Happy 3 Year Anniversary

I wanted to be with him forever. 

I marveled at how such a monumental realization can unfold in an instant 

and change every single thing in your life...

-Something Blue

Cherish The Little Things

Sometimes you'll never know the value of a moment 

until it becomes a memory... 

-Dr.Seuss

Dance

“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.” 

-George Carlin

Good

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” 

-Abraham Lincoln

Life Is A Battle

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” 

-Plato

The Truth About Death

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

-Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

God's Love

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” 

-C.S. Lewis

Dream

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” 

-Paulo Coelho, Alchemist

Unlikely

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” 

-Roald Dahl

Within

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticized

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” 

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Genius

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, 

it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” 

-Albert Einstein

This Moment

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.” 

-Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

I Love You...

"I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.” 

- Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

Smile

“Peace begins with a smile...” 

-Mother Teresa

Harmony

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” 

-Mahatma Gandhi

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, 

but that doesn't make you love them any less. 

Sometimes you love them more.” 

-Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.” 

-Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

Bird Song

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” 

-Maya Angelou

Shayna

Why do we think that hate's going to change their heart?

We're up in arms over wars that don't need to be fought

But pride won't let us lay our weapons on the ground

We build our bridges up but just to burn them down

We think pain is owed apologies and then it'll stop

But truth be told it doesn't matter if they're sorry or not

Freedom comes when we surrender to the sound of mercy and Your grace,

Father, send Your angels down

-Tenth Avenue North, Losing

Think What You Want

“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. 

If they care enough to bother with what I do, 

then I'm already better than them.” 

-Marilyn Monroe

Books

“It is books that are a key to the wide world; 

if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.” 

-Jane Hamilton

Everyday

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”

- Nicholas Sparks The Notebook

Merry Christmas

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."

- Calvin Coolidge

A Beautiful Season

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

- Norman Vincent Peale

The Meaning of Christmas

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. 

Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it. 

- Caroline Kennedy

Grow Old With Me

As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, 

There is one thing that will never change. . . 

I will always keep falling in love with you 

- Karen Clodfelder

Women and Men

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

-Joseph Conrad

Be Vulnerable

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” 

- C.S. Lewis The Four Loves

Passionate and Crazy

Unless it's mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it's a waste of your time. 

There are too many mediocre things in life. 

Love shouldn't be one of them.

-Dream For An Insomniac

Shoes

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.” 

-Marilyn Monroe

Light and Dark

“We've all got both light and dark inside us. 

What matters is the part we choose to act on. 

That's who we really are.” 

- J.K. Rowling

Deal With It

Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”

-Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

Love and Happiness

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person 

is essential to your own.” 

-Robert A. HeinLein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Like A Woman

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; 

it jumps from admiration to love, 

from love to matrimony in a moment.” 

-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Sources

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” 

- Albert Einstein

Misbehave

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” 

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

No Fear

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. 

A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” 

-Mark Twain

Imagine Always

“Everything you can imagine is real.” 

-Pablo Picasso

You Are The Key

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” 

-Bill Cosby

Best Friends

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” 

- Sarah Dessen, Somone Like You

By the Sun and the Son

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

- C.S. Lewis

Create Yourself

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” 

-George Bernard Shaw

Go Crazy

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

-Charles Bukowski

Friends

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” 

-William Shakespeare

Be Happy

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” 

-Abraham Lincoln

Make Her Laugh

“If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.” 

-Marilyn Monroe

Happiness

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” 

-Helen Keller

Let's Be Weird Together

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. 

And when we find someone whose weirdness 

is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into 

mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” 

-Robert Fulghum, True Love

One Hundred Minus One Day

“If you live to be a hundred, 

I want to live to be a hundred minus one day 

so I never have to live without you.” 

-A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh