About

Optimistic character enthusiastic about peace, love, happiness, music, faith, history, technology, sports, fitness & chocolate! Life is good! My #Beachbody workout faves are P90X, P90X3, P90, T25, Body Beast, PiYO, The Master's Hammer And Chisel, and Core De Force.

Education

• Bridgewater College

Favorite saying

• "Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. 1 Corinthians 13:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. It's ALL good!!! "I am too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, and too determined to be defeated." "Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future--Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed, savored." -Earl Nightingale "I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process…It may not be true, but do I dare to take the chance?"~Unknown "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." - Maya Angelou "Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play." -Robert Brault “Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.”~ Josh Billings "We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public." ~unknown "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." -Frederick Keonig "The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude." -Charles Swindoll "Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." - Groucho Marx "This morning I looked down at my unmade bed and decided that it was art in another medium and I should not destroy it." ~Unknown "The only disability in life is a bad attitude." ~Scott Hamilton "Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning." ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie “A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”~Eleanor Roosevelt "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." ~Thomas Jefferson "I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." - Martha Washington "People are as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln "It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship." ~Norman Vincent Peale "Music is the chocolate chip in the cookie of life." ~unknown "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." ~Danny Kaye “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” ~Gail Devers "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be." ~John Homer Miller “Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.” ~Rodolfo Costa "Whenever I have a problem, I just sing. Then I know my voice is a lot worse then my problem." ~Rachel Smith "If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." ~Oprah Winfrey "Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. Love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.” ~Maya Angelou "Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human." -Anthony Robbins "Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different." ~Stacey Charter "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." ~Charles M. Schulz “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~Steve Jobs [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005] "You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted." ~Ruth E. Renkl "Accept everything about yourself–I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end–no apologies, no regrets."~Unknown "An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, 'So far so good!" - Anonymous "What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate." ~Katharine Hepburn "Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking." ~H.W. Byles "Sooner or later you will see the BIG PICTURE God is painting for your life instead of just the colors He's using at the moment." ~unknown "Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments." ~Lewis Mumford "You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." ~Jon Kabat-Zinn "You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on." ~Oprah Winfrey "I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." ~Louisa May Alcott "Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!" ~ Barbara Hoffman "Faith is not hoping God can, it's knowing He will." ~unknown "After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?" ~Robert Brault "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." ~Rabindranath Tagore "Some people walk in the rain. Others just get wet." ~Roger Miller "If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!" ~Jonathan Winters "Be YOU. Don’t be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud… rock it loud." ~Apolo Anton Ohno "Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." ~James Dewar "I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive." ~Anne Wilson Schaef "Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God."~Maya Angelou's final Tweet "The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away." ~Joy J. Golliver "I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy." ~Allen J. Lefferdink "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it." ~Bruce Lee "My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." ~Dave Barry "Practice patience, compassion, and mindfulness-each and every day."~unknown "I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life." ~Ziad K. Abdelnour "It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes "Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile." ~ Unknown "You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself." ~Harvey S. Firestone "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." ~Marcus Aurelius "A consistent positive and optimistic attitude is the cheapest "fountain of youth."~unknown "We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box."~unknown "Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce." ~unknown "A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand."~unknown "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Happiness is the soundtrack of my life." ~Grey Livingston "I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight." ~Peyton Manning “May God grant you always...A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you. Laughter to cheer you. Faithful friends near you. And whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you.” ~Irish Blessing "It is worth a fortune to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things." ~Samuel Johnson "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." ~Earl of Chesterfield "Chocolate doesn't make the world go around ... but it certainly makes the ride worthwhile!" ~unknown"