Just 'cuz I love quotes!!!!

50 intelligent quotes, ideal for Facebook status updates.

1. You can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen

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2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author

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4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky

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5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon

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6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi

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7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi

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8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne

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9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow

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10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle

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11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian

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12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho

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13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze

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14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin

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16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
—Marcel Proust

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17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
—Unknown Author

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18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
—Virgil Garnett Thomson

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19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers

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20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar

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21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
—John Wilmot

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22. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
—Oscar Levant

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23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde

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24. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
—New York City detective

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25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
—Norm Crosby

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26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
—Kurt Vonnegut

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27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
—Carl Sagan

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28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
—Jean Rostand

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29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
—Lily Tomlin

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30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
—Richard Lewis

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31. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
—Robert Wilensky

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32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
—Scott Adams

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33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
—Anon

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34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
—Clarence Darrow

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35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
—Cullen Hightower

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36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
—Cyril Connolly

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37. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
—Dick Cavett

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38. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
—H. L. Mencken

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39. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
—Victor Hugo

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40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
—Woody Allen

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41. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
—Albert Einstein

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42. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
—André Gide

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43. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle

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44. I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
—Aryeh Frimer

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45. We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
—Bill Vaughan

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46. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal

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47. Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
—Cale Yarborough

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48. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
—Charles F. Kettering

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49. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
—Christopher Hampton

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50. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
—Cyril Connolly

I would like to know me...

Alright, so yesterday I learned about this website: stumbleupon.com -- AMAZING!

Anyhow, while getting familiar with it, I stumbled into this questionnaire which I found very interesting:

1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire.  They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend.  The criticism is distasteful and unjustified.  What do you do?
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
17. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do?  What’s holding you back?
18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
20. Do you push the elevator button more than once?  Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
22. Why are you, you?
23. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
24. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
25. What are you most grateful for?
26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
27. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
28. Has your greatest fear ever come true?
29. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset?  Does it really matter now?
30. What is your happiest childhood memory?  What makes it so special?
31. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
32. If not now, then when?
33. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
34. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
35. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
36. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
37. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
38. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
39. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
40. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
41. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
42. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
43. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
44. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
45. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
46. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
47. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
48. What do you love?  Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
49. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday?  What about the day before that?  Or the day before that?
50. Decisions are being made right now.  The question is:  Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?

So, I'm doing a 12 hour shift at work today, in which I will try to be as honest as I can possibly be, there will be no right or wrong answers, just my personal feelings and opinions:

1.  21

2.  NEVER TRYING!

3.  DAMN LIFE BEING GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE!

4.  I HOPE I'VE DONE MORE THAN SAID, I THINK I'M HEADING THE RIGHT DIRECTION

5.  KIDS KNOWING HUNGER AND NEED AND NOT KNOWING LOVE AND KINDNESS

6.  ACTUALLY HELPING PEOPLE // OR READING!

7.  SETTLING FOR WHAT I'M DOING AS I WORK FOR WHAT I BELIEVE 

8.  I'D STOP PROCRASTINATING

9.  70% ISH

10. I THINK, DOING THE RIGHT THINGS

11. STOP THEM AND TELL THEM HOW MUCH I CARE ABOUT THE PERSON, AND HOW LITTLE I APPRECIATE THEM TALKING ABOUT THAT PERSON

12. NO MATTER HOW BAD IT ALL SEEMS, KEEP ON GOING CUZ ONCE YOU'VE GOTTEN THROUGH THE WORST SOMETHING GOOD IS BOUND TO HAPPEN

13. YES! FUCK THE LAW!

14. YES! MADNESS CAN BE BEAUTIFUL

15. I'M AWARE THAT I'M NOT PERFECT, BUT I LOVE ME MORE BECAUSE OF THAT!

16. BECAUSE WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS, WHO THINK AND PERCEIVE LIFE IN OUR OWN INDIVIDUAL WAYS, AND THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF LIFE.. IF WE ALL SAW THINGS THE SAME WAY LIFE WOULD BE ONE BORING MOMENT AFTER ANOTHER

17.  OH SO MUCH! AND I KEEP MAKING EXCUSES 

18. I THINK WE ALL ARE

19. I CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION YET, I HAVE NOT SEEN ENOUGH OF THE WORLD TO CHOOSE YET

20.YES, AND NO, I KNOW IT WON'T COME ANY FASTER

21. JOYFUL SIMPLETON 

22. BECAUSE I'M ME, WHO ELSE WOULD I BE? ;P

23. 98% OF THE TIME, YES! I BELIEVE IN RECIPROCITY 

24. LOOSING TOUCH WITH SOMEONE THAT LIVES CLOSE

25. FOR BEING ALIVE AND BEING SO BLESSED.

26. LOSE OLD MEMORIES

27. DEPENDS ON WHAT TRUTH WE'RE REFERRING TO ;)

28. I'M STILL ALIVE, SO NO... NOT THAT I'M SCARED OF DYING BUT I WOULD HATE TO LOOSE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE LIFE

29. KINDA, MAYBE... ACTUALLY, NO, CUZ I CAN'T REALLY REMEMBER LOL

30. I CAN'T PIN POINT ONE IN PARTICULAR...

31. I FEEL PASSIONATE AND ALIVE EVERYDAY

32. EXACTLY!

33. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

34. YES! IT'S FANTASTIC!

35.  I QUESTION THAT TOO, EVEN IF I AM CATHOLIC

36. I JUST GO BY WHAT FEELS RIGHT 

37. YES! YES! YES! AND JUST IN CASE I WAS NOT CLEAR: YES!

38.  MORE WORK I ACTUALLY ENJOY DOING BECAUSE THEN IT WOULDN'T REALLY BE WORK! ;)

39. SADLY YES

40. WHEN I MOVED TO CANADA

41. THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE // I CAN'T PINPOINT ONE...

42. FUCK NOOOO!! I'M ALREADY EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE AND BEING FAMOUS JUST MEANS NO PRIVACY!

43. NOT TAKING LIFE FOR GRANTED, NOT LAYING AROUND ALL DAY, EXPERIENCING MOMENTS AND CONVOS WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE, REJECTING NEGATIVITY TO LIVE A POSITIVE PLEASANT LIFE... LIVING A LIVE THAT FULFILLS YOU AND THAT EVERY MORNING WHEN YOU WAKE UP YOU FEEL BLESS FOR BEING ABLE TO DO SO!

44. IMMEDIATELY

45. THAT'S THE QUESTION I ASK MYSELF WHENEVER I'M SCARE TO MAKE ONE, NO MISTAKE, LESSON LEARNED!

46. NOTHING, I ALREADY DON'T GIVE GIVE A SHIT IF PEOPLE WANT TO JUDGE ME, IT'S THEIR ISSUE, NOT MINE!

47. I NOTICE IT EVERYDAY, WHEN I TAKE THAT ONE OR 3 MINUTES TO MEDITATE

48.  IF I MADE A LIST OF ALL THAT I LOVE, THIS WOULD TAKE FOREVER! I BELIEVE THE MORE WE LOVE THE MORE WE ARE LOVED!

49. PROBABLY NOT, I'M HOPING TO DO A LOT IN BETWEEN HERE AND THERE, BUT IF I TRY HARD ENOUGH TO THINK BACK I WILL PROBABLY REMEMBER THE HIGHLIGHTS...
50. OH, I'M MAKING MY OWN DECISIONS! 

Well... I did it!

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I'm excited!! My sister is gonna start reading my blog!!! I love it!!

I hope I inspire her to be the amazing person I know she is... and hopefully I'll learn to be a better person from  her as well.

Fun websites:

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"Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching"
—Unknown Author

I am the medicine that everybody wants!

Well, I guess this whole writing something every day did not work out! I'm not surprise as I've embraced my procrastinating self  a long time ago.

Still, that doesn't mean I'll stop my little blog. The past few weeks have been an emotional roller coaster though, I'm freaking out about my Vancouver move. It's really funny to think how when I left Panama it really wasn't that hard, I applied, got in, got the tickets and left, with no idea where I was going or how it would all turn out. But I guess the reason it was so easy then, was because I was leaving a life that wasn't really mine but what muy parents had created. I needed to leave, to experience life away from everything I had always known, to get away from a life I was never meant to fit in. I left to to find myself.

Now, thinking about my life at this point, well, it's my life. I have grown to be the person I always wanted... I've become familiar with all the bad in me and all the good and embraced that without either one of them I wouldn't be me. I'm still a little insecure but I don't let that fear take over and make me act a certain way or try and be someone else. No point to that! I love me! But I guess the whole move thing is difficult because well, I'm leaving the life that I have built for myself, my adoptive family from here (my sweet little friends!), the places I know, the lifestyle I've gotten so acostumed with I guess. It's really hard now, but I'm still going to do it! I know I can. I am also freaking out about my birthday. OMG! I'm going to be 25 in a month!! 25!!!! A quarter of a century old!! I never understood people that freaked out on their birthday, but I just don't feel 25, I feel like I'm still in college. This is freaky, how that feeling just creeps up on you and you  feel like literally the clock inside you ticking! What's right at this point? Am I supposed to get a husband and  the whole shabam?! I already have a hard time trying to get a date! Marriage? Now that is just crazy talk, I still feel like a baby, but then I think all the peeps I went to school with and 70% are married or in committed relationships and with children!! I mean, I do fantasize about someday having a kid, for sure but the idea of having one withing any time soon, NO WAY! How the hell did my mom do it at 20!!? And Ana, her baby must be coming fairly soon, oh goodness do I ever miss her so much, my Bananin! --> She's my whole life bestie, even if we barely talk and see each other only when I go home, but that's the meaning of a true friendship I guess, forget the distance and forget the time, we will always be those outcast teenagers with super strict parents who used to ask Rojas(our buss driver from high-school) to stop at the Ice cream shop every Friday and then race each other to see who ate it faster (Bananin always won) and then go get caramel covered eclairs from the pastry! shop! Damnz! It feels like lifetimes away! I know she's happy for me, and I am oh so happy for my friend, she's a doctor, with a sexy Man Dr. as her baby's Daddy... adorbs! I did laugh at her a little, I mean, both doctors and still they get pregnant, I guess hornyness always wins! 

Back to the point, I was freaking out a lot. But atleast with the help of Tia Gisela and lovely positive attitude of my sweet little Age( Adreanne) I feel a lot better today. I know that God will take me on the right of wherever it is I need to get to, and whatever is meant to happen will. I have faith and hope and I know as long as I know what I want it will all work out. And at this point of my life, I need a change! A change of scenery, of people, job... I got here to find me, to get to know me, to learn to love myself, to be happy with me and who I am, now, I have to go somewhere else to find where I belong, to develop myself even more... and hopefully to find me a decent man! LOL 

Well, TaTa for now...

"Every night we go to bed, without any assurance of being alive the next morning, but still we set the alarm to wake up... That's called HOPE!"