Merissa > Merissa's Quotes

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

“Only the mistakes were mine.”
― Malcolm X

“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
― Jodi Picoult

“The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.”
― Tupac Shakur

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
― Tupac Shakur

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
― Coco Chanel

“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
― Coco Chanel

“He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.”
― Michelle Obama

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“You have no idea how strong my love is!”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.”
― Anne Bishop, Daughter of the Blood

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I restore myself when I'm alone.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Do what makes you happy;
Be with who makes you smile;
Laugh as much as you breathe;
& love as long as you live.
”
― Abercrombie & Fitch

“cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.”
― Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga - The Fame

“Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.”
― Lady Gaga

“They can't scare me, if I scare them first.”
― Lady Gaga

“I'm a free bitch baby”
― Lady GaGa

“You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine. ”
― Lady Gaga

“Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger”
― Lady Gaga

“live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other
-Lady Gaga via twitter”
― Lady Gaga

“Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel