A book is like a garden... carried in your pocket

~chinese proverb

“Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.”
― Robert Bennett

“Individual choices have universal consequences.”
― Laurie Buchanan

“You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.”
― J.E.B. Spredemann, An Unforgivable Secret

“ Live each day with honor, respect and dignity."
― Roopleen

" Believe in yourself, then it will never matter to you who else does."
-Unknown

“A low self-image is usually based upon facts.”
― Orrin Woodward

"Jeffrey Dahmer had a legal right to have knives and a boiling pot! That doesn’t mean it’s okay!”

Nancy Grace

Mother Theresa - Anyway...
 

“Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want but what you both want. Not just now, but in the future.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“She, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in her, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.”
― Paulo Coelho


“What barrier is there that love cannot break?”
― Mahatma Gandhi

"After my first love. I built this suit of armor, so strong, so invulnerable. I came across you. Slowly my guard was let down. So vulnerable to pain and despair. A love so perfect, so beautiful, was the double edged sword. One side so sweet. So dull of worry. So full of love. The other so sharp of worry. So deadly with confusion. So overcome of aberrancy. They meet at the apex. The sword was the only thing, The only thing to pierce through the armor. Through the mind, the soul, the heart. The sword tears a hole. The sharpest of sides is numb to pain, The dull side brings a pain. A pain so excruciating, the pain unreal, the suffering so great. This side pierces the mind, the soul, the heart.. The wound lasting and irreparable. A pain never to leave. A pain that allows you to live but in turn, it kills the mind, the soul, the heart. A pain that may lie dormant, only to arise and hurt more than it ever did. But through all doubt and suffering, the love was worth the pain. The love so perfect so beautiful. Was worth the pain. Was worth the death of me. Was worth losing everything I ever had. Even if it was you that I lost."
~Unknown

From a friend's FB page...
 

Because what's a birthday without fairies?
 

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake."
~Francis Bacon, Sr.

"When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. It's not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, Do you remember that night we...? But you don't have to. That is the best of all. You know that the other person does remember. Thus, the past is part of the present as long as the other person lives. It is better than any scrapbook, because you are both living scrapbooks."
~Federico Fellini

" I dont think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think its annoying. "
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