Ready to Love Again

Seems like I was walking in the wrong direction
I barely recognize my own reflection, no
Scared of love but scared of life alone

Seems I've been playing on the safe side baby
Building walls around my heart to save me, oh
But it's time for me to let it go

Yeah, I'm ready to feel now
No longer am I afraid of the fall down
It must be time to move on now
Without the fear of how it might end
I guess I'm ready to love again

Just when we think that love will never find you
You runaway but still it's right behind you, oh
It's just something that you can't control

Yeah, I'm ready to feel now
No longer am I afraid of the fall down
It must be time to move on now
Without the fear of how it might end
I guess I'm ready to love again

So come and find me
I'll be waiting up for you
I'll be holding out for you tonight

Yeah, I'm ready to feel now
No longer am I afraid of the fall down

It must be time to move on now
Without the fear of how it might end
I guess I'm ready, I'm ready to love again

- Lady Antebellum, "Ready to Love Again"

Never Be Ready

We've got our feet on the wire, talking 'bout flying
Maybe we're diving in over our heads
Scared of what I'm feeling
Staring at the ceiling here tonight

Come on lay down these arms, all our best defenses
We're taking our chances here on the run
The fear is an anchor, time is a stranger
Love isn't borrowed, we aren't promised tomorrow

We'll never be ready if we keep waiting
For the perfect time to come
Won't be steady, we'll never be ready

Where we don't know, though we can't see
Just walk on down this road with me
Won't be steady, never be ready

You're okay, you're with me here in the silence
With all of the violence crashing around
Saying we can't go, saying we don't know
This road that is narrow is the one we should follow

We'll never be ready if we keep waiting
For the perfect time to come
Won't be steady, we'll never be ready

Where we don't know, though we can't see
Just walk on down this road with me
Won't be steady, we'll never be ready

- Mat Kearney, "Never Be Ready"

Yesterday

"Oh, yesterday's over my shoulder
So I can't look back for too long
There's just too much to see waiting in front of me
And I know that I just can't go wrong."

- Jimmy Buffett, "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"

Bieber Fever

"Jbiebs is god to those kids. Let's be honest. I even got bieber fever. Hahaha. I'm thinking of going to the doctor to get it checked out. I keep whipping my bangs to the side and pulling up my pants and saying "dawg" and telling all the shawtys to 'holla atchya boiii.'"

- My Sister, in reference to Justin Bieber

People in Our Lives

"We all have people in our lives. Some of them are good. Some are bad. But they shape us."

- Derrick Morgan, Criminal Minds

Nothing to It

"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Wanna change the world? There's nothing to it..."

- Willy Wonka

Take a Risk

"If you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you’ll be way ahead of everybody else."

- Steven Tyler

Three Day Rule

"Jesus waited THREE days to come back to life. It was perfect! If he had only waited ONE day, a lot of people wouldn't have even heard he died. They'd be all, "Hey Jesus, what up?" and Jesus would probably be like, "What up? I DIED yesterday!" and they'd be all, "Uhh, you look pretty alive to me, dude..." and then Jesus would have to explain how he was resurrected, and how it was a miracle, and the dude'd be like "Uhh okay, whatever you say, bro..."

And he's not gonna come back on a SATURDAY. Everybody's busy, doing chores, workin' the loom, trimmin' the beard, NO. He waited the perfect number of days, THREE. Plus it's SUNDAY, so everyone's in church already, and they're all in there like "Oh no, Jesus is DEAD", and then BAM! He bursts in the back door, runnin' up the aisle, everyone's totally psyched, and FYI, that's when he invented the high five. That's why we wait three days to call a woman, because that's how long Jesus wants us to wait.... True story."

- Barney Stinson, How I Met Your Mother

You Deserve the Best

"You deserve the best in life
So if the time isn't right then move on
Second best is never enough
You'll do much better baby on your own."

- Madonna, "Express Yourself"

Invincible

Follow through
Make your dreams come true
Don't give up the fight
You will be alright
'Cause there's no one like you in the universe

Don't be afraid
What your mind conceives
You should make a stand
Stand up for what you believe
And tonight
We can truly say
Together we're invincible

During the struggle
They will pull us down
But please, please
Let's use this chance
To turn things around
And tonight
We can truly say
Together we're invincible

Do it on your own
It makes no difference to me
What you leave behind
What you choose to be
And whatever they say
Your souls unbreakable

During the struggle
They will pull us down
But please, please
Let's use this chance
To turn things around
And tonight
We can truly say
Together we're invincible
Together we're invincible

During the struggle
They will pull us down
Please, please
Let's use this chance
To turn things around
And tonight
We can truly say
Together we're invincible
Together we're invincible

- Muse, "Invincible"

Bulletproof

Been there, done that, messed around
I'm having fun don't put me down,
I'll never let you sweep me off my feet,
I won't let you in again, the messages I've tried to send,
My informations just not going in,
Burnin' bridges shore to shore, I'll break away from something more,
I'm not turned off to love until it's cheap,
Been there, done that, messed around,
I'm having fun don't put me down,
I'll never let you sweep me off my feet,

This time baby I'll be bulletproof...

La Roux, "Bulletproof"

Wish Right Now

Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)


Yeah
I could use a dream or a genie or a wish
To go back to a place much simpler than this
Cause after all the partyin' and smashin' and crashin'
And all the glitz and the glam and the fashion
And all the pandemonium and all the madness
There comes a time where you fade to the blackness
And when you're staring at that phone in your lap
And you hoping but them people never call you back
But that's just how the story unfolds
You get another hand soon after you fold
And when your plans unravel
And they sayin' what would you wish for
If you had one chance
So airplane airplane sorry I'm late
I'm on my way so don't close that gate
If I don't make that then I'll switch my flight
And I'll be right back at it by the end of the night

Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)

Somebody take me back to the days
Before this was a job, before I got paid
Before it ever mattered what I had in my bank
Yeah back when I was tryin' to get into the subway
And back when I was rappin' for the hell of it
But now a days we rappin' to stay relevant
I'm guessin that if we can make some wishes outta airplanes
Then maybe yo maybe I'll go back to the days
Before the politics that we call the rap game
And back when ain't nobody listened to my mix tape
And back before I tried to cover up my slang
But this is for the Cada, what's up Bobby Ray
So can I get a wish to end the politics
And get back to the music that started this sh-t
So here I stand and then again I say
I'm hopin' we can make some wishes outta airplanes

Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)

-B.O.B. featuring Haley Williams, "Airplanes"

Direction

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

- Yogi Berra

Talk You Down

Just a cigarette gone
No you couldn't' be that far
So I'm driving in my car
Where I hope you are
Maybe I can talk you down

We're standing on a tiny ledge
Before this goes over the edge
Gonna use my heart and not my head
And try to open up your eyes
This is relationship suicide

- The Script, "Talk You Down"

Black and White

You see the world in black and white

No color or light

You think you'll never get it right

But you're wrong, you might

The sky could fall, could fall on me

The parting of the sea

But you mean more, mean more to me

Than any color I can see

All you ever wanted was love

But you never looked hard enough

It's never gonna give itself up

All you ever wanted to be

Living in perfect symmetry

Nothing is as down or as up as us

- Coldplay, "Low"

Dare to Fail

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert Francis Kennedy

Life Long Love

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

- Oscar Wilde

Vanity and Pride

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Handsome Men's Club

From Jimmy Kimmel Live after the Oscars. Definitely one of the funniest skits I've seen.

Hope is Evil

"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man."

- Friedrich Nietzsche