- Lisa Lenner

Love is a BATTLE. Sometimes U win, sometimes U lose. But U got to know when there is nothing left to fight for….

- Lisa Lenner

Pam Brown

“Odd, how much it hurts when a friend moves away – and leaves behind only SILENCE.”

- Pam Brown

Linda Direzzi

Everything is alright in the END. If it is not alright, then it is not the END.

- Linda Direzzi

Albert Einstein

The best part of loving is not hoping that she/he loves you as much as u do, but in knowing that u love her/him more than u can.

- Albert Einstein

The HEART WANTS what it WANTS….
There is no logic to those things..

Until i TRULY LOVED…..i was ALONE….

All DESIRABLE things im life are either :
ILLEGAL
BANNED
FATTENING
EXPENSIVE
OR
MARRIED TO SOMEONE ELSE

A MAN IS A MOMENT BUT A WOMAN IS A LIFE……..

A lot of happiness get trampled under feet, Coz people have their eyes on the sky & they don’t know what lying at their feet.” ….

G. K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

G. K. Chesterton

Mother Teresa

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Why is it that when U love someone so much, U still do not get the right words to tell them

Pearl Buck

There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.

–Pearl Buck

Oliver Pell

“Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality”

-Oliver Pell

The beauty of life does not depend on how happy YOU are, but on how happy OTHERS are. . . . .
‘BECAUSE of ‘YOU’

LOVE is just a word,
Until someone comes by and gives it a “PROPER MEANING”

LOVE is PHOTOGENIC….It needs DARKNESS to develop!!!!

Hold a friend’s hand through times of trial,
Let her find love through a hug & a smile,
But also know when it is time to let go -
For, each & every one of us must learn to GROW….

“The MOST BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES a WOMAN can wear are the ARMS of the MAN who LOVES her……
And
She LOOKS MOST BEAUTIFUL when she SMILES while THINKING of SOMEONE who CARES for her..”

A million words couldn’t bring you back I know because I’ve tried, Neither could a million tears I know because I’ve cried.

LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MUCH SIMPLER – HAD I NOT MET “U”.,
EXCEPT, IT WOULDNT HAVE BEEN LIFE….

IMPRESSIONS ON SAND LAST FOR SOMETIME…..
WHY THE IMPRESSIONS, WHY NOT THE TIME????

Letting go is one way of saying I LOVE YOU..

Never did I ever realise how much U meant to me until TODAY….when i fear there would NEVER be a “WE” again….

You will find as u look back upon your life that the MOMENTS when you have TRULY LIVED are the MOMENTS when you have done things in the SPIRIT of LOVE….

Thomas Moore

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity – everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.

Thomas Moore

Chinese Proverb

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.

Chinese Proverb

Homer

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

Martin Luther

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Martin Luther

Judith Viorst

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.

Judith Viorst

Robert Frost

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Robert Frost

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Honore de Balzac

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

Joseph Campbell

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Joseph Campbell

Germaine Greer

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Germaine Greer

Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Rainer Maria Rilke

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

William O. Douglas

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

William O. Douglas

Phoenix Flame

Marriage is love personified.

Phoenix Flame

Martin Luther

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

Joseph Campbell

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Joseph Campbell

Millicent Carey McIntosh

Marriage is a partnership in which each inspire the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Millicent Carey McIntosh

Franz Joseph von MunchBellinghausen

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.

Franz Joseph von MunchBellinghausen

Mark Twain – 25th Wedding Anniversary Quote

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain – 25th Wedding Anniversary Quote

LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MUCH SIMPLER – HAD I NOT MET “U”.,
EXCEPT, IT WOULDNT HAVE BEEN LIFE….

love is to accept one as imperfect. it is love when both of you look in the same direction together rather than look at each other !

Never did I ever realise how much U meant to me until TODAY….when i fear there would NEVER be a “WE” again….

LOVING U was a MISTAKE, a BLUNDER…..
I WOULD LIKE TO REPEAT..

LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MUCH SIMPLER – HAD I NOT MET “U”.,
EXCEPT, IT WOULDNT HAVE BEEN LIFE….

Letting go is one way of saying I LOVE YOU..

Rabindranath Tagore

” I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,
in life after life, in age after age forever.”

~Rabindranath Tagore~

Love is giving him the ability to break your heart, but trusting him enought that he wont..

A million words couldn’t bring you back I know because I’ve tried, Neither could a million tears I know because I’ve cried.

I have walked a thousand miles barefoot, but I can still not forget the first splinter that injured me….

“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.

I don’t need to be wanted, I want to be needed.

Destiny decides who you meet in life but its only your heart that can decide who gets to stay in your life.

We cannot beg someone to stay if they want to leave and be with someone else. We have to admit that love doesn’t give us the license to own a person. This is what love means…sacrifice.

Living without you takes a lot of getting used to; you’re a hard habit to break.

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.

You know it’s love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.

Life has gone away leaving me living.

And in the end, its not how far you go in life, but how close you are to your roots that matters.

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Epicurus

Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde

A LIFE with LOVE will have some THORNS,
but a LIFE without LOVE will have NO ROSES.

Love is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship..
Its not about how much love u HAVE in the BEGINNING, but how much love u BUILD in the END..

You know it’s love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.

Living without you takes a lot of getting used to; you’re a hard habit to break

I love you and it doesnt matter if you love me back because i rather live for the chance than die from the truth.

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

“Love that remains longest in your heart is the one that is not returned.”

“Once you have loved someone, you can do anything for them, except love them the same way again…”

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

The best kind of a friend is one with whom you sit on a bench, saying nothing & when u get up and go, u feel as if u had the best conversation of your life!

We always know that looking back on the tears would make us laugh, but we never know that looking back on the moments we laughed together would make us cry….

U learn to like someone when u find out what makes them laugh….but u can never truly love someone until u find out what makes them cry….

Love is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship..
Its not about how much love u HAVE in the BEGINNING, but how much love u BUILD in the END

Maya Angelou, African American poet,

Maya Angelou, African American poet,

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”

Duran Duran

PASSION OR COINCIDENCE ONCE PROMPTED YOU TO SAY PRIDE WILL TEAR US BOTH APART. WELL NOW PRIDE’S GONE OUT THE WINDOWS, CROSS THE ROOF TOPS, RUN AWAY – LEFT ME IN THE VACUUM OF MY HEART.”

Duran Duran

Michelle St. Amand

Love is not a matter of counting the years… But making the years count.

~ by Michelle St. Amand ~

Love is like standing in wet cement, the longer you stay the harder to leave and u can never leave without leaving your marks behind.

When Harry Met Sally (Movie)

“When you realize you want to spend The rest of your life with somebody, You want the rest of your life To start as soon as possible.”

When Harry Met Sally (Movie)

“If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: “Because it was he; because it was me.”

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious

“Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget.”

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

” A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never meant to be your
and
you just have to let go . . . “

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Barbara Bush

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

~Barbara Bush

Johann Schiller

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

~Johann Schiller

Ryunosuke Satoro

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”

~ Ryunosuke Satoro

George Costanza

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What’s that, a bonus?!?! I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you go live in an old age home. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school. You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you go back, spend your last 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, then you finish off as an orgasm! Amen.”

 - George Costanza

Cool Calvin & Hobbes Collection

That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.”

Main Characters

Calvin Named after 16th century theologian John Calvin, Calvin is an impulsive, imaginative, energetic, curious, intelligent, and often selfish six-year-old, whose last name the strip never gives. Despite his low grades, Calvin has a wide vocabulary range that rivals that of an adult as well as an emerging philosophical mind. “You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid?” he says. “Well, mine are even worse!” He commonly wears his distinctive striped shirt. Watterson has described Calvin thus: “Calvin is pretty easy to do because he is outgoing and rambunctious and there’s not much of a filter between his brain and his mouth.” “I guess he’s a little too intelligent for his age. The thing that I really enjoy about him is that he has no sense of restraint, he doesn’t have the experience yet to know the things that you shouldn’t do.” “The socialization that we all go through to become adults teaches you not to say certain things because you later suffer the consequences. Calvin doesn’t know that rule of thumb yet.” Calvinistic predestination as a philosophical position basically entails the idea that the human action affecting a person’s ultimate salvation or damnation is predestined. Calvin’s consistent gripe is that the troublesome acts he commits are outside of his control: he is simply a product of his environment, a victim of circumstances. He does frequently escape from his environment into elaborate fantasy worlds of his own creation; one of the strip’s recurring devices is the humorous juxtaposition of Calvin’s fantastic perception with the quotidian viewpoint of other characters. On many occasions, Calvin sees himself in one of his many alternate guises: as the superhero Stupendous Man, the astronaut and explorer Spaceman Spiff, the private eye Tracer Bullet, and many others.

… and Hobbes Hobbes is Calvin’s stuffed tiger who, from Calvin’s perspective, is as alive and real as anyone in the strip. He is named after 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who had what Watterson described as “a dim view of human nature.” Hobbes is much more rational and aware of consequences than Calvin, but seldom interferes with Calvin’s troublemaking beyond a few oblique warnings — after all, Calvin will be the one to get in trouble for it, not Hobbes. Hobbes also has the habit of regularly stalking and pouncing on Calvin, most often when Calvin returns home from school. From Calvin’s point of view, Hobbes is an anthropomorphic tiger, much larger than Calvin and full of his own attitudes and ideas. But when the perspective shifts to any other character, readers see merely a little stuffed tiger. This is, of course, an odd dichotomy, and Watterson explains it thus: When Hobbes is a stuffed toy in one panel and alive in the next, I’m juxtaposing the “grown-up” version of reality with Calvin’s version, and inviting the reader to decide which is truer. Although the first strips clearly show Calvin capturing Hobbes by means of a snare (with tuna fish as the bait), a later comic (1 August 1989) seems to imply that Hobbes is, in fact, older than Calvin, and has been around his whole life. Watterson eventually decided that it was not important to establish how Calvin and Hobbes had first met.

The Indispensable Calvin And Hobbes

Calvin, Hobbes, Susie … we all know about these major cast members … but there are also several items that contantly appear in every Calvin and Hobbes book. Find out about the ‘minor’ cast members on this page …

Television
Like any kid in today’s world, the Television rules Calvin’s world. So obsessed is Calvin with the TV that he stays to watch the advertisements. The TV has always been portrayed through the eyes of a parent – that is, nothing worthwhile is ever shown on the ‘idiot box’. That, of course, does not discourage Calvin from worshipping the television or even at times, offering ’sacrifices’.

Bed
Calvin has a long and deep relationship with his bed – not only is it a place where he sleeps, but he always lies on his bed after being sent to his room (which is frequent), and is continually petrified of the monsters lying underneath waiting for him.

It appears that Calvin seldom does anything peaceful (like sleeping) in his bed. Instead it is more a place to plot revenge, sulk, hide from monsters or a place to battle with Hobbes.

Food
Calvin has a hate hate relationship with his food. Not only does he detest the food that his mum prepares, but in his presence, the food takes on a life of its own – much to the distress of his mum and Susie.

Bath
There are some constants in Calvin’s life – one of them is his dislike of having a bath. Throughtout the entire series, there is an ongoing battle between Calvin and his mum for him to have a bath – leading to one strip where Calvin had a rather novel approach to bathing.

Mind you, once Calvin gets in a bath, his imagination runs riot again leading to some very funny strips.

Wagon
A magnificent piece of equipment! I’m thinking that it must have been built by Tonka Toys because there is no other way it could possibly survive the torment metted out by Calvin in his adventures in the woods – not to mention the occasional space journey to Mars.

Bicycle
Finally, there is Calvin’s bicycle. We all have childhood memories of seeing people riding with effortless grace yet when we tried, the bike turned into a savage and untamed beast which was determined to kill and maim us. Well Calvin experiences the same fear of learning to ride. The big difference between our experiences and Calvin’s is that our bikes don’t stalk us through the night!

Calvin And Hobbes:Weirdos From Another Planet

Calvin

Calvin is a mild mannered studious young lad. He concentrates on his studies and is top of his class. He always tries to be nice to those around him and do the best by them. His secret love is Susie Derkins whom he absolutely adores – unfortunately, his love is not reciprocated. His faithful companion is Hobbes.

Hobbes

Hobbes is a tiger. Caught at an early age and domesticated, he’s become an accepted part of the family. Hobbes is rather dumb and not altogether there – but regardless, Calvin still loves him dearly.

 Calvin’s Parents

Calvin’s mum, who is called Emma, is a senior executive at a large corporation. She is the ‘breadwinner’ of the family. Calvin’s dad used to work as a mechanic but gave up his job to help Calvin with his studies. In all, they are a very happy couple and enjoy doing activities together with Calvin on the weekends. Camping is a favourite pastime for them.

Susie Derkins

To put it simply, Susie is a brat. She takes great delight in thinking up nefarious schemes and inflicting these plans on some poor unsuspecting victim. Unfortunately, Calvin is often Susie’s victim but being madly in love, he still find himself drawn to the troublesome Susie.

Mrs Wormwood

An ageing teacher, she is one of the best in the school. It upsets her to see Susie pick on Calvin and does her best to protect him.

Moe

Moe is Calvin’s best friend at school and there is nothing that they would not do for each other. Often they like to stop in the corridor for a chat. They are the definition of friendship.

Calvin, Hobbes, Susie … we all know about these major cast members … but there are also several items that contantly appear in every Calvin and Hobbes book. The ‘minor’ cast members…

Television

Like any kid in today’s world, the Television rules Calvin’s world. So obsessed is Calvin with the TV that he stays to watch the advertisements. The TV has always been portrayed through the eyes of a parent – that is, nothing worthwhile is ever shown on the ‘idiot box’. That, of course, does not discourage Calvin from worshipping the television or even at times, offering ’sacrifices’.

Bed

Calvin has a long and deep relationship with his bed – not only is it a place where he sleeps, but he always lies on his bed after being sent to his room (which is frequent), and is continually petrified of the monsters lying underneath waiting for him.

It appears that Calvin seldom does anything peaceful (like sleeping) in his bed. Instead it is more a place to plot revenge, sulk, hide from monsters or a place to battle with Hobbes.

Food 
 Calvin has a hate hate relationship with his food. Not only does he detest the food that his mum prepares, but in his presence, the food takes on a life of its own – much to the distress of his mum and Susie.

Bath 
 There are some constants in Calvin’s life – one of them is his dislike of having a bath. Throughtout the entire series, there is an ongoing battle between Calvin and his mum for him to have a bath – leading to one strip where Calvin had a rather novel approach to bathing.

Mind you, once Calvin gets in a bath, his imagination runs riot again leading to some very funny strips.

Wagon

A magnificent piece of equipment! I’m thinking that it must have been built by Tonka Toys because there is no other way it could possibly survive the torment metted out by Calvin in his adventures in the woods – not to mention the occasional space journey to Mars.

Bicycle

Finally, there is Calvin’s bicycle. We all have childhood memories of seeing people riding with effortless grace yet when we tried, the bike turned into a savage and untamed beast which was determined to kill and maim us. Well Calvin experiences the same fear of learning to ride. The big difference between our experiences and Calvin’s is that our bikes don’t stalk us through the night!

“Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.”

Working women prefer plots and plans to pots and pans

 - Ambrose Bierce

“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.”

Dave Barry

“Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive”

~ Leslie McIntyre

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature”

-Petronius

“There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”

Washington Irving

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

Joseph Conrad

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes”;

They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes”

Clare Boothe Luce

 I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.

 ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, “Identity Crisis,” M*A*S*H

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

~Desmond Tutu

In time of test, family is best.

~Burmese Proverb

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.

~Lee Iacocca

“We should quietly hear both sides.”

 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
Psychoanalyst and philosopher

“Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”

 – Michael Leunig

“Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.”

 – Fr. Jerome Cummings

“Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.”

– Fr. Jerome Cummings

“Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.”

 – Harvey Mackay

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

~ by Hubert Humprey ~

Love is a haunting melody
That I have never mastered
And I fear I never will.

~ by William S. Burroughs ~

Love asks me no questions,
And gives me endless support…

~ by William Shakespeare ~

She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

~ by Byron ~

I have learned not to worry about love;
But to honor its coming with all my heart.

~ by Alice Walker ~

And think not you can
Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you worthy,
Directs your course.

~ by Gibran Kahlil Gibran ~

True poets don’t write
Their thoughts with a pen…
They release the ink that flows
From within their heart.

You love simply because you cannot help it.

~ by Kim Anderson ~

~ by The Holy Bible, New International Version Ephesians 5:25-33 ~

Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it .. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

~ by The Holy Bible, New International Version Ephesians 5:25-33 ~

I sought for Love
But Love ran away from me.
I sought my Soul
But my Soul I couldn’t see.
Then I sought You,
And I found all three.

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds — a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

-Jim Bishop

“Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.”

-Smiley Blanton

-Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus), De Consolatione Philosophiae

Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.

-Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus), De Consolatione Philosophiae

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

-Napoleon Bonaparte

-Alain de Botton, On Love

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

-Alain de Botton, On Love

-Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

-Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII

-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, A Love Song

Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw
The blind to hide the garden, where the moon
Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw
Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon.

And I do lift my aching arms to you,
And I do lift my anguished, avid breast,
And I do weep for very pain of you,
And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.

-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, A Love Song

“Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.”

-John Donne, “The Bait”

“If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you’re under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back.”

 – Rubel Shelly

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”

 – Edith Lovejoy Pierce

I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I miss you when something is troubling me, because you are the one who understands me so well. I miss you when I laugh and cry because i know that you are the one that makes my laughter grow and my tears disappear. I miss you all the time, but I miss you most when i lay awake at night and think of all the wonderful times we spent with each other; For those were some of the best times of my life.