My Life in Quotes

My self esteem:
"Beauty only goes skin deep, but isn't that deep enough? What do you want an adorable pancreas?"

My love of Love:
"Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for." -Erika Jong

"The course of true love never did run smooth" -Lysander, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

For my Dad:
"Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor." -Hugh Elliot

My Happiness
"All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh." -Doris Lessing

My hope for humanity:
"What can we say about a society that believes God is dead but Elvis is alive? "

To my mom:
"It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.” -Alex Karras

Keeping my cool:
"Dont get mad at things, things dont care."

My marriage:
"Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter." -Cecilia Egan

"Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." -Samuel Johnson

Being a mommy:
"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." -Elizabeth Stone

To encourage me in my crappy job:
“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” -Malcolm S. Forbes

Life in general:
"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something." -Wesley, The Princess Bride

"Be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble." -William Barclay

About My Saviour:
"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me." ~Robert M. McCheyne

"He changed sunset into sunrise." ~Clement of Alexandria

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
C. S. Lewis