Quotes of the Day

Last week I was watching Amazing Grace and throughout the show they were spitting out awesome quotes left and right, and I just had to share a few of them. The last two are from the book Tuesdays With Morrie which is an amazing book and I reccomend to anyone. Anyways, this I believe:

"It’s a shame for a man to be well known by everyone else and still unknown to himself."

"We are too young to realize that some things are impossible. So we do them anyway."

“Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

“Family is not just about love, but letting others know there’s someone who is watching out for them.”

The Essence of Time

Time comes with a consequence. Depending on how you use it, that consequence can end up negative or positive. You just need to use it right.

Time is not going to stop for you, nor will it rewind, fast-forward, or pause. It’s not that nice. It’s the one thing in the world that keeps going when everything else seems to have come to a stop.

Now put into your mind that one thing you have been putting off, whether it’s taking that trip to California, doing your homework, forgiving your brother, or calling up your best friend. Whatever it is, stop and think of the reasons why it has been constantly put on the back burner. I’m sure the famous saying “I’ll do it tomorrow” has escaped your lips countless times. But do you really do it tomorrow? Which tomorrow are you going to put your foot down and start making those things happen?

Of following your dreams rather than the world?

Make the important things a priority.

Because one day there won’t be another tomorrow.

 Stop living with the regrets of yesterday, but with the joys of tomorrow.

This I Believe

Relax, you will do fine

Footprints In The Sand

I was thinking today on what to write, and this poem kept coming into my mind.

Fortunately it goes right along with my thoughts, that we are never alone.

Even when life is good He is walking beside us, watching over you. And when life goes sour, He is carrying you until your strong enough to walk again on your own... This, I believe:

Footprints in the Sand

One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.

In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.

This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,

“You promised me Lord, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”

The Lord replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.”

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Mary Stevenson, 1936

Reasons

Lately I have been thinking on my past. With the people I have met and things I have, or have not done. And through it all I have realized something good that has come out of a before bad or hard experience.

There is a story of tender mercy in every experience you have in life. You may not realize it at first when it happens, or even the next day. Sometimes it’s years later while you are reminiscing on small stories of your past that you find you learned more about yourself in that one instance than you would have in five years.

There is a reason behind everything that happens, you just have to sit back for a minute and look for it.

Find the best out of every circumstance.

In this life suffering is mandatory, but misery is optional

This I believe.

Creating Our Own Happiness

This past year in english class we were reading This I Believe essays when we started reading one writen by Wayne Coyne in 2007. And I thought, this I also believe:

I believe we have the power to create our own happiness. I believe normal life is extraordinary.

I was sitting in my car at a stoplight intersection listening to the radio. I was, I guess, lost in the moment, thinking how happy I was to be inside my nice warm car. It was cold and windy outside, and I thought, "Life is good."

Now, this was a long light. As I waited, I noticed two people huddled together at the bus stop. To my eyes, they looked uncomfortable; they looked cold and they looked poor. Their coats looked like they came from a thrift store. They weren't wearing stuff from The Gap. I knew it because I'd been there.
The couple seemed to be doing their best to keep warm. They were huddled together, and I thought to myself, "Oh, those poor people in that punishing wind."

But then I saw their faces. Yes, they were huddling, but they were also laughing. They looked to be sharing a good joke, and suddenly, instead of pitying them, I envied them. I thought, "Huh, what's so funny?" They didn't notice the wind. They weren't worried about their clothes. They weren't looking at my car thinking, "I wish I had that."

You know when a single moment feels like an hour? Well, in that moment, I realized I had assumed this couple needed my pity, but they didn't. I assumed things were all bad for them, but they weren't. And I understood we all have the power to make moments of happiness happen.

Now, maybe that's easy for me to say. I feel lucky to have fans around the world, a house with a roof and a wife who puts up with me. But I felt this way even when I was working at Long John Silver's. I worked there for 11 years as a fry cook. When you work at a place that long, you see teenagers coming in on their first dates; then they're married; then they're bringing in their kids. You witness whole sections of people's lives.

In the beginning, it seemed like a dead end job. But at least I had a job. And frankly, it was easy. After two weeks, I knew all I needed to know, and it freed my mind. The job allowed me to dream about what my life could become.

The first year I worked there, we got robbed. I lay on the floor. I thought I was going to die. I didn't think I stood a chance. But everything turned out all right. A lot of people look at life as a series of miserable tasks, but after that, I didn't.

I believe this is something all of us can do: Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves. This I believe.

Perspective

There are reasons why things happen, and there are reasons to how we react. Only one we can control, and it all starts with how we view this vast ever changing world. It’s the only thing that can change a bad day into a great day, or your worst enemy into your best friend. Its called perspective.

Definition of Perspective: the state of one’s ideas, the facts known to one.

At times we think we know everything, and that we are always right until proven wrong. Maybe, you should look at things through others eyes. See how they view the world. When you do, you might find its not exactly what you thought. Your hunky-dory world is not theirs.

It is necessary we view our lives through various perspectives. When we do this we will learn so much more through one experience than we would otherwise.

We react to how we think. Perspective. It starts with our thoughts.