~Ellen~

"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
∂ I'm your average every day girl. I'm a vegetarian, I love to exercise, play on the computer. I love growing things in my garden (anything to get me outside in the sun). I am real, honest and down to earth.
I'm addicted to finding bargains, I have been known to buy stuff even if not needed if it's a great deal (the drill I can barely lift comes to mind). I love Seven for all Mankind Jeans and True Religion and hate when Urban Outfitters has a sale. Baby Phat rocks my world, a cat and Pink stuff, almost as cute as Hello Kitty.
Remember to tell your friends & family how much you care about them every day, forgive those who have done you wrong and apologize when you screw up. Have a great day and thanks for visiting my profile! :) ∂
∂ People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway ∂
∂ "Never assume that societal rules, laws, religious doctrine, will exempt anyone from any behavior at all. In fact, always assume that their best interests are at the heart of every thought they think and action they take whether or not they realize it themselves."∂
∂ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ∂
∂ I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. ∂
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∂ We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true--that religion has caused innumerable people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow. ∂
∂ I'd rather be hated for who I am, then loved for who I'm not. ∂
∂ Kahlil Gibran’s "The Prophet" ∂
∂ Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams!
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of infinite,
And He bends you with His might.
That His arrows may go swift and far!
Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
So He loves also the bow that is stable. ∂
∂ I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ∂