Keep Holding On

"You're not alone, Together we stand

I'll be by your side, You know I'll take your hand

When it gets cold, And it feels like the end

There's no place to go, You know I won't give in

No I won't give in"

Kevin Zegers

“I'm not supposed to love you,

I'm not supposed to care,

I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there.

I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do...

I'm sorry I can't help myself,

I'm in love with you.”

August 2009

32 Flavours

"Squint your eyes and look closer.

I'm not between you and your ambitions.

I am a poster girl with no poster.

I am thirty-two flavors and then some.

And I'm beyond your peripheral vision,

so you might want to turn your head.

Cuz some day you are gonna get hungry,

and eat all of the words you just said."

-Ani Difranco

Saskatchewan Landscape

I wanna walk & not run!

I wanna skip and not fall!

I wanna look at the horizon

& not see a building standing tall!

Laughter

"You can't deny laughter;

when it comes, it plops down in

your favourite chair and stays as long as it wants."

~ Stephen King

Just Be My Friend

Do not walk behind me, I may not lead.

Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Just walk beside me & be my friend.

God & Sky & Green

I'd love to live in a forest room
With moss beneath my feet,
And the ceiling made of leafy green
Where boughs of pine trees meet.

The lighting I'd like indirest

Just sunlight trickling through,

And here and there between the leaves,

A patch of Heaven's blue.

Oh, I'd love a little forest room

With walls of roughened bark,

And my only entertainment

Just the sweet song of the lark.

I'd let the whole world pass me by

And live a life serene,

With all the things I'd ever need -

Just God and sky and green.

~ Gelia K. Parker

Promises

God didn't promise days without pain,

laughter without sorrow,

or sun without rain...

...but He did promise STRENGTH for the day,

COMFORT for the tears,

and LIGHT for the way!

Only...

"Only as high as I reach can I grow,

Only as far as I seek can I go,

Only as deep as I look can I see,

Only as much as I dream can I be."

- Karen Ravn

(Montreal, 2008)

What Life Is About

(Zooey Deschanel)

"Life is about who you love and who you hurt.

It's about how you feel about yourself.

It's about trust, happiness and compassion.

It's about sticking up for your friends and

replacing inner hate with love.

Life is about avoiding jealousy,

overcoming ignorance and

building confidence.

It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have.

Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to

touch someone else's

in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise.

These choices are what life's about."

~Katie Leicht

Worth Fighting For

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?

Love is everything it's cracked up to be...

That's why people are so cynical about it.

It really is worth FIGHTING for,

BEING BRAVE for,

RISKING EVERYTHING for...

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything,

you risk even more."

~ Erica Jong

Secret Love

"I hid my love when young til I / Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly; / I hid my love to my despire / Till I could not bear to look at light: / I dare not gaze upon her face / But left her memory in each place; / Where e'er I saw a wild flower lie / I kissed and bade my love goodbye. / I met her in the greenest dells / Where dewdrops pearl the wood blue bells / The lost breeze kissed her bright blue eye, / The bee kissed and went singing by, / A sunbeam found a passage there, / A gold chain round her neck so fair; / As secret as the wild bee's song / She lay there all the summer long. / I hid my love in field and town / Til e'en the breeze would knock me down, / The bees seemed singing ballads oer, / The fly's bass turned a lion's roar; / And even silence found a tongue, / To haunt me all the summer long; / The riddle nature could not prove / Was nothing else but secret love."

by John Clare

Reason to Live

"It's all kinds of these profound things

crashing on you when your child arrives into the world.

It's like you've met your reason to live."

~ Johnny Depp

Real, Unconditional Love

"I have never met a person whose greatest need

was anything other than

REAL, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

You can find it in a simple act of kindness

toward someone who needs help...

...There is no mistaking LOVE.

You FEEL it in your HEART.

It is the common fiber of LIFE,

the FLAME that heats our SOUL,

ENERGIZES our SPIRIT &

supplies PASSION to our LIVES.

It is our connection to GOD and to EACH OTHER."

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Twilight

"It's Twilight. It's the safest time of day for us...

The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...

The end of another day, the return of the night...

Darkness

is so predictable, don't you think?"

Just Give

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally,

without expecting anything in return. To just give...

That takes courage,

because we don't want to fall on our faces

or leave ourselves open to hurt."

~ Madonna

Perfect love is rare indeed -

...for to be a lover will require that you continually have

the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child,

the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the foritude of the certain.

- Leo Buscaglia

Come Clean

"Let the Rain Fall Down & Wake my Dreams,

Let it Wash Away my Sanity.

'Cause I Wanna Feel the Thunder, I Wanna Scream.

Let the Rain Fall Down.

I'm Coming Clean, I'm Coming Clean."

- Hilary Duff

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Go Where There is No Path & Leave a Trail

"Looking back, I have this to regret;

That too often when I loved, I did not say so."
- David Grayson

"what does not kill me makes me stronger"

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow;

We must fail in order to know;

Sometimes our vision clears only after our eyes are

Washed away with tears."

"Blacker the Berry; Sweeter the Juice"

"LOVE is a fruit in season at all times,

and within the reach of every HAND."

- Mother Teresa

IHopeYouStillFeelSmallWhenYou StandBesideTheOcean

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing

is just a drop in the ocean.

But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

- Mother Teresa

I Hope You Dance

"I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger

May you never take one single breath for granted

God forbid love ever leave you empty handed

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking
Loving might be a mistake, but it's worth making

Promise me you'll give faith a fighting chance

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance..."

"I Hope You Dance!"

- Lee Anne Womack

A Place In This World

"Got the radio on, my old blue jeans

And I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve
Feeling lucky today, got the sunshine
Could you tell me what more do I need?

And tomorrow's just a mystery, oh yeah

But that's ok..."

"...I'm alone, on my own, and that's all I know

I'll be strong, I'll be wrong, oh but life goes on

I'm just a girl, trying to find a place in

This world!"

Lived & Loved Together

We have lived and loved together
Through many changing years;
We have shared each other's gladness
And wept each other's tears;
I have known ne'er a sorrow
That was long unsoothed by thee;
For thy smiles can make a summer
Where darkness else would be.

Like the leaves that fall around us

In autumn's fading hours,

Are the traitor's smiles, that darken

When the cloud of sorrow lowers;

And though many such we've known, love,

Too prone, alas, to range,

we both can speak of one love

Which time can never change.

We have lived and loved together

Through many changing years;

We have shared each other's gladness

And wept each other's tears.

And let us hope the future

As the past has been will be;

I will share with thee my sorrows,

And thou thy joys with me.

- Charles Jefferys

Live Forever With You

"We want to live forever for the same reason

that we want to live tomorrow.

Why do we want to live tomorrow?

It is because there is someone who loves you,

and whom you want to see tomorrow,

and be with, and love back."

- Henry Drummond

Light In My Heart

"I have come as a Light to shine in this dark world, that all who put their trust in me will no longer wander in the darkness." John 12.46

"I am the Light of the world. So if you follow me, you won't be stumbling through the darkness, for living light will flood your path." John 8.12

Something To Be

"To be yourself in a world

that is constantly trying to

make you something else

is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Invisible

Go ahead, Walk on by, You don't know I'm alive,

Maybe one day you'll find, You should open your eyes,

You don't know me."

- Ashlee Simpson

"I Want To Be a Vampire. They're the Coolest Monsters"

"Are you on our side

and want to be Different,

or are you on that side and want to

throw a football

at my head?

- Gerard Way

Keys to My Heart

"After silence, that which comes nearest to

expressing the inexpressible

is music"

- Aldous Huxley

Playground Past

"There is a garden in every childhood,

an enchanted place where

colours are brighter, the air softer,

and the morning more fragrant than ever again."

- Elizabeth Lawrence