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

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorow

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, 

today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

- Bil Keane

Childish

I think you should be a child for as long as you can.

I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.

Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

-Bob Newhart