Super-sized Kale Smoothie
….this should be on the Mickey D’s menu!
I was going to go with raw kale this morning but I chickened out when I realized there was no way my Magic Bullet could handle these leaves.
So, I popped ‘em in the microwave for about 45 seconds, just to get them slightly steamed.
The Super-Sized Ingredients:
- 4 strawberies
- 1/2 frozen banana
- 1 scoop wheatgrass
- 1 cup kale
- 1/2 cup plain 1% yogurt
- 1/2 cup almond milk
- xanthan + guar gum
- stevia and ice
I topped it with some AllieBar crumbles, duh.
Nice work, Magic B.!
Giveaway Time!
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“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
Les Miserables
“Maybe it’s more like you said before, all of us being cracked open, like, each of us starts out as a watertight vessel, and these things happen, these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack open in places, and I mean, yeah, once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable, once it starts to rain inside the Osprey, it will never be remodeled, but there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart, and it’s only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks, and into others through theirs. When did we see each other face to face? Not until you saw into my cracks, and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade, but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.”
Paper Towns by John Greene
“The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Albert Einstein
“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.” C.S. Lewis
My favorite quote is “Do or do not, there is no try” Yes it is a quote from Yoda, but it is so true. Why “try” something when you could actually give you best and succeed. “Trying” to me is accepting failure as a possible result.
Your smoothie looks amazing — what a pretty green!
I love that smoothie colour
My favourite quote – ‘you get out what you put in’. It makes me work harder!
This quote has inspired me in so many ways-cheesy, yes, but I love it-”shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
I have lots of quotes!
You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. – Winnie the Pooh
“Shine…make ‘em wonder what you got.” – Newsboys (song lyrics!)
“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.” – Andy Rooney
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
–Dr. Seuss
Tweeted! @vivalameaganx3
“The truth would be worthless if no one ever lied.”
-From the song “Merry-Go-Round” by Antje Duvekot
“Boredom is an act of choice.” – Mr. Brewner (my high school English teacher…haha)
I tweeted about your giveaway.
@Borntorun77
Tweeted as well! I may be back later with more quotes!
I just wanted to say that yours is the most soothing blog I’ve ever lurked (though I guess I’m no longer lurking… hooray!). I’ve only recently developed a healthy relationship with food, and I’m still working on being honest about my fears and issues with myself and my family, and this place really helps remind me to stop trying to do it alone. Something about the overall aesthetic and your photography… I don’t know, every time I start feeling neurotic and restrictive, I look at your grub and think “oh yeah, food is yummy… and preeetttty…” It helps more than I’m able to express right now, believe you me.
Anyway, I don’t eat steak, but I’ve always loved this quote:
“Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.”
-Woody Allen
Oh, GIRLFRIEND! Your asking for quotes from the right person. I HAVE A BAZILLION!
i have notebook that I have been copying down quotes i like for a long, long, long, time. (as in, 15 years.)
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. -elanor roosevelt
“All that I know is that I know nothing.” – Socrates.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ash what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Harold Thurman
“The happiest girls are the prettiest girls.” I honestly think a persons outlook/attitude can totally transform the way the world sees them!
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
—The Emperor of China from the Disney movie Mulan
Being happy doesnt mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. -unknown
“Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” -Christopher Robin to Pooh
“so many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. the very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. the joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
-chris mccandless, aka alex supertramp (into the wild)
Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
in all the places you can,
at all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can.
-John Wesley
Where flowers bloom, so does hope. -Lady Bird Johnson
from a starbucks cup:
“the way i see it…
…the most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘i wish’ and start saying ‘i will.’ consider nothing impossible, then treat the possibilities as probabilities.”
-david copperfield
“No, it won’t all go away, it should
But I know the heart of life is good” heart of life, John Mayer
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. – Ayn Rand
My favorite quote is: All that glitters is not gold.
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/rhoneygee/status/19273767797
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this isn’t just one quote necessarily, but the entire song/speech “Sunscreen” by Baz Luhrmann is amazing!
“don’t worry about the future. or worry. but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.”
“don’t waste your time on jealousy. sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind… the race is long, and in the end it’s only with yourself.”
“enjoy your body, use it every way you can, and don’t be afraid of it or what other people think of it. it’s the greatest instrument you will ever own.”
“dance… even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. read the directions… even if you don’t follow them.”
“Good works are links that form a chain of love.”
-Mother Teresa
I’m liking the new mix of header colors, very nice!
Ok, this isn’t inspirational at all, it’s just funny (not sure if you’re a Friends fan…), but here you go, this is one of my absolute favorites from Friends, it’s with regard to the Disney movie “Bambie.” Too funny.
Chandler: See that I can seeing crying over, but Bambi is just a cartoon
Joey: You didn’t cry when Bambi’s mother died???
Chandler: Yes, it was very sad when the guy stopped DRAWING the deer..”
“Follow your passion, and success will follow you.”
-Arthur Buddhold
This reminded me of your AllieBar endeavor!!
“Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution– such call I good books.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the ‘very best society’ that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of ‘dressing’ to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.”
Herman Melville
“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
Samuel Butler
And my favorite:
“You shouldn’t trust the story-teller; only trust the story”
Neil Gaiman
I love finding new quotes! One of my faves – “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Ghandi.
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position reached in life, as by the obstacles overcome while trying to Succeed.” – Booker T. Washington
Your presence, is a present to the world.
Love this one…
You’re unique and one of a kind.
Your life can be, what you want it to be.
Take the days, just one at a time.
Count your blessings, not your troubles.
You’ll make it through, whatever comes along.
Within you, are so many answers.
Understand, have courage, be strong.
I am not a big quote person – I never remember them. But I love this one and even keep it posted on my blog: “Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.” ~Albert Schweitzer
I have a tweet scheduled for 4:15 pm CST (at work and can’t tweet).
I have been collecting quotes for about as long as I can remember…
Here is another one of my favorites…
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-Anne Frank
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” – Dr. Seuss
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.- Emerson
My grandpa used to always tell me “If a little bit is good, then a whole lot is better”. I still smile and think of him every time I tell someone this.
LOL love it..
and finally…
“dreams are the platform from which brave souls leap into the unknown”
~~anonymous
My favorite quote is “Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” -Lao Tzu
my favorite quote is “smile and the whole world will smile with you”
Murphy’s/Finagle’s Law:
Anything that can go wrong, will.
To me its about why worry about what could happen, it will so be prepared and laugh when it does. Those things are all part of life and they are what keep things interesting!
I have no inspirational quotes (sorry) but I do have a few funny ones. They’re good to pull out at parties, lol.
“If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you”
-Arthur McAuliff
“There’s cute jealous and then there’s Othello”
-Gilmore Girls
“Once your heart is involved it all comes out in moron”
-Gilmore Girls
Alright, I think that’s enough. Man, now I really want to watch Gilmore Girls, haha.
Fear less, hope more,
Whine less, breathe more,
Talk less, say more,
Hate less, love more,
And all good things are yours.
Swedish proverb
Nice giveaway! My favorite quote is: “Someone busier than you is running right now.” – NIKE
“Set your goals high because what a person accomplishes is in proportion to what they attempt.” – Mitchell Naufell
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”- Michael Jordan
Because my family has had its share of medical battles our favorite saying is —God gives you only what you are strong enough to handle.
A favorite of my parents when we were growing up—- Parents give their children two things one is roots and the second is wings.
A favorite of my grandfather was— They can take most everything away from you but your mind and brain so learn learn learn.
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
-Audrey Hepburn
Couldn’t agree with this quote more…
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”
“Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” .. one of my all time faves
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Dont worry about people from your past, there is a reason that they didn’t make it your future.
If he puts you through it, he’ll get you through it.
(about god)
Always kiss me goodnight.
” we have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, “why did this happen to me?” unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.”
My favorite!
Wake up everyday with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen.
i tweeted!
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. – Wayne Dyer
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Dr. wayne Dyer
One of the latest quotes I have found is this:
“A poor person isn’t he who has little, but he who needs a lot.”
I like it a lot. It’s a German proveb
“Nothing worth having is easy to get.”
I tell myself this ALL. THE. TIME.
what you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. it will decide what gets you out of bed in the mornings, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you. fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.
- pedro arrupe
may you always have enough happiness to keep you sweet; enough trials to keep you strong; enough success to keep you eager; enough faith to give you courage; and enough determination to make each day a good day.
- blessing
“You’re not so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
-Malcolm X
I tweeted you!
if we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
- thomas edison
“They’re certainly entitled to think that and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,” said Atticus, “but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience”
-To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Tweeted @katembing!!
“Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle” – James M. Barrie
“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“A part of control is learning to correct your weakness” Babe Ruth
I tweeted ’bout chyew!
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.”
– 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
“Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.”
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. ~Jim Rohn
“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.” -Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
if you’re going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. if you’re going to fight something, fight for those in need. if you’re going to question something, question authority. if you’re going to lose something, lose your inhibitions. if you’re going to gain something, gain respect and confidence. and if you’re going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams.
- daniel golston
” He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is better” Guy Finley
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are” Max DePree
“Eat clean, workout dirty”
That’s my mantra!
life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. it’s about learning how to dance in the rain…
- vivian greene
“Always treat your children older than they are; they will rise to the occasion”
Impossible is Nothing
-Adidas Advertisement
Everytime I start to think for a minute that a goal I have set is too ambitious, I think of this quote and it gets me right back on track again
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
Into each life, a little rain must fall. But, when it rains, it pours.
“You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.” – Joe E. Lewis
“If friends were flowers, I’d pick you!”
“A life lived in fear is a life half-lived”
“In order to exceed beyond your wildest expectations, you need some wild expectations”
-Anonymous
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
— Marilyn Monroe
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
–Walt Disney
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
“The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.”
–B.K.S. Iyengar
I just tweeted! And now I’m following you
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. Corinthians
The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Love means nothing in tennis, but it’s everything in life.
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?” unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.
“Faith is taking the first step, even when you dont see the whole staircase.” -MLK
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Bahaha I WISH that was at McD’s!
One of my favorite quotes:
“When you’re experiencing peace, it’s coming from within you, you’re ‘doing’ peace. And this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want…..If you want to be happier – be happier. If you want to be more relaxed – relax. If you want more friends – be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.”
Real Simple magazine has a newsletter that they send out every morning with a new “daily thought”. Some are funny, others inspirational….they can be a nice pick-me-up. I’ll share a few of my faves: “Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands—and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Judith Viorst
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
― Alice Walker
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
― George Lorimer
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
― Chinese Proverb
“You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be” Eat Pray Love
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“dont cry because its over, smile because it happened”~Dr.Seuss
Never frown, you never know who is falling in love witnh your smile
I tweeted!
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle” – Albert Einstein
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” – Vernon Law
i don’t know if this is a quote, but it’s one of my favorites: hindsight is 20/20
This is my favorite quote, it helps me to compare myself to only myself:
“The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.” – Denis Waitley
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
-Roald Dahl
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
“Be ashamed to die before you have won some victory for humanity.” Horace Mann
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ” – Nelson Mandela
“Being creative is knowing how to hide your sources.” -Albert Einstein
“Great writers never mind their own business”
-self
“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.”
–Henry Ford
“What do you long for more than anything else, and what are you doing to prevent it?”
-Grace Jantzen
“To change what we do, we must change what we desire.”
-Wendy Farley
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Confucius
“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
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” Margaret B. Runbeck
“To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift.” – Franklin Roosevelt
“There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what
is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying
for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
- Johnny Depp
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat. “Or you wouldn’t have come here.’”
- Alice in Wonderland
“For myself, I am an optimist–it does not seem to be much use being anything else.” –Winston Churchill
“A man or a woman is not old…until regrets replace dreams”
“be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid”
“A waist is a terrible thing to mind.” -Jane Caminos
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.”
-Helen Keller
gahh i have SO MANY favorite quotes it’s absurd (they’re the basis of my blog after all), but one that has literally pulled me through many parts of my life (not to mention traffic on the way home today) is “This too shall pass.
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~Mark Twain
I live by the moto “Fate will take care of it.”
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The quote I have on Facebook: “There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” -Nelson Mandela
elizabeth gilbert has also been ringing in my ears lately–particularly, “you must be very kind with yourself when learning something new.”
“Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don’t Matter and Those Who Matter Don’t Mind.” …but I can’t remember who says it!
“Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — from Le Petit Prince
This quote was actually the basis of our wedding ceremony!
“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” — Josh Billings
“Whatever you focus on gets bigger”.
-not sure who said it, but I say it all the time, it is my favorite
Funny, my friend is having a $40 CSN gift card giveaway at her book site. My favorite quote of all time (which will probably end up being my first tattoo) is: “Of course it’s happening inside your head Harry, but why on Earth should that mean it’s not real?” Complete with “the scar.”
This has become one of my favorites, recently:
“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Not quite a quote, but a DMB song lyric. “It’s not where but who you’re with that really matters”.
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”- Winston Churchill
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
It starts with you – a positive mental attitude can go a long way I’ve learned! You are beautiful! xoxo
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
– Brigham Young
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dont worry about anything.. instead, pray about everything!!
tweeted!!@faithfoodfit
And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years — Abraham Lincoln
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out — Walter Winchell
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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway — Fr. Jerome Cummings
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“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
“If you’re going through hell, keep on going.” Haha!
Idk? Wish I could remember the ones I like! I have some written down but I don’t have it with me
<3 Tori
I tweeted to enter! from @MoochieMCH2
“in order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
–John Burroughs
“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.”
–George Bernard Shaw
“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”
–Leo Rosten
I tweeted!
“The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.
And until you decide to pursue your Dream, you are never going to love life the way you were meant to.”
–Bruce Wilkinson, “The Dream Giver”
“Do not hurry. Do not rest.”
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
last of my favorites
be yourself and you will succeed
“I did then what I knew then, & when I knew better, I did better.” Maya Angelou
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.” -Sylvia Plath
this is actually from a poem called “balances” by nikki giovanni
and i’ve begun
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you
i’m kind of anti relationship because i love the freedom of being single but then of course, being with someone is great in so many ways.
I made this up and actually hope it’s inspiring to others!
“Just like an artfully crafted stained glass window, once you truly believe in your inner beauty, nothing will be able to stop your true colors from shining through and mesmerizing not only yourself… but the rest of the world.”
I tweeted! Here’s a linky: http://twitter.com/Natcatty/status/19312290929
“I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents.” — David Lynch
My favorite quote:
“”And at night you will look up at the stars. Where I live everything is so small that I cannot show you where my star is to be found. It is better, like that. My star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens . . . they will all be your friends.” – The Little Prince
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ‘
William Wallace
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ”
William James
A quote from a great book: “Life without risk is impossible and if by chance you stumble across a safe, serene existence, it is because you never really reached for anything in the first place.” — ‘On Mystic Lake’ by Kristin Hannah
“Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes, things fall apart so better things can fall into place. In the end, what’s meant to be will find its way.” ♥
A good quote certainly can lift your spirits!
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often” – Cardinal John Henry Newman
“a loving heart is the truest wisdom” – Charles Dickens
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, they only way, it does not exist.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Hoy es hoy, y ayer se fue, no hay duda.” – Pablo Neruda
(Today is today, and yesterday has gone, there is no doubt)
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only what you are expecting to give, which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.” – Katherine Hepburn
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.” – Eat. Pray. Love.
“I want to be as beautiful as I can be, to myself first, then to anybody else who has enough sense to see it.”
Maya Angelou
“The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that’s just fabulous.” -Carrie Bradshaw
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“The very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.” Dalai Lama
GORGEOUS!
Worrying is like a rocking chair, gives you something to do but gets you nowhere.
Hm everyone seems to be doing serious ones, so one that makes me laugh:
“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” ~The Princess Bride
We pour out our miseries, God just hears a melody. Beautiful the mess we are, The honest cries of breaking hearts are better than a Hallelujah…
If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies…
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
My most favorite quote of all time is a quote that hangs over the doors in my firehouse: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
Every day it’s a reminder that what we do in the firehouse is an incredible service, and that there is not greater love than helping the people around you. It’s always very humbling to me.
Don’t hate the player. Hate the game.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
My favorite quote is from Julia Child.
“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“To be healthy, eat right, walk right, and talk to yourself right.”
“There’s nothing scary about choice. Scary is when you don’t have choice.”
“A life filled with difficulties is not a punishment; sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths.”
and now, a quote from possibly my favorite book ever, _The History of Love_ by Nicole Krauss.
“Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One day you’re a person and the next day they tell you you’re a dog. At first it’s hard to bear, but after a while you learn not to look at it as a loss. There’s even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.”
“Be more obsessed with this moment, less with the way it ends.” -Buddy Wakefield
“There are things you do, because they feel right. And they may make no sense, and they may make no money. And it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other, and to eat each other’s cooking, and to say it was good.”
-Brian Andreas
There is nothing like a DREAM to create the future. -Victor Hugo
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. -Dean Acheson
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. -Maya Angelon
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. -Unknown
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. -Walt Disney
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. – Peter Ustinov
“With Gorilla gone, will there be hope for Man? With Man gone, will there be hope for Gorilla?”
From my favorite book Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
-A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
We are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
— Dr. Seuss
Dear God,” she prayed, “let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere – be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost. -A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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“the earth has music for those who listen”
~ will shakespeare
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I only lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
i just always thought this one was funny! lol
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I only lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
i just always thought this one was funny! lo
i never lived the dream of the prom kings, or the drama queens. i’d like to think the best of me, is still hiding up my sleeves.
~ John Mayer
“We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.“~Bill Vaughan
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”~Ambrose Redmoon
“Bow to your highest and holiest teacher, yourself.” ~Yoga instructor
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.”~Unknown Author
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” – Alexander Hamilton
Life’s like a box of chocolates…you never know what your gonna get!” – Forrest Gump
We’ll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory…let it e out song and think of me every time you hear it -A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
My favorite running quote…”To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” -Steve Prefontaine
Not sure if this counts as a quote, but it makes me smile.. “Hakuna Matata” -The Lion King
Another one I like, not sure who said it….”We cannot direct the winds but we can change the sails”
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breaths away.”
A little corny bit still good!
”And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
-from Fight Club, the movie
That kale green smoothie looks SO GOOD. YUM! That will definitely be my morning breakfast tomorrow!
My favorite quote: Be the change you would like to see in the world.
True. True. True.
I like that one!
Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.
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.
- – Frank Outlaw
“Ah, what it is to be a mind without a soul, what ugliness it is…” –Chaim Potok, The Chosen
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The best is yet to come!
fall in love or fall in hate. get inspired or get depressed. ace a test or flunk a class. make babies or make art. speak the truth or lie and cheat. dance on tables or sit in the corner. life is divine chaos. embrace it. forgive yourself. breathe. enjoy the ride….
happiness is a journey, not a destination. for a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. but there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. at last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. this perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. happiness is the way. so treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one.
-souza
life is what happens while we are making other plans.
- allen saunders
you gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… do the thing you think you cannot do.
-eleanor roosevelt
favorite [& true] quote:
my goal in life is to be the person my dog thinks i am…!
grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things i can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
-niebuhr
promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!
-christian d. larson
“ab actu ad posse valet illatio”- latin for: from the past, one can infer the future. so true in so many ways, and the inner history nerd in me loves it!
“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
— Albert Einstein
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” – attributed to Mark Twain and many other sources
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis
My favorite quote is “You can do anything, but not everything.” I think must of us can relate to this
Another favorite quote is Ghandi’s, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
I have been dyyying to try the tart fro-yo so I would LOVE to win so I could buy the Cuisinart ice cream maker!
Lastly, these are 2 of my favorite quotes from the vastly quotable movie Meet the Parents.
Jack: I mean, can you really trust another human being, Greg?
Greg: Yeah, I think so.
Jack: No. The answer is you can not.
Jack: I’m just curious, did you pick the color of the car?
Greg: Uh no, the guy at the window did, why?
Jack: Well they say geniuses pick green.
Greg: Oh.
Jack: But you didn’t pick it.
Grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
-Unknown
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
-Unknown
“Knowing is better than wondering. Waking is better than sleeping and even the biggest failure, beats the hell out of never trying at all.”
-Unknown
“It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for what you are not.”
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
-Marilyn Monroe
“Be who you are, and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” – Dr. Seuss
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
— Marilyn Monroe
Sorry for the quote spam. I should’ve done it all in one post O_O I didn’t think of it till now. =/ But I like collecting quotes too. Usually ones pertaining to my life, kinda-ish xP But it is fun to read once in a while.
Btw I did tweet and my username on twitter is nhungoiii
Goodluck with the contest ;]
I like this quote a lot!! It might be the teacher in me.
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step” -Chinese Proverb
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
Charles R. Swindoll
Another favorite:
He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
“Take it from your heart
put it in your hands”- Arcade Fire
“I’m like a vault babe’ locked dowwn!” (Will Smith)
“I lost my J O B” (Jim Carey)
I like your quotes!!!
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde
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“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
Oscar Wilde
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Emerson
I just tweeted Allie!
I also just added you to my twitter to uh…follow as Lucky Taste Buds…
overcome the notion that you must be regular. it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.
-uta hagen
If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But 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.
“There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.”
life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t, and believe that everything happens for a reason. if you get a chance, take it. if it changes your life, let it. nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it
time changes everything. that’s what people say. it’s not true. doing things changes things. not doing things leaves them exactly as they were.
La vita e bella; la vita e amore. — Life is beautiful; life is love.
“This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive”
“Love is like oxygen. Love is a many splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love.” Moulin Rouge
I think the Austin Powers movies have so many great lines. For exampleee, “I think you’re shagedelic baby! You’re switched on! You’re smashing! You’re shagadelic, baby!”
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
Galileo Galilei
“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
I heart quotes <3
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“Keep Calm & Carry On”
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
“Love your enemies, just incase your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards”
one of my favorites that makes me laugh for the most part. followed by a..”its true though” statement
“everything in moderation, even moderation” one word CLASSIC
“This is my wish for you: Smiles when sadness intrudes,comfort on difficult days, rainbows to follow the clounds,sunsets to warm your heart, laughter to kiss your lips, hugs when spirits sag, friendship to brighten your being, beauty for your eyes to see, faith so that you cam believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, love to complete your life.” -Anonymous
Favorite quote: “A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.” – William Arthur Ward
If you never stick out your neck you’ll never get out of the crowd.
Great when thinking about your business.
If today is not going well prepare for tomorrow.
Everyday is one day closer to Friday.
The way you eat says a lot about you.
The grass is NOT always greener.
When all else fails, take a nap!
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
-James Dean
“Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.”
- Alice Walker
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
-Howard Thurman
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there. ~ Lewis Carroll
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ~ Alexander Hamilton
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. ~
Robert A. Heinlein
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The things that we love tell us what we are. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~ Auguste Rodin
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The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. ~ Clint Eastwood
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And my last one:
I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally. ~ W. C. Fields
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“Dance like no one is watching, love like you’ll never be hurt,sing like no one is listening,and live like it’s heaven on earth.”- William Purkey
Just do it!
(Nike)
“Some people are in your life to help you grow and they were your soul mates but for only a short while.”
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you”
“It’s not about how to achieve your dreams, it’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.” -Randy Pausch
“I know I should be exhausted but I am drinking from the cup of life and it is pouring down my face. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
“Yoga is bodily gospel.”
Life is too short to be anything but happy.
Tweeted it!
Another favorite quote: Don’t waste your time with people who don’t make you feel alive.
wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world…
“live with intention. walk to the edge. listen hard. practice wellness. play with abandon. laugh. choose with no regret. continue to learn. appreciate your friends. do what you love. live as if this is all there is.”
“too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn life around.”
-leo buscaglia
“dance as though no one is watching you. love as though you have never been hurt before. sing as though no one can hear you. live as though heaven is on earth.”
“Be who you are, and say what you feel. Because those who mind dont matter, and those who matter dont mind” Dr. Seuss
As a teacher, I love this quote….
To the world you are one person, but you may be the world to one person-Unknown.
always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. try to be better than yourself.
-william faulkner
As Eleanor Roosevelt said:
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
I have a quotes link too!
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t. lol
-Pete Seegar
Between stimulus and reaction, lies man’s power to choose.
The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.
Viktor E. Frankl
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Stephen R. Covey
I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,’
Whatever someone thinks of me, is none of my business.
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. Steven Covey
YES, I CAN! (Obama!!)
“Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good enough”
- Mark Sisson, Mark’s Daily Apple
“The greatest wealth is health”
- Virgil
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
- Mark Twain
“Mother Nature winces each time an egg yolk hits the waste basket”
- unknown
“Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.”
“Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.”
- Shakespeare
“You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.”
- Arthur Ashe
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
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