I’ll cry at anything when I’m sick. I get emotional at inappropriate moments– during game shows, talk shows, comedies, even during car commercials. I can’t help it.

This much we do know: All of us do it in varying degrees of blubbitude. Some of us are waterfalls, soaking fellow moviegoers with our public displays of empathy. Others are Saharas, for whom tears are about as rare as oases.
Quotation from Desson Thomson, The Washington Post

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

Food is seduction. Prepared with fresh ingredients and some imagination, it excites the senses and engages the mind. Food is the ultimate foreplay.

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.
Quotation from Federico Fellini

“Nice cookies.”
Attribution Unknown

A wish for world peace from me to you. Merry Christmas.

Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious.
Quotation from Francis C. Farley

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
Quotation from Janice Maeditere

I think we all hunger for love even when we have it, for without it, we are a shell of what we could be.

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been… When I am my present “normal” self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In short, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.
Quotation from Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

What is it about romantic movies that feels so good?

Holden: I love you.
Alyssa: You love me?
Holden: I love you. And not, not in a friendly way.
Quotation from the movie Chasing Amy

Grace is loving those who don’t deserve to be loved. It’s giving an undeserved gift.

Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. It is an outward and visible sign of an inward harmony of soul.
Quotation from William Hazlitt

Grace is available for each of us every day- our spiritual daily bread- but we’ve got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
Quotation from Sarah Ban Breathnach

This is comic #700. I am grateful for every comment, every kind word, given over the last 2 1/2 years. Thank you so much for overlooking my faults and petty mistakes. I am blessed because of you.

Do you think someone with wandering eyes also has a wandering heart?

Oh yes I forgot to mention now that I’ve got your attention
I did not want you to see me this way.
Lyrics from Soul Asylum, Wandering Eyes

In the missing, we find what is left of ourselves. When I feel sad, I like to listen to the songs of Lucinda Williams, especially from her album “West.” What is your favorite sweet sad song?

Why, what could she have done being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?
Poem by W.B. Yeats, No Second Troy

Tears! tears! tears!
In the night, in solitude, tears;
On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck’d in by the sand;
Tears—not a star shining—all dark and desolate;
Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head.
Poem from Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

The world can be divided into two kinds of people: Conservative and Liberal; Those that have clean houses and those that have Abyssian cats; Those who admit they pee in the shower and those who lie. What two kinds of people have you noticed? (It’s not a test. You don’t have to be right.)

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing. It’s ok though, because I’ve got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes.
Quotation from John Mayer (who has dated Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jessica Simpson)

Yin asked me to tell you, Jenny, that she loves you
and she’s sorry. She didn’t sleep last night, and she
waited for you, and she waited and she waited…

I was led into love with an eager palm,
full of life and vigour and youth.
I was shunted from love with the back of the hand,
careless, selfish and uncouth.
The winds do moan as the trees howl from their roots
and the days grow cold, as the nights grow fierce
with the remembrance of the lover’s previous hold
and the bittersweet tear for the wisdom untold.
Poem by Claudia Fitzgerald,
“Who so loves, believes the impossible.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Quotation from Ingrid Bergman