Favorite saying

• "People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. -Mother Teresa Don't waste your time on jealousy. sometimes your ahead sometimes your behind,the race is long and in the end its only with yourself Don't waste time looking back and regretting what happened. Look forward and start making things happen. That's the first step to creating a better reality. If I had but an hour of love, If that be all that is given me, An hour of love upon this earth, I would give my love to thee. † "I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water." “The quality of the present moment is all that matters. Make it joyous.” "If you want to be happy, be." “Today is never too late to be brand new.” “Be you. Find you. Be happy with that.” “Someone will always be prettier. Someone will always be smarter. Someone will always be younger. But they will never be you.” “Worry about loving yourself, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.” "I've leard throughout life that nothing of this world will truly make you happy. I'm not saying that nothing here is good, fun, or even will bring joy to your life, but it's when we base our happiness on someone or something else that we are destined to get hurt and let down....ALL the time! The only constant and true thing that will completely satisfy and make us whole is a personal relationship with the Lord...after all, he sent his only son to die on the cross and take the punishment for OUR sin! That's true love, and when we look to anything else in this world to make us whole, or base our own happiness on how someone else is treating us, or depending on the circumstances in our life, we're only setting ourselves up to get let down, and get let down miserably. Let's be real...eventually, EVERYTHING we have accumulated, every relationship we have built, and everything we accomplish in this life will be gone...no more. None of it will go with us when we die. Life is such a mere blip of eternity so our goal while here should not be to "store up treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy", but to spend our lives pursuing a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ, as he is the only thing where we can find true comfort, total joy, and complete peace!!" "I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful." "Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see." -George W. Russell "There comes a moment when our lives change forever. The moment we admit our weaknesses, the moment we rise to a challange, the moment we accept a sacrifice, or let a loved one go. And sometimes the change in our lives is an answer to our prayers." "That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful." -Ninon de L'Enclos "Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength." You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ’Why not?’ 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. <3 If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. "But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."-Matthew 6.31-34 Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life. Love is everything its cracked up to be. Thats why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you dont risk anything, you risk even more It's hard for me to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much..it makes my heart fill up like a balloon that's about to burst. "The heart." God says, is deceitful above all things, and desperatly sick." (Jeremiah 17:9) "If you compare yourself to others, you may become vein or bitter. For there will always be a greater or lesser persons than yourself." -Desiderata "The lower your self-esteem is, the more likely you are to believe that someone else holds the key to your happiness." "You touched my heart, you touched my soul, you changed my life and all my goals" † "Life is full of accidents, who you fall in love with, what grabs you, and what you do with it.." "If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm, and You are the music." "What we see depends mainly on what we look for<3" ......this is what they meant when they said "it's hard to sleep when your reality is better than your dreams." "Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water." "There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time." "You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight." "Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift." "I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine." "Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy." "Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots." "It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something." "You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings." "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied."Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy."Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for there is the kingdom of heaven."Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.""