“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

I've learned that our dog doesn't want to eat my broccoli either.
Age 7

I've learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back.
Age 9

I've learned that just when I get my room the way I like it, Mom makes me clean it up again.
Age 12

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The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
- Seneca

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
- Quentin Crisp

This is an extract of the email from my friend, she has been working/living in Korea and she was on vacation in Thailand.

We are each on our own "snorkeling" adventures...may we be able to recognize and appreciate the wonder and awe of our lives and embrace the uncertain and cyclical natures of lifes ups and downs.

( the jellyfish story, posted with permission under the cut )

Hopefully this year we each get a chance to just BE for a moment (I have a great story from a friend, but I'm waiting on permisson to reprint) to recognize the beauty surrounding us and appreciate it all, the good and the bad. How lucky we are to EXIST. I think it's easy to forget that. We get so caught up in the current of our lives, all the ( Read more... )

"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson

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