Movie Quote of the Week: Forrest Gump

The movie of this week is Forrest Gump. The movie (and originally, book) is based on a man named Forrest Gump, who has below-average intelligence. He travels through life unaware of the way he is influencing others and teh history of the world around him. While Forrest is portrayed as dumb, I tend to think that the idea of the movie was to portray him as very practical: he understands what is important, and everything else is just details. I have loved this movie since it came out (I was only 14!), and would highly recommend NetFlixing it if you haven't seen it.

Also, I have decided that "Movie" quote of the week is a bit too limiting - I'm going to switch to just a Quote of the Week next week. Sound good? Okay.

And, the quotes:
"Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get."
"My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on."
And, my favorite: "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both."

If you haven't, go see this movie. It's fantastic.


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Movie Quote of the Week: Tuesdays with Morrie, Pt. 2

I already started these quotes, but I had to finish them. I love this movie! See the beginning of this post HERE - LINK IT!!



Fear. There were horrifying times, and his first emotions were horror, fear, and anxiety. But once he recognized the feel of those emotions, he was able to say, “Okay. This is fear. Step away from it. Step away. I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don’t let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don’t say anything because we’re frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship. Morrie’s approach was exactly the opposite. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself – All right, it’s just fear. I don’t have to let it control me.

Be compassionate. And take responsibility for each other. If only we learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place. – And finally, Love each other or die.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back. Sometimes it is only in your head. Sometimes it is right alongside their beds. The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week, in his home, by a window in his study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink flowers. The class met on Tuesdays. No books were required. The subject was the meaning of life. It was taught from experience. The teaching goes on.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn’t help you when you get to die. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.


“In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get old, you need others to survive, right? But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.”

“And love is how you stay alive, even after you’re gone.” (Tuesdays with Morrie)




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Movie Quote of the Week: Tuesdays with Morrie

My movie of the week for this week is Tuesdays with Morrie. I love, love this movie.

The book (and movie), written by Mitch Albom, tells the true story of professor Morrie Schwartz, who is dying of ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. Throughout the story, Mitch reflects on the lessons he has learned from his dying professor.

I have read this book no less than 15 times, and if you haven't - you really need to. It can be sad, but I think it's hopeful more than anything. Seriously - if you haven't read this book - do.

And now, the quotes. Since there are so many of them, I'm going to break them up into 2 posts. So here's the first half:

"Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently."

"And love is how you stay alive, even after you’re gone."

"In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own."

"As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."

"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live our lives somewhere in the middle. Sounds like a wrestling match – but you could consider life that way. Which side wins, you wonder? He smiled at me with crinkled eyes and said, 'Love wins. Love always wins.'"

"Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone."

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But as wise man named Levine said it was right. He said, “Love is the only rational act.” Love is the only rational act."

"As long as we can love each other, and remember that feeling of love we had, we can die without really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on – in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here. Death ends a life, not a relationship."

I know it's long... but Part 2 is next week! Stay tuned...

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Movie Quote of the Week

I have a confession. I am obsessed with movie quotes. I have been known to carry a small notebook in my purse to the movie theatre so that I can write things down. I have been known to annoy my movie-going companions by asking them if they could repeat things back to me so I could write them down correctly.

So, needless to say, I love quotes. And movie quotes. And really any type of quotes, actually. So I am going to start posting a smattering of good quotes weekly.

This week's movie: the oft overlooked Life as a House.


Such a good movie. Plot summary: A divorced man diagnosed with terminal cancer takes custody of his troubled son and in the process builds the house of his dreams.

This movie is packed with so many amazing characters and subplots. Love it.

My favorite quotes:

"I always thought of myself as a house. I was always what I lived in. It didn't need to be big. It didn't even need to be beautiful. It just needed to be mine. I became what I was meant to be. I built myself a life. I built myself a house."

"What you think you know doesn't have much to do with reality."

"Change can be so constant; you don't even feel the difference until there is one."

Until next week...

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