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That's what it's all about!

"My wife and I have an agreement in our marriage, and part of that contract is that we are going to shine our lights on each other.” Ashton Kutcher on his marriage to Demi Moore.

Focus

Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet. -Marianne Williamson

Sentimental

"There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me." - Gretchen Kemp

Discovery

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself." —Alan Alda

It all happened for a reason.

"What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, a spiritually, you will have to change what you think." -Dr. Patrick Gentempo

Why I haven't read his books is beyond me.

“That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.” Malcolm Gladwell (emphasis is allllllllllll mine).

This is a good reminder for me these days.

Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow. ~Unknown

Watchful

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." —Laozi (Lao-tzu)

Impressions

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The pursuit of happiness

"Some pursue happiness, others create it. " -Anonymous

Stuck in my head.

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

Easier said than done.

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." — Lady Dorothy Nevi

That Gilda was a wise woman.

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what is going to happen next.” -Gilda Radner

Realllllllllllllly?????

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” -- William James

Strawberry Jam

"When you overthink at the wrong moment, you cut yourself off from the wisdom of your emotions, which are much better at assessing actual preferences. You lose the ability to know what you really want. And then you choose the worst strawberry jam." Johan Lehrer - author of How We Decide.

The race is long.

"The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the others than it is to drive too hard and crash." The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

It's not the load...

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” ~Lena Horne

Proverb

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Cherokee Proverb

Rumi

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ~Rumi

We are what we think.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi