Dreams Mean Everything

Dreams mean everything. They're the stories we tell ourselves of what could be, who we could become. 

Dr. Robert Ford from Westworld "Contrapasso"

Dreams are essential to our lives because they give us a goal when there might not be any in our current reality. They help us strive to make our lives and ourselves better.

This quote is for June 30, 2017.

This Queen Don't Need a King

This queen don't need a king. This gal right here's gonna rule the world. That is where I'm gonna be because I wanna be. No I don't wanna sit still, look pretty. 

Daya in "Sit Still, Look Pretty"

I think it is sad that society is so negative to women and men who have decided that they want to remain single. To me love is a wonderful and beautiful thing, but that it is not something that can be forced. If it is, then the relationship will most likely hurt both individuals involved. 

This quote is for June 29, 2017. 

Vital Part of the Human Condition

There were times when experiencing pain to the fullest was desirable. For one thing pain sharpened his senses and kept him alert. Pain was humbling as well. It encouraged a man to keep his perspective; helped him to remember life was precious. He knew that pain was a vital part of the human condition. 

Dean Koontz in Hard Shell from “Wilderness and Other Stories” 

If there is not pain and death in life, then I believe we would not appreciate how precious and beautiful life is. I also think that going through live in a numb state is not living at all. 

This quote is for June 28, 2017. 

Right Ones Worthy of Mine

How did you finally fix the hole in your heart? 
It's not about who or how many people love you. It's about who you love. I finally found the right ones worthy of mine. 

Cindy Kroger and Ezekiel Jones from The Librarians "And the Curse of Cindy"

If you validate yourself by how many people love you than you will never be truly happy with yourself. You could have a million people say they love you, but if there is not real feelings between you and them, then there is not a real connection. 

This quote is for June 27, 2017.

Just Make Them Remember You

Don't matter what you've been through. Just make them remember you. Show the world you can shine, glow, cause you got the light now. 

Meghan Trainor in "Woman Up"

The brightest shining person is often the person who has faced the hardest darkness. The jewels that have the most beautiful shine are those that have been discovered under a layer of dust or dirt. 

This quote is for June 26, 2017.

There are No Curses

There are no curses, only mirrors you hold up to the souls of men and women. 

Stephen King in "Thinner" 

Sometimes, not all the times though, the "curses" we experience are just our the consequences of our own actions. All actions create reactions and sometimes those reactions are the reflections of who we are inside. 

This quote is for June 25, 2017.

Rummaging Around in Your Life

The less we know about ourselves, the better. Rummaging around in your life, it's like digging through a landfill. Sure, you may happen upon something interesting, but you're gonna get filthy. 

Dean Cathy Munsch from Scream Queens "Mommie Dearest"

Sometimes looking back to our past can only cause us pain, a pain that can prevent us from moving on and bettering our lives. The past provides lessons for you but it can also be a weight holding you down.

This quote is for June 24, 2017.

There's a Scream Inside

There's a scream inside that we all try to hide. We hold on so tight, we cannot deny. It eats us alive.

Sia in "Bird Set Free"

It doesn't do to always complain and put our heart on our sleeves, but I truly believe that there are some emotions that are just to powerful to leave stuck inside. Some emotions and thoughts can burn like acid if they are not released. 

This quote is for June 23, 2017. 

How Much Change

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning? Living for its own sake isn’t life. People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

Daniel H. Wilson in “Robopocalypse” 

Maybe this naive thinking but I think that a person can become so shell-shock with the traumas and changes in life that they become a like a sleepwalker. However, I think that people can become the shining light that can give a person a reason to truly live again. 

This quote is for July 22, 2017.

All Just Conditioning

Comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly knows who he is. 

Eddie Gauthier from True Blood "Plaisir d'Amour"

Unfortunately, many of us build up our perception of ourselves based on how others view us. I think that it takes a strong sense of self to look at ourselves through the truthful and sometimes scary lens that we create ourselves. 

This quote is for June 21, 2017.

Just Hurt and Hide

All my life I've tried to make everybody happy, while I just hurt and hide, waiting for someone to tell me it's my turn to decide. Who cares if you disagree?  You are not me. So you dare tell me who to be? Who died and made you king of anything? 

Sara Bareilles in "King of Anything"

If you only care about making everybody happy then no one will take the time to think about your feelings because they believe they are the only ones that matter. Sometimes if you want to receive care in return you need to give signs that you matter too. 

This quote is for June 20, 2017.

The Power of Pawns

Pawns are weak, except for when their position on the board gives them power. Early in the game they are sacrificed freely. Late in the game they may check mate the king.  

Neal Stephenson in "Seven Eves" 

Be very careful of the people who you use because you may think you have the power over them but there may come a time when they have the power over you. 

This quote is for June 19, 2017.

Forgiveness Gives Us Humanity

People make mistakes that they don't learn from. And even when we try to help them they screw up again. You can give up, but here's the thing. You may decide that things will never change and there's nothing you can do about it. And you still try your best anyway. Mistakes are what makes us human. But forgiveness, that gives us humanity. 

Quinn from Extant "The Other Side"

It is so easy to give up on family or friends or even strangers that seem as if they will never learn from their mistakes. However, there may come a time, far in the future, where that individual will finally listen to your advice and change their path in life. If you give up, then you may not be able to give that opportunity.

This quote is for June 18, 2017.

Sick of All the Insincere

I'm sick of all the insincere. This time, don't need another perfect lie, don’t care if critics ever jump in line, I'm gonna give all my secrets away. Need something that I can confess, till all my sleeves are stained red from all the truth that I've said. 

OneRepublic in "Secrets"

I think that in this age of rampaging social media, honesty is a trait that is sadly not valued in our society. Telling the truth can be a type of freedom that we need more often in our lives.

This quote is for June 17, 2017.

The Way Things Should Be

The way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. The world's a hard place. It don't care. It don't hate you and me but it don’t love us either. Terrible things happen in the world. Good people die in bad painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper.

Stephen King in "The Shining" 

This is the sad realization of life. If you study history even a little bit you find examples of this quote. Good people are usually the ones that have to pay for the lifestyles of the rich and powerful. 

This quote is for June 16, 2017.

Where You are Inside

The one thing I learned in my travels is you can be miserable pretty much anywhere. And happy anywhere, too. It's about where you are inside. If you're not being honest about who you are and what you really want, you could be living in a mansion, it wouldn't really matter. You still wouldn't feel quite right. 

Killian Gardiner from Witches of East End "Today I Am a Witch"

You could go to the ends of the Earth trying to find a paradise that makes you happy, but if you are not comfortable inside yourself, then you will never be happy. No amount of riches and power can change that if you don't change it for yourself. 

This quote is for June 15, 2017.

What I'm Looking For

Well I don't know what I'm looking for, but I know that I just wanna look some more. And I won't be satisfied till there's nothing left that I haven't tried. 

Brendan Benson in "What I'm Looking For"

Sometimes we know that we need to look for something more in our lives, but we are not sure what we need to find. We just need to keep looking until we know we have found the place we need to be.

This quote is for June 14, 2017.

Normal is Much Worse

Either nobody is paying attention or normal is much worse than everyone thinks. 

Cherie Priest in “I am Princess X” 

The idea of normality has always been a vague notion. There are so many personalities, philosophies, and ideas that it is impossible to say what is normal. Sure there are patterns in these things, but that does not mean that these should become the definition of what normal is. 

This quote is for June 13, 2017.

Find Your Own Truth

When someone recounts the past, it becomes a narrative, a story. And now you need yours. For it to be true, you need to draw your own conclusions, find your own truth. 

Fitzpatrick McCorrigan in Lost Girl "Family Portrait

Despite the facts of our pasts, we can make our own conclusions about our histories. We can pick and chose which memories and lessons we take from our experiences.

This quote is for June 12, 2017.

There Goes the Fighter

Every time you fall it's only making your chin strong. If you fall pick yourself up off the floor and when your bones can't take no more just remember what you're here for. Give me scars, give me pain, then they'll say to me there goes the fighter.

Gym Class Heroes in "The Fighter" 

I think that in most cases you become stronger when you face difficulties. I feel that if there were no obstacles in life we would never grow.

This quote is for June 11, 2017.

Any Path will get You There

If you don't know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there.

David Baldacci in "The Finisher" 

If you do not have a specific path in mind, then hypothetically, any path can lead you to your future. There is no end to the possibilities that await you.

This quote is for June 10, 2017.

Where Memories Go

Stories are where memories go when they're forgotten. 

The Doctor from Doctor Who "Hell Bent"

Every story, even one that is completely fabricated, contain memories. The writers and creators of stories put their experiences and philosophy into their stories, and most of these have been built based on their memories. 

This quote is for June 09, 2017.

Wind would Carry a Change

I wish the wind would carry a change. I've had enough of chasing luck. I'm standing up. I'm setting fire to the life that I know. Looking back I see I had the flame in me, I'm the wind that's carrying change.

Christina Perri in "Burning Gold"

There are times in our lives when we let the wind carry us around with no control over our own lives or when we wish that the wind would bring new experiences. Sometimes we need to become the wind rather than relying on it to take us where we want to go.

This quote is for June 08, 2017.

Everyone has Choices to Make

Everyone has choices to make, no one has the right to take those choices away from us, not even out of love. But that's just it. When you love someone you don’t have a choice.

Cassandra Clare in “City of Ashes”

When you have family you love deeply and who are going down a path you can see leads to disaster, it is hard not to fix their mistakes for them. However, this is a lesson that everyone learns some time in their life. You cannot make choices for others, no matter how much it hurts you to refrain from helping. 

This quote is for June 07, 2017.

The Best You Can Do

Sometimes you must accept that there aren't going to be any miracles. The best you can do is continue your mission. 

Betsy Ross from Sleepy Hollow "One Life" 

Despite what is shown in stories, the good guys don't always win and there is not always a happy ending. When the realization comes that this might be the case, I feel the best thing to do is keep doing your best until the end comes.

This quote is for June 06, 2017.

Get in Where You Fit in

So get in where you fit in. Go on and shine. Clear your mind. Go on and love yourself cause everything’s gonna be alright. 

India Arie in "Video"

Sometimes the best thing we can do is find out where we fit in. Groups are not always a bad thing, as long as you don't hurt or disrespect people because they don't fit in your group. It is always a nice feeling to have people who share your dreams and ideas.

This quote is for June 05, 2017.

Who Exactly She Is

Those lines in Gillian’s face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she’s gone through and what she’s survived and who exactly she is, deep inside. 

Alice Hoffman in “Practical Magic”

It always saddens me when people go to extremes to hide the natural occurrences of time on their faces. The wrinkles we get are signs of the millions of smiles, laughter, sadness, surprises, and successes of our life. Why would we not want to share that?

This quote is for June 04, 2017.

My Sadness is my Own

My sadness is my own. I would never give it up. I've suffered long and hard to be who I am. I want my scars to show. 

Lily from Penny Dreadful "No Beast So Fierce"

Some people view scars as ugly while others believe them to be a sign of personal growth. You can sometimes gain something from suffering. 

This quote is for June 03, 2017.

Some Birds

Some birds aren't meant to be caged and some just wont see the light of day.

American Authors in "Luck"

Some people are meant to be free and their spirit can never be held for long. Others seemed to be doomed to be captured. And others can change their fortune.

This quote is for June 02, 2017.

Be Wherever You Wanted to Be

You're not where you want to be. You feel like you're supposed to be somewhere else. Well say you could snap your fingers and be wherever you wanted to be. I bet you'd still feel this way. Not in the right place. Point is, you can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be that you forget how to make the most of where you are. Take a break from worrying about what you can't control. Live a little. 

Arthur from "Passengers"

You can get stuck in the dreams of where you want to be just as easily as you can get stuck in the places you don't want to be. Although it is easier said than done, I think you need to be happy where you are in order to live happy.

This quote is for June 01, 2017.

The Gift of Time

We don’t think about the gift of time. Time gives us the chance to make mistakes and correct them, to regenerate, to grow. Time gives us the chance to forgive, to restore, to do better than we have ever done in the past. Time gives us the chance to be sorry when we fail and the chance to try to discover in ourselves a new heart.

Anne Rice in “The Wolves of Midwinter”

I believe that if you have time, you have the ability to fix a mistake. You may not be able to fully heal the wounds that mistake has caused but you can try to make the future a better time.

This quote is for May 31, 2017.

Want the Most

I guess people like to read about the things that they want the most and experience the least. 

Bernard Lowe from Westworld "The Stray”

I think this is why people love to read. Most people want adventure, romance, a new world and a break from the mundane and books can provide that, at least for a short amount of time. 

This quote is for May 30, 2017.

Curse of Diamonds and Rings

First comes the blessing of all that you've dreamed, but then comes the curses of diamonds and rings. Only at first did it have its appeal, but now you can't tell the false from the real. Who can you trust, when everything you touch turns to gold. 

Imagine Dragons in "Gold"

Although being wealthy is the envy of many people, it doesn't always make your life easier. There are many times when even the most innocent people are targeted because they have money.

This quote is May 29, 2017.

Mind Creates Your Reality

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it. 

James Patterson in "Max"

Many people say that if you believe in nothing than you will fall for anything. I don't agree with this. I think that people who are stubborn in their belief miss out on things they could have seen if their mind was more open.

This quote is for May 28, 2017.