Who knew the Fonz was so wise?

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
~Henry Winkler

The hard part is…

It’s so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.
 ~Author Unknown

Harder yet is to find someone who will keep catching you…

Mutual weirdness

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
~Author Unknown

…and I’ll comment on that with another quote:

Let me lay it on the line
I got a little freakiness inside
And you know that the man
Has got to deal with it
~Adina Howard, “Freak Like Me” by Sugababes

We see what we want to see…

“True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.”
~William Butler Yeats

And so the answer to “What does she see in him?” is clearly “something you will probably never see”.

Who needs sleep?

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
~Dr. Seuss

Sadly (or thankfully?) this is only true of new love. After a while, sleep becomes important again. Especially when the bills pile up and the job starts early. Romance is great, but not very practical. :-p

No reason required

“To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.”
~Robert Brault

Count your joys

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Reflect on the good things, and forget the bad as soon as you can safely do so.

Quote du Jour

It’s been over 3 weeks now since I last felt I had anything in me worth blogging about. Not entirely sure why that is, but I want to change that and get back to blogging.

I use Google Chat to keep in touch with friends, and I tend to leave a “status” up far longer than it is relevant. Like the common and rather unimaginative “TGIF” that tends to pop up of Friday and linger until Tuesday when somebody harasses me about it. To this end, I’ve been populating my status message with quotes this week. Most quotes are quite old to begin with, so they won’t go stale…

I used to have a huge collection of quotes that I hand-picked from the internet and some dead-tree sources. I had an old-school website before blogs became the de facto standard, and I wrote a Perl script that would display a random quote when you visited my site. I also started a Quote du Jour mailing list, and wrote another script to send a random quote out every day (and remove it from the to-send list so there would be no duplicates).  Somewhere along the way, I lost all of that.

So today, I’ve decided to start building up my collection again. The past month-ish of my life hasn’t been all that great, but with a little work and a little positive attitude, I’m enjoying life again, and I like to share my attitude with others via these quotes. I may or may not put one up daily, but it’s something to get content back into my blog, at any rate.

No time like the present to get started…

“Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.”

~Walt Whitman

Don’t sit around waiting for good things to happen to you. Make good things happen.

What an endorsement!

Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley Jr, endorsed Obama and promptly tendered his resignation to the (conservative) National Review.

Eight years of ‘conservative’ government has brought us a doubled
national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to
nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war
conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it
brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry
Schiavo case

Quote of the day

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything – even if you have no clue what you’re doing.
– Jessica Alba

…and for the most part, I agree with her. Though I find it does help immensely to have a clue.