Book club: Diary of a Single Wedding Planner

Just finished the book, Diary of a single wedding planner (by Violet Howe) and I find the following quote really nice. I admit I really like to read chic lite (Okie I have to confess I read this book because it is free).

"The fairy tale suggests you will find the perfect one. It does not exist. What does exist is love. Support, patience, kindness, forgiveness, compassion, understanding. These exist. They are choices that must be made every day to maintain a marriage. I don’t wish my son and his bride a happily ever after. I wish for them that they will make each other laugh. That they will support and encourage each other. Hold each other accountable. Uplift. Forgive. I wish for them the stamina it takes to choose love each and every day. For love is a verb. An action we choose. To love is to risk. To work through both the mundane and the unexpected. To love is to be completely vulnerable with no guarantee of safety. Because there is no happily ever after. There is only the choice to love."

Sleepless night

Saw this quote and I really like it.

"Death ends a life, not a relationship" 

Mitch Albom 

Did some googling, I found this one more meaningful(not by the number of words can!).

"Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward resolution which it may never find" 

Robert Anderson 

I really enjoy all these quotes.

Something for the heart

Saw this quote from my current read. Jot it here to remind myself.

“There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed.”

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The dreamers

My Friend share the quotes below with me today and i want to remember it. Of course words are always easier than actions. In this society, the older you get, the more responsibilities you have. Giving up a job that pays, for a uncertainty dream need a lot of courage. The rich kid next block might be able to do it, not so much for the poor. He needs the money for the 5 kids at home, he give that up for his dreams, he broke his 5 kids' dream.
 Maybe even dreams, we need to plan. But it is always good to have a dream and works toward it. Now reality and dream, how to make them work hand in hand, i ponder.

“He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly.
He or she who shuns passion,
who prefers black on white,
dotting ones "it’s" rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,
that turn a yawn into a smile,
that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,
dies slowly.

He or she who does not turn things topsy-turvy,
who is unhappy at work,
who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,
to thus follow a dream,
those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives,
die slowly.

He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.

He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,
who does not allow himself to be helped,
who spends days on end complaining about his own bad luck, about the rain that never stops,
dies slowly.

He or she who abandon a project before starting it, who fail to ask questions on subjects he doesn't know, he or she who don't reply when they are asked something they do know,
die slowly.

Let's try and avoid death in small doses,
reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.

Only a burning patience will lead
to the attainment of a splendid happiness.” 
― Pablo Neruda