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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution"

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

Overall, KISS had the greatest influence over my life. I've been in love with the band ever since Grade 6, and I've listened to every song over 100 times already. Most of them aren't there to be inspirational rather than just good, catchy music. Though the ones I've listed have impacted me with their words. 'Rain' is probably my favorite and the one that helped me the most. It related to my depression greatly as the lyrics expressed exactly how I felt which is exactly how a great song is supposed to go. To me the whole song is like a gigantic metaphor to my past depression. 'Took me like a hurricane' is one line that symbolized how depression started off slow, like small rain specs, and quickly turned into this gigantic out of control hurricane. The other two quotes I listed from it just relates to how I felt like I was expected to be greater than who I really am, and its hard to view criticism positively when you're always having constant negative thoughts. At times I really couldn't stand myself while constantly receiving this criticism from people I cared about made it so I didn't know who they wanted me to be anymore, I didn't know who I was anymore. The song 'Childhoods End' is about someone finding out that their childhood friend has committed suicide. It makes people see the ripple effect of suicide, that suicide does not only affect the person that did it, it affects everyone that ever played a role in their lives. 'You were just like me, I was just like you, for eternity I'll think of you.' makes me believe that we are all equal and like I said before, suicide doesn't only affect one person, but many and this song made me realize that. 'Never Goes Away' is another one of KISS's songs from the album 'Carnival of Souls' and talks about how corrupt this world really is. It made me realize that yes the world is cruel, and people can be corrupt, but not everyone is like that and it does really only take one person to change things even remotely. Lastly 'Easy as it Seems' taught me how its so, so easy to walk away from your dreams and what makes you happy. To walk away from life, and everything you enjoy, but is it really worth it? Most people just 'walk away' like the song says and don't think of the consequences or of how it could affect them later on. What it taught me was to never give up on your dreams no matter how impossible they may seem, cause one day you might just achieve them.

These songs not only helped me get through my depression, but they made me feel again, which was a great achievement because when someone's depressed they don't feel anything other than pain and numbness. Not just the songs helped me, but the words, the context that they were put in made me relate and experience an emotional connection with the songs and that's one of the many ways words can impact someone.

"You were just like me, I was just like you, for eternity I’ll think of you"

"Outside, we search for something, inside, we still have nothing."

"Heartless rich and greedy, watch the churches rape the needy, while we pray for salvation, preachers yield to temptation."

"Tell me what you want me to be

I can't stand myself anymore

Tell me what you want me to see

I can't find my way off the floor"

Childhood's End

"It's Kind of a Funny Story" has got to be the absolute best novel to read when one is feeling down, or has been diagnosed as depressed. It helps make a connection with the reader because it describes exactly how one feels and thinks when y are in that state of mind. Quotes such as my favorite one “It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.” make the reader feel as though the author understands him/her when no one around them does. Words should have the power to make you feel, make you feel as though you're being understood, and most importantly make you feel a sense of belonging and understanding. Ned Vizzini is right when he says 'sometimes when you open a book, time stops' at least that's what happens to me when I read, time stops for a moment and everything feels okay again, no more pain, or hurt, or sadness, it all dissolves in the turning pages of bound pieces of paper with words on them. From tossing away those regrets, to finding someone equally screwed up in the head as you, not to mention freaking out about how much work you have to do, Ned Vizzini captures depression with his words so well that you can't just read this piece of literature once.

Never Goes Away

"Tell me what you want me to know

Tell me what you're dyin' to say

Throw your feelings up in the air

Let the pieces fall where they may"

Rain

‘Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.’

“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”

"(It’s easy as it seems) ‘Cause it’s easy as it seems, when you’re walking out on your dreams, you just walk away."

Harry Potter by J.K Rowling is my favorite novel series of all time, not because the writing is so profound and mesmerizing, but because there's many life lessons that appear in the novels that can be put towards real life scenarios. An example of this would be the quote "Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light", and taught me that even if I'm down, and upset, if I so choose to I can turn the situation from sad to happy by changing my frame of mind. Harry has taught me to again, be more positive about life, don't numb the pain but feel it and move on with life. As well as you're not going insane because it's all in your head, because why would that mean that it is any less real than what is physically in front of you. Harry Potter was always a series that I could sit down and imagine myself beside the characters going on all their journeys together, I could sit down upset and be alright again when I was finished reading. Words don't just have an impact with what they say, but how they make you feel inside, and the emotional connection it brings to the individual who is reading that particular piece of literature. Harry does both to me, I feel that connection, as well as I learn from the words/quotes that are in the novels making me forget what is around me and applying the advice in real life once I snap back into reality.

"Finally gets to live her life that way, no fear, no fences, nobody-no reins"

The song 'No Reins' by Rascal Flatts has some words and quotes that have also impacted me as well as the way I view life. For one it is a really catchy song, and with music I believe the message is also portrayed with how it is expressed, the tempo, rhythm and etc. not just in the lyrics. I was still negative and feeling depressed when I first made an emotional connection with this song, where it says "All she's ever felt is held back, 'she says its kind of nice to hear myself laugh.' She's gonna do a lot more of that." reminds me of myself when I was feeling down. It made me want to push those negative feelings away and be happy, laugh, smile, and have fun because that's what life is supposed to be like. When I finally started feeling better the part where it says "Finally gets to live her life that way, no fear, no fences, nobody - no reins." made me start to live my life that way, it made me want to keep going on because life is going to get better, and after all it is what you make it to be.

"Took me like a Hurricane"

‘I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.’

"All she’s ever felt is held back, “she says it’s kind of nice to hear myself laugh.” Shes gonna do a lot more of that."

"Depression starts slow"

KISS

Easy as it seems

No Reins

“It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.”

“I work. And I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work.”

It's Kind of a Funny Story

By, Ned Vizzini

Rascal Flatts

‘People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.’

‘Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.’

Harry Potter

By J.K Rowling

“I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.”

Impact by,

Song Lyrics

Literature

"This moment will just be another story someday.”

How do words have an impact on your life?

“Enjoy it. Because it's happening.”

According to past experiences, the impact that words have had on Nicole’s life have been through positive means such as helping overcome depression, and more often than not are in the forms of either films, song lyrics, and/or literature.

The Perks of being a Wallflower

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

By Stephen Chbosky

Nicole Szabo

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”

Tim McGraw

Books have always been an escape for me, I absolutely love reading and literature and it's amazing to know that someone created these stories and worlds. One of my favorite and inspirational novels I've read was "The Perks of being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky. The quotes from it have impacted my life in such a way that I can keep going back to them time after time to help me through troubled times. I'm not going to explain all of them because I did include quite a lot, just because I had trouble only picking one or two. One of the quotes that impacted me the most though would be 'we accept the love we think we deserve.' because it's so true. We as humans tend to push people we think don't deserve to love us out of our lives, and that's not something we should do. Reading this book I've realized that life doesn't stop for anybody, and the bad times will always just be another story someday. We shouldn't focus on the bad and resolve to tell our children that people have it worse off than us, cause that won't make their situations any better, it will only make them feel worse because now they feel as though they don't deserve to feel sad. We can choose where our lives go, and we should enjoy whatever happens because it'll happen anyway, there's no sense in thinking negatively because there's always a good situation to come from a bad one.

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”

"And he said someday I hope you get the chance, to live like you were dying."

Live like you were Dying

I as a child grew up listening to country music, and have always liked it for the amount of emotion that they put in them. Not to mention almost each song usually has a life lesson to learn. Tim McGraws 'Live like you were Dying' has two quotes that impacted me the most which were mentioned previously. By 'living like you were dying' to me means that you should live life as though you will only live for a couple weeks, do the things you like to do and not worry about consequences or the negative things in life. 'Tomorrow is a gift and you got eternity to think about what you could do with it' so there is no point in being upset or unhappy about life because you have your whole life ahead of you to change things, why not start now?

“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”

“Like tomorrow was a gift and you’ve got eternity to think about what you do with it, what could you do with it, what can I do with it, what would I do with it."

"Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go (imitating a goat) “that’s baaaaad”. Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference."

"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."

This quote is very insightful in the sense that Robin Williams character is telling the students that yes, we all long for acceptance and because of that we often try to hide or change certain aspects of ourselves to try to fit in and not feel as though we are out of the ordinary. He is telling us that even though we think all that we have to trust our beliefs and ourselves because they are unique, we are unique. We have to take the first step and trust in ourselves, even though others may think that we are a little strange as the result. Robin Williams character than begins to quote Robert Frost to emphasize his point. In the end if we believe in ourselves, in our thoughts and beliefs, we will be happy.

This quote is explaining that words are incredibly powerful tools, and no matter what anyone will tell you you can change the world with them. Not every influential person who has changed the world did it with pure strength alone, This quote is telling us that an average individual has the power to help make an impact in the world using words and words alone.

"You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you"

"When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think"

This quote from The Bucket List is very meaningful and insightful as in the movie they were talking about how difficult it is to understand the meaning of someones life. It can be from a range of different beliefs, though Carter (played by Morgan Freeman) beliefs that 'you measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you'. This means that you measure your worth based on how you put out your image and how someone else will be inspired or impacted by it.

Reading shouldn't be like brainwashing. You shouldn't just read in the perspective of the author, you should read in the perspective of yourself as well. Don't just consider what the author thinks, you as an individual have a mind and should be able to read something and have your own opinion about it, especially when it comes to the world of literature.

Impact by,

Dead Poets Society

Films/Movies

The Bucket List

"We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round"

"Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone."

This quote is really inspirational to me in the sense that it's simple, the message isn't hidden behind a paragraph. No, the message is as clear as clear can get. Basically this quote is saying that no matter what happens, what mistakes we make, life goes on. It doesn't stop for anyone, and it won't go back so you can fix things or change things for the better, the wheels will keep spinning, keep turning round, and round. So you should make the best of the time you have and not sit around regretting the past, and focus on the future.

This quote impacted me by it's meaning. Getting the fullest out of life, and living it to the fullest does not mean to get let down by petty little things. You should live life to the fullest and not worry about the little things, be happy and don't worry about the mistakes that you have made in the past. Let it go, the past is the past.

"I Stand upon my desk to remind myself that I have to constantly look at things in a different way"

In the movie this quote is used to show defiance by the students who are constantly brainwashed to believing and learning one set way of thinking. Robin Williams character however teaches them that you should always look at things in your own perspective as well, and in a different way. This means that we have to be ourselves and look at things in our own special way as opposed to believing someone else's way of thinking. Also I believe it means to look at things in a different way such as instead of seeing things negatively all the time to look at things more positively.

Films are a great way for some people to get impacted by the movie's words visually rather than reading and deciphering the quotes on paper. Rather than having to find the meaning yourself, or by reading it, an individual such as myself can watch the movie, hear the quotes being spoken and see the changes as well as the lessons it teaches. The Bucket List, as well as the Dead Poets Society have both been really inspirational movies to me and their words/quotes have impacted myself greatly. I watched both of these during a rough time when I was constantly in this negative bubble and needed a slight push to help me see things differently. The Bucket List taught me that life doesn't stop for anyone, so instead of making it filled with regrets, to let the past go and make whats left of the future great. Be happy, because you don't know how much time you have left in this world. Whereas the Dead Poets Society taught me that words really are powerful tools that can change the world, even if it isn't in the biggest way, someone of little importance can make a big impact by taking a stand. Not to mention we should always view things in a different light, as well as be the unique, weird, goofy individual you are if that's what makes you happy. Don't give into peer pressure and follow the crowd, be yourself, don't be this negative individual, make the most out of your life without thinking back on what you could have done differently. There's an endless sea of possibilities out there and we as humans should make the most of it rather than sit indoors and regret the past, make most of the present, and make the path to your future a great delightful one.

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