Quot of the Week

"God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you."

- Joel Osteen

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"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."

- Ani DiFranco

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"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."

- Cary Grant

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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas A. Edison

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"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."

- Andre Gide

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"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."

- Rudyard Kipling

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"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."

- Aldo Leopold

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"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."

- Chanakya

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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

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"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."

- Julia Child

On Eating and Dining

Hello my wonderful Blahggers!

As a college student, I usually spend the first two meals of my day (lunch and dinner) eating food at or from one of the two locations on campus. (Or in my room if I just am too lazy to do much movement.) Usually, my roommate and I enjoy our meals together, and, if she isn't there, I see and sit with one of my other friends. However, some days I do end up eating alone.

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"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."

- Louis Kahn

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"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order."

- David Gerrold

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"However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them."

- Francesca Annis

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"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."

- W. Clement Stone

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"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."

- Woodrow Wilson

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"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

- Sydney J. Harris

One Bad Apple....

Hey, Blahggers!

So, I've been thinking...(I know, that's scary, isn't it?) You know the saying “One bad apple spoils the whole bunch?” It really is true. It can be taken both figuratively and literally. 

Quote of the Week

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."

- Tony Robbins

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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

- C. S. Lewis

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"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible."

- Gore Vidal

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"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."

- Robert H. Schuller

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"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."

- Christopher Hitchens

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"Get mad, then get over it."

- Colin Powell

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"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."

- Galileo Galilei

What.

Have you ever sat and listened to your sibling playing the clarinet/saxophone/trumpet for the first time and couldn't listen anymore because it was so horrible? In my opinion, these are taken to the next level. Although they're probably more skilled musicians, the covers of these songs demonstrate....fairly little skill. By the end they get a little out of hand.

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"I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much."

- Hedy Lamarr

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"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."

- Lewis Carroll

Stories & Soundtracks

Over Choir Tour this year I read the book Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. It was a fascinating read, although I'm not entirely sure I liked it. Anyhow, by accident I just stumbled upon the soundtrack for the movie on Spotify. The music is by Hans Zimmer and it is REALLY cool. And I didn't even know there WAS a movie. While I might not recommend the book to everyone, if you read the book, make sure to also listen to the soundtrack. Because dude. It's awesome.

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"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

- Marcus Aurelius

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"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

- Saint Augustine

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"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."

- Charles R. Swindoll

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"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

- Albert Camus

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"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator."

- Antonio Gaudi

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"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church."

- Pope John Paul II

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"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."

- Plato

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"Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone."

- Paul Tillich

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"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

- Samuel Ullman

Duck Tape Fixes ALLLL the Things!!!

"Hey!" Suggested Hannah, our dear friend, the daily blahgger. "You should do a post on duck tape!!"

Ooohkay...I thought. THIS should be fun. I get to not only talk about why "duck tape" is super handy,  but also yell at everyone that it's FREAKING DUCT TAPE. NOT DUCK TAPE.

Turns out I was wrong.

Quote of the Week

"My family is my strength and my weakness."

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

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"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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"My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them."

- Mitch Hedberg

NOPE. NOS NOT HAPPENING AGAIN

Today at work I was a little sluggish. My manager bought me an energy drink.
NEVER AGAIN.

Quote of the Week

"We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be."

- Lauren Hutton

And a Half

Hiya, Blahggers!

Have you ever noticed how little kids always add "and a half" to the end of their age? But, have you ever heard someone say "I'm seventeen and a half," or, "I'm 47 and a half?" I certainly haven't...

It's...MARCH??? Wait, but that means...

Holey moley, how time flies! It's almost been two months since I've started attending Bethany again. I've had a pretty good time, learned some things, but most importantly.
I started watching Bates Motel.

Time flies! Baha! It's a pun!...

Quote of the Week

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."

- Benjamin Britten

Quote of the Week

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."

- Alex Haley

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"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."

- Rabindranath Tagore

Cupid and His Reflections

I have a question for you, Blahggers: Would you all be my Valentines???

Yes, it is that time of year once again. Cheesy cards, heart-shaped boxes filled with chocolates, and flowers (specifically red roses). On Februarth the 14th, an average of: 150 million cards are sent (making it the second most popular card-sending holiday after Christmas), 190 million roses are sold, two million weddings are held, and about 11 thousand kids are born nine months later. Oh, and, the number 1 song played on Valentine's Day is, you guessed it, "Mary Me" by Train. This is the time for love and romance, and a time for Cupid to come forth as a symbol of loves power and sudden invasion of the heart.

Quote of the Week

"When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'"

- Lao Tzu

Quote of the Week

"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

- Leo Buscaglia

Hey Howdie Hey!

What's up my Blahggers???

I know, I know. It's been a REALLY long time since you've heard from me. Let me get you caught up:

Quote of the Week

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

- Gail Sheehy

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"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

- Anais Nin

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"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."

- Lucille Ball