“Nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Had any adult, with the power to fulfill my desires, taken me seriously and asked me what I wanted, they would have known that I did not want to have anything to own or to possess any object. I wanted, rather, to feel something on Christmas Day.”
"Something that is loved is never lost."
- Toni Morrison
Love
"Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all."
- Toni Morrison
Love
"Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it."
- Toni Morrison
Love
"I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was 12 or 13. He said, ‘You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it.’ And I said, ‘But, Daddy, no one’s going to see it!’ And he said, ‘Yeah, but I know it’s there.’"
- Toni Morrison
Love
"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
- Toni Morrison
Love
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
Reflection
"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
- Tom Lehrer
Reflection
"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."
- Lucille Ball
Reflection
"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."
- Pema Chodron
Reflection
"Happy Tuesday! It is a good day to reflect on the week so far and spread happiness."
Reflection