Thursday Thirteen!!

It has been MEME week for my blog this week.



13 quotes that have changed my worldview.

1. "People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world your best and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It never was between you and them anyway."

--Mother Teresa


2. "The chain reaction of evil- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or

we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation...Love is the only force capable of transforming and enemy into a friend... By its very nature, hate destroysand tears down; by its very nature love creates and builds up." ----Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

3. "Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grivances long past, to roll over your tounge the prospect to bitter confrontations still to come, to savorto the last toothsome morsel both pain you are given and the pain you are giving in many ways it is a feast fit for a king.

The chief drawback is what you are wolfing down is yourself.

The skeleton at the feast is you."

----Fredrick Buechner

4. "Were we to take as much pain to be what we 0ught, as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all."
----La Rochefoucauld

5. "When we blame someone else for our suffering, when we believethat some one else is the cause of our pain, then we need something from from that other person in order to feel better."----Dr. Fred Luskin

6. "What if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream. a breath, a froth of fleeting joy:
Who buys a minutes mirth to wail as week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?"

----William Shakespeare

7. "Ability:
However much conditions may improve,
good odd remain,
That I will easily adjust to them and still complain."

----Paul Armstrong

8. "Pain and love are the biggest motivators to change."
----Unknown

9. "Small goals don't light up the souls of men." ---Soto

10. "One is not born a woman. One becomes a woman." ----Simone de Beauvior

11. "There is little testing of our integrity when nothing is lost." ---Vaughn J. Featherstone

12. "As I stand aloof and look
there is to me something
profoundly affecting in large
Masses of men following
the lead of those who do
not believe in men."
------W. Whitman

13. "Forgivness means that your story changes so that you and not the grievances are in control."
----Dr. Fred Luskin