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

Double Double Toil And Trouble

“I wish everyday could be Halloween. 

We could all wear masks all the time. 

Then we could walk around and get to know each other 

before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.” 

R.J. Palacio

Be Ridiculous

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius 

and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

- Marilyn Monroe

The Little Things In Life

“There are only two ways to live your life. 

One is as though nothing is a miracle. 

The other is as though everything is a miracle.” 

- Albert Einstein

Living Life To The Fullest

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” 

- Oscar Wilde

Music = Life

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” 

- Fiedrich Nietzsche

True To Yourself

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Bittersweet

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. 

People change so that you can learn to let go, 

things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, 

you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, 

and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” 

- Marilyn Monroe

Only ONE You

Do you realize what you are to me?

What you're always going to be?

You're the love of my life.

Everyone else will always be second best.

There will never be another you...

-Roswell

Love Can Light The Way

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. 

Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Heart of Gold

“If you want to know what a man's like, 

take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” 

-J.K. Rowling

I'll Be Watching You

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; 

worry that they are always watching you."

- Robert Fulghum

Just How Much

It's a curious thought, but it's only when you see people looking ridiculous 

that you realize just how much you love them.

-Agatha Christie

Message In A Bottle

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, 

to be carried by the winds and the tides. 

- Gene Tierney

Laughter

All that I'm after is a life full of laughter,

As long as I'm laughing with you...

-Daughtry

Awakening

This love think awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never knew existed.

-Cecilia Ahern

Anything But Mine

And I don't see

How you could ever be

Anything but mine...

-Kenny Chesney

Move

Be not afraid of going slowly.  Be afraid of standing still.

~ Japanese Proverb

San Gabriel

And when we get home,

I know we won't be home at all

This place we live,

It is not where we belong

And I miss who we were

In the town that we could call our own

So we stand here now

And no one knows us at all

I won't get used to this,

I won't get used to being gone

Magic

Love is the closest thing we have to magic

Rainy Day

So what if I see a little sunshine in the pouring rain?

Two-Faced

No man, for any considerable period,

can wear one face to himself

and another to the multitude,

without finally getting bewildered

as to which may be true.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Feelings Show

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, 

people will forget what you did, 

but people will never forget how you made them feel.” 

- Maya Angelou

Crazy

"Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world 

are the ones who do."

-Steve Jobs

Waters Of The Deep

You have to tread through some bad days to earn the best days of your life. 

If you're in deep waters, keep your head up!

-Tyra Banks

Courage

”The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” 

-Vincent van Gogh

When Times Are Hard

Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.

If you push through the hard days,

then you can get through anything...

-Gabby Douglas

Found

Not all those who wander are lost...

- J.R.R. Tolken

Abilities

"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

The Road Less Traveled...

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - 

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

-Robert Frost

Saved

Jesus is my savior

not my religion...

Curiosity Is A Beautiful Thing...

Be curious, not judgmental.

-Walt Whitman

Friendship

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” 

-Elbert Hubbard

Lying Is Overrated

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” 

-Mark Twain

Don't Let Them

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” 

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Praise Habit

What if praise were on the tip of our tongues 

like we were a loaded weapon 

in the hands of a trigger-happy meth addict 

and every moment might just set us off?

-David Crowder

Stormy Days

Oh, no... You never let go

Through the calm and through the storm...

Oh, no... You never let go

Lord, You never let go of me

-Matt Redman

Friends Forever

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” 

-C.S. Lewis

Dream Come True

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep 

because reality is finally better than your dreams.” 

-Dr Seuss

Eyes Forward

Don't look back unless you intend to go that way...

-David Weatherford

Love

All you need is love.

-John Lennon

Time

Time passes.  Even when it seems impossible.  Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise.  It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does.  Even for me.

-New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

True To Yourself

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” 

-Oscar Wilde

:)

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” 

-Dr. Seuss

Work Hard

Hard work has made it easy.

That is my secret.

That is why I win.

-Nadia Comaneci

Reality

Reality is a lovely place

but I wouldn't want to live there...

~ Owl City

Explore. Dream. Discover

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” 

-H. Jackson Brown Jr.

First Time's The Charm

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” 

-Mae West

Change

"Even if something is left undone, 

everyone must take time to sit still 

and watch the leaves turn."

-Elizabeth Lawrence