About Me
I am a daughter, niece, aunt, friend, cousin, stranger, New Yorker, student, sister, translator, associate, and a struggling Christian.
I am finishing up my bachelors cause I was one of those confused souls who didn't know what he or she wanted. Now I know what I want.
It is not possible for me to clearly express the essence of my being in words. Try to get to know me or not...it is your prerogative. But don't ever think that you have me all figured out cause I have my idiosyncrasies.
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"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."-Colin Powell
"Dear youth,
What is the aim and purpose of your life? Are you ambitious for education that you may have a name and position in the world? Have you thoughts that you dare not express, that you may one day stand upon the summit of intellectual greatness, that you may sit in deliberative and legislative councils, and help to enact laws for the nation? There is nothing wrong in these aspirations. You may every one of you make your mark. You should be content with no mean attainments. Aim high, and spare no pains to reach the standard.
Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God's ideal for His children. Godliness-godlikeness-is the goal to be reached. Before the student there is opened a path of continual progress. He has an object to achieve, a standard to attain, that includes everything good, and pure, and noble. He will advance as fast and as far as possible in every branch of true knowledge. But his efforts will be directed to objects as much higher than mere selfish and temporal interests as the heavens are higher than the earth."-Ellen White
"We are warmed by fire,not by the smoke of the fire. We are carried over the sea by a ship, not by the wake of a ship. So too, what we are is to be sought in the invisible depth of our own being, not in our outward reflection in our own acts. We must find our real selves not in the froth stirred up by the impact of our being upon the beings around us, but in our own soul which is the principle of all our acts." -- from No Man Is An Island"
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be beautiful, talented, gifted, worthy? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s no enlightenment in shrinking so others will not feel small around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us. It is in all of us. And as we let our light shine , we give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."-Marianne Williamson
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our Attitudes."--Charles Swindoli
"The world is illusion, you yourself make reality, but this reality undoes you if you submit to being limited by what you have made. The important corollary -- you are not, however, truly subject to this reality, you can break free from it, can live even closer to the nature you are continually creating..." --Donald Ricie
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference...Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it. Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will. That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen."
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