Love

The truth about love is that it is ever changing. Throughout the life of a relationship, individuals change and life itself changes. Love has to be flexible enough to accommodate new information, new roles, and new ways of loving one another. - Patricia Love

There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, and every kind of love makes a glory in the night. There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest, but the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best. - Henry van Dyke

There is nothing like young love. It is exciting, it is stimulating, and it is often the most complicated. Why? Because the two of you are still on a path of self-discovery, defining yourselves and trying to define a combined relationship at the same time. - Zane

To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight. - George Henry Lewes

Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again. - Carol Rifka Brunt

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Quote Worthy

An emotion is only an emotion. It’s just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you’re aware of that, you won’t be afraid of your emotions. - Thich Nhat Hanh

There are indeed times when one should trust blindly, just as there are times when one should not. Wisdom consists in being able to tell one from the other. - Daniel Quinn

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls – to the liberal minded the whole world is a family. - Virchand Gandhi

They are not poor that have little, but they that desire much. The richest man, whatever his lot, is the one who’s content with his lot. - Dutch Proverb

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. - Roderick Thorp

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin

If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds. - H. Burke Peterson

You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass. - Timber Hawkeye

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. - Tommy Lasorda

All doubt, despair and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love. - Rumi

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues

Until you spread your wings, you’ll never know how far you can fly. - Unknown

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Humour

Definitions You Won’t See In The Dictionary

Man: an animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. - Ambrose Bierce

Pessimism: a valuable protection against quackery. - John Ralston Saul

Philosophy: a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. - Ambrose Bierce

Politics: a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. - Frank Herbert

Quotation: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce

Sailing - the fine art of slowly going nowhere at great expense while being cold, wet and miserable. - Irv Heller

Science: the creation of dilemmas by the solution of mysteries. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together. - Sam Levenson

Spouse: someone who’ll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn’t have had if you’d stayed single. - Unknown

Tennis: a racquet sport in which two players compete to see who has the shortest temper, the worst memory, the poorest eyesight, and the slowest watch. - Unknown

Tomorrow: a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored. - Unknown

Food for Thought

The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science. If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated. - Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter

The reality is that we don’t forget, move on, and have closure, but rather we honour, we remember, and incorporate our deceased children and siblings into our lives in a new way. In fact, keeping memories of your loved one alive in your mind and heart is an important part of your healing journey. - Harriet Schiff

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways. - Mother Teresa

There is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one. - Dean Koontz

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear. - Charles Caleb Colton

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Videos

I have been playing around with the video creator on YouTube. Here are some of my initial efforts - quotes related, of course.

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Humorous Quotes

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. - Mark Twain

My mom said she learned how to swim. Someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. That’s how she learned how to swim. I said, ‘Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.’ - Paula Poundstone

There's lotion for your face, for your hands, for your feet, for your body. Why? What would happen if you put hand lotion on your feet? Would your feet get confused and start clapping? - Ellen DeGeneres

There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later. - Douglas Adams

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody’s fingers. - Rodney Dangerfield

A woman is always ready to describe another woman as charming, but only if the other woman is not charming. - Evan Esar

The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss. - Jarod Kintz

If you want breakfast in bed, you have to consider sleeping in the kitchen. - Unknown

Any fool can tell the truth. It requires a man of some sense to lie well. - Unknown

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. - Oscar Wilde

Some minds are so unclothed that they are indecent. - Austin O’Malley

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. - Ernestine Ulmer

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Friends

What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit. - Andre Maurois

Friends are the fruitcake of our lives. Some are nutty, some are soaked in alcohol, some firm, some sweet, but altogether, they are great to have in your life. - Unknown

Friendship is not about finding the right person but, creating the right relation. It’s not how much we care in the beginning but how much we care till the end. - Unknown

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. - Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. - Henry David Thoreau

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. - Honoré de Balzac

Remember, you don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of. - Unknown

Strangers can become best friends just as easy as best friends can become strangers. - Unknown

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. - Charles Lamb

Few delights can equal the mere presence of someone we utterly trust. - George MacDonald

Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff. - Jon Katz

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. - Khalil Gibran

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Quote Worthy

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go. - Steve Maraboli

Every human has four endowments: self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom – The power to choose, to respond, to change. - Steven Covey

The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious. - George Eliot

It seems to me that the more ignorant you are, the smarter you think you are, and the smarter you are, the more you realize how ignorant you are. - Don Freeman

It's a hard talk for a man to say I don't know; it hurts his pride: but should not the pretending he does, hurt it much more? - Fulke Greville

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage concludes it will also make a better soup. - H. L. Mencken

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. - Unknown

When I was a child I was afraid of ghosts. As I grew up I realized people are more scary! - Susban R Sharma

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. - W. Somerset Maugham

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way. - Shannon L. Alder

If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it. - Ashleigh Brilliant

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. - Hubert H. Humphrey

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A Bag of Nails

There once was a boy with a very bad temper. The boy’s father wanted to teach him a lesson, so he gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper he must hammer a nail into their wooden fence.

On the first day of this lesson, the little boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. He was really mad!

Over the course of the next few weeks, the little boy began to control his temper, so the number of nails that were hammered into the fence dramatically decreased.

It wasn’t long before the little boy discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Then, the day finally came when the little boy didn’t lose his temper even once, and he became so proud of himself, he couldn’t wait to tell his father.

Pleased, his father suggested that he now pull out one nail for each day that he could hold his temper.

Several weeks went b and the day finally came when the young boy was able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

Very gently, the father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

“You have done very well, my son,” he smiled, “but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.”

The little boy listened carefully as his father continued to speak.

“When you say things in anger, they leave permanent scars just like these. And no matter how many times you say you’re sorry, the wounds will still be there.”

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Food for Thought

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress. - Viggo Mortensen

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also… but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don’t EVER stop. - Steve Maraboli

Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation – people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness. - D. M. Raup

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. - Rumi

The issues that confront us may seem so huge, so complicated, so difficult to deal with that it's hard to believe that anything we can do will have a meaningful impact. But there are a lot of us in the world. A lot of people doing a lot of little things could have a huge impact. And by doing something, we are also demonstrating that lots of people really do care. - Michael Norton

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