Quotefest. Again.

1. "If we could see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change." - Siddhartha Buddha
2. "A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt
3. "Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!" - Friedrich Nietzche
4. "Don't waste your time living someone else's life, and don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Steve Jobs
5. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
6. "I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters." - Oprah Winfrey
7. "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." - Aldous Huxley
8. "If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?" - Lord Chesterfield
9. "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra
10. "Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." - Napoleon Bonaparte
11. "Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions." - Khalil Gibran
12. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
13. "It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch
14. "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." - Ed Cunningham
15. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
16. "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bouces when he hits bottom." - General George S. Patton
17. "Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
18. "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen behavior." - Vince Lombardi
19. "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome." - Samuel Johnson
20. "When you believe in a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." - Walt Disney
21. "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
22. "If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity, even if I may not have it in the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi
23. "The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under the lights." - Muhammed Ali
24. "Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
25. "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." - Michael Jordan
26. "The important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie
27. "Just do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." - Ella Fitzgerald
28. "Inspiration and genius, one and the same." - Victor Hugo
29. "Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances." - Benjamin Franklin
30. "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
31. "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George Patton
32. "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
33. "You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." - Unknown
34. "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking." - Willam B. Sprague
35. "The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." - Oprah Winfrey
36. "We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
37. "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
38. "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." - Dalai Lama
39. "Joy is not in things; it is in us." - Richard Wagner
40. "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey
41. "Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." - Benjamin Franklin
42. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
43. "Hitch your wagon to a star." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell
45. "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln
46. "We can only do no great things; only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
47. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
48. "Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." Confucius
49. "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." - Samuel Johnson
50. "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans." - Ronald Regan
51. "You've got to take the initiative and play your game. Confidence makes the difference." - Chris Evert
52. "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T. Washington
53. "The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, ackowledge the great powers around us and in us." - Euripides
54. "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Auguste Rodin
55. "Someone who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him." - Lao Tzu
56. "You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha
57. "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be dones does away with fear." - Rosa Parks
58. "The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
59. "Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way, they may not be possessed." - Confucius
60. "When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure." - Alice Hoffman
61. "The power to question is the basis of all human progress." - Indira Gandhi
62. "All things are possible until they are proved impossible. Even the impossible may only be so for now." - Pearl S. Buck
63. "Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." - Georgia O'Keefe
64. "The Constitution only gives people the right to puruse happiness. You have to catch it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin
65. "The best thing about the future is that is comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln
66. "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." - Pete Seeger
67. "No one can give you better advice than yourself." - Cicero
68. "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't,  you are usually right." - Henry Ford
69. "You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now." - Joan Baez
70. "It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward." - Gracian
71. "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
72. "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To do something well is to enjoy it." - Pearl S. Buck
73. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain
74. "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up."  - Vince Lombardi

This might turn into a rant...

But before that, I will give some quick updates on my life.

2012 started out as very promising. I moved out of my parents' house to Draper on Jan 6th. I'm living with two girls, Tava that I work with, and Brittany whom we found through a singles' ward in the area.

But then! My beloved Peeta (my 1992 Acura Integra) died. It was heartbreak on a level that I've never felt. I started writing a eulogistic poem for him in my head over the next few days when I thought I'd have to sell his empty body and buy a new, less sexy car. It went on about how no other man had been there for me like he had, and how he'd brought me more happiness in a year than I ever thought I could get from a man...but then my friend JoNeale said she and her husband would be glad to look at it/fix it for me. It was like one of those scenes in a cartoon where the beam of light from above shines down and the heavenly chorus strikes up. So they looked at him today and the diagnosis is that it would cost about $1200 to fix by a mechanic, or $300+two months for them to fix it (since they live in Logan and would have to arrange to come down etc.). I think I'm going to go the mechanic route. It's still less than I paid for him, and I just can't deal with letting him go (I hope my future husband doesn't go in a coma ever, cause I can see that becoming a problem for me).

My new singles' ward is good though. So far I've made way more friends than I expected in just one month. It's quite delightful. However, I'm still getting used to a singles' ward that doesn't function like a student ward. And that doesn't have to abide by BYUI rules.

But all these elements combined cause me to feel like I'm just a teenager, or at least people treat me like one. Just because I handle situations differently than they do, or maybe differently than most people do, doesn't mean I don't know how to handle situations.

That's the end of my rant.

I've made some goals lately which are:

• Learn a new recipe, about twice a month
• Get at least two days dedicated to scrapbooking a month
• Get in contact with an old friend at least once a month
• Give out compliments every day

These may seem very simple, but I seem to be very preoccupied and disorganized, so hopefully I can get a little more on track through these kind of goals, and then make more ambitious goals. :)

Another Onsalught of the Lovely Texts My Phone Sends Me

1. "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."  - Thomas A. Edison
2. "You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming." - Pablo Neruda
3. "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." General George S. Patton
4. "After about three lessons, the voice teacher said 'Don't take lessons. Do it your way.'" - Johnny Cash
5. "Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves." - Princess Diana
6. "Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!" - Jane Austen
7. "The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." - The Dalai Lama
8. "I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." - Walter Cronkite
9. "Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep." - Madonna
10. "One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them." - Ira Gershwin
11. "I'm hoping that someday some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him." - Hank Aaron
12. "If we stopped trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
13. "My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here." - Jim Henson
14. "Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it." - Cicero
15. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
16. "Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night." - Marian Wright Edelman
17. "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti
18. "I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." - Bruce Lee
19. "The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." - Ann Landers
20. "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw
21. "There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it." - Pearl Bailey
22. "You can't win unless you learn how to lose." - Kareem Abdul-Jabaar
23. "Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Buddha
24. "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy
25. "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes
26. "You cannot depend on  your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
27. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive." - Anais Nin
28. "There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
29. "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman
30. "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensible part of happiness." - Bertrand Russell
31. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
32. "Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
33. "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde
34. "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver
35. "You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed." - Frederick Douglass
36. "Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." - William Congreve
37. "Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes." - Goethe
38. "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein
39. "Lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin
40. "Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." - Henry David Thoreau
41. "Do not fear mistakes. There are none." - Miles Davis
42. "You are only as good as the team you have behind you." - Jim Palmer
43. "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." - Golda Meir
44. "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." - Herman Melville
45. "Do not seek to follow the footsteps of the men of old. Seek what they sought." - Basho
46. "Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. "If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." - Georgia O'Keefe
48. "The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters." - Gloria Steinem
49. "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George Patton
50. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
51. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
52. "Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." - Robert Schuller
53. "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
54. "Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life beautiful." - Joshua J. Marine
55. "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." - Seneca
56. "When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner
57. "A real friend is the one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell
58. "Anger is never without reason, but seldom a good one." - Benjamin Franklin
59. "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
60. "Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it." - Ella Williams
61. "The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves." - Helen Keller
62. "I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird." - Paul McCartney
63. "It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich." - Henry Ward Beecher
64. "When we see men of contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves." - Confucius
65. "What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you." - Oprah Winfrey
66. "An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh." - Will Rogers
67. "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost
68. "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be stong to live, as well as to think." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright
70. "If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work." - Kahlil Gibran
71. "He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know." - Lao-tzu
72. "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted  was once eccentric." - Bertrand Russell