"Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all."

“She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow known exactly what she'd needed to hear. When their eyes locked, she once again realized how special he was. And just for a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.”

“Yea there ain't nothing not affected when two hearts get connected. All that is will be or ever was; every single choice we make; every breath we get to take is all because two people fell in love.”

“My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.”

“It's about being the very best you can be. Nothing else matters as long as you're working and striving to be your best. Always compete. It's truly that simple. Find the way to do your best. Compete in everything you do.”

“Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.”

Source : Hector Berlioz (1884). “Autobiography of Hector Berlioz: Member of the Institute of France, from 1803 to 1865. Comprising His Travels in Italy, Germany, Russia, and England”

“In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.”

“I am a kid from the '70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.”

“Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.