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"people attempt to debate with me all the time. I don't mind when people criticize me or my convictions, but that doesn't mean I'm going to substitute their judgement for my own. I know my values. I know what I believe and what I stand for. that's what matters" -prettyboy http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/8.gif:p
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"Just because you're on a paved road doesn't mean you're on the right track."
I saw this written (read: vandalized) on a bathroom stall once, but its significance never left me. "You're always a better person for every journey that you take." A contestant from Making the Team (Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders), but something to remember especially during times of trial. |
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The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.~~DAVID ICKE *********************** It is easier to avoid the effects of others' negativity when we question if an action or attitude is appropriately directed at us. If it isn't, we can choose to sidestep it and let it pass.~~~SUE PATTON THEOLE |
A photographer can be your best friend or worst enemy. We have a LOT more power than you think, or give us credit for. ~~~Yours Truly
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Faith and reason aren't mutually exclusive - Yours Truly
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******************************* "Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?" — bell hooks Communion: The Female Search for Love "No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women." — bell hooks |
"Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them" ~~ Washington Irving
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"Stopping at third base to congratulate yourself adds no more to the score than striking out". -My dad said something like that to me before he passed away.
"Christian faith helps us to face the music, even when we don't like the tune" -My pastor said that a couple of weeks ago. I really liked that one. |
Didn't read this thread through, but these are some of my favorites:
“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.” “Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.” “Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.” “Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.” “One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.” “Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere” |
Never complain about what you permit.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire! ~~St. Catherine of Siena
(Heard this at the Royal wedding) |
Civil rights are all of our rights. They also never expire. We must never be passive and complacent. :)
~DrPhil~ |
Never throw a stone and hide your hand.
~~Beem Photography |
"It's very dear to me, the issue of gay marriage. Or, as I like to call it: 'Marriage.' You know, because I had lunch this afternoon, not gay lunch. I parked my car; I didn't gay park it."
-Liz Feldman |
"Smart people fail every day." - My Dad
Although I am not quite sure it's his originally... "Don't be afraid of the fall; be afraid of the sudden stop at the bottom." -1SG Netterville, on the subject of my fear of heights in high school while rappelling. "You'll never truly succeed until you give it a try. You'll never know true love until you give birth. You'll never know what life is until you give yours to something. The moral of the story is: you're never going to get anything without first giving something for it." - My Mom |
Gloria said this at the end of Modern Family a few weeks ago:
“Maybe we are the way we are because of the people we’re with. Or maybe we just pick the people we need. However it works, when you find each other, you should never let go.” |
Opportunity knocks; Karma hunts you down.
One of my photo friends |
“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
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"Revenge is best served cold. Unless you have a really long standing vendetta against the 40-Winers because then, revenge is best served with a field goal from a 77 yard drive. From the 1 yard line. In overtime. From a quarterback with fractured ribs. WHAT?? I CAN'T HEAR YOU???"
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"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle." ~Steve Jobs Feb. 24, 1955-Oct. 5, 2011~ |
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"Not all who wander are aimless. Especially not those who seek truth beyond tradition, beyond definition, beyond the image."
Betty Warren~ Mona Lisa Smile |
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any. ~ Alice Walker |
Whenever I go to church I always jot down notes, the book, and verse, so I can look it up when I get home. I do it just to gain more knowledge that can help me through life and when I interact with other people. Today, my pastor was talking about "foolish people" and how people like that are pretty much right in their own eyes. He said "a discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument is an exchange of ignorance". He told us he couldn't remember where he heard the quote from, so when I got home I looked it up. Here's what I found.:)
You argue when you want to win For your views worthy of dust bin Argument is seldom without facts Only bitterness that it attracts. When you discuss you share When you argue you don't care Just want to prove you are superior With your knowledge so inferior. When you argue you appear like a fool Like a drop out from a school Fisting your hand to prove a point With your behaviour you disappoint. Bad men argue good men share Winning or loosing good men don't care Discussion is for the healthy mind It's the truth that you strive to find. There is thin line between discussion and argument. Discussion is sharing knowledge and argument is when you wish to prove that the knowledge you share is the only right thing. You argue when you have half knowledge, you discuss with facts, data and statistics. Anger is never without an argument but never with a good one. -Robert Quillen |
"The difference between style and fashion is quality." - Giorgio Armani
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Unfortunately, when most people land in hot water, unlike the tea bag, they don't produce an aromatic drink for life. Instead, they sully up the water.
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My mom sent me a poem in the mail, today. She always sends me "sweet nothings" in the mail to let me know she loves me. She sent me a "Be-Attitudes" poem.
Be-Attitudes BE humble enough to realize you still have a lot to learn BE ambitious enough to know you can be anything you want to be BE easy enough on yourself to enjoy, to laugh, to have fun BE mature enough to take responsibility for what you do BE confident enough to see that who you are inside is more important than how you look outside BE proud enough to take care of your body, your mind, and your spirit BE wise enough to choose your friends carefully BE absolutely sure that wherever you go, whatever you do YOU ARE LOVED. -Mom :) |
^^ That's nice!
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I miss this thread. I'm going to find some nice ones to add.
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Didn't know this thread existed. I'll be posting here a lot. I love good quotes, especially ones that I can live by.
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Please do!
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"So I always ask the question: What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well it's so amazing as the result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say 'Well, we'd like to be painters, we'd like to be poets, we'd like to be writers' But as everybody knows you can't earn any money that way! Another person says 'Well I'd like to live an out-of-door's life and ride horses.' I said 'You wanna teach in a riding school?' Let's go through with it. What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do I will say to him 'You do that! And forget the money!' Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time! You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living - that is to go on doing things you don't like doing! Which is stupid! Better to have a short life that is full of which you like doing then a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if you do really like what you are doing - it doesn't really matter what it is - you can eventually become a master of it. It's the only way of becoming the master of something, to be really with it. And then you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don't worry too much, somebody is interested in everything. Anything you can be interested in, you'll find others who are. But it's absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don't like in order to go on spending things you don't like, doing things you don't like and to teach our children to follow the same track. See, what we are doing is we are bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of life's we are living. In order they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing. So it's all retch and no vomit - it never gets there! And so therefore it's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?" - Alan Watts |
Yay! So happy you bumped this thread. :)
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"Laughter is an instant vacation" -Unknown
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nice!
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"Do not expect positive changes in your life and then surround yourself with negative people." - unknown
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"We don't need no more rappers. We don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers. We need more of that. We don't need any more entertainers." ~Tupac Shakur
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""Maybe what bothers me the most is that people say that Hillary is a bitch. Let me say something about that: Yeah, she is. So am I and so is this one. (re: Amy Pohler?)
- - You know what, bitches get stuff done. That's why Catholic schools use nuns as teachers and not priests. Those nuns are mean old clams and they sleep on cots and they're allowed to hit you. And at the end of the school year you hated those bitches but you knew the capital of Vermont. So, I'm saying it's not too late Texas and Ohio, bitch is the new black!" ~ Tina Fey |
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