i believe.

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i believe that making a difference is possible and i believe we all have it in us.

i believe that one person can make a difference because even if you're making the difference in the life of "only" one person, that person will pass on that part of his or her life to everyone he or she meets, all the friends he or she touches and all the family that will progress from that point forward.

i believe in a thing called love (just listen to the rhythm of my heart.... seriously).

i believe that i was put on this earth with purpose and reason and i'll do anything i have to do, regardless of whether i WANT to or whether i know it's something i HAVE to do, to make sure i live up to that purpose and fulfill my potential.

i believe that raising and teaching a child is the most valuable legacy i can ever leave and i plan on doing that. when it's right. i believe that's what i was made for, and call me crazy, but what greater power can you have than creating life? what greater reward can you receive than knowing you helped to creat this tiny little person that will go on to live a life that you helped mold for them? what greater love can come from a child?... or innocence?... or wonder? what could ever be more important or more rewarding?

i believe that healing is possible, that redemption is just and that we have the ability to grow from the things in our life that try to weigh us down. i want to be as tall as a tree. always ten feet tall.

i believe that the burdens in our lives are nothing but just that -- burdens -- and i don't believe that taking your life, the most precious gift you've ever been given, is brave. i believe that facing life is brave, that coming face to face with the demons that haunt you is brave. i believe that learning and moving on is brave. i believe in being brave.

i believe that we're in the place we are at the time we are for a reason and that we're never put somewhere that we'll be challenged too much... i believe we're never given more than we can handle.

i believe that i am heaven sent (don't you dare forget).

i believe that there's a life after this one and that i will be blessed for the live i've led, for the choices i have made and will make, and i believe that i'll have to face to the consequences of the problems i may not have resolved. i know that's fair.

i believe in you.

i believe that surface relationships are the reason there is so much hatred in this world and i believe that if we really got down to it, we all just really want the same thing and have the same goals (okay, there are some exceptions) and that peace is possible. i'm not a dreamer and i'm not naive and i'm not uneducated on the world... i honestly believe that.

i believe that taking time out of your own day to make someone else's better, makes us better.

i believe in a plan of happiness.

i believe that we chose a family that fits us, regardless of the family dynamic, and that blood is thicker than water.

i believe that my sister will make the right decisions one day.

i believe that you might not be a perfect hand, but i don't hit on 19... and if you don't get that, then you haven't listened to enough john mayer in your life and you better start.

i believe that i have the most perfect roommate for me right now and that we were brought together because we needed each other at this point, to grow and learn and teach each other in such different ways than we ever imagined.

i believe that families can be together forever.

i believe that every decision we make in life is a choice and that we have no one to blame but ourselves (there are exceptions to this, too) and in taking responsibility for our own actions and living up to the consequences and benefits that follow those decision (this was a choice, this was never a mistake).

i believe in God.

i believe that modern medicine is just miracles in the form of machines and if we really took the time to look around at everything and realize that it's not just science, that it's a gift, the world would be a lot more beautiful.

i believe that i'm never alone.

i believe that writing down the events of our lives, much like history books, will help us to go and look back when we need direction in our lives so that we don't make the same mistakes again... and sometimes we repeat the past, but at least -- hopefully -- we will be better for it.

i believe that my family is the single greatest group of people on this earth and that i can't wait to be given the opportunity to create my own to further branch out that greatness.

i believe that taking a photo is not creating a memory, but that it is capturing life.

i believe in prayer and the power that it has to comfort and to guide and direct our lives.

i believe that happiness is a choice we make everyday of our lives and i choose happiness.

i believe in the faith that people say they have in me and i believed you when you said i deserve more... i'll find more, i know i will.

i believe that my mother is the single most brilliant, generous, infectious, caring, giving, stubborn, intelligent, beautiful, funny, random, mother there ever could be... and i bet you think about your mom too... but when people tell me i'm just like my mom, i take it as the greatest compliment.

i believe that he really loved me.

i believe that prayers are answered in the form of friends, words, phone calls, myspace messages, heat, that perfect song that you hear exactly when you need it, and french vanilla hot chocolate.

i believe a book or song or band can change your life.

i believe that there is so much more than here and so much more than now and that so much more will lead me to the places i'm going and that i'll find the things i need along the way.

i believe in myself.