for the sake of having this somewhere in the virtual world…
“This time, like all times, is the best of times, if we but know what to do with it.” -Emerson.
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping in intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in the casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” -CS Lewis.
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have their way out of the depths. The people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep, loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” - Elizabeth Kubler Ros.
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:8-11.
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” -D. Waitley
“We are intrepid. We carry on.” - Elizabethtown.
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” - Helen Keller
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.” -Proverbs 3:5-8
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” - Louis Erdrich
“A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he’ll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary? ” -Marley and Me.
“Sadness is easier because it’s surrender. I say make time to dance alone, with one hand waving free.” - Elizabethtown.
“Healing begins when we participate in the suffering of God. When we don’t avoid it but enter into it, and in the process enter into the life of God. When we see our pain not as separating us from but connecting us to our maker.” -from Sex God by Rob Bell
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” - Helen Keller
“If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work” -Jacques Cousteau
Quotes from Laura, my lovely roommate!:
“I haven’t worn my mermaid panties in a long time. Maybe if we stay up late tonight, I’ll wear them for you!”
“Look at my DONK!!”
“HALLOWEEN BAT PANTIES!!!!!!”
“God is like Brickbreaker. Even when you screw up he gives you an extra life. He sends out help just when you need it most. Even if you fail he lets you start over again. And I love God and Brickbreaker.”
“This is my face right now”
“On Sunday, do you want to have lots of chips and cheese?”
me: “she just seriously did the catepillar!!”
laura: “uhmmm what?!”
me: “oh wait…. the worm!”
both: “hahahahhahhaha”
me: “wow that sounds like something you would have said!
laura: “let’s quit school and become hookers…wooo!”
me: “OK!”
together: “HOOKERSSS!”
while eating crab rangoon:
“CRABBERS AND GOONS! Everytime I eat them they put a smile to my face…which is one time…but I smiled…”
Laura: So the other day I was wearing some grannies, you know, the ones that cover your butt, and they had a peacock on the butt! PEACOCK PANTIES! and guess what I’m wearing right now?
Me: Scandilous panties?
Laura: YES! You knew what underwear I was wearing!
Laura: (to Tyler) Tyler! Steph knows what underwear I’m wearing!
Laura:[in mysterious voice] Steph, I have a present for you…
Steph: If you show me your panties I swear I’ll kill you.
Laura: NO! I stole you the pen!!
Laura: If I can imagine sex, it would be like bananas foster followed by cheesecake.
Steph: I would not be your friend if you had multiple violent uncontrollable arms.
Chang: “it looks like a burger smear.”
Me: “uhh you mean booger?”
Chang: “shut up, I’m hungry.”
