shattered pieces down. And be amazed by how grace can take a broken girl and put her back together again." -Matthew West
"It's a lonely life focusing on things you don't have. I don't want any part of that." -Carrie Underwood
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." -Palph Waldo Emerson
"When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly." -Edward Teller
"Woke up late today, and I still feel the sting of the pain. But I brush my teeth anyway, I got dresssed through the mess and put a smile on my face. I got a little bit stronger." -Sara Evans
"It's time to move on, even though I'm not ready. I've got to be strong, and trust where you're heading. Even though it's not easy (it's not easy)." -Miley Cyrus
"You know how there are a handful of moments in your life that you just know while it's happening you're gonna remember it for the rest of your life? I had one of those moments tonight." -One Tree Hill
"I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone. So here I am in my new apartment in a big city, they just dropped me off. It's so much colder than I thought it would be. So I tuck myself in and turn the night-light on.. Wish I'd never grown up. I wish I'd never grown up. Oh, I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up, can still be little. Oh, I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up, it could still be simple." -Taylor Swift
"She cries in the corner where nobody sees. She's the kid with the story no one would believe. She prays every night, 'Dear God, won't You please... Could You send someone here who will love me? Who will love me for me. Not for what I have done or what I will become. Who will love me for me. 'Cause nobody has shown me what love, what love really means.'" -JJ Heller
''I know my heart will never be the same, but I'm tellin' myself I'll be okay. Even on my weakest days... I get a little bit stronger.'' -Sara Evans
"Did you say it?? 'I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it. But every now and then... look around. Drink it in. 'Cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow." -Grey's Anatomy
"Little Miss you'll go far. Little Miss hide your scars. Little Miss who you are is so much more than you like to talk about. It's alright, it's alright, it's alright. Yeah, sometimes you gotta lose 'til you win. It's alright, it's alright, it's alright. It'll be alright again. It'll be alright again, I'M OKAY. It'll be alright again, I'M OKAY (Okay)." -Sugarland
Pete: "Where does it hurt most?"
Charlotte: "My soul." -Private Practice
"And there's bound to be rough waters. And I know I'll take some falls. But with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.." -Garth Brooks
"I feel like I'm living a life I just did not agree to." -Freedom Writers
"You have been blessed with a burden." -Freedom Writers
The Conversation
"She sat, staring up into the light. This had been her kitchen, everything in sight. Elsewhere, other stalked. One wanted to shave the rest of her head to match, and so they did, one whispering to her while the other held clippers, took off remnants of hair, and she was pleasant, which made it, sad to say, bearable. They were careful not to touch the jagged gash. It still seemed fresh, and they were careful not to stare as hair fell across her shoulders. The one guiding the clippers felt ashamed for sharing the moment with them, and the other, who was her husband, kept touching her face, whispering to her, while in another room, others talked, and she, listening, answered only the light." -Jon Pineda
"What happens when the immediate danger has passed, when the machines are disconnected, and the teams of doctors and nurses are gone? Surgery is when you get saved, but post-op, after surgery, is when you heal. But… what if you don’t?" -Grey's Anatomy
"The goal of any surgery is total recovery; to come out better than you were before. Some patients heal quickly and feel immediate relief. For others, the healing happens gradually. And it's not until months, or even years later, that you realize you don't hurt anymore. So the challenge after any surgery is to be patient. But if you can make it through the first weeks and months, if you believe that healing is possible, then you can get your life back. But that's a big IF." -Grey's Anatomy
"I love you, and I failed.." -Private Practice
I WON’T LET GO
(Rascal Flatts)
It’s like a storm that cuts a path
It breaks your will it feels like that
You think you’re lost but you’re not lost
On your own, you’re not alone
I WILL STAND BY YOU, I WILL HELP YOU THROUGH
WHEN YOU’VE DONE ALL YOU CAN DO
AND YOU CAN’T COPE
I WILL DRY YOUR EYES, I WILL FIGHT YOUR FIGHT
I WILL HOLD YOU TIGHT AND I WON’T LET GO
It hurts my heart to see you cry
I know its dark this part of life
Oh it finds us all and we’re too small to stop the rain
Oh but when it rains
I WILL STAND BY YOU, I WILL HELP YOU THROUGH
WHEN YOU’VE DONE ALL YOU CAN DO
AND YOU CAN’T COPE
I WILL DRY YOUR EYES, I WILL FIGHT YOUR FIGHT
I WILL HOLD YOU TIGHT AND I WON’T LET YOU FALL
Don’t be afraid to fall
I’m right here to catch you
I won’t let you down
It won’t get you down
You’re gonna make it
I know you can make it
Cause I will stand by you, I will help you through
When you’ve done all you can do
And you can’t cope
I will dry your eyes, I will fight your fight
I will hold you tight and I won’t let go
I’m gonna hold you and I won’t let go
I won’t let go
No I won’t
"You've gotta touch the bottom before you can come back up." -Jack Johnson
"It's been too hard living.... but I'm afraid to die." -Gavin DeGraw
"So often we avoid conflict because we think the relationship can't take it."
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." - Jackie Robinson
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” - Albus Dumbledore
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden
"We recognize our own mortality, and we are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame -- but rather, how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better." - Barack Obama
"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world." - Howard Zinn
"Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good." -Minor Myers Jr.
"I'm going back to the start." -Coldplay
"If I ever write the story of my life don't be surprised if you're where it begins." -Rascal Flatts
"The brain is the human body's most mysterious organ. It learns. It changes. It adapts. It tells us what we see, what we hear. It lets us feel love. I think it holds their soul... But no matter how much research we do no one can really say how all that delicate grey matter inside our skull works. And when it's hurt, when the human brain is traumatized, well, that's when it gets even more mysterious." -Grey's Anatomy
"If I lay here.. If I just lay here.. Would you lie with me and just forget the world?" -Snow Patrol
(Mark crying of Callie in the OR) "She's my best friend.... She's my best friend." -Grey's Anatomy
"Let him know that you know best 'cause after all, you do know best. Try to slip past his defense without granting innocence. Lay down a list of what is wrong, the things you've told him all along. And pray to God he hears you. And pray to God he hears you. Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness and I would have stayed up with you all night had I known how to save a life. As he begins to raise his voice you lower yours and grant him one last choice: drive until you lose the road or break with the ones you've followed. He will do one of two things: he will admit to everything or he'll say he's just not the same. And you'll begin to wonder why you came. Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness and I would have stayed up with you all night had I known how to save a life." -The Fray
"Yesterday at that baby shower I was jealous of Callie because she got pregnant without trying. And we try...I get shots, I take my temperature, I put my legs in the air, and nothing. The universe says, 'Screw you, Meredith" and gives Callie a kid. And then puts Callie through a windshield... I mean what the hell is going on. What's the point! I mean, is there a reason for this because if you can think of a reason, any reason at all, why the universe is so screwed up, and random, and mean; now would be an amazingly good time to tell me because I really need some answers." -Grey's Anatomy
"You see the smile that's on my mouth, it's hiding the words that don't come out. And all of my friends who think I'm blessed they don't know my head is a mess. No, they don't know who I really am. And they don't know what I've been through like you do. And I was made for you. All of these lines across my face tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been, and how I got to where I am. But these stories don't mean anything when you've got no one to tell them to. It's true... I was made for you." -Brandi Carlile
Kate: Do you ever think about dying?
Taylor: Not really.
K: You're not scared?
T: No.........if I didn't have cancer I never would have found you. So yeah, I'm glad I'm sick.
K: Me too.
-My Sister's Keeper
"My Dearest Allie,
I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you. Noah" -The Notebook
Reggie Nicholson: Wish I could currently be straightening, curling, or otherwise styling my non-existant hair.
Michelle Ford: you can borrow mine ;)
RN: Michelle - I'd KILL for yours!!!
RN: & also, Michelle - First time I saw you I thought "bitch...she has such great hair." :) Match that with rec therapy where I realized your eyes were just as gorgeous!!!
MF: hahahaha i ♥ youtook me five years to get my hair like this
RN: You rock it.
MF: You just made it to my Quotes wall. ;)
RN: Sweet!
“I have cancer, cancer doesn’t have me.”
"Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I scream. It's all a part of healing...” -Christina Applegate
“Where does my help come from? It comes from You, Lord.” –CA
"Impossible means nothing to me.” –Kate Voegele
"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. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up… before we can step up." –Grey’s Anatomy
"They're inpatient. It's been a long time. But they always come. They're my people. People keep you going. People are better than no people." –Grey’s Anatomy
"You know what I figured out today? Maybe God... has a bigger plan for me, than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick.... to help me through all this. You're my angel." –A Walk to Remember
”There can’t be really good news till there is really bad news.”
Tibby: “Are you scared?”
Bailey: “Not of dying really… it’s more that I’m afraid of… time, and not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss…” –Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“There’s something so very healing of knowing that someone is with you.” –Mark, Fusion. December 12, 2008
“Now alone or not--you've got to walk ahead... The thing to remember is, if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.” –P.S. I Love You
“A few years ago I couldn’t imagine something like this ever happening to me. A few years later I can’t imagine if this never happened to me.” –Rob Bell
“All of a sudden you’ve suffered… and you can’t pretend anymore.” –Rob Bell
“She sleeps grasping the barf bowl and that in some unimaginable way brings safety to her.” –Lisa Murray
“When storms of life come, learn to dance in the rain.” –Lisa Murray
“You need to know that kids beat the odds. Every single day.” –My Sister’s Keeper
“A real friend isn’t capable of feeling sorry for you.” –My Sister’s Keeper
“’I always wanted to be a ballerina.’ Her arm goes up, a weak arabesque. ‘You know what ballerinas have?’
Eating disorders, I think.
‘Absolute control. When it comes to their bodies, they know exactly what’s going to happen, and when.’ Kate shrugs, coming back to this moment, this hospital room. ‘Anyways,’ she says.” –My Sister’s Keeper
“It is the nurses who are the seasoned sergeants-the ones who are there when your baby is shaking with such a high fever she needs to be bathed in ice, the ones who can teach you how to flush a central venous catheter, or suggest which patient floor kitchens might still have Popsicles left to be stolen, or tell you which dry cleaners know how to remove the stains of blood and chemotherapies from clothing. The nurses know the name of you daughter’s stuffed walrus and show her how to make tissue paper flowers to twine around her IV stand. The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. You get to know them as they know you, because they take the place of friends you once had in a previous life, the one before the diagnosis.” –My Sister’s Keeper
“’Don’t say it. Don’t tell me that nobody’s going to stare at me, because they will. Don’t tell me it doesn’t matter, because that’s a lie.’ Her eyes, lash-bare, fill with tears. ‘I’m a freak, Mom. Look at me.’” –My Sister’s Keeper
“When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself… is that what love’s like?” –My Sister’s Keeper
“I have unanswered prayers
I have trouble I wish wasn’t there
And I have asked a thousand ways
That You would take my pain away
You would take my pain away” –JJ Heller
“Pain became my constant companion. For a long time I would not know what it was like not to hurt all over my body.” –Don Piper
“Sometimes I’d wake up and see people standing in front of my bed and would wonder, Am I really here or am I just imagining this?” –Don Piper
“One of the most difficult things for me--aside from my own physical pain—was to see the reaction of my family members and close friends.” –Don Piper
“During my recovery, even the tiniest movement was a miracle. Every time I relearned how to do something, it felt like an achievement.” –Don Piper
“I wanted to be able to walk out of the hospital on my own two legs and go back to my former way of life. No one was willing—or able—to give me those assurances.” –Don Piper
“Without question, I am still alive because people prayed for me.” –Don Piper
“’We’re taking over from here. You don’t have to do a thing to survive. We’re going to pray you through this.’
I know I wasn’t going to die. God’s people wouldn’t let me.” –Don Piper
Don’t be afraid for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will uphold you with my victorious right hand. –Isaiah 41:10
“Besides the pain and the flow of people in and out of my room, I lived in depression. A large part of it may have been the natural result of the trauma to my body and some of it may have been my reaction to the many drugs. I believe, however, that because I faced an unknown outcome and the pain never let up, I kept feeling I had little future to look forward to. Most of the time I didn’t want to live.” –Don Piper
“Pain has become a way of life for me…” –Don Piper
“Always, however, I came back to one thing: God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that.” –Don Piper
"At twenty years of age I'm still looking for a dream
A war's already waged for my destiny
But You've already won the battle
And You've got great plans for me
Though I can’t always see" -Francesca Battistelli
"Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am faint; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony. My soul is in anguish. How long, O, Lord, how long? Turn, O Lord, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love." -Psalm 6:2-4
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.'" -Jeremiah 29:11-13
I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil. -Job 3:26
He carries out his decree against me, and many such plans he still has in store. That is why I am terrified before him; when I think of all this, I fear him. -Job 23:14-15
In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. -Proverbs 16:9
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" -Isaiah 6:8
Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe. -Philippians 2:14-15
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6
Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. -1 Timothy 4:12
"Tina's losing faith in what she knows! Hates her music, hates all of her clothes! Thinks of surgery and a new nose! Every calorie is a war! And while she wishes she was dancer, and that she never heard of cancer, she wishes God would give her some answers, and make her feel beautiful!" -David Cook
"No day, but today." -RENT
"At the end of the day, did I laugh and dance enough? Did I tell my friends how much they really mean to me? At the end of the day, did I really push myself? Or was I too afraid to give my heart away?" -Kellie Coffey
"Thought I could be strong, but it's killing me. Does someone hear my cry? I'm dying for new life. I want to be beautiful. Make you stand in awe. Look inside my heart and be amazed. I want to hear you say, who I am is quite enough. Just want to be worthy of love, and beautiful." -Bethany Dillon
"You know I'm more and more convinced the longer that I live. Yeah, this can't be, no this can't be, no this can't be all there is. Lord, I raise my hands, bow my head, finding more and more truth in the words written in red. They tell me that there's more to life than just what I can see. Oh I believe." -Brooks & Dunn
“I don't know just where I'm going. And tomorrow is a little overwhelming. And the air is cold, and I'm not the same anymore. If this is the moment I stand here on my own. If this is my right of passage that somehow leads me home. I might be afraid, but it's my turn to be brave." -Idina Menzel
"When you feel like you're alone in your sadness, and it seems like no one in this whole world cares, and you want to get away from the madness, you just call My name and I'll be there." -Third Day
"And I hear them saying, 'You'll never change things. And no matter what you do it's still the same thing.' But it's not the world that I am changing, I do this so, this world will know, that it will not change me." -Garth Brooks
"I can almost see it, that dream I'm dreamin’, but there's a voice inside my head saying, 'You'll never reach it.' Every step I'm taking, every move I make feels lost with no direction. My faith is shaking. But I, I gotta keep trying, gotta keep my head held high. There's always gonna be another mountain. I'm always gonna wanna make it move. Always gonna be an uphill battle. Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose. Ain't about how fast I get there. Ain't about what's waiting on the other side. It's the climb. The struggles I'm facing. The chances I'm taking, sometimes might knock me down, but no I'm not breaking." -Miley Cyrus
"She is running a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction. She is trying, but the canyons ever widening in the depths of her cold heart. So she sets out on another misadventure just to find she's another two years older and she's three more steps behind. Does anybody hear her? Can anybody see?" -Casting Crowns
"The day you realize that there's not enough time... because you want to live forever. Those are the biggest days, the perfect days." -Grey's Anatomy
"In the arms of Your mercy I find rest." -Casting Crowns
"The angels warn me never to fall down." -Barcelona
"You walked with me, footprints in the sand, and helped me understand where I'm going. You walked with me when I was all alone, with so much unknown along the way. And then I heard You say, 'I promise you I'm always there when your heart is filled sorrow and despair. I'll carry you when you need a friend. You'll find My footprints in the sand.'" -Leona Lewis
“Two months is too little. They let him go, they had no sudden healing. To think that providence would take a child from his mother while she prays is appalling. Who told us we’d be rescued? What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares? We’re asking why this happens to us who have died to live. It’s unfair.” –Natalie Grant
“’Cure’ to most of us that are childhood cancer survivors is about retrieving from cancer whatever aspects of childhood and adolescenthood cancer might have tried to take away from us. Almost anybody’s reaction to cancer is, ‘Oh my God, cancer, it’s death, you’re gonna die, end of life.’ To me it’s incredibly sad and pretty intense that an adolescent in some ways would rather die than be left alone in the world. Would rather die than not fit in to the crowd because they don’t have any hair. For many of them death seems better than being alone, than chemo, than having no hair, and most importantly than having all your friends run for the hills.” -Tavo Zavala, Teen Impact
“You will notice me. I’ll be leaving my mark like initials carved in an old oak tree. You wait and see. Maybe I’ll write like Twain wrote. Maybe I’ll paint like Van Gogh. Cure the common cold… I don’t know, but I’m ready to start ‘cause I know in my heart… I wanna do something that matters. Say something different. Something that sets the whole world on its ear. I wanna do something better with the time I’ve been given. And I wanna try to touch a few hearts in this life. And leave nothing less than something that says ‘I was here.’” –Lady Antebellum
“All I want is a family, like everyone else I see. And I won’t understand it if it’s not meant to be. 'Cause I would die for that. Just to have one chance to hold in my hands all that they have. I would die for that. And I want to know what it's like to bring a dream to life. For that kind of love, what I'd give up! I would die for that.” –Kellie Coffey
“The heart is stronger than you think, like it can go through anything. And even when you think you can’t, it finds a way to still push on. Sometimes you want to run away. Ain’t got the patience for the pain, and if you don’t believe it look into your heart, the beat goes on.” –Just Stand Up! (single)
“And every tear that had to fall from my eyes. And every day I wondered how I’d get through the night. And every change life has thrown me. I'm thankful for every break in my heart. I’m grateful for every start. Some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned.” –Carrie Underwood
“She’s desperate for hope, darkness clouding her view, she’s looking to You.” –Casting Crowns
“There are times in life when you gotta crawl, lose your grip, trip and fall. When you can’t lean on no one else that’s when you find yourself. I’ve been around and I’ve noticed that walkin’s easy when the road is flat. Them danged 'ole hills will get you every time. Yeah, the good Lord gave us mountains so we could learn how to climb.” –Lonestar
“Down the road the sun is shining. With every cloud there’s a silver lining. Just keep holding on. Every heartache makes you stronger, and it won’t be much longer. You’ll find love, you’ll find peace, and the you you’re meant to be. I know right now that’s not the way you feel, but one day you will.” –Lady Antebellum
“Will you think that you’re all alone when no one’s there to hold your hand? And all you know seems so far away and everything is temporary, rest your head. I’m permanent. I know he’s living in hell every single day. And so I ask, ‘Oh God, is there some way for me to take his place?’ And when they say, ‘it’s so touch and go,’ I wish I could make it go away.” –David Cook
“I’ll praise You in this storm and I will lift my hands, for You are who You are no matter where I am. And every tear I’ve cried You hold in your hand. You never left my side. And though my heart is torn, I will praise You in this storm.” –Casting Crowns
“For just this morning right there on her pillow was the cruelest of innocent cries. And she cried when she gathered it all in her hands, the proof that she couldn’t deny. Sarabeth closes her eyes… She dreams she dancing around and around without any cares. And her very first love is holding her close and the soft wind is blowing her hair.” –Rascal Flatts
“How long have I been in this storm? So overwhelmed by the oceans shapeless form. The water’s getting harder to tread, with these waves crashing over my head.” –Lifehouse
“Sometimes I take on this world by myself. Thinkin’ I got all the answers, don’t need anybodies help. God was right there waiting for me all along to fall down on my knees and surrender all. Things that matter, things that don’t.” –Rascal Flatts
“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.” –Garth Brooks
“Everybody falls sometimes. You gotta find the strength to rise from the ashes and make a new beginning. Anyone can feel the ache, you think it’s more than you can take, but you’re stronger, stronger than you know. I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains. Hope that doesn’t ever end even when the sky is falling. I’ve seen miracles just happen. Silent prayers get answered. Broken hearts become brand new. That’s what faith can do. It doesn’t matter what you’ve heard impossible is not a word, it’s just a reason for someone not to try. Everybody’s scared to death. You may decide to take that step out on the water, but it’ll be all right.” –Kutless
“Who told you life wasn’t worth the fight??!! They were wrong!!! They lied!!! Now you’re gone, and we cry!! ‘Cause it’s not like you to walk away in the middle of a song. Your beautiful song…” –Rascal Flatts
"I feel like I'm a million miles away from myself, more and more these days. I've been down so many open roads, but they never lead me home. And now I just don't know who I really am, how it's gonna be, is there something that I can't see? I want to understand. Maybe I will never be who I was before. Maybe I don't even know her anymore. Maybe who I am today, aint so far from yesterday. Can I find a way to be every part of me?" -Miley Cyrus
"I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness. For once I'm at peace with myself." -Rascal Flatts
"Little girl don't be so blue. I know what you're going through. Don't let it beat you up. Hitting walls and getting scars only makes you who you are, only makes you who you are. No matter how much your heart is aching, there is beauty in the breaking." -Lindsey Haun
I have it all planned out--plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. -Jeremiah 29:11
"I know you've got a little life in you yet. I know you've got a lot of strength left. I should be crying, but I just can't let it show. I should be hoping but I can't stop thinking. All the things we should've said that we never said. All the things we should've done that we never did. All the things we should've given, but I didn't. Oh darlin', make it go. Just make it go away." -Maxwell
"What an important piece of work. How many millions and millions and millions of women--people--have... if they have not experienced cancer first hand, have known someone to either fight it or not fight it. And the journey that you go on with them because everyday they want to believe that they can beat it. And that's the hardest thing. And they always want you to be okay. Always about you being okay as they try to keep that focus... 'I'm gonna beat this. I'm gonna beat this.'" -Mia Michaels
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I've been told that I'm dying, he thought while staring at it, and the doctor wants me to talk about it. But there's nothing really to say, is there? -The Last Song
"If you weren't going to tell me, why did you bring me down here? So I could watch you die?"
"No, sweetie. Just the opposite." He rolled his head to face her. "I asked you to come so I could watch you live." -The Last Song
She was glad she finally knew his secret, even as she wished she didn't. She felt him running his fingers through her hair. There would come a time when he would no longer be able to do this, when he would no longer be around, and she squeezed her eyelids shut, trying to block out the future. She needed more time with him. She needed him to listen as she whined; she needed him to forgive her when she made mistakes. She needed him to love her the way he had this summer. She needed all of it forever, and she knew it wouldn't happen. She allowed her dad to hold her and wept like the child she no longer was. -The Last Song
"I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell." -The Last Song
Melissa: "It makes me happy that you are making jokes and not being 100% sadness."
Me: "Thats my way of pretending I'm strong."
"Hey baby, what's your sign?"
"Cancer."
"You're a Cancer?"
"No, I'm a Leo, but I have cancer." -My Sister's Keeper
"I do not need a reason to be angry with God." -A Walk To Remember
"Well you know what they say, science only goes so far and then comes God." -The Notebook
Because of the extravagance of those revelations, and so I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan's angel did his best to get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my knees. No danger then of walking around high and mighty! At first I didn't think of it as a gift, and begged God to remove it. Three times I did that, and then he told me, "My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness." Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my weakness. Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size—abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become. -2 Corinthians 12:7-10
"You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you." -Matthew 5:4
Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. -Romans 8:26-28
"Don't panic. I'm with you. There's no need to fear for I'm your God. I'll give you strength. I'll help you. I'll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you." -Isaiah 41:10
"I feel so selfish and then I'm like wait.... I have cancer. I can be a bitch! Whatever. We're special." -Hannah Komai (hehee... the truth)
"She is fine most of the time. She takes her days with a smile. Moves like a dancer in lights spinning around to the sound. But sometimes she falls down... Beathe. Just breathe. Take the world off your shoulders and put it on me. Breathe. Just Breath. Let the life that you live be all that you need...... Let go of the fear. Let go of the doubt. Let go of the ones that try to put you down. You're gonna be fine. Don't hold it inside. If you hurt right now, then let it all come out." -Ryan Star
"If I die young bury me in satin. Lay me down on a bed of roses. Sink me in the river at dawn. Send me away with the words of a love song. Lord make me a rainbow, I’ll shine down on my mother. She'll know I’m safe with You when she stands under my colors. Oh and, life ain't always what you think it ought to be, no. Ain't even gray, but she buries her baby. The sharp knife of a short life, well, I’ve had just enough time. And I’ll be wearing white when I come into Your kingdom. I’m as green as the ring on my little cold finger. I’ve never known the lovin' of a man, but it sure felt nice when he was holding my hand. There’s a boy here in town says he’ll love me forever. Who would have thought forever could be severed by the sharp knife of a short life." -The Band Perry
"If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell." -Lance Armstrong
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." -Christopher Reeve
"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
"Tell me I belong..." -Joshua Radin
"Jesus saves. Chemo scores." -My Sister's Keeper
"We'd been flying high, but we were forced to land abruptly." -Jorge Posada
"I can't get to bed, but I'm really tired." -Joshua Radin
"I remember feeling low. I remember losing hope. I remember all the feelings and the day they stopped." -David Cook
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with the hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. -Romans 15:13
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. -Job 8:21
"The leadership instinct you are born with is in the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." -Elaine Agather
"Don't get me wrong, I love who I am. I don't want to be ungrateful. It probably sounds strange. I really love the role I play, the songs I sing, but with all the fame... the things that seem so simple suddenly are so far out of reach. Wish that they could see it underneath... I'm just an ordinary girl. Sometimes I'm lazy. I get bored. I get scared. I feel ignored. I feel happy. I get silly. I choke on my own words. I make wishes. I have dreams. And I still want to believe that anything can happen in this world for an ordinary girl." -Miley Cyrus
"Long walks in the dark through woods grown behind the park, I asked God who I'm supposed to be. The stars smiled down on me, God answered in silent reverie. I said a prayer and fell asleep." -Priscilla Ahn
All of us must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent me, because there is little time left before the night falls and all work comes to an end. -John 9:4
"Doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream." -Juno
"Did you say it? I love you. I dont ever want to live without you. You changed my life. Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it. But every now and then... look around. Drink it in. 'Cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow.' -Grey's Anatomy
"Someday you'll be back here, honey... on your terms." -Juno
"My form of cancer is so rare, even my doctors aren't sure they're pronouncing it correctly."
"When people call to ask how you are, they really don't want to hear the truth. 'This morning I had a massive vomiting session and didn't make it to the toilet in time. I also had severe nosebleeds, feel bloated, and lost two pounds. Other than that, I'm fine and dandy. How are you?' Better to just tell them 'I'm ok' or 'I'm as well as can be expected.'"
"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." -Orison Swett Marden
I'm not saying that I have this all together, that I have made it. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. -Philippians 3:12
"If leaders are filled with high ambition and if they pursue their aims with audacity and strength of will, they will reach them in spite of all obstacles." -Carl von Clausewitz
Pursue a righteous life--a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, coutresy. Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses. -1 Timothy 6:11-12
"Those who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about." -Melvin J. Evans
There is no greater bond than two people who have suffered.
Henry: "We could adopt."
Clare: "What's wrong with me wanting one normal thing in my life? I..I want to be a mother. I want to bear a child, your child. Why can't I have that?" -The Time Traveler's Wife
"Jesus is all the world to me, my life, my joy, my all; He is my strength from day to day, without Him I would fall." -W.A. Thompson
"The way is dark, heavenly Father, cloud upon cloud is gathering thickly above my head. Lord, the thunder roars above me; Father, I stand like one bewildered! Dear Father, take my hand and through the gloom lead safely home thy child." -Margaret Fishback Powers
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. -Psalm 23:4
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." -Isaiah 30:21
"O Sheltering Heavenly Father, shadows may gather around me, as on my journey I go. Yet they can never confound me, sunshine will come soon, I know." -G.C. Tullar
FOOTPRINTS
One night I dreamed a dream.
I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
one belonging to me and one to my Lord.
When the last scene of my life shot before me
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
There was only one set of footprints.
I realized that this was at the lowest and saddest times of my life.
This always bothered me
and I questioned the Lord
about my dilemma.
"Lord, you told me when I decided to follow You,
You would walk and talk with me all the way.
But I'm aware that during the most troublesome
times of my life there is only one set of footprints.
I just don't understand why, when I needed You most,
You leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child,
I love you and will never leave you
never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints
it was then that I carried you."
"Someone once told me that to write well you have to write what you know. This is what I know...." -Never Been Kissed
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." -Joshua J. Marine
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." -Dale Carnegie
"What can't be cured must be endured." -Unknown
"Impossible means nothing to me... So can you lift me up, and turn the ashes into flames? 'Cause I have overcome more than words will ever say. And I've been given hope that there's a light on up the hall. And that a day will come when the fight is won, and I think that day has just begun. Somewhere, every body starts there. I'm counting on a small prayer, lost in a nightmare. But I'm here, and suddenly it's so clear. The struggle through the long years; it's taught me to outrun my fears. Everything that's worth having comes with trials worth withstanding." -Kate Voegele
We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts. -Romans 5:3-5
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -Dale Carnegie
“How long had it been since she’d done something that felt normal?” –Safe Haven
“’That’s the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn’t easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it. Do you know what I mean?’” –Safe Haven
“These were ordinary events in an ordinary life. The concept felt alien, like she was learning the customs of a foreign land, and it left her feeling strangely elated and wary at exactly the same time.” –Safe Haven
“Deep in her heart, she wasn’t sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed… normal.” –Safe Haven
“She tried to tell herself that it was an adventure and everything would be okay.” –Safe Haven
“’It’s not the kind of life I ever imagined for myself.’” –Safe Haven
“’I’m not sure anyone’s life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.’” –Safe Haven
“There are dreams that visit us and leave us fulfilled upon waking, there are dreams that make life worth living.” –Safe Haven
“…but she learned long ago that nothing wonderful lasted forever.” –Safe Haven
“But my prognosis scares me.” –Safe Haven
“Dying is a strange business, and I’m not going to bore you with the details. I might have weeks or I might have months and though it’s cliché, it’s true that so many of the things I once believed to be important no longer are.” –Safe Haven
“Then, when it seems we will never smile again, life comes back.” –Mark M. Baldwin
“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.” –Tom Claney
There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. –Proverbs 23:18
“One day you'll grow up. One day you'll walk out in this big world on your own. And they'll be days when your heart will break, and you'll swear that all your strength is gone. Then you'll find a way to carry on… Heaven knows that it’s a crazy ride. It's never perfect all the time. It’ll pull you down and send you flyin'. So baby hold on tight on this crazy ride.” –Michelle Branch
"I think you're either born simple, or you're born.......... me." -Grey's Anatomy
"This pain is not a dying pain. It's a healing pain. It's the victory pain. You won. You won." -Grey's Anatomy
"When we say things like, 'People don't change,' it drives scientists crazy. Because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy, matter, it's always changing, morphing, merging, growing, dying. It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what the way things were instead of letting them be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing, despite every scientific indication, that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change... that's up to us. It can feel like death. Or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Like at any moment we can be born all over again." -Grey's Anatomy
"You know, some people are clearly just angels sent down to earth to take care of the rest of us." -One Tree Hill
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." -Art Linkletter
"There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, There's no joy in merely doing things which anyone can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make."
"You can't experience success beyond your wildest dreams until you dare to dream something wild!" -Scott Sorrell
God can do anything, you know--far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams. -Ephesians 3:20
"I broke down and fell asleep to your beating heart, your beating heart, your beating heart." -Brendan James
"You don't have to stay the broken girl..... Let your tears touch the ground. Lay all your shattered pieces down. And be amazed by how grace can take a broken girl and put her back together again." -Matthew West
"It's a lonely life focusing on things you don't have. I don't want any part of that." -Carrie Underwood
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." -Palph Waldo Emerson
"When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly." -Edward Teller
"Woke up late today, and I still feel the sting of the pain. But I brush my teeth anyway, I got dresssed through the mess and put a smile on my face. I got a little bit stronger." -Sara Evans
"It's time to move on, even though I'm not ready. I've got to be strong, and trust where you're heading. Even though it's not easy (it's not easy)." -Miley Cyrus
"You know how there are a handful of moments in your life that you just know while it's happening you're gonna remember it for the rest of your life? I had one of those moments tonight." -One Tree Hill
"I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone. So here I am in my new apartment in a big city, they just dropped me off. It's so much colder than I thought it would be. So I tuck myself in and turn the night-light on.. Wish I'd never grown up. I wish I'd never grown up. Oh, I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up, can still be little. Oh, I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up, it could still be simple." -Taylor Swift
"She cries in the corner where nobody sees. She's the kid with the story no one would believe. She prays every night, 'Dear God, won't You please... Could You send someone here who will love me? Who will love me for me. Not for what I have done or what I will become. Who will love me for me. 'Cause nobody has shown me what love, what love really means.'" -JJ Heller
''I know my heart will never be the same, but I'm tellin' myself I'll be okay. Even on my weakest days... I get a little bit stronger.'' -Sara Evans
"Did you say it?? 'I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it. But every now and then... look around. Drink it in. 'Cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow." -Grey's Anatomy
"Little Miss you'll go far. Little Miss hide your scars. Little Miss who you are is so much more than you like to talk about. It's alright, it's alright, it's alright. Yeah, sometimes you gotta lose 'til you win. It's alright, it's alright, it's alright. It'll be alright again. It'll be alright again, I'M OKAY. It'll be alright again, I'M OKAY (Okay)." -Sugarland
Pete: "Where does it hurt most?"
Charlotte: "My soul." -Private Practice
"And there's bound to be rough waters. And I know I'll take some falls. But with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.." -Garth Brooks
"I feel like I'm living a life I just did not agree to." -Freedom Writers
"You have been blessed with a burden." -Freedom Writers
The Conversation
"She sat, staring up into the light. This had been her kitchen, everything in sight. Elsewhere, other stalked. One wanted to shave the rest of her head to match, and so they did, one whispering to her while the other held clippers, took off remnants of hair, and she was pleasant, which made it, sad to say, bearable. They were careful not to touch the jagged gash. It still seemed fresh, and they were careful not to stare as hair fell across her shoulders. The one guiding the clippers felt ashamed for sharing the moment with them, and the other, who was her husband, kept touching her face, whispering to her, while in another room, others talked, and she, listening, answered only the light." -Jon Pineda
"What happens when the immediate danger has passed, when the machines are disconnected, and the teams of doctors and nurses are gone? Surgery is when you get saved, but post-op, after surgery, is when you heal. But… what if you don’t?" -Grey's Anatomy
"The goal of any surgery is total recovery; to come out better than you were before. Some patients heal quickly and feel immediate relief. For others, the healing happens gradually. And it's not until months, or even years later, that you realize you don't hurt anymore. So the challenge after any surgery is to be patient. But if you can make it through the first weeks and months, if you believe that healing is possible, then you can get your life back. But that's a big IF." -Grey's Anatomy
"I love you, and I failed.." -Private Practice
I WON’T LET GO
(Rascal Flatts)
It’s like a storm that cuts a path
It breaks your will it feels like that
You think you’re lost but you’re not lost
On your own, you’re not alone
I WILL STAND BY YOU, I WILL HELP YOU THROUGH
WHEN YOU’VE DONE ALL YOU CAN DO
AND YOU CAN’T COPE
I WILL DRY YOUR EYES, I WILL FIGHT YOUR FIGHT
I WILL HOLD YOU TIGHT AND I WON’T LET GO
It hurts my heart to see you cry
I know its dark this part of life
Oh it finds us all and we’re too small to stop the rain
Oh but when it rains
I WILL STAND BY YOU, I WILL HELP YOU THROUGH
WHEN YOU’VE DONE ALL YOU CAN DO
AND YOU CAN’T COPE
I WILL DRY YOUR EYES, I WILL FIGHT YOUR FIGHT
I WILL HOLD YOU TIGHT AND I WON’T LET YOU FALL
Don’t be afraid to fall
I’m right here to catch you
I won’t let you down
It won’t get you down
You’re gonna make it
I know you can make it
Cause I will stand by you, I will help you through
When you’ve done all you can do
And you can’t cope
I will dry your eyes, I will fight your fight
I will hold you tight and I won’t let go
I’m gonna hold you and I won’t let go
I won’t let go
No I won’t
"You've gotta touch the bottom before you can come back up." -Jack Johnson
"It's been too hard living.... but I'm afraid to die." -Gavin DeGraw
"So often we avoid conflict because we think the relationship can't take it."
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." - Jackie Robinson
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” - Albus Dumbledore
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden
"We recognize our own mortality, and we are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame -- but rather, how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better." - Barack Obama
"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world." - Howard Zinn
"Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good." -Minor Myers Jr.
"I'm going back to the start." -Coldplay
"If I ever write the story of my life don't be surprised if you're where it begins." -Rascal Flatts
"The brain is the human body's most mysterious organ. It learns. It changes. It adapts. It tells us what we see, what we hear. It lets us feel love. I think it holds their soul... But no matter how much research we do no one can really say how all that delicate grey matter inside our skull works. And when it's hurt, when the human brain is traumatized, well, that's when it gets even more mysterious." -Grey's Anatomy
"If I lay here.. If I just lay here.. Would you lie with me and just forget the world?" -Snow Patrol
(Mark crying of Callie in the OR) "She's my best friend.... She's my best friend." -Grey's Anatomy
"Let him know that you know best 'cause after all, you do know best. Try to slip past his defense without granting innocence. Lay down a list of what is wrong, the things you've told him all along. And pray to God he hears you. And pray to God he hears you. Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness and I would have stayed up with you all night had I known how to save a life. As he begins to raise his voice you lower yours and grant him one last choice: drive until you lose the road or break with the ones you've followed. He will do one of two things: he will admit to everything or he'll say he's just not the same. And you'll begin to wonder why you came. Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness and I would have stayed up with you all night had I known how to save a life." -The Fray
"Yesterday at that baby shower I was jealous of Callie because she got pregnant without trying. And we try...I get shots, I take my temperature, I put my legs in the air, and nothing. The universe says, 'Screw you, Meredith" and gives Callie a kid. And then puts Callie through a windshield... I mean what the hell is going on. What's the point! I mean, is there a reason for this because if you can think of a reason, any reason at all, why the universe is so screwed up, and random, and mean; now would be an amazingly good time to tell me because I really need some answers." -Grey's Anatomy
"You see the smile that's on my mouth, it's hiding the words that don't come out. And all of my friends who think I'm blessed they don't know my head is a mess. No, they don't know who I really am. And they don't know what I've been through like you do. And I was made for you. All of these lines across my face tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been, and how I got to where I am. But these stories don't mean anything when you've got no one to tell them to. It's true... I was made for you." -Brandi Carlile
Kate: Do you ever think about dying?
Taylor: Not really.
K: You're not scared?
T: No.........if I didn't have cancer I never would have found you. So yeah, I'm glad I'm sick.
K: Me too.
-My Sister's Keeper
"My Dearest Allie,
I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you. Noah" -The Notebook
Reggie Nicholson: Wish I could currently be straightening, curling, or otherwise styling my non-existant hair.
Michelle Ford: you can borrow mine ;)
RN: Michelle - I'd KILL for yours!!!
RN: & also, Michelle - First time I saw you I thought "bitch...she has such great hair." :) Match that with rec therapy where I realized your eyes were just as gorgeous!!!
MF: hahahaha i ♥ youtook me five years to get my hair like this
RN: You rock it.
MF: You just made it to my Quotes wall. ;)
RN: Sweet!
The nights of crying your eyes out give way to days of laughter. -Psalm 30:5
Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning. -Psalm 30:5
"Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie?" -Marilyn Monroe
"Yeah, I think I'm gonna make it 'cause God won't make a mountain I can't climb. It's getting better all the time." -Brooks & Dunn
Lexie, "I uh...I am uh...really happy for you. You seem happy."
Mark, "I am. I have everything I always wanted.....almost." -Grey's Anatomy
"There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone, and then I fell apart, I might not make it. It's easier to be alone...because what if you learn that you need love...and then you don't have it? What if you like it, and lean on it? What if you shape your life around it, and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is death ends. This--it could go on forever..." -Meredith Grey
"I guess cancer patients can tease other cancer patients. Just like blacks can call other blacks the "N" word." -Henry Corra
When I was younger my mom worried all the time. Call me when you get there. Who are you going with? What time will you be home? I just thought that she was insane. And every time she said to me, "When you're a mother...you'll understand."
I want to be so close to someone that I know them from the moment they start growing inside of me. I want a baby...my baby...to love and protect and teach.
Doctor Addison, "It's not a guarantee that it will work."
But there are no guarantees in life. But if something is worth having you've gotta give it a try, right? Because if this works, someday when my kid is driving me insane with worry...I'll finally understand.
-Private Practice
Dr Riley, "I'm sorry, Nina. I'm so sorry. But we knew this was a longshot, right? We knew that, but we tried anyway because that was important to you. You're young, you have the support of your family, and you will be a mother. We can explore serogacy now, or you can adopt."
Nina, "But I wanted to be like my mom."
Dr, "I know. And if your mom were here right now she would tell you that it wasn't giving birth to you that defined her. It was the first time that you looked in her eyes and smiled. It was the first time you fell asleep on her shoulder, and she barely let herself breathe because she never wanted that moment to end. You will have your baby...however she comes into the world. And you will love her incredibly well...because your mom taught you how. And that's all that matters...that's all that matters."
-Private Practice
"Sometimes it takes a huge loss to remind you of what you care about the most. Sometimes you find yourself becoming stronger as a result, wiser, better equipped to deal with the next big disaster that comes along. Sometimes...but not always." -Grey
"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one?" -My Sister's Keeper
"You think life is something you can throw out like a piece of trash? You think you OD, and get a second chance?" -My Sister's Keeper
"Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven? I mean, if it's Heaven, you should be at your beauty-queen best, and I doubt that all the people who die of old age are wandering around toothless and bald." -My Sister's Keeper
"It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get." -MSK
"When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever think to explore." -MSK
"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." -MSK
Crying doesn't indicate that you're weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you're alive.
Someday, I hope there's a quote with my name attached to it. -Michelle Ford
"I suggest we treat our relationship as if it were a crashed computer, and restore it to the last point we both agree it worked." -Sheldon Cooper
"I don't know how to exist in a world where my dad doesn't." -Grey's Anatomy
"Sometimes you have to make a big mistake to figure out how to make things right. Mistakes are painful, but they're the only way to find out who you really are." -Grey's Anatomy
"If there's a crisis, you don't freeze. You move forward. You get the rest of us to move forward because you've seen worse. You have survived worse. And you know we'll survive too. You say you're all dark and twisty--it's not a flaw. It's a strength. It makes you who you are." -Derek Shepherd (Grey's Anatomy)
"In order to be remembered, in order to leave something significant behind...you have to leave." -Grey's Anatomy
Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning. -Psalm 30:5
"Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie?" -Marilyn Monroe
"Yeah, I think I'm gonna make it 'cause God won't make a mountain I can't climb. It's getting better all the time." -Brooks & Dunn
Lexie, "I uh...I am uh...really happy for you. You seem happy."
Mark, "I am. I have everything I always wanted.....almost." -Grey's Anatomy
"There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone, and then I fell apart, I might not make it. It's easier to be alone...because what if you learn that you need love...and then you don't have it? What if you like it, and lean on it? What if you shape your life around it, and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is death ends. This--it could go on forever..." -Meredith Grey
"I guess cancer patients can tease other cancer patients. Just like blacks can call other blacks the "N" word." -Henry Corra
When I was younger my mom worried all the time. Call me when you get there. Who are you going with? What time will you be home? I just thought that she was insane. And every time she said to me, "When you're a mother...you'll understand."
I want to be so close to someone that I know them from the moment they start growing inside of me. I want a baby...my baby...to love and protect and teach.
Doctor Addison, "It's not a guarantee that it will work."
But there are no guarantees in life. But if something is worth having you've gotta give it a try, right? Because if this works, someday when my kid is driving me insane with worry...I'll finally understand.
-Private Practice
Dr Riley, "I'm sorry, Nina. I'm so sorry. But we knew this was a longshot, right? We knew that, but we tried anyway because that was important to you. You're young, you have the support of your family, and you will be a mother. We can explore serogacy now, or you can adopt."
Nina, "But I wanted to be like my mom."
Dr, "I know. And if your mom were here right now she would tell you that it wasn't giving birth to you that defined her. It was the first time that you looked in her eyes and smiled. It was the first time you fell asleep on her shoulder, and she barely let herself breathe because she never wanted that moment to end. You will have your baby...however she comes into the world. And you will love her incredibly well...because your mom taught you how. And that's all that matters...that's all that matters."
-Private Practice
"Sometimes it takes a huge loss to remind you of what you care about the most. Sometimes you find yourself becoming stronger as a result, wiser, better equipped to deal with the next big disaster that comes along. Sometimes...but not always." -Grey
"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one?" -My Sister's Keeper
"You think life is something you can throw out like a piece of trash? You think you OD, and get a second chance?" -My Sister's Keeper
"Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven? I mean, if it's Heaven, you should be at your beauty-queen best, and I doubt that all the people who die of old age are wandering around toothless and bald." -My Sister's Keeper
"It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get." -MSK
"When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever think to explore." -MSK
"You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." -MSK
Crying doesn't indicate that you're weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you're alive.
Someday, I hope there's a quote with my name attached to it. -Michelle Ford
"I suggest we treat our relationship as if it were a crashed computer, and restore it to the last point we both agree it worked." -Sheldon Cooper
"I don't know how to exist in a world where my dad doesn't." -Grey's Anatomy
"Sometimes you have to make a big mistake to figure out how to make things right. Mistakes are painful, but they're the only way to find out who you really are." -Grey's Anatomy
"If there's a crisis, you don't freeze. You move forward. You get the rest of us to move forward because you've seen worse. You have survived worse. And you know we'll survive too. You say you're all dark and twisty--it's not a flaw. It's a strength. It makes you who you are." -Derek Shepherd (Grey's Anatomy)
"In order to be remembered, in order to leave something significant behind...you have to leave." -Grey's Anatomy