ahhhhhhh....

the aweful truth...

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them!!

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
--Katharine Hepburn

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."~Henry David Thoreau~

‎"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience."

Never make the same mistake twice, There are so many new ones, Try a different one each day.

When life hands you lemons............ DEMAND Tequila and Salt!!!!!!

sometimes, you forgive people simply because you still want them in your life ♥

I call my computer "the great time eraser."

If your are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem!!

I hate to give away the ending but... we're all gonna die.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

~Robert Brault

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
-- George Burns

Altruism: selfless concern for the welfare of others.

"It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.''"
Sir Roger L'Estrange

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

~Harriet Beecher Stowe~

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

ah, nostalgia... such a tricky phenomenon...

tricky indeed...probably due to it's dishonest nature.

Be a victor, not a victim

You look in the mirror and the calendar and realize that you’re aging. At some point, you realize that aging entails loss: loss of youthful vitality and beauty. But if you’ve bought into Hollywood hype, you may deny this. You may believe that it is possible to attain some semblance of eternal youth and beauty. You starve yourself so you don’t develop middle-aged spread or at least some visible loss of tone, you get cosmetic surgery and Botox, you dye your hair, all to hide what is really happening with your body. And you behave in ways that go along with this denial of aging. You get a young lover, you dress the way teenagers dress. Maybe because your vision deteriorates as you age, that plus the tremendous capacity of the human brain for self-deception enables you to really believe that what you see in the mirror isn’t aging as much as it is.

People do whatever they are told. They buy right into the contemporary hive mind even of what beauty is or what aging gracefully means. It means they don't have to grow up, can stay as ignorant children right through adulthood and look to be told what to do.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Author Unknown.

"Judge a person by their questions, rather than by their answers."~Voltaire~

Your Intelligence Is My Common Sense

Loneliness is a happiness killer.

Success is a matter of a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. Failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
- Jim Rohn

"To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." ~William H. Walton~

Or are you one of those people that will keep it on just to bitch, bitch?

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude,... to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday 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. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
Charles R. Swindoll

"Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn

Khalil Gibran has an excellent text about parents and children:

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is LIVING.

"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
--Marcus Aurelius

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you".

Trying to bite my tongue!

...I will rest only when I decide I will rest...

You can't sow your wild oats and then pray for crop failure.

love it when you give it your all just to find out later that it might of been all for nothing.. :(

Anyone who makes even the slightest effort to walk as Jesus walked will certainly garner the attention of demonic forces! We are wise to keep our armor on at all times.

Matthew 10:16..."Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."

"Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"

~Shirdi Sai Baba

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye♥
-Helen Keller

"It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win."

~Muhammad Ali

co·pa·cet·ic/ˌkōpəˈsetik/ Adjective: In excellent order.