March 7, 2012

*And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Nietzsche

* There will always be many reasons to stay, but if you do, you will never know what could have happened if you had left.

*A smooth sea, never made a skilled sailor.

*Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

*Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's a thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around in it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us, there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know. -Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

*Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.

*When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be done.  - Hemingway

* "We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are."  - Calvin & Hobbes

* You can't live a positive life with a negative mind.

* She looks at you like you put the stars in the sky.

*Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.  -Oscar Wilde

*Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.

* You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in spending your whole life on the ground.

*Always be yourself. Never try to hide who you are. The only shame is to have shame. Always stand up for what you believe in. Always question what other people tell you. Never regret the past. It's a waste of time. There's a reason for everything. Every mistake, every moment of weakness, every terrible thing that has happened to you. Grow from it. The only way you can ever get the respect of others is when you show them that you respect yourself and most importantly, do your thing and never apologize for being you.

*Dear Lord, please put your arm around my shoulder, and your hand over my mouth.

* Hanna's Top Five Tips for Channeling Southern Charm -- 1. Entertain as much as possible. There is never too small a cause for celebration. 2. Treat everyone as a dear friend. Chances are their mother has tea with your boyfriends very opinionated aunt. 3. Expect a gentleman to open your door, order your drink, hail your cab, and pull out your chair. 4. Use your fine china on weekdays, even if it can't go in the dishwasher. 5. Be a gracious and lively guest. Hostess gifts, genuine conversation, and thank you notes are a must.

* You cannot always wait for the perfect time, sometimes you must dare to jump.

* At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, play by the tides, and follow the sun.

*Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.  - Rae Smith

* Enjoy every single moment. The good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly, the inspiring, the not-so-glamorous moments. And thank God through it all.  - Meghan Matt

* Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers.

* Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.

* She's quick and curious and playful and strong. She is a voracious and a fantastic dancer. She saves old scrapbooks and loses her umbrella. Her emails pile up but she never forgets to call her grandmother. She has seven dollars change at the bottom of her handbag.   -Kate Spade

* I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.   - F. Scott Fitzgerald

* Just because I laugh alot doesn't mean my life is easy. Just because I have a smile on my face everyday doesn't mean that somethings not bothering me. It's just that I choose to move on with the negatives in my life and keep my head up instead of dwelling on the past.

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Ten Things I Want to Tell Teenage Girls

I found this on someones facebook and I loved it! It comes from http://kateelizabethconner.com/ten-things-i-want-to-tell-teenage-girls/  . Awesome article, just gonna post it on here, visit this girls blog!

1. If you choose to to wear shirts that show off your boobs, you will attract boys. To be more specific, you will attract the kind of boys that like to look down girls’ shirts.  If you want to date a guy who likes to look at other girls’ boobs and chase skirts, then great job; keep it up.  If you don’t want to date a guy who ogles at the breasts of other women, then maybe you should stop offering your own breasts up for the ogling.  All attention is not equal.  You think you want attention, but you don’t.  You want respect.  All attention is not equal.

2. Don’t go to the tanning bed.  You’ll thank me when you go to your high school reunion and you look like you’ve been airbrushed and then photoshopped compared to the tanning bed train wrecks formerly known as classmates – well, at least next to the ones that haven’t died from skin cancer.

3.  When you talk about your friends “anonymously” on Facebook, we  know exactly who you’re talking about.  People are smarter than you think they are.  Stop posting passive-aggressive statuses about the myriad of ways your friends disappoint you.

4. Newsflash: the number of times you say “I hate drama” is a pretty good indicator of how much you love drama.  Non-dramatic people don’t feel the need to discuss all the drama they didn’t start and aren’t involved in.

5.  “Follow your heart” is probably the worst advice ever. 

6. Never let a man make you feel weak or inferior because you are an emotional being.  Emotion is good; it is nothing to be ashamed of.  Emotion makes us better – so long as it remains in it’s proper place: subject to truth and reason.

7.  Smoking is not cool.

8.  Stop saying things like, “I don’t care what anyone thinks about me.”  First of all, that’s not true.  And second of all, if it is true, you need a perspective shift.  Your reputation matters – greatly.  You should care what people think of you.

9. Don’t play coy or stupid or helpless to get attention.  Don’t pretend something is too heavy so that a boy will carry it for you.  Don’t play dumb to stroke someone’s ego.  Don’t bat your eyelashes in exchange for attention and expect to be taken seriously, ever.  You can’t have it both ways.  Either you show the world that you have a brain and passions and skills, or you don’t.  There are no damsels in distress managing corporations, running countries, or managing households.  The minute you start batting eyelashes, eyelashes is all you’ve got.

10.  You are beautiful.  You are enough.  The world we live in is twisted and broken and for your entire life you will be subjected to all kinds of lies that tell you that you are not enough.  You are not thin enough.  You are not tan enough.  You are not smooth, soft, shiny, firm, tight, fit, silky, blonde, hairless enough.  Your teeth are not white enough.  Your legs are not long enough.  Your clothes are not stylish enough.  You are not educated enough.  You don’t have enough experience.  You are not creative enough.

There is a beauty industry, a fashion industry, a television industry, (and most unfortunately) a pornography industry: and all of these have unique ways of communicating to bright young women: you are not beautiful, sexy, smart or valuable enough.

You must have the clarity and common sense to know that none of that is true. None of it.

You were created for a purpose, exactly so.  You have innate value.  You are loved more than you could ever comprehend; it is mind-boggling how much you are adored.  There has never been, and there will never be another you.  Therefore, you have unique thoughts to offer the world.  They are only yours, and we all lose out if you are too fearful to share them.

You are beautiful.  You are valuable.  You are enough.