I recently got a tattoo of a quote that gets me through some tough times. Hopefully it helps someone as much as it has helped me. "Without struggle, there is no progress"

Don't let the b@$t@**$ get you down xoxo (sorry for the b word)

No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need. It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us."

You may feel like the fries on the bottom of the McDonald's bag. Someday someone's gonna notice you and be happy they found you.

No matter how lonelywe feel, we have to remember that there is someone in our lives that we can count on. We just have to be open our eyes and see who it is.

Life has no horizons so you might as well keep swimming.

~ Alan Rickman

"'Don't ever forget that kindness is always free" Love this!

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up
- Stephen Hawking

I so need this right now

Here's one that always made me think.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.

When people learn my past and what I live through everyday they often wonder how I smile soo much. My simple answer is; I have a future waiting for me to arrive. My future that's waiting for me to do what I love, to travel any place I want, to see things that not everyone gets to see. My future where I'm happy and content because I've made the decision to keep pushing on. To look at the greater things in that moment because it's better to have a smile than a frown. Because it's better to have a twinkle in your eyes than the tears that stain your cheeks. Because in this moment, it's better to be happy in the sky than to be sad underneath.

Above all shadows rides the sun?Sam's Song, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.

-Wristcutters: A Love story.

I have good and bad news for you and everyone else. Bad news: You'll never fit in. Good news?: The great ones never do. I'll quote Marilyn Monroe: If I followed all the rules everyone set for me, I would never have gotten anywhere. Hugs and kisses! Xoxo, ~A

Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.
And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes
you cannot even breathe deeply, and
the night sky is no home, and
you have cried yourself to sleep enough times
that you are down to your last two percent, but

nothing is infinite,
not even loss.

You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day
you are going to find yourself again.

-Finn Butler

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"

- Nelson Mandela

Every event is a learning opportunity.

Make meditation compulsory in schools"As Noodle says, 'It's important to teach kids how to be measured in their minds. How to be bored, learn poise, breathing, a sense of calm and freedom from the desire for more; the understanding that knowing how to pause can be an advance.' "Part of evolution is knowing when to stop. After fiddling with my iPhone I feel so cranked up and speedy I could bite someone's face, like someone's been scribbling in my brain. Can't be good for the kids today growing up staring at the info equivalent of a strobe light smashing round their bonces 24/7."

-Murdoc Niccals

Life is filled with two kind of days. Good days and bad days. And I know bad days suck but without bad days we won't have good days.

"Take what you learn and make a difference with it"

The Best Is Yet To Come.

"Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing."

"Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist." -Michael Jackson

"Confidence is not achieved overnight. It can be achieved by learning from mistakes, it can be achieved by learning from experience."

"There is neither good news nor bad news, only news" Master Uguay

"If Everyone cared and nobody cried, if everyone loved and nobody lied, if everyone shared and swallowed their pride, then we'd see the day when nobody died." - 'If Everyone Cared' by Nickleback

The brightest lights we shine come from the darkest candles we burn.

While looking for the moon

so many miss the stars.

Not as bright.

Nor as big.

But somewhere...

Those same stars...

are someone else's sun.

-L.S

Experience is not what happens to someone. It is what someone does with what has happened to them. - Aldous Huxley

i'm cold -

"Closeup even green grass has its brown strands. No one is perfect no matter how great they may seem from the outside." -JJ Yosh

During my last session with my therapist in high school, she told me "Whatever happens, happens." The reason she said that is because I sometimes have a hard time accepting things as they are. I think it really stuck with me.

During my last session with my therapist in high school, she told me "Whatever happens, happens." The reason she said that is because I sometimes have a hard time accepting things as they are. I think it really stuck with me.

"Oppression is not your unwanted criticism but the terrifying silence."

Failure isn't just a type of experience; it's probably the best kind. It can only make you a better person.

If you have a problem and you know you can solve it, why worry? :)

Mom always told me things always happen for a reason!!

Sometimes, the best "medicine" is to get outside of our own wants and desires and do something to make someone else happy :)

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I have no wise words, no intelligent thoughts, no new promises, but i do have myself and my own life to make and do as i wish with it!