*My mom told me once that when you're afraid of something, what you want more than anything else is to make it go away. You want your life back to the way it was before you found out that there was something to be afraid of. You want to build a high wall and live your old life behind it. But nothing ever stays the same. That's not our old life at all. That's your new life with a wall around it. Your choice is not about going back to the way things were... your choice is about hiding... or about going right to the heart of the thing that scares you.* -- Taken
*My mother always talked to me a lot about the sky. She liked to watch the clouds in the day and the stars at night. Especially the stars. We would play a game sometimes, a game called 'what's beyond the sky.' We would imagine darkness, or a blinding light, or something else we didn't know how to name. But of course, that was just a game... there's nothing beyond the sky. The sky just is, and it goes on and one, and we play all of our games beneath it.* -- Taken
*When you're little, you like to think you know everything. But the last thing you really want is to know too much. What you really want is for grown-ups to make the world a safe place, where dreams can come true and promises are never broken. And when you're little, it doesn't seem too much to ask.* -- Taken
*People talk a lot as if the most important thing in life is to always see things for what they really are. But everything we do... every plan we make... is kind of a lie. We're closing our eyes and pretending that the day won't ever come when we won't need to make any more plans. Hope is the biggest lie there is, and it is the best. We have to keep going as if it all mattered, or else we wouldn't keep going at all.* -- Taken
*Sometimes the best way to move into the unknown is to take familiar steps. Small steps. To do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way ordinary. We're always going someplace new, all the time. Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory. You take those small familiar steps, you try to be honest, not to live as if nothing had changed, but still go on with your life. But there are times when what you need is a piece of how things used to be.* -- Taken
*People believe what they want to believe. They find meaning where they can and they cling to it. In the end, it really doesn't matter what's a trick and what's true. What matters is what people believe.* -- Taken
*In the cartoons, someone can run off a cliff and they're fine, and they don't fall until they look down. My mom always said that was the secret of life; never look down. But it's more than that. It's not just about not looking... it's about not ever realizing that you're in the middle of the air and you don't know how to fly.* -- Taken
*Some people spend their lives hoping for something to happen that will change everything. They look for power, or love, or the answers to their biggest questions. I think really what they're looking for is another chance... some way to lead another life when all the mistakes they've made would be erased, and they could just start over. Nothing bad has happened yet... and all their possibilities are still in front of them.* -- Taken
*If a dream is just a dream, something that happens in your mind while you're asleep, then that's alright. It's yours to take with you into the morning, and it fades away into the light. But when the dreams start to come when you're awake, and they come with the light, then that is not alright. What we look for then is other people who have dreamed what we have dreamed - who've seen what we've seen. When the dreams become real, sometimes the only comfort you can find is in knowing that you are not alone.* -- Taken
*All life is madness. The defected, the demented, and the damned are the real people of the world. And I'm proud to be in their company.* -- Tales of Ordinary Madness
*Sometimes we need to accept what's happening to us, even if we don't want to. And other times we have to fight... even if we're afraid.* -- The Time Machine
*We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back are memories... and those that carry us forward, are dreams.* -- The Time Machine
*I used to think that what I did would make a difference, you know, change the world. That nothing would ever be the same again. But it's no good. The world is too old and there's nothing new. It's all been said.* -- Total Eclipse
*We all keep a little bit of ourselves hidden, because if we didn't, then we'd have to look at who we are... who we really are. And if we didn't like it, we'd have nobody to blame but ourselves. -- Trial and Error
*Did you ever look in a mirror so long that your face doesn't make sense anymore? It just becomes all these shapes. Just shapes... not good or bad.* -- The Truth about Cats and Dogs
*How am I going to take you home when my feet won't move from this spot? If I could die tomorrow I would do it just to spend one more night with you?* -- Tuck Everlasting
*Look around you - it's life. The flowers and trees and frogs, it's all a part of the wheel. It's always changing, it's always growing. Like you... your life is never the same. You were once a child, now you are about to become a woman. One day you'll grow up, you'll do something important, you'll have children maybe... and then one day you'll go out just like the flame of a candle. You'll make way for new life as a certainty. It's the natural way of things.* -- Tuck Everlasting
*Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever... you just have to live.* -- Tuck Everlasting
*Heroes are ordinary people who do extraordinary things in extraordinary times.* -- U-571
*Every happening, great or small, is a parable by which God speaks to us. And the art of life is to get the message.* -- The Ultimate Gift
*Any process worth going through will get tougher before it gets easier. That's what makes learning a gift... even if pain is your teacher.* -- The Ultimate Gift
*Life offers ou a thousand chances, all you have to do is take one.* -- Under the Tuscan Sun
*Sometimes you have to follow your heart... even if it leads you somewhere you're not supposed to be.* -- Van Wilder
*I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight - and that's all they do... they don't pull away, they don't look at your face, they don't even try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness in it.* -- Waitress
*It seems like everyone is sleepwalking through their waking state. Or wake-walking through their dreams.* -- Waking Life
*A thousand years is but an instant. There's nothing new, nothing different. Same pattern over and over. The same clouds, the same music, the same as I felt an hour or an eternity ago. There's nothing here for me now... nothing at all.* -- Waking Life
*Build beautiful artifacts, solve problems, explore the secrets of the physical universe, savor the imput from all the senses. Feel the joy and the sorrow, the laughter, the empathy, compassion... and tuck these emotional memories in your travel bag. I remember where I came from and how I became human... why I hung around. And now, my final departure schedule; "This way out, escaping velocity. Not just eternity... but infinity.* -- Waking Life
*You know there are people, beautiful people, you just wish they could see you in a different setting - a different place. Instead of where you are... what you've become.* -- Wanted
*Some had families waiting. For others, the only family will be the men they bled beside. There were no bands, no flags, no honor guards to welcome them home. They went to war because their country ordered them to... but in the end, they fought not for their country or their flag. They fought for each other.* -- We Were Soldiers
*We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for were soldiers once, and young.* -- We Were Soldiers
*Look around you. In the 7th calvary, we've got a captain from the Ukraine... another from Puerto Rico. We've got Japanese, Chinese, blacks, hispanics,Cherokee Indians, Jews and Gentiles - all Americans. Now here in the states,some of you in this unit may have experienced discrimination because of race or creed. But for you and me now, all that is gone. We're moving into the valley of the shadow of death, where you will watch the back of the man next to you, as he will watch yours. And you won't care what color he is, or by what name he calls God. They say we're leaving home... We're goin to what home was always supposed to be. Now let us understand the situation. We are going into battle. I will be the first to set foot on the field and I will be the last to step off. And I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me God.* -- We Were Soldiers
*A whole human life is just a heartbeat in Heaven... then we'll all be together forever.* -- What Dreams May Come
*I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwhich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely... I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone... you want the rest of your life to begin as soon as possible.* -- When Harry Met Sally
*You tell them that our lives can change with every breath we take. And you tell 'em to hold on like hell to what they've got; each other... You tell them we've all got meanness in us, but we've got goodness too, and the only thing worth living for is the good. And that's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.* -- Where the Heart Is
*Home is where your history begins. Home is where they catch you when you fall...* -- Where the Heart Is
*Why does anyone lie? 'Cause we're scared or crazy? Maybe just 'cause we're mean. I guess there's a million reasons to lie... and I might've told that many. But none like that. I guess there's always that one lie we never get over.* -- Where the Heart Is
*Everybody asks why I started at the end and worked back to the beginning. The reason is simple; I couldn't understand the beginning, until I had finished the end.* -- White Oleander
*You can't run from the wind. You trim your sails, face the music, and keep going.* -- White Squall
*Before this year, bullies were just bullies for no reason. Wierdos were just wierd, and daredevils weren't afraid of anything. Before this year, people I loved lived forever.* -- Wide Awake
*Home is a place we all have to find. It's not a place where you eat or sleep... Home is knowing - knowing your mind, knowing your heart, knowing your courage. If we know ourselves, we're always home.* -- The Wiz
*Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well... valuable, but small. And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it? Or because I haven't been brave?* -- You've Got Mail
*'A man's life', they say, 'is the sum of all his actions.' But his actions are sometimes the result of the hopes, dreams and desires of those who came before him.* -- The Young Philadelphians
*I know I've made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret making any of them. Because if I hadn't made them... I wouldn't have learned how to make things right.* -- 13 Going on 30
*I think all of us want to feel something that we've forgotten to turn our backs on, because maybe we didn't realize how much we were leaving behind. We need to remember what used to be good. I we don't... we won't recognize it even if it hits us between our eyes.* -- 13 Going on 30
*For all we ought to have thought and have not thought... for all we ought to have said and not said... for all we ought to have done and have not done; I pray thee God.* -- The 13th Warrior
*The Earth turned to bring us closer. It turned on itself and in us until it finall brought us together in this dream.* -- 21 Grams
*You know, in a world of philosophy that's called 'tautology', something is what it is because it is what it is. Why is the sky blue? Because it reflects the ocean. Why is the ocean blue? Because it reflects the sky... That kinda thing.* -- 28 Days
*No human adult is happy. They know tat they only have so long to believe that life is just dandy before something horrible happens. Life equals life. The whole point of the game is to minimize the pain caused by the equation.* -- 28 Days
*Look. If you had one shot... one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted... one moment. Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?* -- 8 Mile
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