"Don't be like me. Salvation doesn't lie within four walls. I'm too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected." - La Dolce Vita

It's only doubts that we're counting
On fingers broken long ago
I read with every broken heart
We should become more adventurous

If you banish me from your profits
And if I get banished from the kingdom up above
I'll sacrifice money and heaven all for love
Let me be loved, let me be loved

If my brain quits, well, I guess then that's just it
And if my hands stop working you can call me lazy
And if I get pregnant I guess I'll just have the baby
Let it be loved, let me be loved

I've been trying to nod my head
But it's like I've got a broken neck
Wanting to say I will as my last testament
For me to be saved and you to be brave
We don't have to walk down that aisle
Because if marriage ain't enough
Well, at least we'll be loved

I've felt the wind on my cheek
Coming down from the east
And thought about how we are all
As numerous as leaves on trees
And maybe ours is the cause of all mankind
Get loved, make more
Try to stay alive

I've been trying to nod my head
But it's like I've got a broken neck
Wanting to say I will as my last testament
For you to be saved and me to be brave
We don't have to walk down that aisle
Because if marriage ain't enough
Well, at least we'll be loved

"It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy."- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“There are dreamers and there are realists in this world, you think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not the opposite is true. See the dreamers need the realists to keep them from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists? Well without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground.” - Modern Family

"And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to bloom."  - Anais Nin

Love Actually

"General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends... If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around."

Joan.

"You want to be taken seriously, stop dressing like a little girl."