Friend Making Mondays!

So, I finally joined the fun. This weeks it is all about likes and dislikes of the five senses. Here goes!

SIGHT
Like:
* Beautiful flowers
* Eyes that are full of depth and mystery
* Rich colors and interesting patterns/textures
* The feet of little ones - whether it be a baby, puppy, or kitty
Dislike:
* Hairy backs

HEARING
Likes:
* Stevie Nicks singing
* Deep male speaking voices in the caliber of Sean Connery or James Earl Jones
* Music that feels like returning home
* Bass guitar and drums
Dislike:
* Misogynistic men yelling

TASTE
Likes:
* Chocolate
* Cheese
* Tea - sweet, peach, or other yummy varieties
* Margaritas and hurricanes
Dislike:
* Hot strong, bitter coffee (cold coffee such as a frappe is fine)

TOUCH
Likes:
* Massages
* Hugs (especially the run and tackle airport greeting of my sister)
* When a guy guides me with his hand on the small of my back
* Holding hands
Dislike:
* Weak hands

SMELL
Likes:
* Delicious men's cologne (even in candle form, but always better on a handsome guy)
* Roses
* Baking or cooking food
* Lemon - so very clean smelling!
Dislikes:
* Vomit - I so cannot handle it, sight or smell.

Life

Life will be what life will be. We will be better in the end for having been through it. We just have to keep looking for the light at the end of the tunnel and having hope.

Carrying the past forward....

A friend has been pondering what parts of her past to carry forward, and it got me to thinking about the subject myself. Here are a couple of responses I put to her that might interest you:

In a sense, everything that has happened to you becomes a part of who you are and how you have developed. I think the real question is what you make of what life has given you.

In response to her question of why people enter and leave our lives:

This is a question I have often pondered myself. I can't tell you how or why things happen. Some reasons do become clear later down the road. Some people help us develop characteristics, thoughts, or just show us something new. Others help us realize strengths or characteristics in us that may have not been realized. All I do know for sure is that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes that reason is veiled or at the least foggy. Every person you have met in your life has contributed in some way, no matter how minute, to who you are today.
As far as the doc goes, just be honest about how you feel. You cannot control anyone else, but at least you can try.

Fact Quote

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
- Bertrand Russell

Waiting

Waiting is never easy, especially when important matters can live or die by the answer for which you are waiting. Nevertheless, sometimes the wait cannot be changed, only endured.

Yet another quote...

"You make a living by what you get, you make a life by what you give."
- Sir Winston Churchill

Reaching the finish line...

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone gets down and has bad days. However, we can't let our bad days or circumstances keep us from reaching our goals. We must press on regardless. Somewhere deep within each of us there lies untapped depths of strength and determination that we don't know we possess. If we can't make our selves muster up the gutsy determination required to get past the hard times, we need to do two things. The first thing we must do is examine our attitude. Are we creating a negative self-fulfilling prophecy? Are we sabotaging ourselves? Do we need to rethink our thinking process? If our attitude is not the culprit we must examine our goals. Are our goals written down in such a way to remind ourselves of what we are reaching for and why? Have our desires changed and thus changed our desire to reach the goal? Is the goal worth finishing?
Quitting is not an option...period! Whether we press on to finish or change the direction of our path, quitting is taking the easy way out. It starts a bad pattern that diminishes our belief in the good in ourselves, sets an example of accepting less than the best, and undermines what we think we are capable of in the future. We must, must, must expect more and believe we have it in ourselves to meet and exceed our goals! We must believe we are worth it! We must believe we can achieve whatever we set our minds to! We must find a way to succeed and to win in life! We must believe we are and can be more than we are at this moment! We must be little engines that can! We must say "I think I can! I think I can!" When we have made it to the top of the mountain we must celebrate our victory and leave a remembrance of what we can do when we set our minds to it! We must say "I knew I could! I knew I could!" We must remember what we are capable of so in the hard times we have a benchmark, a milestone, to point to! We must set new goals and go for bigger goals and conquer new territory! We must never be happy to reminisce on past successes! WE MUST PRESS ON! Over and over, bigger and better! We must fulfill our mission in the world and make the biggest, best impact we can make! WE CAN! WE ARE CAPABLE! WE WILL CONTINUE TO GROW UNTIL WE ARE GONE!

http://trevorcrookblog.com/2008/11/07/set-yourself-on-fire-for-success-16-powerful-quotes/

A "few" more quotes

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
-Lao Tzu

"He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven"
-Hindu Saying

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Do, or do not. There is no try."
-Yoda

"I know more ways not to do something than any man alive"
-Thomas Edison

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance"
-Derek Bok

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood"
-Marie Curie

"Ninety percent of success is showing up"
-Woody Allen

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent"
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"We have as much time as we need"
-Melody Beattie

"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present"
-Anonymous

"Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight"
-Anita Defrantz

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right"
-Mary Kay Ash

"The key to change ... is to let go of fear"
-Rosanne Cash

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you"
-Althea Gibson

"Find something you are passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it"
-Julia Child

"I want to do it because I want to do it"
-Amelia Earhart

"We dont know who we are until we see what we can do"
-Martha Grimes

"A word after a word is power"
-Margaret Atwood

"No one can figure out your worth but you"
-Pearl Bailey

"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision"
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nothing is too difficult - you only need to know how"
-Yiddish Proverb

"You really can change the world if you care enough"
-Marian Wright Edelman

"Find a need and fill it"
-Ruth Stafford Peale

"I dont want to be a passenger in my own life"
-Diane Ackerman

"Don't agonize. Organize"
-Florynce Kennedy

"Dont compromise yourself. You're all you've got"
-Janis Joplin

"Be a how thinker, not an if thinker"
-Anonymous

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything"
-Geena Davis

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing"
-Hellen Keller

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity"
-Oprah Winfry

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse"
-Florence Nightingale

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs"
-Joan Didion

"This work is about transformation-from the person we are to the person we really are, in the end we can't be anyone else"
-Marion Rosen

"Fall seven times. Stand up eight"
-Japanese proverb

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there"
-Will Rogers

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, then you must take it"
-Charles Buxton

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with my problems longer"
-Albert Einstein

"It is not knowledge but the act of learning which grants the greatest enjoyment"
-Gauss

"It is better to solve one problem five different ways than to solve five different problems"
-Poyla

"The import thing is to not stop questioning"
-Albert Einstein

"STARING is not a viable problem solving strategy"
-Margaret Kenny

"They know enough who know how to learn."
-Henry Adams

"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price."
-Joan Didion

"People often say that this or that person has not found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something that one creates."
-Thomas Szasz

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
-Benjamin Mays

"Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball."
-Billy Jean King

"An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself."
-Albert Camus

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
-Shakespeare's Hamlet

"If today's students can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."
-Jesse Jackson

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
-Dolly Parton

"Of all the traps and pitfalls of life, self-disesteem is the deadliest and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use- I cant do it.'"
-Maxwell Maltz

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that's the Stuff Life is made of."
-Benjamin Franklin

"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

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."
-Helen Hayes

"Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind: it forces you to stretch your own."
-Charles Scribner Jr.

"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."
-Thomas Mann

"What one has to do usually can be done."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Memory is the art of attention."
-Samuel Johnson

"The reward of study is understanding."
-Babylonian Talmud

"When you can't solve the problem, manage it."
-Robert Schuller

"Learning without thought is labor lost…"
-Confucius

"People seldom hit what they do not aim at."
-Henry David Thoreau

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."
-Phyllis Bottome

"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail."
-John Foster Dulles

The Little Engine That Could

Quotes:

"We are what we believe we are."
- C. S. Lewis

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
- William Hazlitt, English Essayist (1778-1830)

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. "
- Henry Ford


Websites:

http://www.fff.org/freedom/1091c.asp

http://www.zimbio.com/Courage+Quotes/articles/2/YOu+Can+If+You+Think+You+Can

http://searchwarp.com/swa146551.htm

http://www.isshin-ryu.com/newsletters/2005/news-mar2005.htm

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?fd605807-0029-4ccd-83d0-fbd6e4af7754

http://melodylaila.com/thoughts/2008/01/03/inspiration-from-the-little-engine/


Poems:

You Can If You Think You Can!

If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins,
Is the man who thinks he can.

~ C. W. Longenecker ~

Beware Of Your Gunless Friend!

The dangerous people are not the ones
Who hit you with clubs and rob you with guns!
The thief won't attack your character traits
Or belittle your abilities to your face!
It likely will be a well-meaning friend
Who merely crushes your will to win.

No, he doesn't rob you, at point of gun,
He simply says, "It can't be done."
When pointed to thousands who already are
He smiles and says, "They're superior!"
Personality-wise, and abilities, too,
They're way ahead of what others can do!"

It matters not that his words are untrue
For, you feel "others" must know you!
So, you're robbed of your hopes, your dreams to succeed.
Robbed of the material blessing received,
Robbed of your faith that says, "I can."
And robbed by an ignorant, gunless friend.

So, the deadliest of men is not he with a gun,
But the one who tells you "It can't be done!"
For that taken by burglars can be gotten again.
But, what can replace your will to win?

~ Author Unknown ~

If you Think You Can, You Can!

You can be a total winner even if you're a beginner,
If you think you can, you can,
If you think you can, you can,
You can wear the gold medallion,
You can ride your own black stallion,
If you think you can, you can,
If you think you can, you can,

It's not your talent or the gift at birth,
It's not your bank book that determines worth,
And it isn't in the color of your skin,
It's your attitude that lets you win,
You can upset Connors or Austin,
Or win the marathon at Boston,
If you think you can, you can,
If you think you can, you can,

You can profit through inflation,
You can redirect this nation,
If you think you can, you can,
If you think you can, you can,

It doesn't matter if you've won before,
It makes no difference what's the half time score,
It's never over until the final gun,
So keep on trying and you'll find you've won,
You grab your dream and then believe it,
Go out and work and you'll achieve it,
If you think you can, you can,
If you think you can, you can!

~ Denis Waitley ~

Sources -
http://www.cybernation.com/victory/youcandoit/youcan.php

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/2800.html

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/henryford122817.html

More Quotes

"Nothing will work unless you do."
- Maya Angelou

"We are what we believe we are."
- C. S. Lewis

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Marilyn Monroe Quotes

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

http://quotethehood.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a010980c2dc9c000b0109811d77da000c.html


I believe everything happens for a reason! People change so you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so that you will eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes, good things fall apart, so better things can fall together

The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact and on two feet.

I've never dropped anyone I believed in.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.

“...If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything...”

“the nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least i can dream”

“I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you”

• If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

• I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

• I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

• I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.

• People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

• Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.

• I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

• A career is wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it on a cold night.

• It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

• A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.

• My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

• I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.

• To a reporter: Please don't make me a joke.

• Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

• It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

• I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

• I am invariably late for appointments ... sometimes, as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

• I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

• I restore myself when I'm alone.

• 1956 interview about her childhood: Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

• Shelley Winters: If she'd been dumber, she'd have been happier.

• About Marilyn Monroe, by her ex-husband, Arthur Miller: To have survived, she would have had to be either more cynical or even further from reality than she was. Instead, she was a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes.

Influential women - Eleanor Roosevelt edition

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/eleanor.html

Perfect Love

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." -John 4:18

Fear

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us." - Nelson Mandala

Neat Jewelry & Quote Borrowing

http://www.monsoongalleries.com/shop/showportfolio.php?artist_id=130

I randomly ran across this jewelry website. These are pretty interesting pendants, and I love the quotes! I am going to throw some of them up here.

**** “The most beautiful stones have been washed by the waters and polished to brilliance by life’s strongest storms”

*** “Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven” -Bertrand Russel

** “Wherever you are, It is your Friends who make your World” -William James

* “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature” –Emerson

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today just the way you are” –Proverbs 27:17

“Happiness is when what you Think, what you Say, and what you Do are in Harmony” - Gandhi

“Stillness is the greatest revelation” –Lao-Tzu

Obstacles

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan