this fleeting life: 2009

Hey Everyone!
SO...yesterday I spent the majority of mid-night looking back at remnants of my high school days...I was cleaning my room, which hadn't been touched since I left for college 4 years ago...I've been here for half a year already, but just never really got around to altering anything because I now realize I was apparently a little depressive...(maybe missing Austin, my friends and my own apartment?) so I think I didn't want to alter anything because then I would be accepting the fact that I really am HOME, and not in Austin anymore (Am I Dorothy?). hahaha...sad but true. The thing is that I chose to come home since I'm almost done...so I don't know why I am still thinking that I live in Austin, when it was me who made the conscious choice to come back afterall.

So for those of you who don't know me, here is a little bit on my life:

I am a UT Austin senior, but I recently moved back home to Brownsville to finish my classes online (still from UT of course), in order to be closer to my family and to save money.
I do plan on eventually moving out again...maybe in a year, when I'm out of CC debt?
I really want to build a homeless shelter/soup-kitchen one day.
I really want to go abroad to help disadvantaged children, I would love to join the Peace Corps. so I might do that in a year.
I'm not really sure though because I also really want to move to LA or New York before I'm 25...and I will turn 23 in 2 months...so the clock is ticking.
Whatever I decide to do though, I know that it will be a great experience for me and that I will be happy with it.
For now though, I am finishing college in order to embark on the greater ship that is life, and I'm content.
I wanted to be a lawyer for so long, and I still want to be one, but I am not going to rush into it right after college, like I had planned. I believe it is better for me to gain life experience and know that I really do want to pursue law, instead of going into it straight out of college and hating my life for three years, if it is the wrong choice for me at the time.

These past months I have had so much time to think, and I realize I am pretty mature for my age at times.

I am mostly a happy person, I love smiling and helping others as much as I can.
I hate drama, and try my hardest to avoid it...but of course it inevitably finds me.
I try to deal with it from a diplomatic point of view, and try to see the larger picture of things.
I disdain gossip, and instead love hearing actual facts.
I can count my best friends with 2 hands, these people have been there for me through the hardest times, and some don't even know it.
I have many friends though, and I really appreciate them and enjoy their company.
I LOVE THE TWILIGHT SAGA (ok this is not mature, I KNOW, but it's true...it is too good!)
I want the Bella's Birthday Cake for my b-day, with my name instead of hers though, of course, I'm not insane.
Edward can come to my party if he'd like...I promise not to get any papercuts!!! :) (OK enough Twilight humor...for now)
I am very talkative, but you might find that I am not really all that into talking too much about my personal life.
I would much rather hear about you & your life & help you with any problem you might have, instead of focusing on me & mine.
I think that is partly why I created this blog, so that I could vent about random things...and not care about what others think...I learned that the only opinions that really matter are yours and your family's...all the others are optional.
I love finding great quotes that I can relate to and am in love with reading, I feel that it takes you to another dimension.
I actually need to post a draft I saved about my favorite books...etc.
I love traveling and would make a career out of it if I knew how to.
I love expanding my life point of view, but sometimes I feel that the longer I stay in one place, the narrower my life-view seems to become again, and I'm back to the same endless circle.
I need change, but need some more maturing to do before conquering the world, and I accept it.
I hope to do that in the next year and throughout the rest of my life.
I love my family and they are the most important thing to me, and I want to make them proud.
I need to meticulously calculate my life path...as soon as I figure it out...or try to at least, and be happy.

Well this is the most self-gloating I've done in my entire life, asides from my college applications four years ago...it is unnerving actually. TMI, perhaps? Oh well. Enough for today. Bye!
MERRY CHRISTMAS and/or Happy Holidays everyone!!!

Currently Listening to: New Moon Soundtrack - "Satellite Heart" by Anya Marina
Current Obsession: Starbucks Peppermint Mocha Frappuccino
Currently Reading: BHG Magazine - Jan 2010 & re-reading Jane Eyre for the umpteenth time...
Current Projects: Wrapping gifts and re-decorating my room for 2010
My Latest Venture: Trying to find a great vintage store in Brownsville...apparently that's impossible, since I'm not in Austin.

Hey everyone!

I had previously mentioned on my myspace blog that I might have to start my own blog in order to put all of the wonderful quotes that I love in one place.

That is what gave me the idea of actually creating a blog so here are some of the quotes I like.

I will keep updating this as I see fit.

My quote collection ranges from movies to politics to literature to inspirational, so feel free to read through them!

Inspiring Quotes:

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink"

"Every path has its puddle"

"A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're not so bad"

"Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot"

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." (Elizabeth Kübler-Ross)

"All great changes are preceded by chaos." (Deepak Chopra)

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of someone elses life with perfection." (from the Bhagavad Gita)

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." (Jim Rohn)

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

"The most common way people give up their power, is by thinking they don't have any." (Alice Walker)

"There are two ways of spreading light ...To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it." (Edith Wharton)

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use." (Ruth Gordon)

"Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul." (Flavia)

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship." (Louisa May Alcott)

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." (Ella Fitzgerald)

"If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough." (Oprah Winfrey)

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." (Maya Angelou)

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." (Maya Angelou)

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return." (Maya Angelou)

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver." (Maya Angelou)

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation." (Maya Angelou)

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." (Maya Angelou)

"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" (Maya Angelou)

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." (Mother Teresa)

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is bliss, taste it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it." (Mother Teresa)

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving." (Mother Teresa)

"Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart." (Mother Teresa)

"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are." (Mother Teresa)

"If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive." (Mother Teresa)

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." (Mother Teresa)

"We know that whatever we do is simply a droplet in the ocean. But if that droplet were missing, the ocean would be lacking." (Mother Teresa)

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." (Mother Teresa)

"Peace begins with a smile." (Mother Teresa)

"There is no greater sickness in the world today than the lack of love." (Mother Teresa)

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. " (Helen Keller)

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched but are felt in the heart." (Helen Keller)

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." (Helen Keller)

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." (Helen Keller)

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. " (Helen Keller)

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us" (Helen Keller)

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. " (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience. Taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them." (Byron Katie)

"If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you." (Marianne Williamson)

"When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce." (Marianne Williamson)

"Joy has no cost." (Marianne Williamson)

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." (Barack Obama)

"I’d rather aim high and miss, than aim low and hit."(Les Brown)

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." (Robert Fritz)

"Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way." (Tim Ferris)

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind." (Dr. Seuss)

"The more you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know." (David T. Freeman)

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve." (Napoleon Hill)

"Success is a journey, not a destination." (Ben Sweetland)

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." (Confucius)

"You will get what you want in life when you help enough other people get what they want." (Zig Ziglar)

Success: “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then I was dying to finish college and start working. And then I was dying to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could return to work. And then I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying... and suddenly realize I forgot to live." (Author Unknown)

Time Tested Beauty Tips
For attractive lips, Speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, Seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, Share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, Let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, Walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

People, even more than things,
have to be restored,renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed;
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands;

one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. (Sam Levenson)

The Beauty Of A Woman
The beauty of a woman
isn't in the clothes she wears,
The figure that she carries,
or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman
must be seen from in her eyes;
Because that's the doorway to her heart,
the place where love resides.

The beauty of a woman
isn't in a facial mole;
But true beauty in a woman,
is reflected by her soul.

It's the caring that she cares to give,
the passion that she shows;
And the beauty of a woman
with passing years only grows. (Various Authors)

MOVIE QUOTES:
"The truth is I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart, and I never really got it back." (Sweet Home Alabama)

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

"I never told anybody that because I am such a good friend!" (Mean Girls)

"Irregardless, ex-boyfriends are just off limits to friends. I mean that's just like the rules of feminism." (Mean Girls)

"...the Greatest People you will ever meet, and the Worst. Beware of the Plastics." (Mean Girls)

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart." (The English Patient)

"A life without love is no life at all" (Ever After)

Danielle:"A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they live?"
Leonardo da Vinci:"Then I shall have to make you wings." (Ever After)

"Love has given me wings so I must fly." (A Knight's Tale)

"If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the moon. Stop the moon and make this night and your beauty last forever." (A Knight's Tale)

"OK, life's a fact. People do fall in love, people do belong to each other - because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." (Breakfast At Tiffany's)

"You know, even though we've watched Pretty Woman like thirty-six times, I never get tired of making fun of it...I just get really happy when they finally let her shop." (Romy and Michele's High School Reunion)

"Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must, you must do me this honor. You must promise me that you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise."
-- "I promise."

-- "Never let go."

-- "I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go." (Titanic)

"The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee,but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino." (You've Got Mail)

"The right guy, he's out there. I'm just not gonna go kiss a whole bunch of losers to get to him...When I finally get kissed, I'll know...I've kissed a guy. I've kissed guys. I just haven't felt that thing...That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around you becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person, and you realize that that person is the only person that you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life. And for one moment, you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that it will go away all at the same time." (Never Been Kissed)

"Droughts are for poor people, you think J-Lo has a brown lawn? People who use extra water have extra class." (lol...can never forget this one!) (A Cinderella Story)

"Theres something I've always wanted to tell you, you're not very pretty, and you're not very bright...I'm so glad we had this talk." (A Cinderella Story)

"People go to school to get smarter, so that they can get a job. You already have a job, so it's like skipping a step." (A Cinderella Story)

Gigi: So what now I'm just supposed to turn from every guy who doesn't like me?

Alex: Uh. Yeah!

Gigi: There's not gonna be anybody left. (He's Just Not That Into You)

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." (A Cinderella Story)

"You're my exception." (He's Just Not That Into You)

"I had this guy leave me a voicemail at work, so I called him at home, and then he emailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It's exhausting." (HJNTIY)

"I am just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her." (Notting Hill)

"Soul mates. It's extremely rare, but it exists. It's sort of like twin souls tuned into each other." (What Dreams May Come)

"Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring." (Big Fish)

"You can be anywhere when your life begins. You meet the right person and anything is possible." (Crazy/Beautiful)

"The hardest part of love isn't loving someone, but having the courage to let them love you back." (The Wedding Date)

"What do you want to marry me for anyhow? So I can kiss you anytime I want." (Sweet Home Alabama)

"Before you came into my life I could make all kinds of decisions now I'm addicted I have to know what you think. What do you think?" (Two Week's Notice)

"Being happy isn't about having everything and your life being perfect...maybe it's about stringing all the little things together...." (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

"Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought, useless and disappointing." (A Cinderella Story)

"I never told anybody that because I am such a good friend!" (Mean Girls)

"Irregardless, ex-boyfriends are just off limits to friends. I mean that's just like the rules of feminism." (Mean Girls)

"...the Greatest People you will ever meet, and the Worst. Beware of the Plastics." (Mean Girls)

Gretchen: "That is so fetch!"

Regina: "Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!" (Mean Girls)

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart." (The English Patient)

"A life without love is no life at all" (Ever After)

Danielle: "A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they live?"

Leonardo da Vinci: "Then I shall have to make you wings." (Ever After)

"Love has given me wings so I must fly." (A Knight's Tale)

"If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the moon. Stop the moon and make this night and your beauty last forever." (A Knight's Tale)

TWILIGHT/NEW MOON QUOTES
"Will you let me attempt to explain what you mean to me?"

He waited, studying my face as he spoke to make sure I was really listening.

"Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were star, points of light and reason... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything." (Edward Cullen, New Moon)

"Stupid, Shiny Volvo owner." (Bella Swan, Twilight)

"What if I’m not a superhero? What if I’m the bad guy?" (Edward Cullen, Twilight)

"You’re not a magnet for accidents — that’s not a broad enough classification. You are a magnet for trouble. If there is anything dangerous within a ten-mile radius, it will invariably find you." (Edward Cullen, Twilight)

"It doesn’t matter to me what you are." (Bella Swan, Twilight)

"And how long have you been seventeen?" (Bella Swan, Twilight)

"About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was part of him — and I didn’t know how potent that part might be — that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him." (Bella Swan,Twilight)

"You and Cullen huh? I don't like it...He looks at you… like you’re something to eat." (Mike Newton, Twilight)

"Be safe." (Edward Cullen, Twilight)

"Love, Life, Meaning...Over." (Bella Swan, New Moon)

"He's gone..." (Bella Swan, New Moon)

ENTIRE SONGS I COUNT AS QUOTES:
Vanilla Twilight Lyrics...I LOVE IT!!! IT IS SOOOO NEW MOON!
VANILLA TWILIGHT - Owl City
The stars lean down to kiss youAnd I lie awake and miss youPour me a heavy dose of atmosphere'Cause I'll doze off safe and soundlyBut I'll miss your arms around meI'd send a postcard to you, dear'Cause I wish you were here
I'll watch the night turn light-blueBut it's not the same without youBecause it takes two to whisper quietly

The silence isn't so bad

'Til I look at my hands and feel sad

'Cause the spaces between my fingers

Are right where yours fit perfectly

I'll find repose in new ways

Though I haven't slept in two days

'Cause cold nostalgia

Chills me to the bone

But drenched in vanilla twilight

I'll sit on the front porch all night

Waist-deep in thought because

When I think of you

I don't feel so alone

I don't feel so alone

I don't feel so alone

As many times as I blink

I'll think of you tonight

I'll think of you tonight

When violet eyes get brighter

And heavy wings grow lighter

I'll taste the sky and feel alive again

And I'll forget the world that I knew

But I swear I won't forget you

Oh, if my voice could reach

Back through the past

I'd whisper in your ear

Oh darling, I wish you were here

SMILE - UNCLE KRACKER
You´re better than the best I´m lucky just to linger in your light
Cooler then the flip side of my pillow that´s right
Completely unaware
Nothing can compare to where you send me
Lets me know that it´s ok yeah it's ok
And the moments where my good times start to fade

You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed, sing like a bird
Dizzy in my head, spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Ohh you make me smile

Even when you´re gone
Somehow you come along
Just like a flower poking through the sidewalk crack and just like that
You steal away the rain and just like that

You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed, sing like bird
Dizzy in my head, spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Ohh you make me smile

Don´t know how I lived without you
Cuz everytime that I get around you
I see the best of me inside your eyes
You make me smile

You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild

You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed, sing like bird
Dizzy in my head, spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Ohh you make me smile
Ohh you make me smile
Ohh you make me smile

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