Quote by Ted Mosby (about Memories, Past)

Kids, you can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tight you hold on... it's already gone.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 23

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It's only once you've stopped, that you realize how hard it is to start again. So you force yourself not to want it.

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If you're looking for the word that means caring for someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want, no matter how much it destroys you, it's love!

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 17

Love

Nobody likes to be alone, especially after a breakup. But that's when we discover who we really are and what we really want.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 10

Breakup Solitude & Loneliness Seperation & Breakup

You know how sometimes you'll meet a girl and there'll be that one bewitching little detail that'll make you fall in love with her instantly? You know, a little freckle on the nose, the lilt of her laugh, the way she pronounces a certain word or phrase...

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 21

Falling in love

The beauty of a moment, is that it's fleeting.

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Moments

When you date someone, it's like you're taking one long course in who that person is and then, when you break up, all that stuff becomes useless. It's the emotional equivalent of an English degree...

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Relationships

Kids, you can't talk yourself into falling in love. It doesn't take days of deliberation. When it's real, you know pretty quickly and with absolute certainty.
I had forgotten that, but I was about to be reminded...

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 2

Love Falling in love

I don't wanna be choosing between two girls, I wanna be a complete head over heels idiot for one!

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Love

Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don't make any sense at all.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 20

Failures & Mistakes Decisions

I never wanted any of it to change, but that's not how life works.

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Change

Here's the secret, kids: none of us can vow to be perfect. In the end, all we can do is promise to love each other with everything we've got. Because love's the best thing we do.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 22

Love Perfection

Love doesn't make sense. I mean, you can't logic your way into or out of it. Love ist totally nonsensical, but we have to keep doing it or else we're lost and love is dead and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 22

Love

Kids, that was the one time I ever lost faith in the idea that my life would be better in three years. And what's funny is, three years from that moment, my life was amazing.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 20

If you love something, you can never let it go. Not even for a second. Or it's gone forever.

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Love Loyalty

Lily: "Ted, you did this all yourself?"
Ted: "Just like Ryan Gosling in 'The Notebook'. It was pretty manly 'til I mentioned Ryan Gosling in 'The Notebook', huh?"

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 24

The Notebook Ryan Gosling

Eight years ago I made an ass of myself chasing after you and I made an ass of myself chasing after you a bunch of times since then. And I have no regrets because it led me to something I wouldn't trade for the world, it led to you being my friend. So as your friend and a leading expert in the field of making an ass of yourself. I say to you, from the heart, get the hell out of this car!

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 11

I didn't give up on my dream house, because that's the thing about stupid decisions - we all make them, but time is funny and sometimes a little magical. It can take a stupid decision, and turn it into something else entirely.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 20

Kids, you may think your only choices are to swallow your anger or throw it in someone's face, but there's a third option: You can just let it go, and only when you do that is it really gone and you can move forward.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 4 Episode 6

Anger

Sometimes, even when you know something's a mistake, you gotta make it anyway.

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Failures & Mistakes Fate & Destiny

Which meant for the first time in years, the world was wide open. Because kids, when a door closes... well, you know the rest.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 17

Ted: "You name a chubby white kid LeBron and he's the one getting stuffed in the basketball hoop."
Marshall: "Then I'm also crossing off Shaquille, Hakeem and Dikembe."

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 6

Basketball

Because sometimes, even when you know how something's gonna end, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 2 Episode 14

Traveling

Sorry Peter, we're grown-ups now, we can't fly to Netherland with you anymore.

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Peter Pan

And that, kids, is the kind of stupid thing you say, before you've met the person who hits the reset button on the world. Who makes everything new again. Who makes it seem ridiculous that you ever considered settling.

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Falling in love

Here's the thing, kids: When you believe in people, people come through.

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Whatever you do in this life, it's not legendary, unless your friends are there to see it.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 17

Barney: "Our wedding is gonna be legendary."
Robin: "No wait for it?"
Barney: "I've got you, I don't have to wait for it anymore."

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 1

Love declerations

Underneath all of those lies is one true thing. One true thing that can support the weight of all the lies in the world, and that's the fact that I love you.

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Love declerations

When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True Story.

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You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Memories Death Grief & Condolence

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Memories Moments

The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Fred Durst

Future Past

Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 5 Episode 1

Past Anchors

This woman has a hold on my heart that I could not break if I wanted to, and there have been times that I wanted to.
It has been overwhelming and humbling and even painful at times, but I could not stop loving her any more than I could stop breathing.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 6

Love Love declerations

Barney: "Ted what is my one rule?"
Ted: "You can tell how old a girl is by her elbows?"
Barney: "My other one rule."
Ted: "Flax seed relieves upset stomach?"
Barney: "My other one rule."
Ted: "Always have a fake pair of concert tickets in your pocket in case Lily invites you to something stupid?"
Barney: "My other one rule."
Ted: "Labanese girls sprint to third base and then stay there."
Barney: "My other one rule."
Ted: "New is always better?"
Barney: "New is always better!"

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Well, maybe this isn't a breakup. Maybe this is two friends getting back together.

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Friendship Relationships

Marshall: "When a woman puts on an engagement ring, it's like when Bilbo Baggins wears the One Ring in The Hobbit."
Robin: "Okay, can you say that again, but not in nerd?"
Marshall: "Sure. Uh, the ring is like the cloak that Harry Potter wears to sneak around Hogwarts."
Robin: "Yeah, I don't speak virgin either."

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Bilbo Baggins The Hobbit Nerds Quotes about Harry Potter Quotes about Lord of the Rings

Marshall: "It's kind of a big, professional meeting. You might want to trade out that lollipop for a shirt."
Ted: "Yeah. I'll just give it to one of these kids."
Marshall: "Oh, buddy. You're half naked, you're not a parent to any of these children. Don't offer 'em candy!"

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Being naked

When you do one good deed, it creates a ripple effect. One good deed leads to another and another.

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Being nice

Your heart's talking to you, Barney. Do you have the guts to listen to it?

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Lily: "Just give me his name!"
Robin: "Fine. It's Bill Pepper."
Lily: "Kind of a coincidence there happens to be a bill and a pepper shaker here on the table. Any chance you and Bill had a three-way with Fork Napkin?"

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Quinn: "In the event of divorce, Miss Garvey shall get full custody of Mr. Stinson's suits."
Barney: "Why? What would you do with them?"
Quinn: "Nothing. I'd just sit around and watch them go out of style."

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Suits

If we miss Hawaii because of this, guess who's not doing "The Disappearing Salami" anytime soon?

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Ted: "Robin and I already had our backslide. Last Thanksgiving, not even that long ago."
Stella: "Did you place a large bet against yourself?"

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Ted: "We can do it against the door. It will be hot. It will be like a three-way: you, me and the door."
Stella: "Yeah, but then it's going to be weird between me and the door tomorrow."

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Barney: "You avoiding the family too?"
James: "I'm gay, I'm black and I'm getting a divorce. Those walking skeletons are gonna have more questions for me than their pharmacists."

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Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Divorce

The Pork Authority is closed. Looks like it's Hand Central Station for you little buddy.

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The baby slide right out, huh? It's like a 'whoosh', like a waterslide. [Lily screaming] Slightly painful waterslide.

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If you don't push, I will shove that baby up your throat and pull it out of your mouth!

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