Today…

Today I leaned that it is important to set goals and keep them…no matter how hard the struggle. I have learned that words hurt, and to not let what people say effect how you feel. Even though it does. You are better than that and stronger than that. However, you can’t let it go on forever…today is the first day…if it continues…then you need to move on…just like you did before. You love life…and people see that in you…don’t let anything get in your way!

Add a comment March 26, 2007

Today I learned…

Today I have learned…there are four things that you can’t get back.

 

1. The stone after the throw
2. The word after its said
3. The occasion after the loss
4. The time after is gone

 

I also learned that everything is impermanent…everything is always changing.

 

I have learned recently that as much as I want to believe and put my trust in anyone and everyone I meet…sometimes I shouldn’t always do that…and I also know, that they probably were being honest at the time…but then soon the reality is brought in, and that messes everything up. I just wonder if they  really meant what they said.

 

And most importantly…

 

It is important that a man helps you around the house and has a job.

It is important that a man makes you laugh.

It is important to find a man you can count on and doesn’t lie to you.

It is important that a man loves you and spoils you.

It is important that these four men don’t know each other.

 

 

1 comment March 21, 2007

100 Books

The ones that I have read are in bold. It might possibly be a personal goal of mine to read them all??? Which ones have you read? 

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling) I think they mean Sorcerers Stone
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25 . Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27.Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible (I’ve read parts, but never all the way through!)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burne
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce) 

Add a comment March 20, 2007

Words I live by…sort of!

~Give people more than the expect and do it cheerfully.

~ Marry someone you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversation skills will be more important than any other.

~ Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want.

~When you say “I love you”, mean it.

~ When you say “I’m sorry” , look the person in the eye.

~Be engaged at least six months before you get married (or if you are feelin it, just go to Vegas!!)

~Believe in love at first sight.

~Never laugh at anyones dreams. People who don’t have dreams, don’t have much.

~Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but its the only way to live life completely.

~In disagreements, fight fairly. Please no name calling.

~Don’t judge people by their relatives.

~Talk slowly but think quickly.

~When someone asks you a question you don’t want to asnwer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?”

~Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

~Say “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.

~When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

~Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.

~Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

~Smile when picking up the phone, the caller will hear it in your voice.

~Spend some time alone.

~At least 5 people in this world love you so much they would die for you.

~At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.

~The only reason anyone would hate you is because they want to be just like you.

~A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don’t like you.

~Everynight, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.

~You mean the world to someone.

~If not for you, someone may not be living.

~Someone you don’t even know exists loves you.

~When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.

~When you think the world has turned its back on you, take a look: You most loke likely turned your back on the world.

~Always remember the compliments you received. Forget the rude remarks.

~Always tell someone how you feel about them, you will feel much better when they know.

~They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them but an entire life to forget them.

~There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them up from your dreams and hug them for real.

~When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us.

~Don’t go for looks; they can deceive. Don’t go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

~Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be because you only have one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

~May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.

~The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes their way.

~The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can’t go forward in life until you let go of you past failures and heartaches.

~When you were born you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live you life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

~Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take; but by the moments that take our breath away.

~Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful thing.

~Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

~Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

~Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

~In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation, don’t bring up the past.

~Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

~Don’t get upset if things don’t progress as quickly as you want them to. Every person’s heart beats at a different pace, and you can’t get theirs to beat any faster. So be patient, because they’re worth waiting for.

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Sometimes…

Because sometimes you have so much to say, and no where to say it. I intend to write thoughts, stories and other items that inspire me!

Add a comment March 20, 2007