Amanda Hope

Something to live by:

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.

Isn’t it crazy how when you forgive someone you’re not just lifting a weight off that person, and making them feel better. But you’re keeping the weights and stresses that holding grudges-and not forgiving, can create from yourself.

I’ve spent nights sitting up thinking about how crazy and perfect life is. How everything always seems to work it’s self out, how the people we meet influence our lives so greatly, how one person or event can change our lives, and how everything happens for a reason. My motto is no regrets, & I honestly, strongly believe in it. You could say a million “what ifs”, but what good would that do you? If you took back a single thing, everything would be different. You might not be who you are today, or learned the lessons you’ve learned along the way. I don’t believe the saying “no regrets, because at some point it was exactly what you wanted/made you happy”. That’s not true. What you did or who you dated might not have made you happy at all, but I guarantee you learned some kind of lesson or grew as a person. THAT is why I believe in NO REGRETS.