"Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. " ~ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats." ~ Albert Schweitzer
"Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you." ~ Audrey Hepburn.
"I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven." ~ Barbra Streisand
"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it." ~ Audrey Hepburn.
"The world's a stage, but the play is badly cast." ~ Oscar Wilde
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get-- only what you are expecting to give--which is everything. What you will get in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and can not help giving." ~ Audrey Hepburn
“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable." ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
"There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love." ~ Washington Irving
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-
"Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear." ~ The Baron from 'The Cat Returns'
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." ~ Robert Frost
"I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm just hopeless." ~ Me
"I am an angel, fallen from grace.
And in the eyes of God and man, I am a disgrace." ~ Me
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives." ~ William Wallace
"*gasp* Ohmygosh! 50 First Dates! *gasp* Ohmygosh! The penguin just got hit!" ~ Daniel Gruber :P
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." ~ Marilyn Monroe
"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. " ~ Marilyn Monroe
"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love." ~ Marilyn Monroe
"Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?" ~ Marilyn Monroe
"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I'm just a girl who wishes for the world." ~ Marilyn Monroe
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." ~ Johann Sebastian Bach
"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." ~ Ludwig van Beethoven, quoted by Bettina von Arnin, letter to Goethe, 1810
"Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God." ~ Felix Mendelssohn
"Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same." ~ Franz Schubert
"Music presents at once the intensity and the expression of feeling. It is the embodied and intelligible essence of feeling, capable of being apprehended by our sense. It permeates them like a dart, like a ray, like a mist, like a spirit, and fills our soul." ~ Franz Liszt
"There is nothing more important in life than love." ~ Barbra Streisand
"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there." ~ Meryl Streep
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."~ Oscar Wilde
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." ~ Oscar Wilde
"If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy." ~ Kristin Chenoweth
"Beauty is not everything!" ~ Chita Rivera
"It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman." ~ Barbra Streisand
"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles." ~ Audrey Hepburn
"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone." ~ Audrey Hepburn
"The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides." ~ Audrey Hepburn
"Despite everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." ~ Anne Frank
"All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them." ~ Walt Disney
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." ~ Edgar Allen Poe
"There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being." ~ Oscar Wilde
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. " ~ Oscar Wilde
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." ~ Oscar Wilde
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." ~ Oscar Wilde
"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying." ~ Johnny Depp
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed." ~ Sean O'Casey
"Where words fail, music speaks." ~ Hans Christian Anderson
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." ~ Audrey Hepburn
"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." ~ Marilyn Monroe
"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never meant to be." ~ Anonymous
"In the theatre we play. That's why we call them 'plays', right? We're playing together. That's a sweet and gentle way of saying it. Except it's very real. It's grown-up play. And that's how we stay in touch with the child within us." ~ Chita Rivera, excerpt from the book 'The Alchemy of Theatre'
"You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact. People do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage, you built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land, it's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself." ~ Paul Varjak, "Breakfast At Tiffany's"
"Some pray to marry the man they love,
My prayer will somewhat vary:
I humbly pray to Heaven above
That I love the man I marry."~ Rose Stokes
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."~ Sam Keen
"Don't try and perfect yourself for one person. Wait for the one that loves your imperfections." ~ Author unknown
"If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you won't give up. If you give up, you're not worthy." ~ Author unknown
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." ~ Dr. Seuss
"A friend will follow you when you walk away crying. A best friend will not only follow you when you walk away, but they will make you sit down and talk about what's making you cry... and then they will walk back with you, ready to help you face the world again." ~ Me
"She's delusional, sir." - Me, as Captain Solomina. (there's a funny story behind this quote LOL)
"That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention." ~ Elphaba from the novel "The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West"
"When hope is the cause of pain sometimes the only thing you can do, the only way to stop the pain, is to give up hope." ~ Me
"I don't cause commotions, I am one!" ~ Elphaba, 'Wicked'
"Excuse me, there is no pretense here! I happen to be genuinely shallow and deeply self-absorbed." ~ Fiyero from 'Wicked'
"Are people born Wicked? Or do they have Wickedness thrust upon them?" ~ Galinda from 'Wicked'
"First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Trade Unionist, and I did not speak out because I was not Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me." ~ Pastor Martin Niemöller, a victim of the Nazi regime during Hitler's reign
As many men as there are in the world,
so many thoughts are there;
each has his own heart's longing;
yet the less for him who knows many songs
and can play the harp with his hands,
he has the gift of his music which God has given him. ~ Gnomic verse from the Exeter Book
“Well is it for him who seeks mercy, comfort from the Father in heaven, where for us all security stands.” ~ from "The Wanderer"
Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies.
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower-- but IF I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is. ~ "Flower in the Crannied Wall" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The year's at the spring
And day's at the noon;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his heaven--
All's right with the world! ~ from "Pippa Passes" by Robert Browning
"Isn't the world full of wonderful things?" ~ Michael Crawford from 'Hello, Dolly!'
"But there comes a time when you've got to decide whether you want to be a fool among fools, or a fool alone." ~ Barbra Streisand from 'Hello, Dolly!'
"Why can't we all get back to the time where once you've said everything you want to say and you still have all this emotion, you just can't help but burst into song..." ~ Idina Menzel
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