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

Acts Of Kindness

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” 

-Mother Teresa

Music

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” 

-Bob Marley

Imagination and Logic

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” 

-Albert Einstein

Love Deeply

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, 

while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” 

-Lao Tzu

Never Too Late

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” 

-George Eliot

Just Get Used To It

“Women and cats will do as they please, 

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” 

-Robert A. Heinlein

Remember To Live

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” 

-J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Right Where I Need To Be

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, 

but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” 

-Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

And It's Just You and Me Here Now...

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. 

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. 

Be kind anyway. 

If you are honest, people may cheat you. 

Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. 

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. 

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. 

Give your best anyway. 

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. 

It was never between you and them anyway.” 

-Mother Teresa

Church

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian 

must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” 

- Garrison Keillor 

Choices

“It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, 

far more than our abilities.” 

-J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Together

What value will there ever be in life if we aren't together?

-Becoming Jane

Fantasy

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. 

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” 

-Dr. Seuss

Baby Steps

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person; 

he believed in me.”

- Jim Valvano

Sunsets and Sushi

Never waste any amount of time doing anything important 

when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!

- C. Joybell C.

Who Are You?

“It is better to be hated for what you are 

than to be loved for what you are not.” 

-Andre Gide

Possessions

“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.” 

- Peace Pilgrim

Emotion

“There is a sacredness in tears. 

They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. 

They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. 

They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, 

of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”

- Washington Irving