"The library is so much more than a place to borrow books; the people are what make a library wonderful."  --Wil Wheaton on Gaming in the Library (Library Journal)

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"Life is a combination of magic & pasta."

--Frederico Fellini

Who do you Truly Love?

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

Karen Casey

Buttermilk & Breaking Hearts

A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.
-- Bolivian Proverb

Words can't break bones, but they can break hearts.
-- Roadside Church Signs Across America

Laughter

You struggle with money. You struggle without money.
You struggle with love. You struggle without love.
But it's how you manage.
You have to keep laughing, you have to be fun to be with, and you have to live with style--not fancy-schmancy, but in a way which is present and meaningful and has some beauty to it.

Pierce Brosnan

Quote-o-Rama

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
-- Italian Proverb

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
-- Will Rogers

Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
-- W. Stanley Mooneyham

An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley

The beginning of sin is sweet; its end is bitter.
-- Japanese Proverb

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
-- Mark Twain

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
-- Baltasar Gracian

A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation.
-- Carl Holmes

Talking about bulls is not the same as facing them in the ring.
-- Mexican Proverb

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
-- Jonathan Swift

Something to remember when you fall on your face...

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience...is a virtue

Patience is the key to paradise.

- Turkish proverb

Animal Crackers

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink. That is the finest of suppers, I think; when I'm grown up and can have what I please I think I shall always insist upon these.

- Christopher Morley, author & journalist

Go For It!

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, American writer

Time

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness...never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

- Lord Chesterfield

Heroes

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Arthur Ashe

The hero of the future will be that individual with the great mission to overcome the mass feeling of alienation and self-inadequacy. He will recognize that this struggle starts not with his community, nor even with his principal organization, but rather it starts with himself.

Eugene E. Jennings

<3 Heart <3

The road to the head lies through the heart.
-- American Proverb

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

These quotes then led me to seek out the lyrics to the song "Heart" from Damn Yankees!

Pope John Paul II Quote

Every child is a unique and unrepeatable act of God.

—Pope John Paul II

L O V E

Don't lose touch with your capacity to love; in fact, nurture it, for you will find that it is something that can grow. Let yourself need people, and let them need you.
--Elizabeth Drew

Abraham Lincoln Quote

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Vacation

Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.

- Lion from Wizard of Oz

English Rhyme

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of the shoe, the horse was lost. For want of the horse, the rider was lost. For want of the rider, the battle was lost. For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail!

- Old English rhyme

Harmony

Be grace. Wield love as your only weapon, and you place yourself on the path to self-mastery, bountiful blessings and the perfect peace we are all longing for.
--Susan L. Taylor

Creating the space to allow others into your heart means letting go of old issues.

--Tijn Touber

Shakespeare Quote

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog, adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, lizard's leg, and owlet's wing. For a charm of powerful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

- Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth