Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week. --Michael Symon

"Let the minds clash, but keep the fists down."

Martin Luther

One evening I sat beauty on my knees
and I found her bitter
and I reviled her.

Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell

“Because being with you makes perfect sense” ― Tim McGraw


“...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.” -Robert Dawkins


“If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.” ― Steve Maraboli

“everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!”
― Leslie Feinberg,

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland


We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest,
remembers it most obsessively,
wrenches it from itself,
shapes it,
renders it,
loves it so radically that he remakes it into his own image.


>*Joan Didion

'there is no truer gift than the trust of a woman when you have earned it through patience, compassion and the choice to stand resolute while her fear and doubt cries out her terror into the space between you '

Pablo Neruda

" Real love stories never have endings. " -Brian Bauch

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”- Unknown

"Mediocrity, low esteem, self loathing, all have one thing in common... laziness." - Unknown

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny,
but chaos in the midst of order is.

~Steve Martin

I agree, true abiding love is not shaken with the challenges of everyday living..you can't imagine your life without it, like the sunrise in the morning..anything else, so called, is just vanity

“Life is short, Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret ANYTHING
That makes you smile.”

― Mark Twain

“You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.” ― Steve Maraboli

“Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.” -Fannery O'Connor

I still close my eyes and go home...I can always draw from that.

~Dolly Parton