Quotables: My life’s mantras… no just a collection of my favorite quotes culled from various sources.

Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it. - Braveheart

And I know what I have to do now. I have to keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring? - Cast Away

You’re the love of my life. - Cast Away

They wouldn’t have called it a crush if it weren’t supposed to hurt. - Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you, Peter Pan. That’s where I’ll be waiting. - Hook

To live would be an awfully big adventure. - Peter Pan

That thing, that moment. When you kiss someone and everything around you becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person; and you realize that that person is the only person that you’re supposed to kiss for the rest of your life. - Never Been Kissed

It’s a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart. - O Brother Where Art Thou?

There are no perfect men; only perfect intentions. - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. - As You Like It

Some birds aren’t meant to be caged; their feathers are just too bright. - The Shawshank Redemption

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. - The Shawshank Redemption

I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I imagine it’s the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at the start of a long journey, whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border… I hope to see my friend and shake his hand… I hope the pacific is a blue as it has been in my dreams… I hope… - The Shawshank Redemption

Let me tell you a secret, something they don’t teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we are mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be more lovely than you are now. We will never be here again. - Troy

All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners as we dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there might be someone who might just be searching for us. - The Wonder Years

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone; but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. - Anonymous

Even the mightiest tree begins with the smallest seed. - Anonymous

I have the body of a God… unfortunately, it’s Buddha. - Anonymous

If I am nobody and nobody’s perfect… then I must be perfect. - Anonymous

Shoot for the moon. Even if you fall short, you’ll still land among the stars. - Anonymous

They call it the present because every day is a gift. - Anonymous

Love is about finding someone you can stand to be around for more than ten minutes at a time. - Snow Day

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow

That I shall say good night till it be morrow. - Romeo and Juliet

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!

For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. - Romeo and Juliet

You don’t have bones of glass. You can take life’s knocks. If you let this chance pass, eventually, your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton. - Amélie

Time’s funny. When you’re a kid, it passes slowly, and next thing you’re fifty and your childhood fits into a rusty little box. - Amélie

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. - Mark Twain

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I’m with you. - Dirty Dancing

You know there are three things I was game for that you never asked from me and that I regret- eating ants, insulting the unemployed, loving you like crazy. – Jeux D’Enfants

I shall not be there.I shall rise and pass

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee - Stephen Vincent Benet

I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. - Chief Joseph

And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people’s dream died there. It was a beautiful dream… the nation’s hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead. - Black Elk

Always and always. - Stepmom

Sometimes there just aren’t enough rocks. - Forrest Gump

If you’re a bird, I’m a bird. – The Notebook

They’re beautiful aren’t they? Stars. I mean I never look at them anymore but they actually are quite beautiful. - Men in Black

I’m afraid of time, I mean… I’m afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I’m afraid of quick judgments and mistakes that everybody makes. You can’t fix them without time. I’m afraid of seeing snapshots instead of movies. - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

She stared at the sky. It was bigger tonight. - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

She would just stay here holding Bailey’s hand for all time, so Bailey wouldn’t be afraid that there wasn’t enough of it. - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on. - Pride&Prejudice

We are all fools in love. - Pride&Prejudice

A kiss is just a kiss. A sigh is just a sigh. - Casablanca

I think if people see this footage they’ll say, “Oh my God that’s horrible,” and then go on eating their dinners. - Hotel Rwanda

I think… that I should know you in a pitch black room. I think I would know you anywhere near me in the world. - The Lions of Al-Rassan

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning-
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. - The Great Gatsby

All right then, I’ll go to hell - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

You needn’t be Ella if you don’t want to be - Ella Enchanted

Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too. -The Outsiders

It’s not necessary to have reasons to be afraid. - La vie devant soi

But I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course, but … after that. Every night after that. I’d see it all again … do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways … Every night I’d save you. - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

When you kiss me I want to die. - Buffy the Vampire Slayer