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13 years

"You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

~ The Skin Horse, Velveteen Rabbit

3.18.98

gotta love a good quote

“Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.”

~ Louis de Bernieres

 

this is how I feel today...

"that it will never come again is what makes life so sweet." 

thanks Emily Dickinson :)

so New Year's Eve I hung out with friends, played Mario Bros on Wii and watched a movie.  Stranger then Fiction.   Will Ferrell plays a more serious role so at first, I wasn't sure I would be able to get into it but as the movie progressed, I got more and more into it.

here's a synopsis from IMDB:

Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his life. The narrator it is extraordinarily accurate, and Harold recognizes the voice as an esteemed author he saw on TV. But when the narration reveals that he is going to die, Harold must find the author of the story, and ultimately his life, to convince her to change the ending of the story before it is too late.
The following quote comes after the author discusses the ending of the book with a professor and the professor says he does not like the ending of the book the author decided to finally go with. 

"Because it's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die. And then dies. But if a man does know he's about to die and dies anyway. Dies- dies willingly, knowing that he could stop it, then- I mean, isn't that the type of man who you want to keep alive?"

 I would recommend this movie to anyone.  so good.  you should check it out!

something to think about

my mom sent me an email with a power point attachment of wintry pics with quotes. here's the one's that really stood out to me...

"Don't compare your life to other. You have no idea what their journey is all about."

"Frame every so-called disaster with these words, 'In five years, will this matter?'"

"If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back."

good stuff. I think I really needed to read those few lines as of late. although the cruise for Christmas was fun, it's never easy to spend that amount of time with the whole family when you know problems will occur. and they did.

it's not worth it to complain, or dwell on it, because I have better things to do(that's what I tell myself), but I needed to share those quotes. made me feel better :)

have a great week!

i hate Spencer even more now...

with only watching just an episode and a half of I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here i have come to hate Spencer Pratt even more.

here's a few of the idiotic things he said...

"I'm too rich and I'm too famous to be sitting with these people and cleaning up their shit in the jungle - this cast is devaluing [me and Heidi's] fame right now. I'm supposed to be cleaning up John Salley's shit in a bucket, dude?"

"I'm a TV producer and a character."

"I'm already the king of America and I might as well be the king of the Costa Rican jungle."

"I received two stars, one star for myself and one star for Heidi, because we're the only two stars on this program."

"I'm a super-celebrity. My wife is a super-celebrity. Super-celebrities don't belong in the jungle. They belong in Hollywood with the paparazzi."

"I don't volunteer, baby. I get paid."

he's an idiot. i'm glad he's left the show.

Bride Wars

so i just got done watching Bride Wars.


good movie! but, the best part was almost at the very end when Marion St. Claire said this...

"Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you'll find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding, but there's also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself is the same person who's been standing beside you all along."

i love that quote. go watch the movie :)

it's time for some quotes...

"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key."
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

“I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.”

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

love these quotes.

and more quotes by my favorite lady...

one more awesome quote...

"you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. just keep waiting, no matter how long it takes"
~ Randy Pausch

if you have never read 'The Last Lecture' by Randy Pausch you need to. it's a great book, basically a copy of his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. He died recently from Pancreatic Cancer. Check out the book!

and you should know i love good quotes...

this quote is written at the beginning of the book i'm currently reading, 'broken'

a disciple asks the rebbe, "why does Torah tell us to 'place these words upon your hearts'? why does it not tell us to place these holy words in our hearts?"
the rebbe answers, "it is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. so we place them on top of our hearts. and there they stay until, one day, the heart breaks and the words fall in."
~from 'the politics of the brokenhearted,' by Parker J. Palmer

good stuff, good stuff

prostitutes

"To this day, I look at housewives and girlfriends who don’t pay their own way and wonder if they realize they are prostitutes."

i found this quote a while ago and i don't remember where (nor did i write it down). i just think this is such a great thought and so true, at least on the girlfriend part.

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he-haw, he-haw!

A Donkey's Story

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well.
The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.
They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.
At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly.
Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down.
A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked down the well, and was astonished at what he saw.
As every shovel of dirt hit his back, the donkey did something amazing.
He would shake it off and take a step up.
As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up.
Pretty soon, everyone was amazed, as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off.

The Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping and never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.

O.K., that's enough of that B.S. ..... The donkey later came back, caught the farmer out in the field and kicked the shit out of him. Then he went over to each of his neighbors farms and kicked the shit out of them too for helping.

The REAL Moral: When you try to cover your ass, it always comes back to get you.

hahaha. i received this in an email and just had to share! have a good Saturday night!!

ok, one more great quote!

"Change for me didn’t come easy; I didn’t wanna change until I lost everything until I realized that you better change, or, you know, blow your fucking brains out. Either you change and go on with life, or you’re just a piece of shit."

~ Mickey Rourke

(and i don't think we really need a picture for this one!)

love good quotes (and inspiring ones...)

'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
life would be easy, they just
promised it would be worth it.'