From cheer captain to CEO of C over B, high school basketball player to the NBA, to tutor girl to singer/songwriter, artist to owning her own label, basketball player to an author, and we can't forget about James Lucas Scott! The characters of OTH spoke to us in a way that we can all relate too. These quotes are words that I strive to live by.

1. "It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're seventeen planning for someday, and then quietly without you ever really noticing that someday is today, and that someday is yesterday, and this is your life." -Nathan Scott

2. "At this moment there are 6 billion, 4 hundred, 71 million, 8 hundred, 18 thousand, 6 hundred, 71 people in the world. Some are running scared, some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day, others are just now facing the truth. Some are evil men at war with good men, and some are good men struggling with evil. 6 billion people in the world. 6 billion souls, and sometimes all you need is one." -Peyton Sawyer

3. "Love means giving chances when there are no more chances to give." -Haley James Scott

4. "Whats more important? What we become? or How we become it?" -Lucas Scott

5. "People are going to label you. It's how you overcome those labels, that's what matters" -Brooke Davis

6. "Sometimes people have to cry out all their tears, to make room for a heart full of smiles." -Jamie Scott

7. "You have one chance, one life, and what you do with it is up to you." -Nathan Scott

8. "They're all looking for something to believe in. I think that music can be the thing that changes the world." -Peyton Sawyer

9. "Passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction." -Lucas Scott

10. " The rest of your life is being shaped right now, but the dreams you chase, the choices you make, and the person you decide to be."-Haley James Scott

11. "And once you lose yourself, you have two choices; find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely." -Brooke Davis

12. "All you can do is your best, okay?" -Jamie Scott

13. "Sometimes people build up walls, not to keep people away, but to see who cares enough to tear them down." -Brooke Davis

14. "Sometimes the hardest things are the most rewarding." -Nathan Scott

15. "Life's too short, to fight, to be miserable, to let the bitter ones change how awesome you are." -Peyton Sawyer

16. "Sometimes people write the things they can't say" -Haley James Scott

17. "The heart has reason, that reason cannot know." Lucas Scott

18. "It's my life and I'm taking a stand and that's okay." -Jamie Scott

For 9 Seasons we watched the OTH characters grow, and we began to see how much they were actually like us, on so many levels.