A few of my favs in no particular order.

Quotes

• “Speak out even though your voice is shaking.” – Audre Lorde
• “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.” – Emily Dickinson
• “I don’t label people. I refuse to label people. We’re all just people made out of the same old dirt, and God don’t make any junk.” – Tammy Faye Messner
• “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.” – Michael Jackson
• “Life isn’t measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Author Unknown
• “Life is only therapy – real expensive and no guarantee.” – from “You Move Me” by Gordon Kennedy & Pierce Pettis
• “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.” – John Milton, Areopagitica
• “We just get the one life, you know, just one. We can’t live someone else’s or think it’s more important just because it’s more dramatic. What happens matters. Maybe only to us, but it matters.” – Tea Leoni, Ghost Town
• “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
• “Sometimes we love people so much that we have to be numb to it, because if we actually felt how much we love them, it would kill us.” – Brittany Murphy in Riding In Cars With Boys
• “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depths of our hearts.” – Mother Teresa
• “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” – Michael Jackson
• “Asking for help doesn’t mean you have failed; it means that you’re not in it alone.” – from the film Life As We Know It
• “A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don’t you just make the request?” – Diane Sawyer
• “I’ve learned that will people forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

Songs

• Michael Jackson – Man In The Mirror
• Beth Hart – I’ll Stay With You
• Eva Cassidy – I Know You By Heart
• Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares To You
• Wynonna Judd – Come Some Rainy Day
• Stevie Nicks – Beautiful Child
• Cher – Alive Again
• Cher – All or Nothing
• Cher – Believe
• Cher – You Take It All
• Stevie Nicks – Silent Night
• Madonna – Like A Prayer
• Tori Amos – Silent All These Years
• David Gray – Shine
• Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
• Dottie Rambo – He Looked Beyond My Fault And Saw My Need
• Annie Lennox – Why
• Sarah McLachlan – Fear
• Beth Hart – Leave The Light On
• George Michael – Precious Box
• Mazzy Star – Fade Into You
• Jana – The Price
• Fleetwood Mac – Storms
• Fleetwood Mac – Beautiful Child
• Beth Hart – Weight of the World
• Ray LaMontagne – Old Before Your Time

Movies

• Home For The Holidays
• Under The Tuscan Sun
• The Wedding Banquet
• Tea With Mussolini
• Mambo Italiano
• The Notebook
• Brokeback Mountain
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Cher – Live In Concert
• Corrina, Corrina
• Waitress
• La Vie En Rose
• Juno
• Steel Magnolias
• City Island
• Marvin’s Room
• Bridesmaids
• Michael Jackson – Live in Bucharest

Books

• “If God Is Love” by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland
• “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst
• “The Stolen Child” by Keith Donohue
• “Becoming A Man” by Paul Monette
• “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou
• “The Cranberry Hush” by Ben Monopoli
• “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen
• “The Sky is Everywhere” by Jandy Nelson
• “The Book of Ecclesiastes”

Poetry

• “Desiderata” by Max Ehrmann
• “A Return To Love” by Marianne Williamson
• “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
• “If” by Rudyard Kipling
• “This Too Shall Pass” by Helen Steiner Rice
• “God Has No Hands” by Annie Johnson Flint
• “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” by Mary Frye

Other Interests

• Singing
• Dancing
• Skyscrapers
• Traveling
• Cats
• Roller coasters
• Landscaping