Quote of the Day, Part 2...

I recently found this pic on Facebook. I can relate to this quote...but mostly in a negative way. Carry on!

Quote of the Day...

"Don't grow complacent in life. God will punish you for it."

-― Me

Wise Words By Kylo Ren (Or Rian Johnson)...

"Let the past die. Kill it...if you have to. That's the only way to become who you're meant to be."
So are the words spoken by Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) in the newest trailer for this December's Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Overlooking the fact that the preview hints at the aspiring Sith Lord performing matricide (right after committing patricide in 2015's The Force Awakens), this quote applies to the real world as well. As the meme below also shows, sometimes we need to do drastic things to eliminate the past in order to focus on the future. I've been working on this since earlier this year—getting rid of things that I've had since my childhood to be able to look to the present and what lies ahead. I've been a little successful at this so far, hah. But yea, methinks I'm gonna have to try a bit harder in stop dwelling on events that have come and gone and realize that I can't reach my full potential until I concentrate on the here and now.

Oh, Star Wars...always featuring memorable quotes to help guide fans like me as we try to, in the words of Supreme Leader Snoke (and um, Emperor Palpatine before him), fulfill our destiny. Credit The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson for coming up with that noteworthy line at the beginning of this Blog entry. Happy Tuesday!

Quote of the Day...

You Go, Bernie Sanders!

Quotes of the Day...

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

-― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever


“Sometimes I can’t see myself when I’m with you. I can only just see you.”

-― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily


“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

-― Beth Revis, Across the Universe


“I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.”

-― Rae Carson, The Crown of Embers


“I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you.”

-― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster


“I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.”

-― Cynthia Hand, Boundless

Quotes of the Day...

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”

-― John Green


“When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, 'What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?'”

-― Shannon L. Alder


“I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.”

-― Nan Goldin


“No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”

-― Lana Del Rey


“It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.”

-― Charlotte Featherstone, Addicted


“I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.”

-― Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour

Quotes of the Day, Part 2...

“When did I know I was in love? I knew it the moment I realized that even the smallest room seemed so vastly empty when she was not near me.”

-― Steve Maraboli


“Falling in love is a wonderfully terrifying sensation.”

-― Steve Maraboli


“Love is meant to be taken seriously, like a joke.”

-― Jarod Kintz, I Want


“I hate the bitter ache that love brings. Yet, I wouldn't want it to leave.”

-― Treasure Tatum


“I see these lights, every time I look into your eyes. It crosses my heart, and make me feel in love.”

-― Jayson Engay


“When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.”

-― Coco J. Ginger

Quotes of the Day...

“There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.”

-― Jeff Thomas


“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”

-― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest


“The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant so very far apart that they cannot feel the warmth of each other even though they are made of burning.”

-― Beth Revis, Across the Universe


“Till then I wasn't alive, I longed for you like the love sick moon pulls the tide”

-― Corinne Bailey Rae


“But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.”

-― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”

-― Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table

Quotes of the Day...

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now.”

-― Edna St. Vincent Millay


“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”

-― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun


“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”

-― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic


“My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all... All my heart has ever wanted is you.”

-― Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire


"If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it."

-― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life


“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”

-― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

Quotes of the Day, Part 2...

“It's crazy how you can go months or years without talking to someone but they still cross your mind everyday.”

-― Anurag Prakash Ray


“I thought I'm over with you, but each time I think of somebody special, it's always you.”

-― Terry Mark


“Just because we don't talk doesn't mean I don't think about you. I'm just trying to distance myself because I know I can't have you.”

-― Anmol Andore


“Dreaming about you makes my life worthwhile and thinking about you always makes me smile.”

-― Ana Chable


"The first person who is on your mind the moment you open your eyes after a long sleep is the reason either of your HAPPINESS or PAIN..."

-― Melchor Lim


“If you ever ask me how many times you've crossed my mind, I would say once. Because you came, and never left.”

-― Ritu Ghatourey

Quotes of the Day...

“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”

-― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration


“This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender...”

-― Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake


“I remember that feeling of skin. It's strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.”

-― Lucy Christopher


“If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me.”

-― Jessica Verday, The Haunted


"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek!"

-― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet


“If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!”

-― Angelina Jolie

Quotes of the Day...

“I want my love story to read as, he was searching for her and she was searching for him. They met accidentally and they almost passed each other but with that first look they sealed their souls forever.”

-― Genevieve Aston


“I always wanted something but never knew that all I ever wanted was more and more of YOU!”

-― Sukiyaki Chi


“No matter how far you go, I will always remember you and if you hear the sounds of beats somewhere in silence then remember that its my heart which beats for you every day.”

-― Jonah Swans


“There are various reasons why we met. Some say it was destiny, some say that it was chance but I think it was 3 things... Love, love and love.”

-― Merak Jonas


"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."

-― Bryant H. McGill


“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”

-― Marlene Dietrich

Quotes of the Day...

“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”

-― Honore de Balzac


“A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.”

-― Marilyn Monroe


“Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.”

-― Marilyn Monroe


“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”

-― Victor Hugo


"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."

-― Dale Carnegie


“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”

-― H. L. Mencken

Quotes of the Day...

“I loved her but she didn't love me back. I tried my best but in the end she treated me like the rest. Now I'm here all alone wondering where I went wrong. Just dreaming what could have been if she was still around.”

-― Mahmoud El Hallab


“I always remember those little moments I had with you. They might not have meant anything to you but to me, memories like those are meant to forever last in my heart.”

-― Mahmoud El Hallab


“When you lose someone that means a lot to you, you lose a part of you.”

-― Mahmoud El Hallab


“I still remember the days you were here with me. We were so happy I didn't think it would ever end but now you're gone and you left me here all by myself. You moved on and forgot about me but I'm still here holding on to our memories, hoping someday you'll come back. I know eventually I'll have to move on and forget about you like you forgot about me but I just can't move on because I'm still in love with you.”

-― Mahmoud El Hallab


“I honestly can't take this anymore. I just can't stand it seeing you with him any longer. I tried to be strong, I tried to let you go but I guess I'm just fooling myself because baby I'm still in love with you.”

-― Mahmoud El Hallab


“In the end, every single moment with you was worth it.”

-― Mahmoud El Hallab

Quotes of the Day, Part 2...

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”

-― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love


“We smile but I want more. I want her to hug me.”

-― M.J. Hayland


“You know that moment when you hug somebody, when your heart feels warm and high in your chest and tingly? When you feel just for a second like a baby in a womb... that nothing matters? That's how I want you to feel. That's what a girlfriend should do, I think.”

-― Jake Vander Ark, The Accidental Siren


"Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you."

-― Jacques Prévert


“Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.”

-― Gina Barreca

Quotes of the Day...

“When you have crush you become nothing but a poet.”

-― Sikhwetha maanda stanley


“Only once in my lifetime, I truly believe I find someone who can turn my world around, I share dreams that I never achieved and goals that were achieved, but there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.”

-― Sikhwetha maanda stanley


“Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.”

-― Maya Banks, Rush


“If we were watching a show for two hours I would go if it meant being with her.”

-― Marisa Calin, Between You & Me


“She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.”

-― Bruce Springsteen

Quote of the Day...

"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

Quote of the Day...

"Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number."

-― Jodi Picoult

Quote of the Day, Part 2...

"It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It's just different. Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it's okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite."

-― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Quote of the Day...

"How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?"

-― Steve Martin, Shopgirl