Thursday, October 28, 2010

Some quotes I found in my journal

Yeah, the journal I was telling you about.

I got so giddy and excited with my new blog that:
1) I looked for my old journal found in a dusty cardboard box underneath a bed; and
2) I decided to always bring a camera to capture pictures for the blog.

Anyway, I browsed through its nearly dilapidated pages and found pretty neat quotes:

*When God leads you to the edge of a cliff, trust Him fully and let go because only one of two things will happen: Either He will catch you when you fall, or.... He will teach you how to fly :)

*"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm that we do, we do to ourselves."-Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

*"If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves His children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity." -Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist (1988)

*The possibility of having a dream come true is what makes life more interesting.

*"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." - Victor Hugo

*"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing but in rising every time we fall." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

*"People will adore and love you for all the things you've done for them, but will hate you for a single mistake. That is the irony of life." -Spiderman (Sorry, I don't know which one :D)

*"Everyone's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers." -Hans Christian Andersen

*Have you ever realized that when people say you've changes, it's just because you stopped living THEIR way?

*Falling in love is like looking at the stars. If you pick one out of the billion of stars and stare at it long enough, all the others just fade away.

*"Go little jellyfish, go back to your family. They may seem strict at sometimes, but there will be no place like home." -Spongebob Squarepants x)

*Life is like a piano. The white keys represent happiness and the black keys show sadness. But as you go through life, remember that the black keys make music too.

*"A car is made to run on gasoline and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Him. He himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, and the food our spirits designed to feed on. There is no other." -C.S.Lewis

*"There's nothing wrong with believing in fairy tales because in the end, we all live happily ever after. However, they forgot one important detail. Not everyone we fall in love with means it's a "happily ever after" story. Because most of the time, it's just "once upon a time".

*Everyone says love hurts. But that's not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love. But in reality, love is the only thing that covers up the pain and make someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in the world that does not hurt. -Grey's Anatomy (I forgot which character said it)

*"If you can dream it, you can do it." -Walt Disney

*"If you could go to any place in the world, where would it be? Because it's not where you are... It's who you're with."-Aquamarine (2006)


And a bunch more... But the other cool quotes are already too long for one journal entry. :)

Yep, I used to always have my journal and put down all the nice quotes I encounter during movies, TV episodes, books that I read, messages that I hear in church or in other places. I wish I could do this again <3

Monday, October 18, 2010

I'll tell you why I blogged

I have been a writer all my life but ironically, I've never written anything for my personal use (except the ones in my dusty old hard-bounded journal).

Finally (after opening several blog accounts and then closing them the next day), I'm starting with this sure one, right here.

I could not think of any reason why I should do this (which is the same reason I closed up all my blog accounts). My life is pretty ordinary. No exciting adventures or trips I could share. No "every-girl's-dream" experiences. No glorious moments of fame and fortune. Oh, how I envy you at times.

But sharing things from my ordinary day could possibly (and hopefully) make me (as well as the readers-- if there are any) realize that ordinary experiences can become the best ones in life. Because maybe they're right-- Maybe it's not really the experiences that count-- but how you make of it. How you see and and how you look at it. And here is my own way of applying that.. that.. "mentality". By blogging. :D

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