I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into the rearview and saw them: they were waving, hands moving through the air, their voices loud, calling out after me. The square of that mirror was like a frame, holding this picture of them saying good-bye, pushing me forward, before shifting gently out of sight, inch by fluid inch, as I turned away.

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You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

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There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

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What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

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The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.

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for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

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Let's just start and see what happens.

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The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

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I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.

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It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

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But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

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It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

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There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

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You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

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Don't think or judge, just listen.

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My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know?

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It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

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No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

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There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

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