--IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I LAID EYES ON YOU

 

…I hope your weekend was fabulous.
Here are some things to get us kick-started for a new week:

“The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you figure out why.” Mark Twain

"The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don’t get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get." Terence

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can’t prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives." Jesse Herman Holmes

"The secret of intelligence is asking questions." Ryan Meeks

"Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man." Nabokov

-"Silence gives you time to think."

-"Human beings have a tendency to be off-balance."
-"tantum quantum.  It stands for: So much, how much.  So much you need, that's how much you should get." Jerry Brown

-“Destiny is something we’ve invented because we can’t stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.”

-“Above all, be the heroine in your life, not the victim.”
-“I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” (‘When Harry Met Sally’)
-“Never marry a man you wouldn’t want a divorce from.” Nora Ephron

-“And if you want a woman to love you, then you’re going to have to dance.  And if you don’t want to dance, then you’re going to have to work extra-hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.”

-“It’s not oil that runs the world, it’s shame.”
-“Mothers are almost always better men than men are.”
-“I would always feel closest to the man who had disappointed me.” Sherman Alexie