“I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
~Mother Teresa

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”
~Bob Marley

“You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.”
~ Sarah Dessen

“Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”
~ Wm. Paul Young

“He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.”
― Lao Tzu

“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.”
― Charles Kingsley

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"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul."
~David Gemmell

"The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems"
~Billy Joel

“It feels incredible to be outside when I’m supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating." - Sara Dueling





“Somebody knows.”― Ally Carter



“I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.” ― Juliet Marillier

“Oh yeah? What did you have last night?"
"Turkey sandwich on wheat. With a pickle."
"And the night before?"
"Turkey sandwich on wheat. No pickle."
She giggled. "What was the last hot meal you cooked?"
He pretended to rack his brains. "Uh...beans and franks. On Monday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One


(this is pretty much (me and her) only substitute Turkey Sandwich for Bologna or a cold taco) ...lol

"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!."
~Bob Marley

"A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all."
~Unknown

"People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true."
— Robert Ringer

Because it's a mad mad world
 

Just when you think you've got it all together, things you have never seen or heard will present themselves in your life. They will push you, test you and challenge you to do more growing, more learning, more of what we have already done. Very often, when this happens, we are tempted to believe that we have done something wrong or that we missed something. Rarely do we understand that you cannot get too much of a good thing, and growing, learning, and living are all good things.

~Iyanla Vanzant

“While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.” ― Steve Maraboli


“Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.” ― Steve Maraboli




“Many people succeed when others do not believe in them. But rarely does a person succeed when he does not believe in himself.” ― Herb True

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6_IWtRRpdN...your-life1.jpg


Katniss~~(and last but not least, life turns on a dime. Practice the art of extreme appreciation.)

“What you say and how you look does not define who you are,because some of the most beautiful people do the ugliest things.You owe it to the people who hate you, who disrespect you and who put you down,
because they’re the ones who have made you who you are today,for keeping your head up and not breaking down when they want you to.”
~ Amber Ward

I overheard this today from an older gentleman talking to a younger man at a church gathering and I wanted to share the sentiment;

"Don't be so busy trying to live a lifestyle that you forget to live your life."


Katniss~~

"What I've felt most inspired by is that, like Scripture, when you reach the end of the story, it's a new beginning."
— Steven Chapman

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
— Helen Keller

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“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”
Deepak Chopra

“I hate the word failure, but I love the word mistake.”

- Lisa Gersh, President and COO, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

___steps in quietly.....
 

“A truth that no one knows is still the truth.” ― Sharon Shinn


" You want strength? You want happiness? You want independence? You want peace? Then learn to live without others approval, and praise." Unknown


" Saying it doesn't make it so, writing it doesn't make it so, hoping it doesn't make it so, dreaming it doesn't make it so. Doing it, now you might be on to something." - Unknown

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
~ Albert Einstein

“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
― Jim Morrison

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
~Brian Tracy

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

When Love comes suddenly and taps
on your window, run and let it in but first
shut the door of your reason.
Even the smallest hint chases love away
like smoke that drowns the freshness
of the morning breeze.
To reason Love can only say,
the way is barred, you can't pass through
but to the lover it offers a hundred blessings.
Before the mind decides to take a step
Love has reached the seventh heaven.
Before the mind can figure how
Love has climbed the Holy Mountain.
I must stop this talk now and let
Love speak from its nest of silence.

- Rumi

"Fake paper flowers, however beautifully crafted, can spread no fragrance. Being true to yourself makes you genuine, that is strong as well as meaningful." ~Unknown

“Silence does not always mark wisdom.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge



"Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." -Desmond Tutu



“If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.”
― Paul F. Davis