Wednesday, August 4, 2010

| |Asking the Girl in the Mirror to Change Her Ways| |

{Sometimes, people really do feel like they don't want to exist, like they want to curl up in a ball and hide from everyone else. They feel like life is caving in on them and they want to just go somewhere else and not feel anything at all. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that. And if you don't know how it feels to feel this way, then you have no place to judge anyone who does.}


It's an odd world out there.... are you prepared?


"A few times in my life, I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think… And things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived for these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be." -A Single Man

"Writing is a form of therapy. Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation." -Graham Greene



"The only cure for grief is action"G.H. Lewis




Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~Attributed to Howard Thurman


Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ~Albert Schweitzer


I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown



Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

Let go, it's harder holding on....


take a {{breath}} & make it BIG



~In this great future, you can't forget your past.. along the {{way}}

Friday, July 16, 2010

Pack Up & Go

*More places [no photos though]

Some pictures of places I -will- be visiting.


~Source
www.richard-seaman.com/.../Landmarks/index.html
(theres tons of fabulous photographs also. makes me more excited)


~2011 Caribbean Islands
(St. Thomas and a few others)


~Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
(Sure it's close to me, but to each his own.)


~Charleston, South Carolina
(For their botanic gardens, main streets and hidden treasures)


~August 2012 Cairns, Australia
(Childhood dream right here)


~(2011 or 2012)San Francisco, California
(Something tells me I'd fit right in)



~Mind you I shall be going skydiving on every continent I visit that has it.~



These are actually planned in the next 2 years... I wonder where I'll plan to go from now and well whenever later is.

*Yosemite National Park, CA
*Yellowstone National Park,WY
*Istanbul, Turkey
*Bran Castle, Romania
*Swiss Alps, Switzerland
*Kenya, Africa
*Egypt, Africa

****This is a pending two month vaca to Europe which most of the locations will be seen in about 2-3 years, due to a pending transition of jobs. Hope John follows through because I know I will.****

Neat-o

So it's summer, well been summer. Been an eventful one and will only get more exciting from here. I found an interesting section in one of my school books (yes gasp, a school book!). I would love to frame it actually but I'll have to choose the size of the frame, background and finally the gorgeous font that will accompany it. (I think of fun projects huh?)

~The Paradoxical Commandments~

People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help by may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.


-Written by Kent M. Keith-