I'm getting married today!

Since I'm getting married today... this blog post has to be really kick ass! Obviously, The Notebook has to used. 

"I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've lead a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough."

-The Notebook




"Well, that's what we do. We fight. You tell me when I'm being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you're being a pain in the ass. Which you are 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a two second rebound rate and you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing. So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. And we're gonna have to work at this every day. But I want to do that, because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day."
-The Notebook

Jacob likes to use this reference with me, for example, "If i'm a rock, then you're a rock." Not quite as romantic, but I'll take it. 

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

-Rita Rudner

"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."

-Isadora Duncan

"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted." 

-Helen Rowland

excepting no excuses? I'll get back to you...

"There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results."
-unknown


"An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises."
-Mae West


"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal- a commitment to excellence- that will enable you at attain success you seek."
-Mario Andretti


"The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt."
-Dr. Rollo May


"To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments." 

-Brian Koslow

there are lots of way to say the same thing

I dedicate this post to the best TV show ever

"Mom, Listen, I haven't been together with Topanga for twenty-two years, but we have been together for sixteen. 'Kay, that's a lot longer than most couples have been together. I mean, when we were born, you told me that we used to take walks in our strollers together in the park. When we were two, we were best friends, I mean, I, I knew everything about this girl. I knew her favorite color. I knew her favorite food. Then we became six, you know, and Eric made fun of me because it wasn't cool to have a best friend that was a girl or even know a girl, so for the next seven years I threw dirt at her. I like to call those "the lost years". Then when I was thirteen, Mom, she put me up against my locker and she kissed me. I mean, she gave me my first kiss. She taught me how to dance. She was always talking about these crazy things and I never understood a word she said. All I understood was that she was the girl I sat up every night thinking about, and when I'm with her I feel happy to be alive. Like I can do anything. Even talk to you like this. So that's, that's what I feel is love, Mom... When I'm better because she's here."    -Cory Matthews





"We're all a little weird & when we find those people whose weirdness is compatible we join up with them & fall into a mutually satisfying weirdness & call them our best friends."   -Cory Matthews

"Ever since I was young, I never really understood anything about the world. And I never understood anything that happened in my life. The only thing that ever made any sense to me was you. And how I felt about you. That's all I've ever known. And that's enough for the rest of my life."  -Cory Matthews

the illusion of choice

"The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car -- it can't steer."

-Joyce Carey 

"What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change."

-Madeleine Albright

my realization

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
-unknown




“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” 
 -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.”






“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”  -Napoleon Hill






“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.”  -Mae West






“Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it”   - Mahatma Gandhi 

messy, yet beautiful life quotes

fun picture quotes

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. 
-Friedrich Nietzsche 


The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King


Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
Charles Kingsley 

the storm shall pass

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."    -Robert H. Schuller


“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”   -C.S. Lewis




“The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to”   -Hugh Prather

The choice is yours

"It is our choices that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities." 
-Joanne Kathleen Rowling




"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left if compromise." -Robert Fritz




"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?" -W. Clement Stone




"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."  -Horace

secrets

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”    
-Kahlil Gibran




“There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.”  -Chuck Tanner




"A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others."
-Paul Valery




"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness."
-Bryant H. McGill 

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."  ~Homer




"All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson




“Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”  -Aldous Huxley






“Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”  -Walter Anderson

its about time...

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”    -Harvey MacKay 




“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”   -Henry Van Dyke






“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”    -Leonard Bernstein






“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save”    -Will Rogers

An apple a day...

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon."  ~Doug Larson




"Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway."  ~Author Unknown




"Be careful about reading health books.  You may die of a misprint."  ~Mark Twain

What we really love about being home...

“Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence.”   -Franklin P. Jones




“Home is where you can scratch where it itches”    -unknown




"I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.”   -Nancy Reagan




"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."     -Andy Warhol

I'm workin' on it!

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
-Gustave Flaubert


"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
-Theodore Roosevelt


"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 Ewing


"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."
-Anne Frank

...couples resemble a pair of scissors :)

"Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things."    -Heraclitus


"Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together."
-Jacqueline Bisset


"They shared the chore of living as most couples do- she did most of the work and he appreciated it."   -Paula Gosling




"Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets inbetween them."   -Sydney Smith

via Ashley from Stumbleupon (I think)

This picture is for Ashley :)