Dating Tip(s)

You're not buying a car. You're not ordering a pizza. People come with damages and flaws. It's about the chemistry! And then finding out if you have the same morals and values. And if you want the same thing in life at the same time. People don't realize that. They think they're ordering every little thing on their Wish List, and God's just going to deliver it to you tomorrow. Not so much!

Reprogram your brain to believe that he is out there. There are a lot of good men still in the world. They are gifts that you've just got to receive. Ask, believe, and receive - - Enjoy the process! Dating is supposed to be fun.

Basically, you go on the date. You look good. You smell good. You smile. You accept the invitation, and you're receptive to it. He's also a guy. He's got different equipment. Remember that too.

- Thus saith Patti Stanger, the Millionaire Matchmaker

Great Gatsby

Katie Finnernan,
2010 Tony Awards winner...

I have so much to be grateful for. With the world being so fast right now, I want to remind you to focus on what you love. It is the greatest passport, the greatest road map to an extraordinarily blissful life. 

Just focus on that one thing. Don't listen to anybody else, and you will run into the right people, the right teachers, the right moments and circumstances. 

One day, you will meet that person that will share that love with you... My life has never been the same since I met you. Thank you for sharing the love of Theater with me. It's just the light of my life, and I know you feel the same way. I'm just so grateful.

Common Thread

• There is something miraculous that pushes you along, makes you keep going, makes you carry on. If it's really about the mystery of that. In fact, the whole album is about that in a way: it's about loss but it's also about hope, about keeping going and trying to find that beauty. (Corinne Bailey Rae)


• Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, and it's something in my work that I dwell on. I think when you experience any kind of loss, especially the kind I did, you have questions about survival: Why do some people thrive in situations that others can't tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own? (Anderson Cooper)


• God allows hardship in our life so that our beliefs will become more real to us and less theory. We can start living out our faith-life in the real world. God can be glorified through your weakness. His light and power can shine through the chips, cracks, and cracks in your life, drawing others to Himself. (Greg Laurie)


• Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with Him about your needs. This is to believe. (O. Hallesby)


• God is merciful and permits us that anger for a time... He never moves, and He will be there waiting patiently when you have no other choice but to throw your cares on Him in order to go on and then the true healing begins and that wonderful "peace that passes all understanding." (Nora Macy)


• I guess making things fun is the only revenge you have against mortality. Of course, I think about mortality. So many of my colleagues and friends have died that I'm forced to think about it. What we would all like is to kind of choose when we're ready to go, and we'd not have any fear. The best part about death is that it's not selective. It's comforting to know that everyone dies. Death is the pure democracy. (Dustin Hoffman)