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You spend too much time…

“You spend too much time everyday wondering why you’re not good enough.” Don’t you?

Inspiration, Life, Love, Truth

Love this photo, but I can’t find the original… I want it for This Much Is True (my current WIP)…
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Reflection

And, this one too! Love this photograph so much! I’m inspired for WIP This Much Is True. foreverloulou: en pointe…
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Love & Other Drugs – favorite scene from this film

“I’m gonna need you more than you need me.” “That’s okay.” from Love and Other Drugs! LOVE this film! Love…
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Give me peace

Give me wondrous thoughts and amazing tranquility. Give me wind and winter. Give me peace. ~Katherine Owen

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off…”Life moves pretty fast”

Love this movie ~ what a classic! “Life moves pretty fast.”

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"You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she asks.
Now, I’m curious. She hasn’t spoken for the last ten minutes of the drive. “What?”
“Too much air blows out the fire. Too much water destroys it.”
I nod trying to determine what she’s really comparing us to. “The idea would be to keep the flame going, right. For years?” She nods. “Like a relationship. Like a marriage.” She cringes at the word marriage. Noted. “So you need the air—to stay constant—to fan the flames of the fire, and you know, grasshopper,” I smile at her and catch sight of the corners of her mouth turning slightly upward in response to the endearment, “a hot enough fire will burn water, so you have to be careful with the water too.”
“That I do know,” she says softly. “So that’s the truth about air and water.” She sighs deep.
“Which is?”
“It’s hard to maintain the balance to keep the fire going. You have to fan the flames without putting it out with too much water. But too little water will burn the fire right up. Too much fire. Too much destruction. We’re out of control.”
“You’re talking in circles,” I say.
“No. That’s us,” she says with certainty."— Katherine Owen

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