Favorite Quotes

“I see people with my heart and not with my eyes.”  

“If you’re willing to do for a year what others won’t, you can live for the rest of your life the way others can’t.”

"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on it’s ability to climb a tree, it will live it’s whole life believing that it is stupid." – Albert Einstein

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -  Mother Teresa

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person."

"I love the nights I can't remember with the friends I will never forget."

"To know me is to love me. If you don't love me, it's because you don't know me."

“Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.” – Albert Einstein

"Well-behaved women rarely make history" - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."  - Mohandas Gandhi

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe

"If we all understood that everyone has their own battles to fight, insecurities to face, loves to contend and goals to attain, the world would be a gentler place".

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."  - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A life without love is no life at all." - Rachel D. Fogle

“I’m just me and that’s pretty special.”

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."  - Mohandas Gandhi

"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others." - Mohandas Gandhi

"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?" - Ever After

"Love First"

"Fortune favors the brave."

"There is a tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations. Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared is doubled. If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things that you have that money can't buy. Today is a gift and that is why it is called the present."

Fear is scary but so is not trying....

So I stumbled upon this article (http://thegloss.com/culture/chasing-thirty-the-fear/) and it felt as if Andea said exactly what I have been wanting to say for so long. Granted our dreams are somewhat different and I don't have much encouragement. This is probably due to the fact that I rarely express my dreams/goals with others in fear that I will fail or even worse, never start.

For some time, I have been making a list of things that I want to accomplish before I turn 30. I'm still trying to get past that fear that Andrea speaks of in her article but I'm passionate to make things happen. I don't want to wake up one day having all of these regrets so I think it's time to start acting instead of talking.

I'm on a mission to surround myself with good hearted people who inspire instead of hinder. I know far too many people who settle for less and I just don't want to be one of those people.

Lately, I have been researching like a mad man to find my itch. So far, I have come to the conclusion that I want to be creative. I don't want a career that is black in white or unspiring. I want to start working to live, instead of living to work. I want to spend time with the people I love and do things to better the world....even if it's in a little way. I want to create.

What do you want?