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The Monday Morning Memo

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“If you wear a falconry glove to the park and frantically look around the sky, everyone with a small dog will leave.”
– Friar Duck

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“What fascinates me about humanity is that so many people are looking for reasons to be unhappy.”
– Gilbert, on The Sandman

“Joy is unfocused gratitude.”
– Roy H. Williams

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart.” – John Steinbeck

“You like a person because of… But you love a person in spite of…”
– from the movie, “Set it Up”.

“When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Love conceals ugliness, but hate sees many faults.”
– an old Irish Proverb

“Imagine an atheist stuck at a green light behind a car with a ‘Honk If You Love Jesus’ bumper sticker.”
– Indy Beagle

“Some people call me the space cowboy.
  Some call me the gangster of love.”
BARISTA: “I’m just gonna put Steve on the cup.”

“Be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
– Eva Gabor

“You have to work hardest for the things you love most.”
– Carol S. Dweck

“Men love with their eyes. Women love with their ears.”
– Dr. Nick Grant

“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”
– Robert Anton Wilson

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“Working hard for something we love is called passion.”
– Simon Sinek

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage.”
– Lorrie Moore

“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud.”
– Shauna Niequist

“Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens.”
– Shauna Niequist

“Love all love. Hate all hate.”
– John D. MacDonald

“To love is to be vulnerable.”
– C.S. Lewis

“I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.”
– Brennan Manning

” I love those who can smile in trouble…”
– Leonard da Vinci

” ‘Ole!’ to you, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Frankly there isn’t anyone you can’t learn to love once you’ve heard their story.”
– Andrew Stanton

“It may be called puppy love, but it’s real to the puppy.”
– Meisje

“My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”
– Tom Robbins

“There have been very few immortals who did not love wine; offhand we cannot think of any and we do not intend to try very hard.”
– John Steinbeck

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
– Oscar Wilde

“The love that you do not give dies with you.”
– Janis Ian

“Love is a great beautifier.”
­– Louisa May Alcott

“Love isn’t something you feel. It’s something you give.”
– Iome Sylvarresta

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
– George Sand

“If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?”
– Stanislaw Lec

“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”
– Margaret Atwood

“Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.”
– Lisa Simpson

“Catch the foxes for us. The little foxes that are ruining the vineyards while our vineyards are in blossom.” – Song of Solomon

“Being joyful isn’t what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.”
– Ann Voskamp

“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.”
– Seneca

“One of the most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”
– Robert Heinlein

“There can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy for you, too.”
– Frederick Buechner

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
– Robert Brault

“Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”
– Marianne Williamson

“It takes courage to reinvent joys and hopes that you have set aside.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“Happy people have learned to celebrate the ordinary and find joy in life’s little pleasures.”
– Richard Exley

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“The best craftsman always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in. The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of God.”

- Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet, shortstory writer, and playwright, "Poetic Manifesto" in Texas Quarterly

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