Quotes

None of my deep thought provoking wisdom today. Now don't be disappointed. I have something even better. Yes better is possible. I picked out some quotes I like and make me think. Enjoy!


Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. 
-Joshua Marine


Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde


Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt


A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-Winston Churchill


We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churchill


Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.
-Winston Churchill


You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchill


Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new
-Albert Einstein


Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile
-Albert Einstein


Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results
-Albert Einstein


If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough
-Albert Einstein


There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle
-Albert Einstein


It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-Mark Twain


The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become
-Mark Twain


The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter
-Mark Twain


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear (So true, I think about this a lot when I feel fear but choose to overcome it)
-Mark Twain 


Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
-Mark Twain


It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt
-Mark Twain


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong
-Mahatma Gandhi


When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it
-Henry Ford


You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time
-Abraham Lincoln


Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much
-Oscae Wilde


I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work
-Thomas Edison


When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you                                                                -African Proverb

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.                                  -Arab Proverb

So many great ones, that's all for now!

I've changed, deal with it

After being away from my hometown for 9 months I cam back about a month for 8 weeks before I move away for good. I was nervous to come back and for good reasons. While it's great to be with my family its also tough. I am enjoying living in a beautiful big clean house with a cleaning lady and a fridge that is always stocked with great food unlike my apartment which usually had mold and ice on most of our food. And the doting parents are great. As are seeing all my siblings and nieces and nephews who have gotten so big and are adorable. But driving around the town where I have lived almost all of my 21 years is a reminder of my mistakes, of my past. In that firehouse I hooked up with this guy, here I did xyz, where I go is a reminder of mistakes. Plus there are so many people I don't wish to see. Some that we just don't talk for various reasons, some that remind me of bad things, and some that I was friends with before I left. The ones that i was friends with before I left want to hang out with me. But I have rules now, I don't hang out at night or go out alone usually with guys. I am trying to be a better person than the one who left here last October. Last year I made a lot of mistakes. I still err time to time but I am deffintley a better person that who I used to be. I heard a guy who I hooked up with last year is going around calling me ugly and a slut. At first it upset me a lot but then I thought about it. Maybe I was a slut. How do you define a slut anyway? But I am not anymore. And the past doesnt matter anymore. I am a very good caring person now. But since being home I have had a lot of arguments with my last year friends how I cant hang with them, and its starting to get lonely around here since I keep pushing away the not so good influences in my life. I know its the right thing but the right thing is not always easy. I once heard a Rabbi say that you know you are doing the right thing when you have a lot of opposition. He was talking about a different thing but I think it kind of fits. i have made what are for me sacrifices. I am a night person, I love going out at all hours, meeting new people and partying. Now I am home  almost every night on the computer, watching a movie or something and its not easy to change my nature but I am trying to become a better person. I don't want to be a slut. Please accept my change, but if you don't, thats ok because you obviously don't want the real me. My ex said that change isn't becoming a different person but its becoming the real you, well I guess I am me now. Love me or get out of my life! (Sorry for the anger)