I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.
Hayao Miyazaki
Related A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL It's nice to have things to look forward to. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a... C. JOYBELL C. A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Greet Sunrise.Salute Sunset.Embrace life your own unique journey has begun HANS FLEISCHER i don't trust or have a faith in anything but i just know very well that my past experience so i do ... HEM KUMAR PUN Live your life with love in your heart, and no matter what people say or may think help others and l... MIKE BOLTON I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS
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