Some Cool Quotes

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That's what makes you a winner. - Venus Williams

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin,

The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. -Winston Churchill

One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. - John Maxwell

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -Chinese Proverb

He is no fool that gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. -Albert Einstein

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. -Charles Dickens

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. -James Albert Michener

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand. -Jules Verne

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer

Poverty

I don't really think about poverty that much, and when I do it's not something that I like to dwell on. It's uncomfortable to think about, but for some people it's all they know. The other day I read something and it was a kind of a wake up slap. It was entitled Poverty Never Takes a Holiday.

"I know poverty because it was

there before I was born and it has

become a part of life like the blood

through my veins...

Poverty is not going empty for a single

day and getting something to eat the

next day. Poverty is going empty with

no hope for the future...

Poverty is watching your own children die in

your arms but there is nothing you can do.

Favorite Bible Verse

New Post :)

Well, I’ve decided that if I wait to post the post I’ve been working on for the last two weeks, it’s going to be another three weeks until I post. So, I’m going to go ahead and post a different post. :)

I have just over a week until Summer Excitement. I am so….well, excited. I have big hopes for this year. I’m really going to work on making friends. Yes, I know this may seem strange to a lot of people because I’m not usually a shy person. That is, when I’m in a place where I know a lot of people, I’m a happy and friendly person. Unfortunately, when I’m in a place where I don’t know many people, I tend to dive into a small bubble, and I have a ridiculously hard time making friends. So, I’m going to work on that this year at SE.

The above paragraph as way too many “I or I’m” s in it. So now I’m (!) going to talk about something else. Mainly, the book I’m (!) reading. It’s called Made to Stick, by brothers Chip and Dan Heath. This book basically analyses why some ideas/stories/speeches are really memorable and others are not. It comes down to six principles that can usually be found in all ideas that stick: simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotional, contain/are stories. I'd never really thought about it, but I really think that the brothers are right! Without these basics, ideas tend to loose interest or confuse people. So far, I think that this is a really great book, and if the second half is as good as the first, I’d recommend it to anyone.

All for now,
Lauren