Sarah12’s most recent Quotables

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one life the aching
Or cool one pain
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again
I shall not live in vain.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone.The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days. You know, it was a beautiful day.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Find life experiences and swallow them whole. Travel. Meet many people. Go down some dead ends and explore dark alleys. Try everything. Exhaust yourself in the glorious pursuit of life.

What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?

They say: you don't know what you've got until it's gone. Truth: You knew exactly what you had, you just never thought you'd lose it.

I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards; to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the 'good life', whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

Everyone says that love hurts, but that's not true. Loneliness hurts, rejection hurts, losing someone hurts. Everyone confuses these things with love; but in reality, love is the only thing that covers up all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

I didn't say it was going to be easy. I just said it was going to be worth it.

You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.