try try again

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail." - Nelson Mandela

Breaking Free

"Sometimes we have no idea how we've been oppressed until we've been set free." - Beth Moore

Beggar who gives alms

Beggar who gives alms by Downhere
"There are no mystic jewels, embedded in my prose,


No moonlit haloed cherubs, perched on my piano,

No lyrics laced with pixie dust, no angels sings along.

I am just a beggar who gives alms


Chorus:

Gold and silver have I none, but such I have give thee,

Borrowed words from the one, who gave the gift to me,

The pearl that I could never buy, this life, this dream, this song,

And I am just a beggar who gives alms


I am not the creator, but a scribe with a pen,

I'm recreating visions, through a cracked and broken lens,

Only one has ever seen the home for which we long,

And I am just a beggar who gives alms."

If I Never Knew You

"I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you" John Smith- Disney's Pcoahontas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiuBw_kj1-U&feature=related <--- watch this!

Lyrics:
"If I never knew you


If i never felt this love

I would have no inkling of

How precious life can be


And if I never held you

I would never have a clue

How at last I'd find in you

The missing part of me.


In this world so full of fear

Full of rage and lies

I can see the truth so clear

In your eyes

So dry your eyes


And I'm so grateful to you

I'd hve lived my whole life through

Lost forever

If I never knew you"

tough stuff.

"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve." - John Maxwell

Missionary

"I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light"

-- John Keith Falconer

Cheesy time!

" When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. "

-- Dr Suess

No I am not in love with anyone! haha
I just thought it was a cute cheesy quote. It reminded me of that other quote about dreams I posted the other day...

Irish Blessing

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face;

The rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,

May God hold you in the palm of His hand.


~traditional gaelic blessing

Men and Women Part II

Man has will, but woman has her way.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

So true, no?

Dream

"If you love me only in my dreams, let me be asleep forever."

--Unknown

Okay okay, super cheesy quote today! I just thought it was so cute. I have felt that way. I don't know about you but I struggle with facing reality. Sometime life seems too hard and in your dreams everything goes right. There was a time when I would lie in bed trying to dream or sleep, just to get away from it all. I realize now that I have to face the world and my life, I can't hide from it. The best thing is I'm not doing it alone. I have the Sovereign God of the universe behind me, leading me if only I would allow Him. Think about that today. Are you hiding from your life? Do you just want to pretend and dream all day or will you face your destiny?

Do you hear the people sing...

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Those three little words...

"It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands."
--Jaka

Isn't the phrase "I love you" so overused yet underused in it's true meaning. Let's remember today not only of human love but of the divine love of our Father in heaven. John 3:16, th most profound verse (to me anyway) in the whole Bible. Everytime I read it or remember it I can help but wonder why He did it. Why would He allow His Son to die for the world? It blows my mind but I am so eternally grateful for it. <3

Home is where the heart is

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing is impossible

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities."

--Janos Arnay

Men and Women...

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

-Groucho Marx

It's worth fighting for

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
 
^--- favorite quote from the entire LOTR trilogy. <3
We watched Twin Towers last night! Such an awesome movie!

LOTR! :D

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

The Lord of the Rings

Farewell speech of Bilbo Baggins, Chapter 'A Long-Expected Party'.

chocaholic. ;)

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

Charles M. Schulz

Don't rain on my parade!

"I'll march my band out, I will beat my drum,

And if I'm fanned out, your turn at bat, sir,

At least I didn't fake it, hat, sir,

I guess I didn't make it

Get ready for me love, 'cause I'm a "comer"

I simply gotta march, my heart's a drummer

Nobody, no, nobody, is gonna rain on my parade!"
~Don't Rain on My Parade from "Funny Girl"

So, it's REALLY rainy and gross outside. It made me think of this amazing song. I love it! If you've never seen the movie, eh who cares? It's the songs that are awesome! Listen to them on YouTube or something.

God's perfect timing...

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
~ Galations 6:9

Ever feel like giving up? That no one cares what you're doing and don't appreciate you? Keep going! God sees all and one day you will recieve your reward. Sometimes on earth we don't know everyone that we affect but in heaven we will find out.

Don't do things to look good or get the glory on earth, do them for the God of the universe.

Yay a poem! :D

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,


When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,


When the funds are low and the debts are high,


And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,


When care is pressing you down a bit-


Rest if you must, but don't you quit.




Life is queer with its twists and turns,


As every one of us sometimes learns,


And many a fellow turns about


When he might have won had he stuck it out.


Don't give up though the pace seems slow -


You may succeed with another blow.




Often the goal is nearer than


It seems to a faint and faltering man;


Often the struggler has given up


When he might have captured the victor's cup;


And he learned too late when the night came down,


How close he was to the golden crown.



Success is failure turned inside out -


The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,


And you never can tell how close you are,


It might be near when it seems afar;


So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -


It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

-Unknown

I needed that maybe you did too...

Don't judge a book by its cover...

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

-Helen Keller

I don't know about you, but, I think we hold beauty in too high of a standard. We think less of those who we feel are not beautiful and don't want to be seen with them. Or maybe we want to be seen with them so that we look better next to them. Either way, it's a totally wrong attitude! Whether or not someone is beautiful does not change who they are inside. A beautiful person can be a mean ugly person inside just as an ugly person can have a beautiful heart, not just vice versa! I say DON'T JUDGE!
I feel people judging me all the time. Even my friends do it sometimes. I will be honest, I am certainly not skinny and I am certainly not very attractive, but looks are not a good reason not to get to know someone!!!!! It makes me so angry when guys only go for the pretty skinny girls. I'm not saying that girls that are pretty are less human but give both sides a chance! It's not fair to be so mean to those that WE FEEL are not as good looking. Who can help how they are born? Tell me, WHO CHOSE THEIR FACE?!? WHY IS ONE THING BEAUTIFUL AND ONE THING UGLY?!? WHO DECIDES WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL?!?
Well, I have said my piece. But, take my advice. Give the guy/girl a chance, get to know them before you cross them off the list of potential mates.

Let Go...Let GOD

"Give your burden to the Lord, and He will take care of you." ~ Psalm 55:22

A Bible verse for today, I feel kinda bad that I haven't posted more.
Well, if you know me, I worry ALOT. Way too much in fact. I hate that I worry because it means I am not relying on God. Worrying is what I struggle with the most out of anything.  So, starting today I want to try my hardest to give my burdens, my worries to Him. You try it too! Maybe you think you have it all together... Examine yourself and you will find that there is always something bugging you. Maybe it's money or the future... Give it up to God. Who better to hold your future than the One who created you?!

Beauty from Pain

"If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's as obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer. I just have to trust Him."

~Anne Graham Lotz

"God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope."

~Catherine Marshall

"God does not always heal us instantly the way we think. He is not a jack-in-the-box God. But God is walking with me through this."

~Thelma Wells

Today I found out my grandfather's cancer is back. My grandfather found out he had stage four cancer almost a year ago and just recently went into remission only to have it back again. I am so upset and discouraged. I know God has done this for a reason but why this again? When I finally am able to catch my breath again and have a normal life? It's really hard to have to constantly be going through trials.
Then again, I think of the apostle Paul and the incredible amount of horrible things he went through. If God used him and loved him then He will certainly be with me during mine. I pray that He uses this bad situation to His glory. I pray that He turns my tears to joy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6HXUN19AY&feature=related

Lead me Lord

 ‎"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."~David Livingstone

Life doesn't have a rewind button...

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
- Maria Robinson

Say those 3 words...

“It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.”

Life's what you make it...

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."- Winston Churchill

When God closes a door He opens a window...

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

Goodbyes are hard...

“People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.”

So after a wonderful weekend I am back at BBC. Man it was hard coming back! When I left all my little siblings were crying, which made me cry. Yeah, it was awful. But it's nice to be back! A nice relaxing week ahead.

I am not ashamed to be called a Christian...

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it. -C.S. Lewis

Home Sweet Home!

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Pretty deep huh? Though so thought-provoking! Well, I have given my speech! It went fairly well. I just have to get rid of those dumb verbal fillers. (um..like..yadayadayada) Now it's time to go home!!!!!!!

Thought provoking...

‎"I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God." - Donald Miller

Public Speaking...dun Dun DUN!

"All the good speakers were bad speakers at first." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, I have been practicing my "How to Improve Your Singing" speech  a lot today. I'm sooooo excited about it! :) I'm kinda nervous about though. It's hard getting up in front of people, but I could not ask for a better topic!

Show love

"Behind every smile is a hidden hurt that a simple expression of love may heal"

Fear...

"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make it count

"Only one life twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ shall last!"

9/11- Never Forget

“Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children. “
- President George W. Bush
 
No matter what you have to say about Bush, this quote is one I think we can relate to. Let's pray for those who had to endure the loss of a loved one or friend because of 9/11.
The terrorist attack is one of the events that God can take a horrible occurance and use it to bring people to Him. It's times like these that I wonder why pain and death had to come into the world. It's a question I probably will never find the answer to. God, however, always has the answers and always has a plan. Jeremiah 29:11

It's gradual

"Beware of little sins, the gallant ship may sink, if only drip by drip, the watery tide it drink."
- Anonymous

Have you ever noticed that at times one thing leads to another? Sin works this way too. It may start with just telling a lie or two, but it can easily become a horrible habit. Be wise, correct your problems while they are still little.

Character over comfort

"God is more concerned about our character than our comfort. His goal is not to pamper us physically, but to perfect us spiritually."
~Paul Powell

I love my sis!

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.

-- Amy Li

So today I am really missing my sister. Being away at college it is hard not seeing her. Back home I would see her basically 24/7. She is my best friend. I love how accepting she is and she is always willing to help me. I think I'm just going to have to kidnap her here. ;)

Hold ON!

"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place."

"Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can."

~ Unknown

What better reason than Jesus Christ? God never promised it would be easy, but He promised to be there. The Lord is always there, no matter what you're going through.

 
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. "

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Keys...

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

I'm not gonna lie, today was pretty depressing. I got a C on my English paper. (one I worked quite hard on actually also, my first C on anything EVER) I'm kinda wondering how that happened, seeing as I think I am a good writer...
Then, I kept messing up in play practice, even to the point where the director had to pull me aside. It's days like these that make me thankful that days are only 24 hours.

However, I have decided to use this as motivation to do better, to be better. I know my limitations, but I am willing to give it my all to succeed.

So long, farewell...

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz


I'm kind of sad at the moment. My family was visiting today but now they are gone again. I miss them terribly already. Goodbyes are so hard!
 
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau

bffs

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

Time flies by...

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”
-Harvey MacKay
 
I've already been here for two weeks! How did this happen?!?! Crazy... I love it here though. :)
I want to make every moment count though!

Conceited much?

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

- Bernard Bailey
 
Just so you know, this is for no particular reason. I just thought the quote was funny.

finding hope through pain.

"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow, we must fail in order to know, that sometimes our vision is clear only after our eyes are washed away with tears ♥"

The only one who will never leave.....

"God has never promised to solve our problems. He has not promised to answer our questions...He has promised to go with us." Elisabeth Elliot

Thanks God.

Praise God for happy weeks. Seek God in difficult days. Worship God in quiet hours. Trust God in painful minutes and THANK GOD Every Second.

Choosing God over man...

"Pursuing righteousness means that we value the opinion of God far more than we treasure the opinions of people." - Experiencing God day by day

Man up!

"Leadership is not a one-day thing. It is a constant commitment, to excellence, a habit . . . a daily practice."-Unkown

Don't worry...

But what torments of pain you have endured from evils that never arrived. - Anonymous


I'm a worrier, I know, it's awful. I know I should trust God in everything but it is a constant struggle for me. This quote is so true to me because usually my worries are for nothing.

live like you were dying...

"We must learn to live each day, each hour, yes, each minute as a new beginning, as a unique opportunity to make everything new." - Henri Nouwen

The hills are alive...

It's quotes from "The Sound of Music" day! :D I am happy to say I have a part in BBC's fall production of this famous musical. Anyways, "Climb Every Mountain"!

Mother Abbess: Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.

Sister Margaretta: After all, the wool from the black sheep is just as warm.



Maria: You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we've had a disagreement? Well, lately I've taken to kissing the floor whenever I see her coming, just to save time.

With God ALL things are possible

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
~Stanley Lindquist

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
~Mother Teresa

Happy Birthday to me!

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had, and what you've learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.” - Anonymous

Well, I am now officially 18 years old. Weird! I feel so old, so "grown up". I hate it! Just kidding, though, actually I just don't like it. (Hate is too strong a word) I have now spent my first birthday at college and my first day of classes here. A weird combo no? Needless to say, I was not very happy about having to do school on MY birthday. It has been a strange day actually, it does not feel like a birthday AT ALL. My family isn't here, my friends from home aren't here, and I didn't get to eat birthday cake! ;D Bummer, I know.
It's weird, I actually forgot today was my birthday! You see, at lunch, I saw some pretty tempting brownies as dessert. I did not allow myself one, thinking only of the numerous calories they contained. If I had realized TODAY was my birthday I would definitely taken one! (and consequently gained 10lbs for the sake of Murphy's Law)
It hasn't been too bad of a day though. My RA gave me some flowers! They're very pretty and are on my desk. My Mom, Danielle, and Skylar left me cards and a present, which was thoughtful of them. I also got many "Happy Birthday"s.
I'm just INCREDIBLY homesick and wish I were home having a true birthday party. :(
So, anyone wanna bake me a cake? :P

Go for it!

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”

Can you give me a hand?

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. ~Fred Dehner

Dream, just dream...

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain

Shopping!

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ~Elayne Boosler

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money? ~Rita Rudner

Well, I am doing last minute shopping for college today and tomorrow! I'm the bargain hunter for sure! I love sales and thrift shops!

My life in a suitcase...

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
Ben Hecht

Packing for college today! I'm wondering how I'm going to fit it all...

"Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mystery, Today is a Gift, Thats why it's called the Present"

"You cannot amputate your history from your destiny. ... My past is something Jesus takes hold of and makes into a destiny. That's called redemption." - Beth Moore

Home is where the heart is....

“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to” -John Ed Pearce
"There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.”
- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I'm home! After 6 days of being gone, I am once again home. Then again, I'm leaving for college in 5 days... Oh well, it's good to be home while it lasts!

Servant's heart

"For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
-Mark 10:45
Jesus came to be a servant. Think about that, the Lord, God in human flesh, came to serve the lowliest of low. It blows my mind.
We don't expect a king to be doing a servant's job. We would never tell a king he should be washing floors or putting away dishes. But Christ, the King of all Kings, came to be a servant to all. He didn't come to be treated as royalty but came to save those that could not save themselves.
Remember John 13? Where Jesus washes His disciples feet? That is the example we should follow. We should be like Christ and present ourselves as a servant and helper.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet
1Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?" 7 Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand." 8 Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him,  "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me." 9Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" 10Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you." 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean."
12When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them,  "Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 16Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Ouch!

“A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices” - Hal Chadwicke

I'm feeling this right now. I've got a nasty sunburn on my shoulders... OUCH!

Every little bit

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

--Mother Teresa 

Beachy

“I have always loved the beach. The smell of the salty water, the wind in my face, the gentle roar of the waves all combine to create a sense of peace and calm.”

--Anonymous

Good question...

“Sponges grow in the ocean. That just 'gets' me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.”

--Stephen Wright

what will you make it?

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
-Helen Keller

Miracles

“Impossible situations can become possible miracles.”
Robert H. Schuller

A collection of quotes from "The Queen of Crime"

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Agatha Christie

Two at a time!

I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. ~Agnes DeMille

Well, I leave for college in just two weeks. It's really weird to be able to say that! Anyways, so I decided to have a college quote today but then I saw this one:



Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein

I just couldn't resist posting that one as well.

I don't wanna grow up...

“Growing Old is Mandatory - Growing Up Is Optional” - Chili Davis
Today I was feeling really old. Do you ever feel that way? It's like where did the time go?! I turn 18 in a little more than 2 weeks; which sparked me looking for this quote. I thought it was pretty funny and true.

A worthy calling

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to earn what he cannot lose." -Jim Elliot

Have you ever heard of Jim Elliot? The missionary who was murdered by Auca indians while trying to minister to them. He had an amazing life and testimony. You can learn more by reading "Through Gates of Splendor" by his wife Elisabeth Elliot.

Yay!

Sooooo...I'm now on my fourth blog. Yay!
I want this blog to be all about quotes
I want to add quotes every week. :)
We'll see!
Gigi

“From small beginnings come great things.”