i just love you.

Just when you've had enough, life gives you more.
And just when you think it's rained enough, it starts to pour.

At the end of the day, after doing all these things,

there's an empty space. There’s going to be

something you ache for. The key is to find

something you have a passion for, something you

can live for every day of your life; and stay with it.

To fulfill yourself, you must fulfill your purpose.

Love doesn’t walk away, people do.

He reached for her hand.
"I don't want to lose you."
His voice was almost in a whisper.
She could feel the tears again,
& she fought them back.
"But you don't want to keep me either, do you?"
To that, he had no response.

Did you ever just need to kiss someone?
It's not that you even want to kiss them for the pleasure
of having a kiss, but you just need to feel
his lips on yours, so you can get that safe, warm,
and loving feeling? Well, right now, I'm needing your kiss.
It's the one thing that keeps me alive in the
crazy, insane, and confusing world. When
you kiss me, all that hazy confusion disappears
and it all becomes perfectly clear.
You are the only one who stops the storm of life around me.

It’s as simple as this…
he did something to me
I can’t explain with words
he took me to a new place
&& introduced me to myself

Wanna know something?
I think the world may just surprise you yet.
I mean you fall in love and it doesn't work out
and you think that it will never happen again
but it does. Believe me, it does.
In the strangest of places.

Whatever comes our way,
whatever raging battle is inside of us,
we always have a choice.
It's the choices that make us what we are.
& we can always choose to do the right thing.

Imagine waking up one morning and finding
a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

You and I are going to be okay, you know that, right?
We may not be as happy as you always dreamed
we would be, but for the first time, let's just

allow ourselves to be whatever it is we are. And

that'll be better, okay? I think it'll be better.

You ruined it for every other guy.
No one even comes close to you.

There's just something about him that made
me like him. Ever since the day I met him
there was something about him that made
me go absolutely crazy for him.

To have memories of those you have loved and lost,
is perhaps harder than to have no memories at all

And while I don't need anyone else

but myself. Everything just seems

so much better when I'm with him.

Go ahead let your hair fall down
The wanderlust is gone now
Here in your arms
I'm safe from the world again
These are the days that can't be erased
Baby, there isn't a better place
You're like Heaven. Oh, you're like comin' home
You're like a Sunday morning, pleasin' my eyes
You're a mid-summer's dream under a star-soaked sky
That peaceful easy feelin at the end of a long long road
You're like comin' home. You're that innocence,

That serenity, That long lost part of me

Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there

is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the

midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.

Time changes everything.
That's what people say; it's not true.
Doing things changes things.
Not doing things leaves things exactly as they were.

Love is about taking risks.
The risk of rejection.
The risk of heartbreak.
&& the risk of falling in love & 
not being able to get out.

So that's what I've been doing all
this time, bouncing.. it's like crashing,
except you get to do it over & over again.

The most important thing in life is to find
yourself, know who you are at all times,
and stand by that for the rest of your life.

I think that's what I find most strange about this

world, nobody ever says how they feel. They hurt,

but they don't cry out. They're happy, but they

don't dance or jump around. And they're angry

but they hardly ever scream. Because they feel

ashamed. Nothing's worse than that. So we all

walk around with our heads looking down and

never look up and see how beautiful the sky is.

I want something real, something I can touch
and hold onto. A love that makes my heart skip,
and gives me that amazing feeling in the pit
of my stomach. I want forever.

It’s one of those feelings. The ones where you get the

good kind of goose bumps in 90 degree weather. You sit

there thinking about him & you can't help but smile

whenever you see him. he takes your breath away.

You’d rather spend the rest of your life, sitting there

with him than winning the lottery or becoming famous..

because, when you're with him, you have everything.

Most people are stronger than they know.
They just don't choose to believe in themselves.

& it’s the way you absently play with my rings
While we lay & watch TV
& it’s the way you lightly tilt my chin
While you look right into my eyes before we kiss
& it’s the way you think you are so macho & tough
While you are just as much of a mush as me
& it’s the way I can escape into my head
While I replay moments of us in my mind
& it’s the way you kiss me
While everything else in the world disappears
& it’s the way we can just stare into each others eyes
While not one word is said
& it’s the way we joke about missing each other all day
While we’ve never been more serious
& it’s the way I can’t stop thinking of you
While I go about my day

Smile every day. Smile at everyone. Smile at everything. Smile for anything. Never stop smiling. Smiling is what makes everday, even the bad days, worth living.

-Patricia Ponte

FOR YOU JORDAN PRUITT:

FOR YOU TESS :

&& FOR ROBBY: