TOPANGA: just tell me what you see in the painting, cory.
CORY: [peers at starry night] i see an attack.
TOPANGA: an attack?
CORY: an attack from another world.
TOPANGA: an attack from another world. all right, let's look again. what about the relationship between god and man?
CORY: oh, okay. i was about to get there. see, god, unhappy with how some particular humans treat other particular humans who love them, has decided it's the end of the world. and i think he's right.
TOPANGA: god is protecting the people in this little town! they live their lives and they come out of their houses, and they see this sky and they know god's protection and love. and that everything will be all right.
CORY: listen, how do you expect me to see good in anything when i feel so bad in here?

peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.

"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

i have come to the realization that life is more than what i have accomplished.
and life is more then the realization that we have accomplished nothing at all.
true success is so selfless so drown in the lyrics of your life
and give up the air that you breathe.
you don't need anything. you don't need anything.

HARVEY MILK: [to cleve jones] you're going to meet the most extraordinary men, the sexiest, brightest, funniest men, and you're going to fall in love with so many of them, and you won't know until the end of your life who your greatest friends were or your greatest love was.

you're a book written in ten languages all beautiful none of them i can understand

we sat there, staring into each other's eyes, knowing we both wanted it. but we were scared. we didn't want to mess up some friendship.

the paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways , but narrowerviewpoints. we spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less.we have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but lesstime. we have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but lessjudgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but lesswellness. we drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly,laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, getup too tired, read too little, watch tv too much, and pray tooseldom.we have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. wetalk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. we've learned howto make a living, but not a life. we've added years to life not life to years. we've been all the way to the moon and back, but have troublecrossing the street to meet a new neighbor. we conquered outer spacebut not inner space. we've done larger things, but not better things.we've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. we've conquered theatom, but not our prejudice. we write more, but learn less. we planmore, but accomplish less. we've learned to rush, but not to wait. webuild more computers to hold more information, to produce more copiesthan ever, but we communicate less and less. these are the times offast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. these are the days of two incomesbut more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. these are days ofquick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands,overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet,to kill. it is a time when there is much in the showroom window andnothing in the stockroom. a time when technology can bring this letterto you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, orto just hit delete... remember; spend some time with your loved ones,because they are not going to be around forever. remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little personsoon will grow up and leave your side. remember, to give a warm hug tothe one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can givewith your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. remember, to say, "i loveyou" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. akiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside ofyou. remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again. give time to love, give time to speak!and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind. and alwaysremember: life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but bythe moments that take our breath away.

if love is surrender
then whose war is it anyway?

later that day i got to thinking about relationships. there are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. but the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. and if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.
sex and the city.

CORY: you are going to learn something from life every day. and make mistakes. and you'll make good friends and mr. feeny will probably teach you every grade you're ever in. and maybe someday you'll fall in love with a woman as wonderful as topanga. how would you like that?
JOSHUA MATTHEWS: yeah.
CORY: and be lucky enough to make a good friend as shawn. how'd you like that?
JOSHUA MATTHEWS: good.
CORY: and when you're not a little boy anymore, when the world has taught you how to be a man... then you'll still make mistakes. but your family, and all those good friends you've made along the way, will help you. and even though you'll think the world has gone out of it's way to teach you all the tough lessons, you'll realize that it's the same world that's given you your family and those friends, you you'll come to believe that no matter what happens, somehow the world will protect you, too. "boy meets world." now i get it.

the stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. nature never wears a mean appearance. neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. the flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.
- ralph waldo emerson’s “nature”

on the outside, you know you're not that same naive kid anymore. you've been through too much too fast, but deep down, at your core, there will always be a part of you that rejects reality, that is eternally hopeful.

nothing of me is original. i am the combined effort of everybody i’ve ever known

there is always some madness in love,
but theres always a reason in madness – neitzche

i believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas i am merely in disguise
margaret atwood

[voice over; letter to his daughter] for what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. there's no time limit, stop whenever you want. you can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. we can make the best or the worst of it. i hope you make the best of it. and i hope you see things that startle you. i hope you feel things you never felt before. i hope you meet people with a different point of view. i hope you live a life you're proud of. if you find that you're not, i hope you have the strength to start all over again.
-the curious case of benjamin button

"we are taught to think of our success in terms of numbers. if touching one persons life is a good thing, then touching one thousands of people's lives must be a great thing. it's easy to see where we learned to think this way. our whole society revolves around mass production. the more units we can move, the more customers we can serve. the more boats we can get, the more money and the more stuff we have, the better, right? maybe it's not possible to touch one thousand peoples thinking, or as powerfully as one person. maybe it's not really so revolutionary after all, to have one person out of a group of twenty tell everybody else what's right. wouldn't it be better if we tried a decentralized approach where everyone works closely with those around them, instead of a few people waiting in anonymous mass? do you have to save the world all by yourself, why don't you trust someone else to do it with you?"

therefore, the deity sends the glory of youth before the soul, that it may avail itself of beautiful bodies as aids to its recollection of the celestial good and fair; and the man beholding such a person in the female sex runs to her, and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement, and intelligence of this person, because it suggests to him the presence of that which indeed is within the beauty, and the cause of the beauty. in the particular society of his mate, he attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint, which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to indicate blemishes and hindrances in each other, and give to each all help and comfort in curing the same. –ralph waldo emerson’s “love”