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chinaloveIf nothing changes, nothing changes

To achieve something you never achieved, you must do something you have never done before. 11 hours ago


seeking~serenityQuote #191, on Happiness; Beautiful, Wonderific Happiness...

I LOVE THIS QUOTE!!!

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!

I JUST LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT ALL!!!!!

YES, I AM EXCITED!

...if you couldn’t tell, lol.

1 day ago


seeking~serenityQuote #190, on Awesome People...

I really love this one that I saw just a bit ago on my Facebook feed! Had to share with someone who may enjoy it, too! :)

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seeking~serenityQuote #189, on becoming something greater!...

“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” – Max de Pree

2 days ago


seeking~serenityQuote #188, on Choices...

“It’s not what happens to you that’s important. It’s what you do about it.” – Anonymous

4 days ago


seeking~serenityQuote #187, on doing the unthinkable!...

“Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn’t know that, so it flies anyway.”

- Mary Kay Ash

I have always loved this quote. It makes you believe in the possibility of things…especially if you don’t know any better. Who says theories can’t be proven wrong if you only try? I love it! Fly, bumblebee, fly!!! :)1 week ago


seeking~serenityQuote # 186, on Wisdom, from Mother Teresa...

“If you can’t do it with love and cheerfulness, don’t do it at all, go home.”

- Mother Teresa

A true miracle of a woman.1 week ago


seeking~serenityQuote #185, on Seafood at Sea World...(HAHAHA!)

“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my fishburger and I realize, oh my God, I could be eating a slow learner.”

- Lynda Montgomery 1 week ago


seeking~serenityQuote #184, on doing it better the second time around:

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

- Henry Ford

2 weeks ago


seeking~serenityQuote #183, on Possibilities...

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

- Robert Schuller

2 weeks ago


seeking~serenitySaw this and had to share! (#182)

I was just reading an entry from maraschin0, on her goal of ‘Collect quotes and sayings’, and found this to be of interest. :) When I searched online to find the author, all I could find was this amazing piece on Scott Adam’s Blog, entitled, ‘Who are you?’ that was the same wording as what maraschin0 posted, but with more added on that I really love:

“Who Are You?Oct 19, 2011 General Nonsense | Notify

Sometimes a writer’s job is to say what people are thinking, but say it better than they are thinking it. Watch me do that now.

Pause.

Have you ever wondered who you are? You’re not your body, because living cells come and go and are generally outside of your control. You’re not your location, because that can change. You aren’t your DNA because that simply defines the boundaries of your playing field. You aren’t your upbringing because siblings routinely go in different directions no matter how similar their start. My best answer to my own question is this:

You are what you learn.

If all you know is how to be a gang member, that’s what you’ll be, at least until you learn something else. If you become a marine, you’ll learn to control fear. If you go to law school, you’ll see the world as a competition. If you study engineering, you’ll start to see the world as a complicated machine that needs tweaking.

I’m fascinated by the way a person changes at a fundamental level as he or she merges with a particular field of knowledge. People who study economics come out the other side thinking a different way from people who study nursing. And learning becomes a fairly permanent part of a person even as the cells in the body come and go and the circumstances of life change.

You can easily nitpick my definition of self by arguing that you are actually many things, including your DNA, your body, your mind, you environment and more. By that view, you’re more of a soup than a single ingredient. I’ll grant you the validity of that view. But I’ll argue that the most powerful point of view is that you are what you learn.

It’s easy to feel trapped in your own life. Circumstances can sometimes feel as if they form a jail around you. But there’s almost nothing you can’t learn your way out of. If you don’t like who you are, you have the option of learning until you become someone else. Life is like a jail with an unlocked, heavy door. You’re free the minute you realize the door will open if you simply lean into it.

Suppose you don’t like your social life. You can learn how to be the sort of person that attracts better friends. Don’t like your body? You can learn how to eat right and exercise until you have a new one. You can even learn how to dress better and speak in more interesting ways.

I credit my late mother for my view of learning. She raised me to believe I could become whatever I bothered to learn. No single idea has served me better.”2 weeks ago


seeking~serenityQuote 181, on Individual Feedom...

“I must Create a System or be enslav’d by another Man’s.”

- William Blake

3 weeks ago


seeking~serenityQuote 180, on you!...

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are amazingly awesome!3 weeks ago


seeking~serenityQuote 179, on Beautiful Wants, Unknown...

“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.” ~Garrison Keillor

I love this image! <33 weeks ago


seeking~serenityQuote 178, from the lips of my favorite kick-a$$ woman...

I have loved her and her amazing music since I was a total youngin. I have sat up all night many times, listening to her albums.

IT TRULY BOTHERS ME THAT THERE ARE SO MANY TYPOS IN IMAGES LIKE THIS ONE. LUCKILY, I FIXED MY ANNOYANCE.3 weeks ago


seeking~serenityQuote 177, from the splendid Anderson Cooper, on courage, happiness and pride...

I simply adore this man right here…

He makes me smile.

He’s smart, he’s funny, he’s quite handsome’, he’s charismatic, he’s great with media and makes me want to pay attention…

And, he’s gay (WHO CARES, RIGHT?). I’m so happy he came out a while back and can fully be himself and be happy and content with himself. Sad that women don’t have a chance, but lucky men. :)

I hate that this picture is too large for this post, but I love it just the same. <34 weeks ago


seeking~serenityQuotes 175 and 176, from Henry Ford...

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few people engage in it.”

- Henry Ford

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether he is 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

- Henry Ford 4 weeks ago


seeking~serenityQuote 174, from my tea...

I AM BEAUTIFUL,

I AM BOUNTIFUL,

I AM BLISSFUL.4 weeks ago


seeking~serenityQuote 173, on Honesty...

“There is only one way to find out if a man is honest … ask him. If he says ‘yes,’ you know he’s crooked.”

- Groucho Marx

4 weeks ago


seeking~serenityQuote 172, on the hard truth of the matter...

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.”

- Dee Hock

4 weeks ago


chinalovelove is deep!

“The source of love is deep in us
and we can help others realize a
lot of happiness. One word, one
action, one thought can reduce
another person’s suffering and
bring that person joy.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~ 4 weeks ago


seeking~serenityQuote 171, on Life, according to the amazing John Lennon...

I can’t get this to show up in full, but great anyways.

“When I was 5 years old, my mother told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, I told them they didn’t undetstand life.” ~John Lennon 1 month ago


seeking~serenityQuote 170, on Understanding...

“Because you understand ‘one’, you think that you also understand ‘two’, because ‘one’ and ‘one’ make ‘two’, but you must also understand the ‘and’.” – Sufi teaching1 month ago


seeking~serenityQuote 169, on Serenity...

“Do your work and then step back: the only path to serenity.”

- The Tao Te Ching, 450 B.C.

1 month ago


seeking~serenityQuote 168, on Unicorn Life Lessons:

“Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.”- Japanese saying1 month ago


seeking~serenityQuote 167, on Same Love:

This is so very beautiful! I absolutely love how it is written. I eagerly await the days when love is no different than hair color. ♥♥1 month ago


seeking~serenityQuote 166, Muhammad Ali:

“Me.

We.”

~In the spring of 1975, Muhammad Ali was invited to give the commencement address at Harvard University. Toward the end of his speech, an audience member hollered out, “Give us a poem!” Ali’s response was all of two words: “Me, We.”

The social constructs of race, ethnicity, gender, class, nationality, religion, political ideology and sexual orientation are merely labels that have become so intertwined and embedded in our minds that we fail to see the underlining truth. We are all the same.

Source: http://www.forsakencircus.com/Me-We_ep_42-1.html 1 month ago


seeking~serenityQuote 165, on Glow Worms:

“We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow worm.”- Winston Churchill

I love, love, love this quote! (;1 month ago


seeking~serenityQuote 164, on Advising Children (haha, oxymoron!):

“I have found that the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” – Harry S. Truman.1 month ago


seeking~serenity164, Yodaism:

Not a quote, per se, but I found this, and absolutely love it!!

Share, I must. 1 month ago


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