My Favourite Meaningful Quotes and Lyrics

Below is a list of my favourite quotes and lyrics (and there's also four that Mollie thought of, and one by Pete - they're my girlfriend and best friend respectively, for those unaware) that have meaning to me, so no jokey ones (Bowling For Soup, I'm looking at you!) or anything like that. Please do tell me your favourites in the comments section below this blog entry! Enjoy, and, as always, thanks for supporting my blog in any way! :) <3

I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone. <"Famous Last Words" by My Chemical Romance>

As my memory rests, but never forgets what I lost. <"Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day>

You'll have bad times, but it'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. <Sean Maguire (Robin Williams) in Good Will Hunting>

Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy. <Bob Kelso (Ken Jenkins) from Scrubs>

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. <Aristotle>

Imagine all the people, living life in peace. <"Imagine" by John Lennon>

Who cares what statistics show!? Look at medicine: 80% of people with pancreatic cancer die within 5 years, and 95% of appendectomies occur with zero complications, but we both know pancreatic cancer patients that lived, and appendix patients that unfortunately passed. Statistics mean nothing to the individual. <Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) from Scrubs>

It's hard to say what happened for sure. For the most part it depends who you ask. There are as many sides to a story as there are pairs of eyes - it's always been that way. <Irv Harper (John Beasley) from Everwood>

Wouldn't it be nice to be proud. <"Wouldn't It Be Nice To Be Proud" by Evan and Jaron>

Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same. <"All At Once" by The Fray>

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. <There doesn't seem to be a definitive answer as to who said this, but the two most likely people seem to be: Dr. Seuss and Brandi Snyder>

If you stay I would even wait all night, or until my heart explodes, how long? Until we find our way in the dark and out of harm, you can runaway with me anytime you want. <"Summertime" by My Chemical Romance>

I've found a reason for me to change who I used to be, a reason to start over new, and the reason is you. <"The Reason" by Hoobastank>

I guess we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang onto our every words, and they care what we think. Truth is, You should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone, anyone, feel a little better. After that, it's all about the people you let into your life. <J.D. (Zach Braff) from Scrubs>

You need to see what I see when I look at you, so go look in the mirror, right now! keep looking until you face the truth: you're truly beautiful. <Bright Abbott (Chris Pratt) from Everwood>

Actually, there is a word for that: it's "love". I'm in love with her, okay? If you're looking for the word that means caring about someone beyond all rationality, and wanting them to have everything they want, no matter how much it destroys you, it's "love". And when you love someone, you just, you don't stop - ever! Even if people roll their eyes, or call you crazy - even then, especially then. You just, you don't give up! Because if I could just give up, if I could just take the whole world's advice and move on and find someone else, that wouldn't be love. That would be... that would be some disposable thing that's not worth fighting for. But that... that's not what this is. <Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) from How I Met Your Mother>

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door, that we don't see the one that has opened for us. <Helen Keller>

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift: that's why we call it the present. <B. Olatunji>

When no one else can understand me,
when everything I do is wrong.
You give me hope and consolation,
you give me strength to carry on...
...And when you smile the world is brighter,
you touch my hand and I'm a king.
Your kiss to me is worth a fortune,
your love for me is everything.
I guess I'll never know the reason why you love me as you do,
that's the wonder, the wonder of you. <"The Wonder Of You" by Elvis Presley>

Map out your future, but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it - make it worth the trip. <Jon Bon Jovi>

The best and most wonderful things can't be seen, or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. <Helen Keller>

But love doesn't make sense. You can't just logic your way into or out of it. Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it, or we're lost and love is dead and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do. <Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) from How I Met Your Mother>

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall. <Confucius>

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. <C.S. Lewis>

We stopped checking for monsters under our bed when we realised they were inside us. <The Joker (Heath Ledger) from Batman: The Dark Knight>

Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive! <Gerard Way>

You only hear the music when your heart begins to break. <"The Kids From Yesterday" by My Chemical Romance>

Fear does not prevent death, it prevents life. <Naguib Mahfouz>

You're only given a little spark of madness. You musn't lose it. <Robin Williams>

Promises mean everything when you're little and the world's so big. <"Wonderful" by Everclear>

Keep your hopes up high and your head down low. <"All I Want" by A Day To Remember>

Don't waste your time on me, you're already the voice inside my head, I miss you. <"I Miss You" by Blink-182>

If you're lost and alone, or you're sinking like a stone, carry on. <"Carry On" by Fun.>

You're out of sight, but not out of mind. <"Fell For You" by Green Day>

If you're not scared, then you're not taking a chance. If you're not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing anyway? <Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) from How I Met Your Mother>

We may be miles apart,
I'll keep you deep inside, you're always in my heart.
A new life to start,
I may be leaving, but you're always in my heart.
<"Miles Apart" by Yellowcard>

I'm a stitch away from making it, and a scar away from falling apart. <"The (After) Life Of The Party" by Fall Out Boy>

We're looking up at the same night sky
and keep pretending the sun will not rise,
we'll be together for one more night,
somewhere, somehow.
<"Ocean Avenue" by Yellowcard>

Stop your crying, helpless feeling, dry your eyes and start believing. <"The World Is Ugly" by My Chemical Romance>

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.
I still believe that everyone can find a song for every time they've lost, and every time they've won...
...Who'd have thought that, after all, something as simple as rock 'n' roll would save us all? <"I Still Believe" by Frank Turner.

If only sorrow could build a staircase, or tears could show the way, I would climb my way to heaven and bring him back home again. <"Suicide Season" by Bring me the Horizon> Credited to Mollie Star.

I'm a fool, I'm a flop, I'm a failure, but you should never judge a book by its cover, cos there's a heart that beats inside of me. <"A Heart That Beats" by Lee Evans> Credited to Mollie Star.

I think, there's no way to say "the best way", because there is only "your way", but if it is what you REALLY want, then you will find "your way". <Crispin Freeman> Credited to Mollie Star.

Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed to look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful and keep it ugly. <Gerard Way> Credited to Mollie Star.

If everyone needs a crutch then I need a wheelchair. <"In Remission" by The Menzingers> Credited to Pete Machin.

The heart is not so easily changed, but the head can be persuaded. <Grand Pabbie from Frozen> Credited to Jessica Hughett.

Shouldn't we hold out for the person who doesn't just tolerate our quirks, but actually kinda likes them? <Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) from How I Met Your Mother>

Nobody said it was easy. <"The Scientist" by Coldplay>

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. <Helen Keller>

I wanna be the place you call, "home". <"Hamburg Song" by Keane>

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. <Helen Keller>

With great power comes great responsibility. <Believed to originally be by Voltaire; but widely known for being said in the 2002 Spider-Man movie, by Uncle Ben to Peter Parker (who obviously becomes Spider-Man), so Stan Lee is often credited for having written it in a Spider-Man comic book>

I wake up, it's a bad dream,
no one on my side.
I was fighting, but I just feel too tired to be fighting,
guess I'm not the fighting kind.
Wouldn't mind it if you were by my side,
but you're long gone, yeah, you're long gone now. <"A Bad Dream" by Keane>

Be brave, fight for what you believe in, and make your dreams your reality. <Jared Leto>

'Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you. <"Cancer" by My Chemical Romance>

You will be shocked when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever. That's why when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it. <Narrator Ted Mosby (Bob Saget) from How I Met Your Mother>

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. <John Keating (Robin Williams) from Dead Poets Society>

Have you ever loved someone so much, you'd give an arm for?
Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for.
When they know they're your heart
and you know you're their armour,
and you will destroy anyone who would try to harm her...
...When I'm gone, just carry on, don't mourn,
rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice.
Just know that I'm looking down on you smiling,
and I didn't feel a thing, so baby don't feel no pain, just smile back. <"When I'm Gone" by Eminem>

The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that? Probably Shakespeare, or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw: my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know people, the more I realise it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still; it feels better somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected - who knows what other pain might be out there waiting for you? Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo, choose the road already travelled, and it doesn't seem that bad, not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone, except maybe yourself a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're, like, this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked at us really close; which, thank God, they never do! But you notice it. Inside you, that change feels like a world of difference. And you hope this is it, this is the person you get to be forever - that you'll never have to change again. <Ephram (Gregory Smith) from Everwood>

I also wrote my own quote quite a long time ago, which can be seen in its definitive form if you go to my blog entry about me, entitled "Everything - and I mean 'EVERYTHING' - that you'll ever need to know about me". :) <3