Growing Up quotes...even if we don't want to grow up yet. like me! :P

"Aw, who cares if I'm a teen! Inside I'm still that little girl learning to ride her bike. I'm still that girl that loves dancing in the rain in a skirt. I am still that little gal who will belt out the lyrics of a song in the car, even if I can't carry a tune. I am still that gal who loves recess. I'm that gal that loves dressing up like mommy and wearing all her makeup. That little girl is me, but trapped in a teen's body. She will never grow up!" -Alissa Lopez

"Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days when I was 6and my biggest problem was what kind of dress to put on my Barbies or whether or not I had enough Lego's to build a fort." -Unknown

"Remember when you thought boys had cooties...when friends were new, dreams were un-shattered and worries few...when recess was too short and life was too long...decisions came easily without need to belong...when storks delivered the babies and passions weren't so strong...friendships were un-broken...right was right, and wrong was wrong...when bad things didn't happen...when only skinned knees brought tears and the night light in it's socket quieted all our fears...when farewell meant just for summer and real friends didn't part...the fun went on forever and never left a broken heart." -Unknown

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." -George Bernard Shaw

"As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back." -Unknown

"Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years-old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that." -Walt Disney

"When is the age or even the moment when you go from being kids to being something else? People say that we're growing up too fast today. Sometimes adults make it sound like it's our fault or at least our choice, but how can we not? We feel invincible, we know so much. One thing I do know is that we're so eager to lose our innocence and I wonder if one day, we'll look back and wish we hadn't." -Unknown

"I wish I never grew up! I want to be little again, and I wasted my time in my youth, just wishing to be older. Now, I want to be younger, but it's too late..." -Alissa Lopez

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" -Satchel Paige 

"Remember being that little sweet 5 year old, the one wanting to be 6? Remember being 6 was never good enough for you and you wanted to be 12? Then when you were twelve, all you could think of was being 16 and driving! Free on the road! Now that you got your wish, you want to be young again. You wish you could take back your wish and go back to being that little 5 year old. When life was easy, and everything was fascinating and learning was the best thing. When you could actually count on all your friends. But you can't go back, you're stuck with growing up..." -Alissa Lopez

"I'm just an immature little kid. I'm a 5 year old trapped in a 14 year old girls' body. I still drink chocolate milk with a straw and get yelled at for making bubbles. I sing when I walk down the street. I'm always the first one to run out to the ice cream in the summer time. I still pee with the door open and dance to the sound of the shower. I run to my sister's room when it's time to go to bed and ask her to tell me a story. I still believe in the tooth fairy. My favorite holiday is Christmas and I stay up extra late to see if I can catch a glimpse of Santa. I still hop around my neighborhood, handing out Easter eggs and pretending I'm the Easter Bunny. I sleep with my blankie and Barney every night. My rubber ducky still keeps me company in the shower. When it rains, I run outside in the mud. Electricity plugs still fascinate me. Catching lightning bugs outside marks the start of the summer for me and my little sister. I still run around the house with underwear on my head. Socks and flip-flops are still a major 'fashion yes!' Skimpy shorts and tank tops don't interest me, I'd rather be wearing my Sponge-Bob Square Pants t-shirt. Growing up...is for nerds." -Unknown

"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair." -Douglas MacArthur

 "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional." -Chili Davis

"I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child." -Antoine de Saint Exupery

"Youth is a disease from which we all recover." Dorothy Fulheim

Quotes on Changing

I thought to put up some quotes about changing, because I've been going through some big changes in my life recently. 

"Things don't change, we change." -Unknown

"It is said that, 'You can't change the world, but you can always change yourself.' So, if you and I start to change then we have already begun changing the world." -Unknown

"Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them." -Marcus Aurelius

"Changes happen. Whether you want them or not, they will come. Sometimes there may be changes that you don't want, but you have to learn to deal with them. Making you, a stronger person." -Alissa

"Just when you think things can't get any worse, they do. I've learned that life is like an hour glass sand. Sooner or later, everything hits rock bottom, but all you have to do is be patient and wait for something to turn everything back around." -Unknown

"Changes are always there in our lives, the wise ones accept change and live with it." -Unknown
"Because you're young, you're torn between a world of hate and a world of dreams. So much to lose, so much to gain, so much to fight for; so much to change." -Unknown
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." -Brecht Bertolt  
"Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up." -Andy Law
 "Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up." -James Belasco and Ralph Stayer

Crying Quotes....cuz we all cry at times.

"Tears are words the heart can't express."  - Unknown

"I love walking in the rain, 'cause then no one knows I'm crying." -Unknown

"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again." -Unknown

"I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry." -Unknown

"What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul." -Jewish Proverb

"Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away." -Jessica Simpson

"As I stared into your eyes, you asked me why I was about to cry, it's because I know you were going to say good-bye." -Unknown.

"You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry." -Unknown

"Let your tears come.  Let them water your soul."  -Eileen Mayhew

"So hold her closer when she cries, hold her closer when she feels. She needs a hand to hold, someone who will never let her go again. And hold him closer when he tries to hold the tears back from his eyes. Don't say goodbye." -Unknown

"Crying comes with laughter, it comes with grief, it can come from anything. I can just look at picture and cry, knowing it's not there anymore, or I can cry just by looking at you. Realizing how lucky I am to have a friend like you. I cry when we talk about our 'inside jokes,.' I cry when I think of loosing the one I love. But I've learned, from crying, you learn. You learn to look at life differently after a good cry." -Alissa Lopez

"Many of the most important matters are not spoken - They are understood through tears." -Cristina Pastiu

"Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength." -Billy Graham

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." -Washington Irving

"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow. We must fail in order to know that sometimes our visions clear only after our eyes are washed away with tears." -Unknown

Talent Quotes...Cuz ya'll have talents!

"Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the color of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent." -Michael Caine

"I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it." -Maya Angelou

"Everybody has talent and it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and also something that you have a talent, not a talent for, but skills that you have a natural ability to do very well. And usually those two things go together." -George Lucas

"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke." -Brenda Francis

"You can never have enough talent." -Pat Riley

"You talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is you gift back to God." -Leo Buscaglia.

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed." -Sydney Smith

15 Cute Quotes!

1. "I'm not a perfect girl. My hair doesn't always stay in place and I spill things a lot. I'm pretty clumsy and sometimes I have a broken heart. My friends and I sometimes fight and maybe some days nothing goes right. But when I think about it and take a step back I remember how amazing life truly is and that maybe. Just maybe. I like being imperfect..." -Unknown

2. "If I could tell you one thing. I guess it would be, that I love hearing your voice and that your smile just happens to brighten my entire day." -Unknown

3. "And I'm the kind of girl who will burst out laughing because of something that happened the day before." -Unknown

4. "I love this crazy, tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful, beautiful life." -Unknown

5. "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." -James Dean 

6. "You don't have to be thin, to be beautiful. You don't have to be good looking to be pretty." -Unknown

7. "Someday everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason." -Unknown

8. "The only rule here is DON'T BE BORING. Dress cute wherever you go, life is too short to blend in." -Unknown

9. "I wanna be the girl he gives his hoodie to wear and cuddles up next to when it's cold, he'll be the one who comes up behind me, wraps his arms around my waist, catches me off guard and whispers 'you look beautiful'" -Unknown

10. "Life is too short, grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change. Love deeply and forgive quickly. Take chances. Give everything and have no regrets. Life is too short to be unhappy. You have to take the good with the bad. Smile when your sad. Love what you got and always remember what you had. Always forgive but never forget. Learn from your mistakes but never regret. People change, and things go wrong but always remember...LIFE GOES ON!" -Unknown

11. "Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain, cherish the memories, ignore the pain. Love and learn, forget and forgive, because remember you have only one life to live." -Unknown

12. "You're the PEANUT to my BUTTER. You're the STAR to my BURST. You're the MILKY to my WAY. You're the ICE to my CREAM. You're the FROOT to my LOOPS. You're the BEST to my FRIEND. All that means... I LOVE YOU!" -Unknown

13. "I asked you if I was PRETTY, and you said NO. I asked you if I was FAT, you said YES OF COURSE. I asked if you WANTED to be with me forever, you said NO. I asked you if you would CRY if I walked away, you said NO. I had heard too much and needed to leave and as I walked away...You grabbed my arm and told me to stay. You said...You're not PRETTY, you're BEAUTIFUL. The only thing FAT of BIG about you is your HEART. I don't WANT to be with you forever, I NEED to be with you forever. And baby, I wouldn't CRY if you walked away...I would DIE." -Unknown

14. "Find a guy who calls you BEAUTIFUL instead of HOT. Who calls you back when you hang up on him. Wait for the boy who KISSES your forehead. Who wants to show you off to the WORLD when you are in your sweats. Who holds your HAND in front of his friends. Who thinks you're just as PRETTY without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he CARES, and LOVES being with you and how he's the LUCKIEST guy in the world to have you. The one who turns to his friends and says, 'THAT'S HER.'" -Unknown

15. "Enjoy the LITTLE things in life...for one day you'll look back and realize they were the BIG things." -Unknown

5 New Quotes

1. "I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, 'Ain't that the truth.'"  ~Quincy Jones

2. "Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

3. "Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!"  ~Constanze 

4. "Moving on is simple it’s what you leave behind that makes it so difficult." -Unknown

5. "Life is a just a treasure itself." (I say this, but I'm sure others have as well.)

Totally Random!

I know this is totally random and everything but I find myself saying this a lot without realizing it...I'm sure lots of people say it too...but I really like it. I feel like it helps me learn a lot, just from that one simple phrase.
"It's better to have something than to have nothing at all."

Random Quote

So yesterday I was playing 'Family Feud' with my sisters. One of the questions asked something about why you wouldn't wear wool. So Mandy said, "Because it's fluffy." I looked at her funny and said, "It's not always fluffy." Mandy simply replied saying, "It is on a sheep!"

Love Quotes

Okay guys, so I'm a HUGE SUCKER for love quotes. I know A LOT of people who are...so I thought I would start off with 20 of my favorite love quotes!

20. "Love is the closest thing we have to magic." -Aquamarine

19. "You know you are in love when you can sit right next to someone and feel like they have never been farther apart from you." -Unknown

18. "You know you are in love when you can hold someone in your arms and all you can think about is what you would do if you ever lost that person." Samantha Stout

17. "Love is like watching a good movie, with a bag of popcorn, and you're in your sweats, next to you is the man of your dreams and he still calls you beautiful!" -Alissa Lopez

16. "The hardest part of loving someone is knowing when to let go, and knowing when to say goodbye." -Unknown15. "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. -Judy Garland14. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." -Winnie the Pooh13. "If I could have 3 wishes, I wouldn't wish for the stars, the moon, the riches and this life. But for 25 hours a  day, 8 days a week, and 13 months a year to spend a longer time with you." -Unknown12. "Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall." -Unknown

11. "Just because you know someone doesn't mean you love them, and just because you don't know people doesn't mean you can't love them. You can fall in love with a complete stranger in a heartbeat, if God planned that route for you. So open your heart to strangers more often. You never know when God will throw that pass at you." -Heather Grove

10. "Love starts with a smile, grows with a smile, and ends with a tear." -Unknown

9. "We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find." -Unknown

8. "We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." -Unknown

7. "Some  of the greater things in life are unseen that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream... " -Unknown

6. "One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else." -Unknown

5. "How can I live knowing that I will never be yours. Knowing that you will be happy, not with me...with her. I just can't live my life to the fullest until I tell you...I LOVE YOU! Problem is...I just can't find myself to say it." -Unknown

4. "Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you.... The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her'"

3. "When I look in your eyes, my heart skips a beat, because when I look your eyes, I always find that you were looking at me first." -Unknown

2. "I'm  not the girl who runs up to you when I see you. And I'm not the girl who jumps at every moment to talk to you. But I am the girl who keeps it all inside and regrets it later." -Unknown

1. "I don't know how to say this other than...I LOVE YOU. I've kept it a secret too long...but now i can't keep it inside knowing i may lose you; which i can't possibly have. I love you too much to let you slip through my fingers...i just had to tell you...you mean the world to me...everything about you. The music you listen to, what you love to do, your favorite food, what you want to be when you grow up, places you want to visit, even the celebrities you are obsessed with. I love being with you...making me laugh. I don't know what my life would be like if you weren't a part of it...a big part. Frankly, i wouldn't want to experience life without you. I would rather just have you in it. Always there for me, because...I LOVE YOU!" -Alissa Lopez

Why I started...

Hey guys! So, I've actually been thinking about doing this for awhile...but it wasn't until one of my friends started their own blog that finally got me going. I didn't really know what to blog about, but recently I have been so interested in quotes. I LOVE sharing all the quotes I find, so I thought 'Why not start a quote wall?' And well...that's how it all began! I hope you enjoy this blog!