These are some quotes I came across while I was cleaning up my room. They are some of the first quotes that I ever wrote down. I used some of them when I first started this blog but I'm going to repeat them anyways for two reasons: 1) because I didn't use them all last time, and 2) because I've lost them once and now I know where I can find them if I lose them again.
All of the following are from various animes with the exception of 1 or 2 so PLEASE don't judge! It bothers me when people are open to things then when you tell them it's from another country, in another language or you're part of a certain religion and they put up that screen and shut down. Ignorance may be bliss but, when achieved that way, bliss is only temporary. Sooner or later you'll have to face the world around you; with the direction our world is going in, that is becoming sooner and sooner every day. You might as well open your eyes to all the differences before you are forced to and suffer a serious case of culture shock. Just because it's different doesn't mean it's bad, it's just a different perspective to look at something.
That is why I take the opportunity to explore the world around me and search out all the differences I can. For me, it's the funnest thing to do and lets me uncover some of the coolest things this world has to offer. I truly thank God for this blessing he has given to me.
Don't let pride scare away happiness.
~Nana Komatsu (Nana)
Why is it two people can be perfect for each other, yet never be together?
~Daisuke Niwa (D.N. Angel)
Who ever said love guarantees happiness?
~Dark (D.N. Angel)
I know I can't go through life expecting the world to come to me.
~Nana Komatsu (Nana)
Human kind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost.
~Alphonse Elric (Full Metal Alchemist)
If you live your life by someone else's standards, your life is no longer your own.
~Koyuki (BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad)
How can you expect anyone to hear what you have to say if you can't be honest?
~Koyuki (BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad)
You never know what fate has in store.
~Koyuki (BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad)
Expect the unexpected.
~Kero (Cardcaptors)
Don't let your dreams outrun your common sense
~Aly
Water washes away everything.
~Mr.Ishida (Samurai's Daughter by Sujata Massey)
There are two types of people in this world: those who do as they're told and those who are true to themselves.
~Saku (BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad)
People die because they no longer have the strength to stay alive. When you lose your will to survive, death is the only thing left.
~Madlax (Madlax)
There are somethings you can't find out about yourself unless you throw yourself into the flames.
~Teillagory (Le Chevalier D'Eon)
Why can't dreams and reality bring happiness to our lives?
~Nana Komatsu (Nana)
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Celebrating our Countries
Happy Canada Day all you Canadians!!!!!!! I hope you enjoy(ed) all the BBQs, fireworks, parties and the like. For all those who are working during the summer, hopefully you take advantage of the day off :P
As for the Americans, I want to wish them a happy 4th of July!!! It's funny, I can't say July 4th ever again because of this holiday :P I know you guys do it up good. Enjoy the holiday, eat lots and celebrate till you're too tired to move. That's what the fireworks are for!
As for the Americans, I want to wish them a happy 4th of July!!! It's funny, I can't say July 4th ever again because of this holiday :P I know you guys do it up good. Enjoy the holiday, eat lots and celebrate till you're too tired to move. That's what the fireworks are for!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Goals
My goal with this blog is to provide some words of wisdom, insight, or courage to people's lives. I also want people to open their minds to the world around them. By reading any of these quotes, it might get you interested in anime, books, movies from different countries or even go as far as to help turn your heart to God.
I do not want to force anyone into anything. I'm just here to help and share. This started with a grade 10 careers project. From then on I have been recording my favorite quotes from every movie, book and TV show, anime and drama that I've read/watched.
I hope it helps you or at least brightens your day. Not only will I be posting quotes from the many books I am going to be reading this summer, but also some old ones that I've come across and ones from my agenda; who knew!?
His humble servant,
Anastasia
I do not want to force anyone into anything. I'm just here to help and share. This started with a grade 10 careers project. From then on I have been recording my favorite quotes from every movie, book and TV show, anime and drama that I've read/watched.
I hope it helps you or at least brightens your day. Not only will I be posting quotes from the many books I am going to be reading this summer, but also some old ones that I've come across and ones from my agenda; who knew!?
His humble servant,
Anastasia
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Nightmare's Edge
The following are quotes from the final installment in Bryan Davis' trilogy Echoes from the Edge. Hopefully they touch your heart and give you a new perspective on life, love and everything in between. I found a lot of them deal with love, sacrifice and bravery but I'm sure you will find one that pertains to your life at the moment. Bryan Davis wrote the script for Nightmare's Edge so poetically I find it hard to believe it was actually him that wrote it. Before I leave you with these quotes I want to let you know that anything that is italicized is a song (though you will probably already notice this yourself). I hope you enjoy and take the time to really try and understand the various themes of life that are displayed.
...it was passion-- pure emotion wrapped in a melody, an expression of love so untainted, as if Amber poured out her life energy, bleeding and dying for her beloved Francesca.
~Nightmare's Edge; pg.79
My love is pure, my child is wild;
It longs to dance with heaven's child.
O let the music flow within,
The song of love that purges sin.
To dance with me is life from death;
To dance with me is reborn breath;
To join our hands, to join as one,
Reflects our merging with the Son.
To supplicate is but a sign,
A portrait of your saviour's mind.
His love for you, his gift to share,
Compassion bleeds in souls stripped bare.
Forgiveness flows in hearts of praise,
In eyes that choose the forward gaze.
Let partners lose what love has burned,
For love sets fire to pages turned.
So dance with me, forget the past,
Re-pour the mold, the die is cast;
The music burns the settled dross;
Our dance restores the deepest loss.
~Amber's Song (Nightmare's Edge; pg.79-80)
Let the pain flow. Without pain there is no passion.
~Francesca Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.102)
Only sacrifice draws a holy flow from within, and only a bleeding soul can reach down deep enough to find the blazing fire-- the God-given inferno that purges every particle of dross that spoils the master's silver.
~Francesca Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.102)
I have told you a hundred times that you have more talent than I do, yet you have not reached into your soul to grasp it. You have to roll away that stone that's keeping that talent from rising into your heart and into your hands.
~Francesca Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.102)
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art.
Thou my best thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, my presence my light.
~Be Thou My Vision (Nightmare's Edge; pg.103)
Amazing grace is lost for me,
A harlot soiled and stained.
A wretch I am, a wretch I'll be,
Till love unlocks my chains.
Could Nathan ever dance with one
So foul, unclean, a liar?
Will grace he plays on strings of ice
Be wrought in hands of fire?
The girl I was is crucified,
Impaled by God's dear Lamb.
Can Nathan purge the girl I was
And love the girl I am?
~Kelly's version of 'Amazing Grace' (Nightmare's Edge; pg.124-125)
Sacrifice appears as a curse to those with limited perception. To the beneficiary, it is life itself. To the provider, it is the path to enlightenment and the end of all fear, for perfect love casts out all fear.
~Cerulean (Nightmare's Edge; pg.143)
We all have to suffer the presence of death to enter the arms of our supplicant, but death is merely an odor. It comes and goes like breath in our nostrils, and after it passes by, only the fragrance of life remains.
~Felicity (Nightmare's Edge; pg.144)
Dreams often give us eloquence, Nathan, for God pours wisdom into the dreams of men.
~Francesca Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.144)
A fool always loses his temper, but a wise man always hold it back.
~Nightmare's Edge; pg.149
Do not be afraid of sudden fear or the onslaught of the wicked when it comes; for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
~Solomon Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.149)
Sometimes it's better to face reality, even if it's frightening. I know how hard it can be, but if people would learn to overcome their fears, they would be able to move mountains.
~Solomon Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.188)
O Father in heaven, so holy and true,
Defender of pilgrims who cry out to you.
O Jesus, my supplicant, holy and wise,
Who guides our next footstep, our hands, and our eyes.
O Spirit indwelling, my comfort, my friends,
We beg for the words that break though and transcend.
Receive out low groanings, our pleas, and our prayers.
Protect us, defend us, remove all our cares.
We hear the sad tolls of the bells in the tower
For widows, for orphans, to fear and to cower.
It rides on the wind, and it called from the sky,
"Bewail and despair, for you all will soon die."
Restrain the fowl stalkers and silence the bell,
And cast all the demons and killers to hell.
Prepare us to battle the dissonant choir
With music that heals us with water and fire.
~Scarlet (Nightmare's Edge; pg.247-248)
You are willing to change you mind...Such willingness heals many wounds. It reaches out to everyone you touch and helps them see what real love means. Love has nothing to do with emotions, but everything to do with sacrificing yourself for the sake of another.
~Scarlet (Nightmare's Edge; pg.256)
The breath of God never fails, my son. Whether by music, by love, or by resurrection from the dead, He will restore everything to its proper place.
~Francesca (Nightmare's Edge; pg.295)
For the power of heaven to pull you upward, all you have to do is surrender to its call.
~Cerulean (Nightmare's Edge; pg.316)
It is when you realize that your own strength is inadequate that real faith begins.
~Patar (Nightmare's Edge; pg.324)
The stone over your heart has rolled away. The music of you soul has been set free, flowing through your gifted hands.
~Patar (Nightmare's Edge; pg.329)
Now stand before the righteous king,
The judge of all the earth,
And hear his verdict play and sing,
Declaring blight and worth.
To dust and ash we all must turn,
The final dance of life.
For this I live, for this I yearn,
To be my saviour's wife.
To waltz with hm, to sway and spin,
To dance upon the stars;
I leave behind this world of sin
And kiss away my scars.
~Amber (Nightmare's Edge; pg.331)
Whenever someone dances with another, he is saying that he agrees with every aspect of his partner's purpose-- the partner's belief and the principles by which he or she lives. If the music is greater that of both partners, each one gives up his own path to follow the music's universal call.
~Amber (Nightmare's Edge; pg.333)
...it was passion-- pure emotion wrapped in a melody, an expression of love so untainted, as if Amber poured out her life energy, bleeding and dying for her beloved Francesca.
~Nightmare's Edge; pg.79
My love is pure, my child is wild;
It longs to dance with heaven's child.
O let the music flow within,
The song of love that purges sin.
To dance with me is life from death;
To dance with me is reborn breath;
To join our hands, to join as one,
Reflects our merging with the Son.
To supplicate is but a sign,
A portrait of your saviour's mind.
His love for you, his gift to share,
Compassion bleeds in souls stripped bare.
Forgiveness flows in hearts of praise,
In eyes that choose the forward gaze.
Let partners lose what love has burned,
For love sets fire to pages turned.
So dance with me, forget the past,
Re-pour the mold, the die is cast;
The music burns the settled dross;
Our dance restores the deepest loss.
~Amber's Song (Nightmare's Edge; pg.79-80)
Let the pain flow. Without pain there is no passion.
~Francesca Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.102)
Only sacrifice draws a holy flow from within, and only a bleeding soul can reach down deep enough to find the blazing fire-- the God-given inferno that purges every particle of dross that spoils the master's silver.
~Francesca Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.102)
I have told you a hundred times that you have more talent than I do, yet you have not reached into your soul to grasp it. You have to roll away that stone that's keeping that talent from rising into your heart and into your hands.
~Francesca Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.102)
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art.
Thou my best thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, my presence my light.
~Be Thou My Vision (Nightmare's Edge; pg.103)
Amazing grace is lost for me,
A harlot soiled and stained.
A wretch I am, a wretch I'll be,
Till love unlocks my chains.
Could Nathan ever dance with one
So foul, unclean, a liar?
Will grace he plays on strings of ice
Be wrought in hands of fire?
The girl I was is crucified,
Impaled by God's dear Lamb.
Can Nathan purge the girl I was
And love the girl I am?
~Kelly's version of 'Amazing Grace' (Nightmare's Edge; pg.124-125)
Sacrifice appears as a curse to those with limited perception. To the beneficiary, it is life itself. To the provider, it is the path to enlightenment and the end of all fear, for perfect love casts out all fear.
~Cerulean (Nightmare's Edge; pg.143)
We all have to suffer the presence of death to enter the arms of our supplicant, but death is merely an odor. It comes and goes like breath in our nostrils, and after it passes by, only the fragrance of life remains.
~Felicity (Nightmare's Edge; pg.144)
Dreams often give us eloquence, Nathan, for God pours wisdom into the dreams of men.
~Francesca Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.144)
A fool always loses his temper, but a wise man always hold it back.
~Nightmare's Edge; pg.149
Do not be afraid of sudden fear or the onslaught of the wicked when it comes; for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
~Solomon Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.149)
Sometimes it's better to face reality, even if it's frightening. I know how hard it can be, but if people would learn to overcome their fears, they would be able to move mountains.
~Solomon Red (Nightmare's Edge; pg.188)
O Father in heaven, so holy and true,
Defender of pilgrims who cry out to you.
O Jesus, my supplicant, holy and wise,
Who guides our next footstep, our hands, and our eyes.
O Spirit indwelling, my comfort, my friends,
We beg for the words that break though and transcend.
Receive out low groanings, our pleas, and our prayers.
Protect us, defend us, remove all our cares.
We hear the sad tolls of the bells in the tower
For widows, for orphans, to fear and to cower.
It rides on the wind, and it called from the sky,
"Bewail and despair, for you all will soon die."
Restrain the fowl stalkers and silence the bell,
And cast all the demons and killers to hell.
Prepare us to battle the dissonant choir
With music that heals us with water and fire.
~Scarlet (Nightmare's Edge; pg.247-248)
You are willing to change you mind...Such willingness heals many wounds. It reaches out to everyone you touch and helps them see what real love means. Love has nothing to do with emotions, but everything to do with sacrificing yourself for the sake of another.
~Scarlet (Nightmare's Edge; pg.256)
The breath of God never fails, my son. Whether by music, by love, or by resurrection from the dead, He will restore everything to its proper place.
~Francesca (Nightmare's Edge; pg.295)
For the power of heaven to pull you upward, all you have to do is surrender to its call.
~Cerulean (Nightmare's Edge; pg.316)
It is when you realize that your own strength is inadequate that real faith begins.
~Patar (Nightmare's Edge; pg.324)
The stone over your heart has rolled away. The music of you soul has been set free, flowing through your gifted hands.
~Patar (Nightmare's Edge; pg.329)
Now stand before the righteous king,
The judge of all the earth,
And hear his verdict play and sing,
Declaring blight and worth.
To dust and ash we all must turn,
The final dance of life.
For this I live, for this I yearn,
To be my saviour's wife.
To waltz with hm, to sway and spin,
To dance upon the stars;
I leave behind this world of sin
And kiss away my scars.
~Amber (Nightmare's Edge; pg.331)
Whenever someone dances with another, he is saying that he agrees with every aspect of his partner's purpose-- the partner's belief and the principles by which he or she lives. If the music is greater that of both partners, each one gives up his own path to follow the music's universal call.
~Amber (Nightmare's Edge; pg.333)
Friday, May 22, 2009
Pieces of You
There's a crazy talented writer the goes by name of Tablo. He's Korean, lived in B.C., Canada for a while when he was younger and graduated from Stanford University when with a Bachelor's and Master's in English Literature and Creative Writing. This 229 page book is filled with short stories he wrote as an undergrad there. Now he lives in Korea and is part of a band called Epik High where he helps write their lyrics. If you're interested in writing, and awesome writing you can check out some of the links below.
If you're interested in his book "Pieces of You" you can find it at the link below. It's off an Asia based website but don't worry, it's trusted by EVERYONE! I've even used it and it's a very good website. All the prices are worked out in US DOLLARS so if you come from any other country you can change your preference at the bottom of the page. This only tells you the conversion rate so you can figure out the actual price yourself but the price will still show up in US dollars.
~Epik High MySpace
~Epik High Homepage
~Buy Pieces of You
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Cyndere's Midnight
Ever since I've lost my jump drive back in December, I've gotten really discouraged to keep finding quotes in my books again. I've decided to start back up again starting with the last book I finished: Cyndere's Midnight by Jeffrey Overstreet. There were 3 that really stuck with me. Like I mentioned in my blog Midnight Reviews, they are my "And do the lion fell in the with the lamb...". BTW: If you are a Twilight fan, I just found this cool site called Twilight Quotes where you can search quotes from book and character. EVERYTHING is there, even if you wouldn't consider it important. I though it was pretty cool. Even if you aren't a Twilight fan, it's always good for inspiration. I've read all the book and that is one thing they're good for. Stephanie Meyer is an incredibly gifted author. So...without further ado...
"Distance is an illusion."
~Cyndere (pg.342)
"...I have two hands. I can take hold of this with my left hand. With my right hand, I can hold this. But my heart -- I have one heart. Your heart can only hold one thing...Your heart has one hand."
~Cyndere (pg. 169-170)
"Such distractions helped him endure the lsating ache of his thirst for Essence. And he was certain that the ache was slackening, that its grip on him was falling."
~Jordam (pg. 362)
"Distance is an illusion."
~Cyndere (pg.342)
"...I have two hands. I can take hold of this with my left hand. With my right hand, I can hold this. But my heart -- I have one heart. Your heart can only hold one thing...Your heart has one hand."
~Cyndere (pg. 169-170)
"Such distractions helped him endure the lsating ache of his thirst for Essence. And he was certain that the ache was slackening, that its grip on him was falling."
~Jordam (pg. 362)
Monday, April 6, 2009
The Secret of Agendas
School agendas are AMAZING for inspiration from all your favorite stars, celebrities and historical figures. I have soooo many quotes and tips from it that I will be posting as soon as I get a minute. They cover sooooo many different themes it's crazy! So look forward to it!
I also found a good gift idea. Last Saturday was my friend's birthday party and my friend gave her a box filled with small folded pieces of paper. Each of these papers had quotes and nice things written on them; there must have been about a hundred papers in that box. It would be kind of nice to pull out a piece of inspiration every morning wouldn't it???
I also found a good gift idea. Last Saturday was my friend's birthday party and my friend gave her a box filled with small folded pieces of paper. Each of these papers had quotes and nice things written on them; there must have been about a hundred papers in that box. It would be kind of nice to pull out a piece of inspiration every morning wouldn't it???
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