good quote

our communications teacher shared this quote today with us:

“to laugh is to risk appearing a fool. to weep is to risk appearing sentimental. to reach out for another is to risk involvement. to expose feelings is to risk rejection. to place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. to love is to risk not being loved in return. to go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.

but risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. the person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing. he may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel , change, grow, or love. chained by his certitudes, he is a slave. he has forfeited his freedom.

only a person who takes risks is truly free..”

i’ve always been the type of person to take risks. i like living life with no regrets, but lately it seems i’m too scared to take such a big risk. one day (soon) i’m going to say eff you to what the book ‘he’s just not that into you’ says, overturn the stupid ass traditional views and take a risk and do the damn thing already…

Time.

Don’t waste your time, or time will waste you.

Good quote, eh? I likey. I got it from none other than the great band Muse, which will be playing at the ACL Festival. I am very excited about that and to train for standing in the heat for maybe 8-12 hours a day in September Texas heat I have decided to start jogging at the hottest time of the day.

Ok well I haven’t really started yet but I will soon. Once I get my lazy butt out of the cool A/C that I love so much.

It’s hard to..

It’s hard to love a loser.

A bird once flew in and told me that. That is so absolutely true. THINK about it. How many of you out there find it easy to love someone that’s not up to par with your basic standards?

quotes..

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.

I guess in that way actions are bigger than thoughts/words/ideas/theories that haven’t been acted out in reality. Al gave me a free monthly planner today at the pharmacy which I am now using to schedule in my random summer days of work, and on each month there is a random quote included. One reads:

Solutions are not the answer. – Richard Nixon

What do you suppose that means?? Especially coming from Richard Nixon…

Impromptu speaking.

I never realized how much we speak ‘impromptu’ on a daily basis. And yet, it’s true. Common and frequent situations include any time a friend puts you on the spot, running into an old peer after not seeing each other in months and finding common ground to communicate, ordering food at a restaurant when the waiter asks you about a preference, etc. The list goes on and on and on…

But this past week I had an assigned