BREAK THE RULESThey say you never get the second chance to make the first impression......I say you can make a second impression that will earn you that second chance.They say you are not capable....I say you can learn the capabilities to do the impossible.They say you are not worth it.....I say you are what they are worth and much more.They say you are just a dreamer.....I say dreams are the beginning of reality.They say stick to the status quo, that you can't break it......I say bend it!They say you are different.......I say different is the new cool and normal the new boring.They say a bad excuse is better than none.....I say try an apology, it actually works.They say blood is thicker than water....I say love is thicker than blood.They say boys will always be boys....I say they will have to become men at some point.They say you are a failure........I say failure is the beginning of successThey say do as I say, not as I do.....I say they should try silence, so that we don't have to watch what they do.They say think outside the box.....I say throw away the box and just think
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The fault in our stars is the inability to see that the world falls in love with fantasy, fairytales and magic in movies. Even religion asks us to believe in the most unlikely of situations. However, despite all the great movies we love, we choose to see so many real life spiritual experiences as delusion, mania, psychosis or wishful thinking. Our society gives great devotion to the arts. However, they solve so many problems with realism, rather than giving into the possibilty of God's plan for a person, that doesn't involve their theological views about how God helps write his children's stories.
I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control.
Part of the job of adults was to set limits. But the last rule, the unspoken rule of any story or journey, is that all limits are suspect. All warnings show only the point where the last story stopped, the boundary past which the map is unmapped. The Kingdom of Here There Be Dragons is the province of explorers, magicians, and kids.
We deal with so many nightmares on a regular basis. When I__ watching a horror movie, there__ a pattern, a sense of control in them. I__ just an observer, not having to deal with any of the repercussions. It__ a nice dream to think monsters play by the rules, that they__e got a pattern you can unlock and follow. Real life__ messy, and the chaos leaves you devastated in the wake.
Magic?" What did magic have to do with breaking into someone's store and stealing their stuff?"Don't you get it?" Peter said. "You're free now. You don't have to live by their rules anymore." Peter pointed into the inky blackness of the basement. "The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race, listen to it. That's the sound of being alive. It's your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it's all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can't-do-this, and can't-do-that's, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.
The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.
True love is not practical. True love doesn__ always follow the rules. When you are truly in love, you can lose your mind over it.
If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.
The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.
Nim looked aghast. __f course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No__t__ Number Seven of the wives. Her name is Begonia.___h, no, Nim,_ Vesper said. __ou can__ fall for one of the wives! She__ married. And to the king, no less. That__ illegal. Maybe it shouldn__ be, but you__l still probably be arrested if anyone finds out__r worse.___ knew you__ say that,_ Nim said, turning away. __ou__e such a prude, Vesper. Love is above things like rules. And the king has so many wives and mistresses__e doesn__ even remember all of them.
Rules are made to be broken, but hearts are broken to be made.It is a big miracle to be loved "because" of your inadequacies, not "despite" them. And nothing can be as fascinating as walking tall on the same road that once witnessed your fall.
people have managed to marry without arithmetic
It is an unwritten rule of life that when you are in acute pain and have no one to console you, someone, from somewhere, will emerge in your life to offer you comfort. However, __hat_ someone will vanish from the scene once you begin to regain grip on your life, leaving you with another sense of loss to nurse.
Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Before you reprimand or condemn people on a particular act, make sure you have worked on yourself overtime such that you can't be found guilty of such act; if not you will be a victim of your own laws and rules
There was always a screen behind which one could hide_ a superior who in turn had his superior_ orders, instructions, duties, commands_ and finally the many-headed monster, morale, necessity, hard reality, responsibility, or whatever it was called_ there was always a screen behind which to evade the simple law of humanity.