We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.--Anais Nin

Crying relieves pressure on soul.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Grace under pressure.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Grace under pressure.”
― Ernest Hemingway

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.--Phyllis Diller

“ You can't give someone self-esteem. They have to build it themselves .”
― Randy Pausch


“No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself.”
― Paul Hoffmann



“Judging is the cause that creates the effect of choosing.”
― Joey Lawsin

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides:
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

King Lear


I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Shakira




The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

Stephen King

“Contrary to what we've been told, life is simple. We complicate matters with our choices.”
― Michelle Richardson

“Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.”

“I will always find a way and a way will always find me.”

"Your unique gift to the world simply cannot be given if you’re worried about the nature of the gift. You are here to shake things up and create something that nobody else can. Stop holding yourself back. Let your fingerprints glimmer under the black light of everything you love. Seize your life by seizing the day by seizing the moment. Fall in love with yourself all over again. Be fierce. Be brilliant. Be extraordinary. But first, let yourself be worthy."

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. ~William Dean Howells

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ~Denis Waitley

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb

Life didn't promise to be wonderful. ~Teddy Pendergrass

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
― Albert Einstein

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.”
― Bonnie Hunt

“Persistance is the quality of winners.”
― Lynda Field

“I do not regret one moment of my life.”
― Lillie Langtry


“Love is something you must give, in order to have.”
― Nakia R. Laushaul

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.--Judy Garland

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"

“When people show you who they're believe them.”
― Bianca Frazier

“When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.”
― Criss Jami

“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”
― Earl Nightingale


“Real intimacy is a sacred experience. A deep unspoken trust .”
― John O'Donohue


“I am the only force strong enough to stop me.”
― Naya S. Wood

Happy Valentines Day, Everyone!