Quotes, Abcesses, Birthday's & Overall Joy!

Any of you who know me, know that I love quotes. I used to do a quote of the day on here, but today, I'd just like to share a few that I've gotten recently from beliefnet.com and get your opinions. Hope you enjoy them!

If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
-William Allen White

Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing.
-Michael Iapoce

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
-Deepak Chopra

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
-Alexander Woollcott

A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn.
-Unknown

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-Mark Twain

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
-Ruth E. Renkel

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
-Aiden Nowlan

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.
-Richard Nelson

Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past.
-Landrum Bolling

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
-Chinese Proverb

You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take.
-Wayne Gretzky

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
-Robert Brault

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
-Morris West

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
-Nicholas Murray Butler

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-Edith Wharton

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
-Naomi Judd

...There are only so many tomorrows.
-Michael Landon

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
-Bob Newhart

The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
-Martha Washington

"If you dont like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't Complain"
~ Maya Angelou

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Today is the Tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
-Unknown

"Miracles happen everday, regardless of past circumstances or expected outcomes."
-Sarah Liz D.

So, each of these is inpsirational to me, and my favorites are highlighted in bold!

I finally figured out what was wrong with my abcesses in my throat. It's basically constant strep throat, but instead of turning into actual strep throat, the bacteria just accumulates into little puss filled absecces within my throat. I know, gross, but true, and also VERY painful. I have about four of them right now, so I'm sitting here writing trying to keep my mind off the pain. It's mind over matter, Sarah, mind over matter! At least I'll keep telling myself that. LOL! I AM HEALTHY. I AM NOT IN PAIN! Anyway, I've had these abcesses for years, and it has to do with my salvatory glands and all those other throat glands that I can't pronounce. But, I have a Dr's appointment tomorrow morning @ 8:45am to check up on it, so we'll get it figured out. I've basically been sick, in one or another, for six months now. It'll be six months on Thursday, the 25th. I got sick, originally thought to be my gullbladder, back when I got my car on February 25, 2005....it's almost August 25, 2005, six months later and I've been sick ever since; whether it's my stomach, nausea, heartburn, sore throats, abcesses, pneumonia, etc...I have had ENOUGH! I know I still have it better than MOST people and I know I'm NOT dying, but geeze, I just wnat to feel better. Actually, aside from the pain of the abcesses, today I felt GREAT! And I looked pretty too. I put on a big frilly pink n' poofy skirt that my grama E. made me and a black tank top. I hardly ever wear black, I just don't like it as a color, I think it's dark and void of all light and positivity, but today, it just went with the skirt; my toenails are painted hot pink and I put on some makeup-I felt pretty and feminine, like a girly-girl, which I am!

Anyway, I talked to Grama today and my sisters as well, Jordan left a message on my phone saying "this is your sister, Jordan, call me back as soon as you possibly can. I love you." I saved it, what a lovely thing. That girl is my clone and my joy in life, I love KLC and Joley too, they're all my babies and the joys in my life! On the bad days, the really sick days, they make it worth living!

So, anyway, let me post some of what I posted on the TY Board.....

"Today is the Tomorrow you worried about yesterday".

FROM MY MOM:
The motto around my house growing up was "Always be loyal and fair and live by the Golden Rule." It's amazing how many people do NOT know what loyalty and or fairness is, and these words still ring true for me today.

Always follow your heart, NEVER FEEL GUILTY, enjoy life and LIVE IN THE MOMENT.

A lot of my positivity I get from my mother!

There's always someone out there who has it worse than you, and you are no better than anyone else.

FROM MY GRANDMA E.:
Always remember, you are what you think.

I AM THAT I AM, and don't let the demons get you.

Paitence pays off and nothing is EVER out of perfection.

First and foremost, Sarah, you are a child of God and you are an extension of His Light, someday mom and I won't be here, but God is always there and always listening.

FROM MY DAD:
"Always be grateful for the things you don't want and don't have, instead of the things you want, but don't have."

I'm blessed, I have a lot of wonderful family and friends in my life who are always there for me with tons of great advice, but more than that, lots of love, encouragement and more love!

REGRETS:
I don't really like to say "I have regrets," because I truly believe everything happens for a reason; however, that being said.....

I wish that I had not spent January 1994-February 2005 being ANGRY.

I was extremely angry for over 11 years; angry & jealous, consumed with what OTHERS had done to me, while never really taking responsiblity for my part in whatever had had happened. During that time I was 10-21 years old and I think that a lot of those years could've been (and were) some of the best times of my life if I had just learned to let things go, and not spend so much damn time being angry and jealous....I had every right to be angry for various things at certain times; my parents divorced during that time, I had five surgeries, moved 4x's and switched schools 3x's; however, I spent the entire decade or so being angry and mad continuously-never letting things go and always living in the past. I just let the anger grow and fester, and I really believe it's why I got so sick earlier this year with my gullbladder, kidneys, etc....I think it was my emotions catching up with me and I'm so blessed it was nothing worse.

Today, I try my best to live in the moment and I know that God has me exactly where He wants me and He knows the plan. I don't have to be angry anymore b/c I know God will take care of things. I am still affected by my parents' divorce, but, I'm not alone and I'm alive and breathing. In the stream of things, that's all that counts!I'm happier than I've ever been and though I don't know it all yet (who ever does), I am content with my life, the people in it and the mistakes I've made and learned from!


Before I forget, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIZ, my dear friend who lives over in India.....

We became friends online over two years ago and today, or tomorrow rather, on August 23rd, she turns 27. It's already the 23rd over there in India, so I sent her an e-card and she alreayd got it, I'm so glad! My friend Karen had a good birthday too, so that was nice to hear, talked to her today as well. I have so many wonderful people and family and freinds in my life! :) I'm SO blessed, I have a great support group! I'm a lucky girl! I love them all you know, each and every one of them! Anyway, Liz's birthday is tomorrow the 23rd, and Aspen Towell is 4 months old, she was born last April 23rd, what a precious little baby girl she is. AND....four months for tomorrow, in December, I'll be 22. Whoa! That's a novel concept! I ALWAYS pictured getting to and turning 21 and like 28 and 30, but I never actually thought about 22. Weird for me. In numerology, 22 is a HIGHLY spiritual number, so maybe I'll have some HUGE spiritual awakening at 22, but I'm no hurry. Even though I've been sick a lot this year, 21 is the BEST! It's the BEST age EVER!!! I've had SO much fun, learned a heck of a lot and grown with God and family! Coudln't ask for more than that. Well, it's time to go, I gotta rest now, I'll write again soon!

Many Blessings,
-SL