Quotes : Desperate Housewives Pt. 1

POWER OF LOVE  It's impossible to grasp just how powerful love is.  It can sustain us through trying times or motivate us to make extraordinary sacrifices.  It can force decent men to commit the darkest deeds or compel ordinary women to search for hidden truths.  And long after we're gone, love remains, burned into our memories.  We all search for love, but some of us, after we've found it, wish we hadn't.

TRUST is a fragile thing.  Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom.  But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover.  The truth is we never know who we can trust.  Those we're closest to can betray us and total strangers can come to our rescue.  In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves.  It really is the simplest way to keep from getting hurt.

LIFE is a journey. one that is much better traveled with a companion by our side. But sometimes we lose our companions along the way, and then the journey becomes unbearable.

HEROES, we all honor them for different reasons.  Sometimes for their daring. Sometimes for their bravery.  Sometimes for their goodness. But mostly we honor heroes because at one point or another, we all dream of being rescued. Of course,if the right hero doesn't come along sometimes we just have to rescue ourselves.

THE VOW is simple, really.  Those who take it promise

"to stay together, for better”

“for richer or for poorer”,

"in sickness and in health”,

"to honor and to cherish”,

"forsaking all others”,

"until death do us part."

The vow is simple.  Finding someone worthy of such a promise is the hard part.  But if we can, that's when we begin to live happily ever after.

GOODBYE. Nothing is forever. And the time comes when we all must say goodbye to the world we know.  Goodbye to everything we had taken for granted. Goodbye to those we thought would never abandon us. And when these changes finally do occur, when the familiar has departed and the unfamiliar has taken its place, all any of us can really do is to say hello and welcome.

THE DESPERATE. t's an odd thing to look back on the world to watch those we left behind.  Each in our own way so brave, so determined and so very desperate. 

Desperate to venture out, but afraid of what we'll miss when we go.

Desperate to get everything she wants, even when we not exactly sure of what that is.

Desperate for life to be perfect again, although we realizes it never really was.

Desperate for a better future, if we can find a way to escape her past.

Sadly, that's just not the way life works.  Not everyone gets a happy ending.

POWER.  The search for power begins when we're quite young.   As children, we're taught that the  power of good triumphs over the power of evil. But as we get older, we realize that nothing is ever that  simple.

COMPETITION. It means different things to different  people, but whether it's a friendly rivalry or a fight to the death... The end result is the same. There will be winners... and there will be losers. Of course, the trick is to know which battles to fight.

THE SINS.  There is a widely read book that tells us everyone is a sinner. Of course, not everyone feels guilt over the bad things they do. In contrast, there are those who assume more than their share of the blame. There are others who soothe their consciences with small acts of kindness... or by telling themselves their sins were justified.  Finally, there are the ones who simply vow to do better next time and pray for forgiveness.

PEOPLE are complicated creatures.

On the one hand, able to perform great acts of charity.

On the other...capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal.

It's a constant battle that rages within all of us between the better angels of our nature and the temptation of our inner demons. And sometimes, the only way to ward off the darkness... is to shine the light of compassion.

SOMEONE OF OURS.  We are all searching for someone, that special person who will provide us what's missing in our lives. Someone who can offer companionship... Or assistance...Or security.  And sometimes, if we search very hard, we can find someone who provides us... and if we can't find them, we can only pray they find us.

DEATH is inevitable. It's a promise made to each of us at birth. But before that promise is kept, we all hope something will happen to us.

Whether it's the thrill of romance...

The joy of raising a family...

Or the anguish of great loss...

We all hope to experience something that make our lives meaningful. But the sad fact is not all lives have meaning.  Some people spend their time on this planet just sitting on the sidelines... waiting for something to happen to them... before it's too late.

LIES.  The worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves before we fall asleep. We whisper them in the dark, telling ourselves... We're happy or that he's happy. That we can change or that he will change his mind. We persuade ourselves we can live with our sins or that we can live without him. Each night, before we fall asleep, we lie to ourselves. In the desperate.. Desperate hope that come morning, it will all be true.