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What Love means to a 4-8 year old:

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, ’What does love mean?’ The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined

See what you think:

‘When my grandmother got arthritis , she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore.. So my grandfather does it for her all the time , even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.’
– Rebecca, age 8

‘When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.’
– Billy, age 4

‘Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.’
– Karl, age 5

‘Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.’
–Chrissy, age 6

‘Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.’
-Terri, age 4

‘Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him , to make sure the taste is OK.’
– Danny, age 7

‘Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing , you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that.
They look gross when they kiss’
– Emily, age 8

‘Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents
and listen.’
–Bobby, age 7

‘If you want to learn to love better , you should start with a friend who you hate”
–Nikka, age 6

‘Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt , then he wears it everyday..’
–Noelle, age 7

‘Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.’ –Tommy, age 6

‘During my piano recital , I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn’t scared anymore.’
– Cindy, age 8

‘My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.’
–Clare, age 6

‘Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.’
–Elaine, age 5

‘Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.’ –Chris, age 7

‘Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.’
-Mary Ann, age 4

‘I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.’
–Lauren, age 4

‘When you love somebody , your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.’
- Karen, age 7

‘Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn’t think it’s gross..’
–Mark, age 6

‘You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.’
–Jessica, age 8

The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, ‘Nothing , I just helped him cry’.
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Hello August; Auntie Treated Me Lunch Yesterday TuT!

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Louis E. Boone

Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown Chuck Palahniuk

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Dalai Lama

Sometimes the hardest things and the right things are the same. The Fray


Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.
Nicholas Sparks

Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in the four C’s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.” - Walt Disney

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
Bertrand Russell

How come no one told me all through history the loneliest people were the ones who always spoke the truth
Misread
- Kings of Convenience

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
Mary Manin Morrissey

If we never did anything, we wouldn’t be anybody.
An Education

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King Jr.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

If you believe in yourself and with a tiny bit of magic, all your dreams can come true.
Spongebob Squarepants

If you act like someone you’re not, pretty soon that’s who you become.
Vanessa Hudgens as Gabriella Montez (High School Musical 2)

You’re mad. Bonkers. Off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret - all the best people are.
Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
Gail Sheehy

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.
Paulo Coelho



Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to dream. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Michael Jackson


Now I don’t see anything evil in a desire to make money. But money is only a means to some end. If a man wants it for a personal purpose — to invest in his industry, to create, to study, to travel, to enjoy luxury — he’s completely moral. But the men who place money first go much beyond that. Personal luxury is a limited endeavor. What they want is ostentation: to show, to stun, to entertain, to impress others… At the price of their own self-respect. In the realm of greatest importance — the realm of values, of judgment, of spirit, of thought — they place others above self, in the exact manner which altruism demands. A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn’t need it.
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead


There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey




Remember: happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
Christopher Boone (The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Mark Haddon, 2003)

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius

It’s not that he was ashamed, or even that he thought he was doing something wrong, because he knew that what he was doing was right, more right than anything he saw anyone do, and he knew that doing right often means feeling wrong, and if you find yourself feeling wrong, you’re probably doing right. But he also knew that there is an inflationary aspect to love, and that should his mother, or Rose, or any of those who loved him find out about each other, they would not be able to help but feel of lesser value. He knew that I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else. He knew that it is, by love’s definition, impossible to love two people.
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

To Siloso Beach

(with kieran and olivia =)

Don’t ever let your mind stop you from having a good time
-Jason Mraz

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
-William Ellery Channing

You know, you all must get quiet every day. If you are not getting quiet every day and moving into meditation/communication, you will only get so much.
-The Pleiadians channeled by Barbara J. Marciniak

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
-Ansel Adams

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it safers, the creatures of the common place, the slaves of the ordinary.
-Cecil Beaton

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want.
-White Oleander


I think it’s the little things that count.
-Drew Barrymore

You have given me the highest, completest proof of love that ever one human being gave another. I am all gratitude and all pride that my life has been so crowned by you.
-Robert Browning

Other bands, they want to make it about sex or pain, but you know, The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” The first single. Its effing brilliant, right? Thats what everybody wants, Nicky. They dont want a twenty-four hour hump sesh, they don’t want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand
-Thom

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.
-Johnny Depp

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
-Marlene Dietrich

Good NIght!

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
-Written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s

Let's Dance

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
-Dennis Waitley

There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.
-Arthur Wing Pinero

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
-Oprah Winfrey

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
-Mark Twain

If we don’t stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
-Peter Marshall

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
-Helen Keller

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.
-Henry David Thoreau

Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-Albert Einstein

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
-Mary Manin Morrissey

Destiny is for losers. It’s just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.
-Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl

I can’t think of anything more unattractive than wanting to be indie for indie’s sake.
-Jonathan Pierce of The Drums

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln

Because dreams are the difference between living… and existing.
-Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
-Robert H. Schuller

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

To live in the world without becoming aware of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.
-Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-Albert Schweitzer

When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.
-Robert Fulghum

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
-Dr. Wayne Dyer

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
-Lost in Translation

I’d tell everybody to pursue your passion. Those who have passions, we are the lucky ones. If you like painting, for God’s sake, paint. if you like writing, write.
-Neil Gaiman

The world is full of obvious things, which nobody by any chance ever observes.
-Sherlock Holmes

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.
-Jim Rohn

Turn the stumbling rock into a stepping stone.
-Bruce Lee

I feel like you are the reward for everything I did right in my life.
-Then She Found Me

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
-Steven Wright

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
-Confucius

Don’t let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it’s true color.
-Rachel Scott

No matter where life takes you —big cities, small towns— you will inevitably run across small minds; people who think they are better than you, people who think that being pretty or popular automatically makes you a worthwhile human. None of these things matter as long as you have a strength of character, integrity, sense of pride. So when you meet someone for the first time, don’t judge them by their situation in life, because you never know, they may end up being your very best friend.
-Dawson’s Creek

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
-Woody Allen

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
-Winston Churchill

I wanna make you smile whenever you’re sad, carry you around when your arthritis is bad. I’ll get your medicine when your tummy aches; build you a fire if the furnace breaks. I’ll miss you, kiss you, give you my coat when you are cold. Need you, feed you, I’ll even let you hold the remote control. So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink, put you to bed when you’ve had too much to drink. All I wanna do is grow old with you.
-The wedding singer

Because We Love One Another

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- by followthatway

"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself."
- Frances Ward Weller

"Sometimes we let our love go unexpressed, especially towards those we love the best."
- ♥tricia willa

"Space is the breath of art."
- frank lloyd wright

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public."
- Paulo Coelho

"It is a waste of enery to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go."
- Bertrand Russell

"There's a lot of things you should make back up plans for, but love isn't one of them."
- Stan Smith (American Dad Season 4: Wife Insurance)

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
- Confucius

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
- Washington Irving

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
- Robert Frost

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
- Leo Tolstoy

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others thinks you are."
- John Wooden

My Tonic

http://animationpodcast.com/
http://cartoonbrew.com/
http://www.speakingofanimation.com/2010/04/inspiration-bill-watterson-part-1/#
http://www.ted.com/

"- If I’ve learned one thing from being a cartoonist, it’s how important playing is to creativity and happiness.

- Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery-it recharges by running.

- To endure five years of rejection to get a job requires either a faith in oneself that borders on delusion, or a love of the work.

- We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. Sooner or later, we are all asked to compromise ourselves and the things we care about. We define ourselves by our actions. With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.

- …having an enviable career is one thing, and being a happy person is another.

- To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.

- Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself."

Bill Watterson, creator of the famous comic strip Calvin and Hobbes

I Think You Are Totally Cute

"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!"
Maya Angelou


"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
Stephen King

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
Rainer Maria Rilke

"When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams."
Dr Seuss

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
The Beatles - The End

"It’s how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that’s afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original."
David Brin, Brightness Reef (1995)

"The best portion of a good man’s life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
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William Wordsworth

"I'm yours and, suddenly you're mine
and it's brighter than sunshine."
Brighter than sunshine by Aqualung


"Everything we do is a choice: oatmeal or cereal, highway or side street, kiss her or keep her. We make choices and we live with the consequences. If someone gets hurt along the way we ask for forgiveness. It’s the best anyone can do."
Ned, Pushing Daisies


"You being silly does not translate into you being an airhead."
Nora Roberts

"Nobody is perfect. Everyone has their own little idiosyncrasies. Some people call those imperfections, but no, that’s the good stuff."
Robin Williams

"The best lyrics are the ones that give you goosebumps, or make you cry in public, or help you realize the answers."
Katy Perry

"There are some people who meet that somebody that they can never stop loving, no matter how hard they try. I wouldn’t expect you to understand that, or even believe it, but trust me, there are some loves that don’t go away. And maybe that makes them crazy, but we should all be lucky enough to end up with somebody who has a little of that insanity. Someone who never lets go. Someone who cherishes you forever."
Ally McBeal

"You’re my fairytale,because seconds with you aremoments I live for."
Haiku by Kristian Carl

"Because it´s only when you’re tested that you truly discover who you are. And it´s only when you’re tested that you discover who you can be. The person that you want to be does exist, somewhere in the other side of hard work and faith, and belief and beyond the heartache and fear of what life has."
Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill

"All life lessons are not learned at college. Life teaches them everywhere."
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

"I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real."
Marc Jacobs

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with."
Wayne W. Dyer

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love."
Washington Irving

"I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy."
Jim Rohn

"We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or concentration camp I would be almighty in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell."
Pablo Picasso

"The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
Moulin Rouge!


"Wouldn’t it be just rock’n’roll if liking someone meant they had to like you back? Of course, that’d be a different universe and something else’d probably suck…"
Olive, Pushing Daisies

"The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze."
Buddha

"Intimacy is a four syllable word for, ‘Here’s my heart and soul, please grind them into hamburger, and enjoy.’ It’s both desired, and feared. Difficult to live with, and impossible to live without."
Grey’s Anatomy

"Sometimes, despite your best efforts otherwise, life will give you lemons. When that happens, you got two choices friend: you can wear a sour face or, make lemonade."
Love Happens


"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like."
Lemony Snicket

"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful."
Milan Kundera

"Good relationships balance over time. This means that at any particular point in time, the relationship may appear quite unbalanced: One partner may be more nurturing; one may be more needy; one may be providing all the financial support, etc. But if both partners are loving, understanding, giving, dedicated and flexible, then the relationship can handle all kinds of ups and downs, and still be strong, exciting and, yes, romantic. The best relationships are well balanced. Not a delicate balance; not a static balance- but a dynamic ever-changing balance."
Gregory Godek

"Life is never easy for those who dream."
Robert James Waller

"You can’t control when you lose your heart. The only thing you can do is trust, trust that the person who has your heart realizes it’s value."
Greys Anatomy

Good Morning Sunday Monring

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
John Lennon

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
Alexander Smith

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."
Jim Morrison

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
Albert Einstein

"If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere"
Marilyn Monroe

"The peace of hellowill finally tranquilizethe ache of goodbye."
Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson

"Everything has a purpose, even this. It’s up to you to find it."
Peaceful Warrior

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
William M. Thackeray

"Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future."
Robert L. Peters

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion."
Javan

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves."
Carl Jung

"A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought."
Warren Buffet

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
Jim Morrison

"I like the things that I like, but I love everything. There’s more choice in like. Because even the worst things have things to love in them."
Cassie

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never fear…love never dies: it simply move elsewhere"
The Crippled Angel

"We love because it’s the only true adventure."
Nikki Giovani

"I feel like my transport should be an extension of my personality. And this is like my little window to the world… and every minute’s a different show. I may not understand it. I may not even necessarily agree with it. But I’ll tell you what I’ve accepted: just sort of glide along. You want to keep things on an even key, this is what I’m saying. You want to go with the flow. The sea refuses no river. The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving. It saves on introductions and goodbyes. The ride does not require explanation - just occupance. That’s where you guys come in. It’s like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. Now you may get the 8 pack, you may get the 16 pack but it’s all in what you do with the crayons - the colors - that you’re given. Don’t worry about coloring within the lines or coloring outside the lines - I say color outside the lines, you know what I mean? Color all over the page; don’t box me in! We’re in motion to the ocean. We are not land locked, I’ll tell you that."
Waking Life (2001)

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."
Christopher Morley

"Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears."
John Lennon


"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right and forget the ones that don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it."
Anonymous

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter."
Nicholas Sparks

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln


"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
Lao Tzu

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
Erick S. Gray

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
John W. Gardner

I Can't Wait To Kiss You

"There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…"
John Lennon

"There are no random acts, we are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
Mark Twain

"In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire"
Paulo Coelho


"It takes a lot of faith to give love and even more faith to let yourself be loved. Such a risk that seems so worth it."
Hayley Williams

"It is a luxury to be understood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
Stephen King

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
Bertrand Russell

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Mahatma Gandhi

"If you are going to be angry, be angry. But let it be because you decide, not someone else."
Rachelle Disbennett-Lee

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"
Albert Einstein

"I’ll paint rainbows all over your blues."
John B. Sebastian

"If she loves you, if she really loves you, you’ll know it. If you can wake up to her staring at you and it’s not even mildly creepy, if you catch her smelling the shoulder of the hooded sweatshirt you lent her for an autumn walk at the beach, and not for B.O., if she makes you a pancake in the shape of a shark, if she calls you drunkenly at four in the morning “to talk,” if she laughs at your jokes when they’re funny and makes fun of you when they’re not, if she keeps her fridge stocked with Guinness tallboys for when you come over, if she tells you how she wishes she were closer to her sister and that her dad makes her sad: She loves you, of course she loves you."
Pasha Malla

"Tell her that you love her. You’ve got nothing to lose, and you’ll always regret it if you don’t."
Love Actually

Poetry As Tonic

"Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child."
Ruth Draper

"All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired."
Diary by Chuck Palahniuk

"You can’t wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug."
Author Unknown

"In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it."
Paulo Coelho

"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry."
Terry Pratchett

"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams."
Madonna


"Some people never say the words ‘I love you’. It’s not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: ‘I love you’ But, like a child, they’re longing to be told."
Paul Simon

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
Agatha Christie

"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers"
Kahlil Gibran

"Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness."
Anaïs Nin

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom."
General George S. Patton

"Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand: The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you’ve just got to fall. ~"
UB40

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle."
Author Unknown

"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away."
Bil Keane

Coffee

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."
Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw

"Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one has ever written or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges and absorbs the impact."
Nicole Krauss
[The History of Love: A Novel]
（read this book 3 years ago)

"You are what you believe yourself to be."
Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello)

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William G. McAdoo


"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde

"Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I’ve done. But I’m telling you honestly that it doesn’t surprise me. I knew I could do it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
Marilyn Monroe


"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
Leonardo da Vinci

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
Neil Gaiman

What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ‘em?"
Calvin and Hobbes

"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke"
Brendan Francis

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
Albert Einstein

"Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream."
Peter McWilliams

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Carl Sagan

"People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
Lemony Snicket

"The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to him make-believe and true were exactly the same thing."
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Thick Upper Lip

"I myself am made entirely of flaws,stitched together with good intentions."
Augusten Burroughs

"Reference will be your 'salvation'."
(shooting video references for animation)
Michael Easton

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."
Marcel Marceau

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
Albert Einstein

"I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better."
T.D. Jakes

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
J.R.R. Tolkien

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Emile Zola

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Andy Warhol

"Today is a happy day coz' I met up with friends!"
ksf

"You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
Paul Sweeney

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
George Carlin

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
Jonathan Swift

"I’ll play until they have to scrape me off the stage."
James Young

Microscopically Is A NIce Word

"What we play is life."
Louis Armstrong

"He who is brave is free."
Seneca

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein

"The more you know about the unknown the more you actually understand how little you know. It makes you humble and brings you back to the world of wonders, miracles, and magic."
Thomas Herold

"Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them."
Brittany Murphy

"Communication. It’s the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need."
Greys Anatomy


"Optimist: someone who isn’t sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play."
Robert Brault

"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."
C.S. Lewis

"The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer — they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer."
Ken Kesey

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent"
Victor Hugo

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
Charles M. Schulz

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
Neil Gaiman

“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell,leap."
Cynthis Heimel

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

"Tragedies happen. What are you gonna do, give up? Quit? No. I realize now that when your heart breaks, you got to fight like hell to make sure you’re still alive. Because you are. And that pain you feel? That’s life. The confusion and fear? That’s there to remind you that somewhere out there is something better, and that something is worth fighting for."
One Tree Hill

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
from “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Living well is the best revenge."
George Herbert

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
-Buddha

"I have learned, that there is still so much to learn.That life has its way of focusing on the blurs that come with youth.That good things can go bad.And all bad things can lead to something good."
Jorge Daumy

"I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls."
Audrey Hepburn

Happy Children's Day!

(me decked in last year's halloween party "costume" X)
Looking forward to Halloween this year too! Heehee! Vivian is joining us this year! =D Shini, what should we do this year?

Some drawings from last night's life drawing session and on the way to work inside the train.

Was thinking of calling myself "Alex" when I realised a colleague was called Alex too..hmmm.. that will make 2 Alexs...

I will stick to ksf

hee...

p/s: my room's a mess! I have to make more time to pack! Oh well! =)

pp/s: yeah! shopping tomorrow! oh yeah oh yeah! XD

"Life is short, break the rules, forgive sooner, love with true love, laugh without control and always keep smiling. Maybe life is not the party that we were expecting, but in the mean time, we're here and we can still dance....."

Growing old is not for whimps......Jock Smith & Bette Davis

Still Packing My Luggage

"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it."
Neil Gaiman

"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
William James, Principles of Psychology (1890)

"…make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

"everyone is a star and deserves a chance to shine"
Marilyn Monroe

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."
Sam Ewig

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
Walt Disney

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."
Bob Dylan

"I think to myself that when you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride and sometimes you have to fight to keep your pride. It’s a balance, but when the relationship is right…you find that balance."
Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

"More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself."
Kevin Smith

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."
Ed Cunningham

"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say, find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I’m not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you’ll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense in living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love- well, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived."
Meet Joe Black


"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes."
Marcel Proust

"時間的沙漏彷彿靜止了,但卻又感受到靈魂的震動 :)"
陳小蓋

♥
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
Oscar WIlde

"The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves"
Greg Anderson

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence."
Hellen Keller

"Life is just a chance to grow a soul."
A. Powell Davies

"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."
Mahatma Gandhi

"If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything."
Win Borden

"Books are a narcotic"
Franz Kafka

=)

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."
by: I wrote this for you

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you"
Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Sometimes you’re afraid to become a couple because you’re afraid of losing what you already have with that person. But life is all about risks and it requires you to jump. Don’t be a person who has to look back and wonder what they could have had. No one waits forever."
Unknown

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
Anthony J. D’Angelo

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Herm Albright

"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."
Pablo Picasso

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars."
Les Brown

"In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
Albert Schweitzer

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
Freya Madeline Stark

Quote/Unquote Part 2

"Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy."
Janet Long



"The journey is the reward."
Chinese Proverb



"Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell."
Shana Alexander



"A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere"
Mary Robinson