Life 2
No regrets.. just lessons learned.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
"Sad
is the man who pushes life away because he is scared"
-- Deanna Thibeau
"Accept
the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions...
If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same."
--
Joan McIntosh
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Don't rely on the past to create the future, rely on the future to erase the past.
Every sunset ends another day. A day that will NEVER be repeated.
Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.
I've learned that it is possible to laugh when you're much closer to crying, that tears can be hidden if you try, and that the roles we play for each other without a crowd could win more Academy Awards than the screens will ever know.
The clock of life is wound but once and no man has the power to tell when the hands will stop at late hour. Now is the only time you own, live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in "tomorrow" for the clock may then be still.
"Nothing
is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable"
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I used to have a handle on life...it broke.
<>Life is a theater, so invite your audience carefully- Not everyone is healthy enough to have a from row seat in our lives There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a DISTANCE. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships or friendships. Observe the relationship around you. Pay close attention. Which ones live and which ones lean? Which ones encourage and which ones discourage? Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill? When you leave certain people, do you feel better or feel worse? Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know or appreciate you? The more you see quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you...the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of your life. Remember that the people we hang with will have an impact on both our lives and our income. And so, we must be careful to choose the people we hang out with, as well as the information with which we feed our minds. We should not share your dreams with negative people, nor feed them with negative thoughts. Who's in your front row?
For every minute you are angry with someone,
you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.
Life doesn't totally suck, you just haven't gotten to the good parts yet.
Memories only hurt when you can't make more memories with the one you made those great memories with.
At times life's unfair and I know it's plain to see. Hey God, I know I'm just a dot in this world. Have you forgot about me?
Why do we try so hard to fit in, when we were born to stand out?
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness and sometimes we lose them there again.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
People are what we remember about them. What we call life is in the end a patchwork of someone else's recollections. With death, it gets unstitched, and one ends up with random, disjointed fragments.
Wouldn't life be perfect:
If sweatpants were sexy,
If Monday was as fun as Friday.
If eating junk food never made you fat,
If friends didn't cause drama,
If boys weren't confusing,
If nothing was regrettable and
If goodbyes were always followed by another hello?
Sometimes I look back on my life and fear that all the good parts are over;
that there's nothing left to look forward to; that the secret of happiness is sitting back in high school, in a time that I took for granted, in rushed childhood scenes,
in days I can never get back.
-- Lisa Gilbert
It's funny how we tend to look back on our past as if those were the only good times that we're ever going to have.
You can waste your whole life drawing lines, or you can live your life
crossing them.
Life doesn't always give you the people you want, it gives you the people you need. To help you, to hurt you, to love you, and to make you into the person you were meant to be.
Life is bittersweet so try to
remember the happy and the sad,
give hope to love, don't regret
the tears, enjoy every aspect of
life, create memories, it's okay
to be scared but don't miss any
opportunities to grow and always
remember someone loves you.
-- Alexis Opp
Sunny days wouldn't be so
special if it wasn't for rain.
Joy wouldn't feel so good if it
wasn't for pain. Death gotta be
easy because life is hard, it
leaves you physically,
emotionally, and mentally
scarred.
-- 50 Cent, "Many Men"
Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
As you go through life you will
see there is so much that we
don't understand. And the only
thing we know is things don't go
the way we planned.
-- "We Are One"
If tomorrow is how today was, it only promises the same stings of time wasted, life lost to nothing.
Hope for the best and expect the worse. Life isn't a movie, it's all unrehearsed.
And all the things that break you,
Are all the things that make you strong,
You can't change the past,
Cause it's gone,
And you just gotta move on,
Because it's all,
Lessons learned.
-Carrie Underwood, "Lessons Learned"
Nobody told you that nothin plays out like it seems
Twenty years now runnin scared of all of your dreams
Is it everything you thought it would be
-Green River Ordinance, "On Your Own"
I would rather spend my life close to the birds, than waste it wishing I had wings.
-House
House: Life is dangerous and complicated and it's a long way down.
Patient: So you're afraid of change?
House: No, you're afraid to change. You'd rather imagine that you can escape instead of actually try, 'cause if you fail, then you've got nothing. So you'll give up the chance of something real so that you can hold on to hope. The thing is, hope is for sissies.
-House
I've got it all, but I feel so deprived
I go up, I come down and I'm emptier inside
Tell me what is this thing that I feel like I'm missing
And why can't I let it go?
-Stacie Orrico, "(There's Gotta Be) More to Life"
So So is how I'm doing if you're wondering
I'm in a fight with the world but I'm winning
Stay there come closer it's at your own risk
Yeah you know how it is life can be a bitch
-Avril Lavigne, "Runaway"
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, yeah
But if I die tonight at least I can say
I did what I wanted to do
Tell me, how 'bout you?
-Justin Timberlake/Madonna, "4 Minutes"
