Quotes Vol. 24

"Maybe mistakes are what make our fate...without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart...and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away." ~ Sex and the City

"Are there some women put in the world just to make you feel bad about yourself?" ~ Sex and the City

"I love you, but I love myself more." ~ Sex and the City

"My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry about the future. Of course, he died penniless and single." ~ Sex and the City

"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't live without each other love." ~ Sex and the City

"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done." ~ Jane Austen

"Change; we don't like it, we fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn't is lying. But here's the truth: the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Oh, sometimes change is everything." ~ Grey's Anatomy

"It goes away. The feeling. That feeling that you have right now...today...that feeling like you can do anything. That clarity...it goes away. And you go right back to being the coward who can't tell the person you love how you feel." ~ Grey's Anatomy

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before." ~ Jane Austen

"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony." ~ Jane Austen

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love." ~ Jane Austen

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen

"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves." ~ Jane Austen

"The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait until the other is ready." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"I had a ticket. I had my passport. And he had cold feet. I might have known fairy tales don't come true." ~ Dawn McKenna

"The predatory Peter Pan, who preyed on a woman until she fell in love with him before he mad-dashed-it back to his pack of Lost Boys." ~ Cara Wilson

"Love is a friendship that has caught fire."

"You didn't love her! You just didn't want to be alone. Or maybe, maybe she was good for your ego. Or, or maybe she made you feel better about your miserable life, but you didn't love her, because you don't destroy the person that you love!" ~ Grey's Anatomy

"Forgive and forget. That's what they say. It's good advice, but it's not very practical. When someone hurts us, we want to hurt them back. When someone wrongs us, we want to be right. Without forgiveness old scores never settle. Old wounds never heal, and the most we can hope for is that someday we'll be lucky enough to forget." ~ Grey's Anatomy

"No more words. Hear only the voice within." ~ Rumi

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." ~ Louis L'Amour

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart...Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~ Carl Jung

"You knew what you wanted. You sticked to your guns. You proved that if you want something bad enough, if you're determined enough, if you're patient enough, eventually it will happen. And that gives me hope. So thanks for that." ~ Grey's Anatomy

"It's good to be scared. It means you still have something to lose." ~ Grey's Anatomy

"People are constantly asking you to tell them how you're doing. How the hell are you supposed to know." ~ Grey's Anatomy

"Your life is defined by its opportunities...even the ones you miss." ~ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button