My 2013 Top Fifty

I tweeted some 300 items on Twitter in 2013.  Here are the fifty that were most often retweeted or favorited, in order of popularity. 



"In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you.  There just has to be someone who wants to."


"If you want my advice, here it is:  Seek out someone who wants to make you happy and let them."


"Do not spend your life seeking security and then wonder why you never found happiness."


"Sometimes we don't know what we want, and we blame our unhappiness on someone who doesn't know, either."


"No matter how sure you are that a friend will be there for you, it's still the greatest feeling when the time comes and there they are."


"An important thing to get to know about a person is the unspoken ways they say they're sorry."


"To truly know someone is to know the silence that stands for the thing they never speak of."


"There are memories I choose not to live with, although we occasionally meet for a drink."


"It's a life-long battle, perhaps worth fighting, to try to love someone through the chinks in their armor."


A rule I try to follow is this:  "Never believe anything that requires you to hate people who do not believe it."


Overheard at a gravesite:  "And they all said, 'I'm sorry for your loss.' as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me."


"The great thing about the internet is that you get to meet people you would otherwise only meet if you were committed to the same asylum."


"A loving relationship can become fun, but it's a better bet that a fun relationship will become love."


"I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything."


"Love is not about grand intentions.  It is about small attentions."


"I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance."


"We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail."


"You know you're succeeding when the people telling you it can't be done start changing their reasons."


"Life is all about discovering things that do matter in the end."


"You list all the reasons why no one could ever love you, and then one day you meet someone with the same list."


"You don't want to be someone looking for love.  You want to be love looking for someone."


"After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this -- the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits."


"It's true love when you can't think of any way to use it to your advantage."


"There are people who, if given the chance, would do you harm, which is why I like to hang out with people who have already had the chance."


"How slight a nod it would take, how bare a smile, to give everyone you meet today a sense of worth."


"It is not until you lose someone you loved too much that you realize you didn't love them too much enough."


"You always think you could have done more, which is why you need a friend -- to tell you you did all you could."


"It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know."


"I don't think that life begins until you go looking for trouble, and happiness is ending up with the trouble you went looking for."


"Two raindrops, flung from the heavens, merge on a window pane.  A chance meeting? Tell it to the two raindrops."


"Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify."


"No one passes you on the street who was not once beautiful in somebody's eyes."


"Think of the thing you have that if you lost it, nothing else would console you, and then try not to lose it."


"There's always a new chapter in life.  You ride off into the sunset and discover it's the sunrise."


"Life is a series of choices, all made at too young an age."


A message to someone:  "I know you're still alive because you never call and you never write, which is just like you."


"I've never figured out whether people are the same in different ways or different in the same ways."


"No relationship is perfect, which is why it is so important that it be loving."


"The explanation is always longer when there isn't any."


"Life is a series of tasks that absolutely must get done before they don't matter."


"The trouble with making a choice is that something always happens afterwards, and you think you chose it."


"One difference between a dog and a person is that when you earn a dog's love, you get it."


"To truly forgive is to let the other person forget."


"Every temptation to follow the crowd is an opportunity to be thankful you didn't."


"A river never beats its head against obstacles.  It always goes around, and it always gets to the sea."


"Love can only end in indifference.  If it ends in hate, it hasn't ended."


"We all know the part of ourselves that needs to be harnessed.  It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free."


"Sometimes what seems like an unforgiving heart is just time that needs to go by."


"It is sad to see a friendship expire because you carelessly assumed that it would  automatically renew."


"Sometimes a person may lie to you only once, just as sometimes your house may be infested by one termite."


~~ Robert Brault