Fallingintofate• Show poetry

"If you are a dreamer,
Come in.
If you are a dreamer,
A wisher,
A liar,
A hoper,
A prayer,
A magic-bean-buyer,
If you're a pretender,
Come sit by my fire,
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in! Come in!"
-Shel Silverstein

I'm Melissa, the hormonal, emotional, excitable, irritable, fluffy teenage girl. Welcome to my curious abode. It's not much, but I think it's cozy. So sit back and make yourself at home.

Poets you should check out because they're brilliant:
OdiumIncognito
Evening-Star
Wonderingwhy
thornbleeds

I joke around a lot and say that I've got a quote for everything. Sometimes... I really believe it.

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Elenore Roosevelt

"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the
joy."
-Jim Rohn

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
- Emily Dickinson

"Don't just live life, love it."
-Me

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen

"It's good to have a dream, Augusten. Dreams get you through the hard times."
-Agnes (Running with Scissors)

"I can resist anything but temptation."
-Oscar Wilde

"Honestly, if you're not willing to sound stupid you don't deserve to be in love."
-Emily (A Lot Like Love)

"Imitation is suicide." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Imagine your life as a story. Do you want to be the main character, or simply a supporting character?"
-Tom (the great)

"Hey Melissa, what are you reading?"
"Sex on the Beach with Al Roker"
"Who's it by?"
"Natalie Portman!"
-Claire and I

"Why do people have to die?"
"To make life important."
-Six Feet Under

“Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight inside a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand

"And a woman actually told me that I looked like an epileptic on meth."
-Andy Bellefleur (True Blood)

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"You need proof to believe it's real, while I need proof to believe it's not."

"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde

"You have five minutes to wallow in the delicious misery: enjoy it, embrace it, discard it... and proceed."
-Claire (Elizabethtown)

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-EleanorRoosevelt

"It's fine, from time to time, to borrow words, though don't forget to find your own..."

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
-John Ciardi

"And he said, 'I heard Paddington Bear was the son of God.' And I said, 'Well that sounds just a plausible as the crap I'm about to tell you.' What am I going to say? 'Well they nailed this bloke to a cross and he died. Three days later he came back to life, so now we all eat chocolate eggs.'"
-some comedian...

" If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life? "
~ Author Unknown

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
- Corrie Ten Boom

Sam: How sick is she?
Benny: Oh, she's plenty sick.
Sam: Oh. Because you know, it seems to me that, aside from being a little mentally ill, she's pretty normal.
-(Benny & Joon)

"Worrying about your kids is sanity, and worrying about your kids... the way you are... can drive you nuts."
-John Clasky (Spanglish)

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
-Kurt Cobain

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is."
-Albert Einstein

"To know that one life has breathed easier because I have lived. That is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."- Albert Einstein

"What about reindeer? Have you ever seen a reindeer fly?"
"Yes. Have you ever seen a million bucks?"
"No..."
"Just because you haven't seen something doesn't mean it doesn't exist..."
-The Santa Clause

"Um, your story--it's not boring and ordinary, by the way. You get one life--just the one. You can't live someone else's or think it's more important just because it's more dramatic. What happens matters. Maybe only to us, but it matters."
-Ghost Town.

"Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so."
- William Shakespeare

"When I was your age, I always did it for ahalf-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-The White Queen (Through the Looking Glass)

"Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."
-The Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland [novel])

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous."
--Ingrid Bergmen

"I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot."
-Criss Cross

"Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another."
-Robert Frost

"Though life has to be lived forwards, it can only be understood backwards."
-Ye Ye (Chinese Cinderella)

"Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy."
- Eric Edmeades

"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."
-Pearl S. Buck

"We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves."
- Gwendolyn Brooks

"It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands: We die forever..."
-Antigone (Antigone)

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content."
- Louisa May Alcott

"He doesn't fuck anyone! He has a wand to do all the work! Petronium vagina!"
-Sonya (when discussing Dumbledore's sexuality)

"Dream as much as you can, regardless of age. Live your life to the fullest regardless of fears. Rejoice in the wonder of life, regardless of length."

"Sometimes I feel like I'm watching my life instead of living it."

"Hope is a waking dream."
-Aristotle

" Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. "
- Albert Einstein

"F*ck, this hurts so much..."
"Yeah, I know. But that is life. If nothing else, that's life, you know. It's real. Sometimes it f*ckin' hurts. To be honest, it's sort of all we have."
-Andrew and Sam (Garden State)

"This is it. This is my life."
-Andrew (Garden State)

"You know what I do when I feel completely unoriginal?"
"What?"
"I make a noise or I do something that no one has ever done before. And then I can feel unique again even if it's only for like a second."
-Sam and Andrew (Garden State)

"I don't know. It was the only thing I ever liked doing. Pretending to be someone else."
-Andrew (Garden State)

"If you can't laugh at yourself, life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you'd like."
-Sam (Garden State)

"What do you do? You laugh, you know? I'm not saying I don't cry. But in-between, I laugh. And I realize how silly it is to take anything too seriously. Plus, I look forward to a good cry. Feels pretty good."
-Sam (Garden State)

"All of a sudden, even though you have some place where you put your sh*t...that idea of home is gone."
"I still feel at home in my house."
"You'll see one day when you move out. Just sorta happens one day, and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know? You won't ever have that feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself. You know, for... For your kids. For the family you start. It's like a cycle or something. I don't know. But I miss the idea of it, you know? Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place."
"Maybe."
-Andrew and Sam (Garden State)

"You're in it right now, aren't you?"
"What do you mean?"
"My mom always says that when she can see...I'm, like, working something out in my head, she's like, "You're in it right now." And I'm lookin' at you, and you're...telling me that story, and...you're definitely in it right now."
"I think you're right. I am in it."
-Sam and Andrew (Garden State)

"Maybe the happy ending is... just... moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope."
-Gigi (He's Just Not That Into You)

"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."
- Muriel Strode

"Well, honey, Doctors are sadists that like to play God and watch lesser people suffer."
-Bren Macguff (Juno)

"We're not here for a long time, but we're here for a good time."
-Huey Lewis

"It hurts when I smile."
"I can fix that for you."
-Ghost Town.

" Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. "
- Abraham Lincoln

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
– Theodore Seuss Giesel

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this."
-Henry David Thoreau

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
- Maya Angelou

"I'm like Cat here. We're a couple of no-name slobs. We don't belong to nobody and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other."
-Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

"There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion."
-Holly GoLightly (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-Henry David Thoreau

"If you had the choice, which would you prefer: to pain your friends but yourself be happy, or take their pain upon yourself?"
-Tecmessa (Ajax)

"I see that our lives are nothing but illusion: fugitive shades."
-Odysseus (Ajax)

"What use is regret for what can't be undone? Nothing can be what it is not."
-Sailors (Ajax)

"I for one shall, having lately learned that the enemy we hate today will be our friend tomorrow, just as the one we help today shall be our friend no longer: because for most mortals friendship is elusive."
-Ajax (Ajax)

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
-The Old Astronomer to his Pupil

"Life is too short to be wasted, darling. If there is one piece of advice that you ever take from me, it is to never spend your time focusing on the misery of your existence. Trust me, darling... misery is a black abyss that is often inescapable."
-Nicolas

"You aren't being punished, you just haven't been rewarded yet."
-Anonymous

"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody... And the people under the sky were also very much the same- everywhere, all over the world, hundreds of thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existance, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same..."
-Winston (1984)

It is better to trust and be dissappointed once in a while, than to never trust and be misarable all the time.- Abraham Lincoln

I had a dream...- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (I realize that his whole speech was amazing, but that is a good quote if you think about it)

Do what you can with what you have, right now.- Ray Bradbury

"Being happy isn't having everything in your life being prefect. Maybe it's stringing all the little things together. Making those count more than the bad things. Maybe we just get through it and that's all we can ask for."
-Bailey (The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants)

Every woman grows up to be her mother: it is her curse. No man does, and that is his.
-Oscar Wilde

Me: *groan* You're making me go to school... Oh well, maybe next semester will be better... *sigh*
Mom: Maybe tomorrow will be better.

"To love a thing means to want it to live." -Confucius

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-Oscar Wilde

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that it won’t work. – Thomas Edison

And rain will make the flowers grow.... -Eponine (Les Miserables)

Your past does no equal your future.- Tony Robbins

"Atticus? You know the things we said about Boo Rattely... Well, he's really nice."
"Most people are, Scout, when you really see them."
-Scout and Atticus (To Kill a Mocking Bird)

"You can't choose who you love, Derek. You're not supposed to. When you love somebody you love them."
-Chenielle (sp?) (Save the Last Dance)

"This is the good life. Sometimes you just need a bit of a reminder."
-Me

"Humans act so strangely... Everything created is used to destroy."
-Lelu (The Fifth Element)

"Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, Every story we're told implores us to wait for it, the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes we're so focused on finding our happy ending we don't learn how to read the signs. How to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don't, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe a happy ending doesn't include a guy, maybe... it's you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is... just... moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope."
-Gigi (He's Just Not That Into You)

You can have everything in life that you want if you just help enough other people get what they want.- Zig Ziglar

"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
-- Anne Frank

"Innocence has nothing to do with age, or so I have come to believe."
-Unknown

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
- Ziggy

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
-- Anne Frank

"If they give you lined paper, write the other way."
- Juan Ramon Heminez

"For I can see that in the midst of death, life persists;
in the midst of untruth, truth persists;
in the midst of darkness, light persists.
An eye for an eye will blind the world."
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"The reason why we feel emotions may change with age or wisdom, but the emotions we feel are exactly the same today as they were during childhood."
-Vernon

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
--Albert Einstein

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror.
I can take the next thing that comes along.'
You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Just because you're on your own doesn't mean the world stops turning."
-Golly (Harriet the Spy)

"You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life."
-Golly (Harriet the Spy)

"There are as many ways to live as there are people in this world, and each one deserves a closer look."
-Golly (Harriet the Spy)

"Remember a good spy can get in there and fight."
-Golly (Harriet the Spy)

"I'll always remember that face. That's the face you make when you truly lose something."
-Harriet (Harriet the Spy)

"I hate money."
"You'd like it a lot more if you didn't have any."
-Harriet and Sport (Harriet the Spy)

"Remember, good friends are one of life's blessings. Don't give them up without a fight."
-Golly (Harriet the Spy)

"Don't Swing on a string it's much too frail! The best kind of swing is a tigger's tail!"
-Roo (Winnie the Pooh)

"I used to get angry. Frustrated, too."
"You aren't frustrated anymore?"
"No."
"How did you do that?"
"Same way anything lost gets found. I stopped looking."
-Locke and Sun (LOST)

"Give a dog a bad name and hang him. The virtues of the dog are his own; his vices, those of his master."
-Old English Proverb

"A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length."
-Liz (Elsewhere)

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
-Orison Swett Marden

"Sister Carmelita says animals don't have souls."
"Of course animals have souls. Where did she get that idea?"
"She said the Pope says."
"The Pope's an old meanie. Animals have much nicer souls than we do. They never tell lies or blow anybody up."
-Clare and Henry (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"I wanted a perfect ending... Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment, and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
--Gilda Radner

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will."
-George Bernard Shaw

"There can be miracles when you believe. Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill. Who knows what miracles you can achieve when you believe. Somehow you will, you will when you believe."
- The Prince of Egypt

"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it."
-Jesse Stuart

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
-Joe Lewis

"There is good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for!"
-Samyoise (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

"A single thread in a tapestry, though its color brightly shines, can never see its purpose in the pattern of the grand design."
-The Prince of Egypt

"No matter where you go you just end up running into yourself."
-Paul (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

"Every passing minute is a chance to turn it all around."
-David + Sofia (Vanilla Sky)

"John Lennon is rolling over in his grave from the boner you just gave him."
-The Rocker

"But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them."
-Mansfield Park

"Time to suck today's dick, that's what I always say."
-Pineapple Express

Holly: Tina, we’ve already talked about this: when trying to solve problems, we use our words, not our lady parts!
Tina: Oh, yeah, I always forget that.
-What I Like About You

Cleaver: So how do you know Mark Darcy?
Bridget Jones: Apparently I used to swim naked in his paddle pool.
Cleaver: I'll bet you did, you dirty bitch.
-Bridget Jones Diary

*phone rings* "Bridget jones, wanton sex goddess, very bad man between her thighs... Mom!"
-Bridget Jones Diary

"That's your problem. You don't want to be in love, you want to be in love in a movie."
-Sleepless in Seattle

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

I think the quote that sparked my interest in inspirational and hopeful quotes was the Elenore Roosevelt quote I listed first. I really like that quote, and to tell you the truth, I first heard it on the Princess Diaries. *laughs* And if you have any quotes that are of inspirational or hopeful nature, please tell me. Thanks. ^_^

This has become unnervingly long, hasn't it? Well I still have a few more things to say, so please, bear with me a moment longer.

One last thing!

Stop This Train
-John Mayer

No,im not colorblind
I know the world is black and white
try to keep an open mind, but
just cant sleep on this tonight

Stop this train
I wanna get off and go home
again
cant take the speed
it's movin in
I know i cant
but honestly wont someone
stop this train

Don't know how else to say it
dont wanna see my parents go
one generations length away from
findin life out on my own

Come on Stop this train
I wanna get off and go home
again
cant take the speed
it's movin in
I know i cant
but honestly wont someone
stop this train

so scared of gettin older
im only good at being young
so i play the numbers game
i find a way to say that
life has just begun

had a talk with my old man
said help me understand
he said turn 68
you'll renegotiate
dont stop this train
dont for a minute change the place youre in
dont think i couldnt ever understand
oh, i tried my hand
John , honestly
we'll never stop this train

Once in awhile
when it's good
it will feel like it should
and they're all
still around
and you're still safe and sound
and you don't miss a thing
til you cry as you're driving
away in the dark
singing

Stop this train
I wanna get off and go home
again
cant take the speed
it's movin in
I know that i cant
cuz now i see
I'll never stop this train
never gonna stop this train
never gonna stop this train