Promise Your Self

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

(500) days of summer quotes

(500) days of summer.

Film dengan alur cerita terbaik yang pernah gue tonton. Sangat menyentuh, menginspirasi, banyak hikmah yg bisa diambil. Udah gitu dengan pemeran yang sangat cocok dengan karakternya masing-masing. Menurut gue film ini mendekati perfect. Pokoknya ini recommended film banget deh, terutama buat anak-anak muda.

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Narrator: This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-reading of the movie 'The Graduate'. The girl, Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan, did not share this belief. Since the disintegration of her parent's marriage she'd only love two things. The first was her long dark hair. The second was how easily she could cut it off and not feel a thing. Tom meets Summer on January 8th. He knows almost immediately she is who he has been searching for. This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story.

Tom: What happens if you fall in love? 

Summer: Well, you don't believe that, do you? 

Tom: It's love. It's not Santa Claus.

Tom: It's official. I'm in love with Summer. 

[while Montage of Summer plays] 

Tom: I love her smile. I love her hair. I love her knees. I love how she licks her lips before she talks. I love her heart-shaped birthmark on her neck. I love it when she sleeps.

Rachel Hansen: Just because she likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate. 

Tom: People don't realize this, but loneliness is underrated.

Rachel Hansen: Look, I know you think she was the one, but I don't. Now, I think you're just remembering the good stuff. Next time you look back, I, uh, I really think you should look again.

Rachel Hansen: Quit being a pussy.

Tom: [Montage of Summer] I hate her crooked teeth. I hate her 1960s haircut. I hate her knobby knees. I hate her cockroach-shaped splotch on her neck. I hate the way she smacks her lips before she talks. I hate the way she sounds when she laughs. 

[Fade to black as Swayze's "She's Like the Wind" plays briefly] 

Tom: I HATE THIS SONG! 

Bus Driver: [Open to Tom standing while bus comes to a sudden stop] Son, you need to get off the bus.

Summer: I just... I just woke up one day and I knew. 

Tom: Knew what? 

Summer: ...What I was never sure of with you.

Tom: Look, we don't have to put a label on it. That's fine. I get it. But, you know, I just... I need some consistency. 

Summer: I know. 

Tom: I need to know that you're not gonna wake up in the morning and feel differently. 

Summer: And I can't give you that. Nobody can.

Tom: Do you ever do this, you think back on all the times you've had with someone and you just replay it in your head over and over again and you look for those first signs of trouble? 

McKenzie: Hey, maybe you should write a book. 

Tom: What? 

McKenzie: Well, you know, Henry Miller said the best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature. 

Tom: That guy had a lot more sex than me.

Summer: Well, you know, I guess it's 'cause I was sitting in a deli and reading Dorian Gray and a guy comes up to me and asks me about it and... now he's my husband. 

Tom: Yeah. And... so? 

Summer: So, what if I'd gone to the movies? What if I had gone somewhere else for lunch? What if I'd gotten there 10 minutes later? It was - it was meant to be. And... I just kept thinking... Tom was right. 

Tom: No. 

Summer: Yeah, I did. 

[laughs] 

Summer: I did. It just wasn't me that you were right about. 

Tom: It's these cards and the movies and the pop songs, they're to blame for all lies and the heartache, everything.

Summer: There's no such thing as love, it's fantasy...

Summer : I like being on my own. Relationships are messy, and people's feelings get hurt. Who needs it? We're young. We live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Might as well have fun while we can and save the serious stuff for later.

Narrator: If Tom had learned anything... it was that you can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence, that's all anything ever is, nothing more than coincidence... Tom had finally learned, there are no miracles. There's no such thing as fate, nothing is meant to be. He knew, he was sure of it now.

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