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Dear internet F-List,
I have a favor to ask. Well, maybe a couple favors.
See, I've got this idea. A friend of mine at school has a book of quotes. Little things, strange things, from a wide variety of people. Well, about a month ago I started reading though it and some of these quotes just ... spoke to me.
... and then the idea came to me. I want to dedicate a wall of my future apartment to these quotes. Whenever I'm having a down day or need a pick me up, I want to look at this wall and feel better, more inspired, more thankful to be where I am in the world.
So here's what I'm looking for: another friend has a tendency to take Bible verses and dress them up real pretty and artistically. Examples: A, B, C, D, E, and F.
If you want to do them in photoshop/gimp/Piknik/whatever and upload them online, go for it. If you want to sit down with pens and a piece of paper, that's cool too, I accept snail mail.
Do it however you want, with whichever quotes speak to you, as many or as few as you want. I'm not getting my own place for another two or three years, so you have plenty of time. I'm also giving this list to a couple of my friends for them to try their hand at some and I know I am going to get duplicates of some of them. I'm cool with that. I just want each one to be different, even the same quote. Make sense?
So without further ado, here is the list, make of it what you will:
“How you ever gonna reach the stars if you never get off the ground?”
- Big Time Rush
[This is the only quote out of this list that I really and truly have my heart set on. There is just something about it that I love and I hope to have a million different versions of it hanging on that future wall.]
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
- Hermann Hesse
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.”
- Vince Lombardi
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
- Marcus Aurelius
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
- Publilius Syrus
“He who loses wealth loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he that loses his courage loses all.”
- Miguel de Cervantes
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”
- J. P. Morgan
“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”
- Isaac Asimov
“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
- Walt Disney
“Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.”
- Thomas À Kempis
“Always have a vivid imagination for you never know when you might need it.”
- J. K. Rowling
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
- Albert Einstein
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.”
- Ernest Hemmingway
“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”
- Will Durant
“Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.”
- Bear Bryant
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. … the truly wise person is colorblind.”
- Albert Schweitzer
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
- Brendan Gull
“Failure is impossible.”
- Susan B. Anthony
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
- Bernadette Devlin
“Your heart keep traveling down that same old road but you don’t know you’re sitting on a pot of goal looking at the wrong end of the rainbow.”
- Rockie Lynne
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
- Alexander Graham Bell
“Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, ‘I have failed three times,’ and what happens when he says, ‘I am a failure.’”
- S. I. Hayakawa
“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”
- Mark Twain
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
- Epictetus
“Every day is a gift - even if it sucks.”
- Sherry Hochman
“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
- Toni Morrison
Also: forward dating this post so it stays at the top of my journal. Feel free to come and go from it as you please.
And thanks in advance. =]
I have a favor to ask. Well, maybe a couple favors.
See, I've got this idea. A friend of mine at school has a book of quotes. Little things, strange things, from a wide variety of people. Well, about a month ago I started reading though it and some of these quotes just ... spoke to me.
... and then the idea came to me. I want to dedicate a wall of my future apartment to these quotes. Whenever I'm having a down day or need a pick me up, I want to look at this wall and feel better, more inspired, more thankful to be where I am in the world.
So here's what I'm looking for: another friend has a tendency to take Bible verses and dress them up real pretty and artistically. Examples: A, B, C, D, E, and F.
If you want to do them in photoshop/gimp/Piknik/whatever and upload them online, go for it. If you want to sit down with pens and a piece of paper, that's cool too, I accept snail mail.
Do it however you want, with whichever quotes speak to you, as many or as few as you want. I'm not getting my own place for another two or three years, so you have plenty of time. I'm also giving this list to a couple of my friends for them to try their hand at some and I know I am going to get duplicates of some of them. I'm cool with that. I just want each one to be different, even the same quote. Make sense?
So without further ado, here is the list, make of it what you will:
“How you ever gonna reach the stars if you never get off the ground?”
- Big Time Rush
[This is the only quote out of this list that I really and truly have my heart set on. There is just something about it that I love and I hope to have a million different versions of it hanging on that future wall.]
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
- Hermann Hesse
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.”
- Vince Lombardi
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
- Marcus Aurelius
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
- Publilius Syrus
“He who loses wealth loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he that loses his courage loses all.”
- Miguel de Cervantes
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”
- J. P. Morgan
“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”
- Isaac Asimov
“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
- Walt Disney
“Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.”
- Thomas À Kempis
“Always have a vivid imagination for you never know when you might need it.”
- J. K. Rowling
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
- Albert Einstein
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.”
- Ernest Hemmingway
“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”
- Will Durant
“Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.”
- Bear Bryant
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. … the truly wise person is colorblind.”
- Albert Schweitzer
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
- Brendan Gull
“Failure is impossible.”
- Susan B. Anthony
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
- Bernadette Devlin
“Your heart keep traveling down that same old road but you don’t know you’re sitting on a pot of goal looking at the wrong end of the rainbow.”
- Rockie Lynne
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
- Alexander Graham Bell
“Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, ‘I have failed three times,’ and what happens when he says, ‘I am a failure.’”
- S. I. Hayakawa
“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”
- Mark Twain
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
- Epictetus
“Every day is a gift - even if it sucks.”
- Sherry Hochman
“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
- Toni Morrison
Also: forward dating this post so it stays at the top of my journal. Feel free to come and go from it as you please.
And thanks in advance. =]