Some Quotes

Every so often, I search for some good quotes, so I downloaded some quotes applications on my iToy =)

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face"

Eleanor Roosevelt

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve  hours a day."

Robert Frost

"In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."

Robert Frost

"Cause change & lead

Accept change & survive

Resist change & die"

Ray Norda

"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."

Robert Fulghum

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

John F. Kennedy

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Hugh Downs

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
African Proverb

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

M. Kathleen Casey

"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another."

Tenzin Gyatso

"Arrogance diminishes wisdom."

Arabian Proverb

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie


"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
Denis Waitley


"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."
Dean Acheson


"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
John Barrymore

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

John Ruskin

"God made woman beautiful and fooling. Beautiful, that man might love her; and fooling, that she might love him."

Anonymous

"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

Henry van Dyke

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."

Thomas Edison

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."

Blaise Pascal

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."Helen Keller

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Ellen Parr

"Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex."

Barbara Cartland

"A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime."

Unknown

"A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash."Puzant Kevork Thomajan

"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."

Fulton J. Sheen

Baby Laura =)

I am happy to report that baby Laura has been home safe and sound with her parents for a few days now. She is doing much better and getting stronger =)  

The baby's diaper cake made it to Europe without falling apart, and mommy took some pictures of the baby with the cake! Yay! 

I hope they like it =)

The Day I Chopped Off My Hair . . . Yikes!

Everyone who knows me, has known me my whole life with long, long, curly hair. Since my dad had it chopped off when I was three years old and ended up looking like a cute little chubby boy, my hair has been long. The older I got, the more I felt like it was a form of security for me. I would let it down and it would flow over half of my back and in a sense, I would feel safe.

Well, today, I went and had it cut. It went from half way down my back to just barely reaching my shoulders. I had it layered and I hope it starts to look fuller and healthier.

In the meantime, I need to get used to the shock to the system with how short it actually is. Once I overcome the shock, next up, is attempting weight loss this year.

Since the hair that was cut off was long enough (10 inches), I will be donating the ponytail to Locks of Love.  Yay! I'm excited!! =)

Here are some pics of before and after...

OK, so after looking at some pictures, I think it's starting to grow on me. Maybe... Maybe?  OK, I'll sleep on it =)

Happy Birthday Eve!

If you Google the word "friend," one of the finds leads to Wikipedia for the definition of "friendship."  Here is what the find is...

Friendship is the cooperative and supportive relationship between people. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship, which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behavior, such as the exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviors. Yet for some, the practical execution of friendship is little more than the trust that someone will not harm them.

Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating the following on a consistent basis:

° the tendency to desire what is best for the other

° sympathy and empathy

° honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth, especially in terms of pointing out the perceived faults of one's counterpart

° mutual understanding.

If at some point in life, you find a friend like that, you should count your blessings like I do every day for having the friends I have.  

 

With that said, I would like to wish a belated Happy 28th Birthday to an amazing woman who I met just about 5 or so years ago and didn't see her for the next 4 years.  Throughout the four years, we remained friends via phone calls and emails at work. Through that time, we both went through a lot of heartache and learned some lessons along the way.

I hope that your birthday was just as amazing as you are and that this year, everything that you wished for comes true. I wish you only the best and everything that you deserve! 

Happy Birthday!!