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pocketful of sunshine
“I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine.
I got a love, and I know that it's all mine.
The sun is on my side.
Take me for a ride.
I smile up to the sky.
I know I'll be all right.”
The name derives from Natasha Bedingfields song “Pocketful of Sunshine.”
I’m all about positivity and optimism.
  
I’m twenty and a sophomore in college. =]
I'm a warm person. I love happiness and laughter. I just love life in general.
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Keep calm and carry on

“He who angers you conquers you.”
- Elizabeth Kenny



Dory: You mean ... you mean you don't like me?

Marlin: No, of course I like you. It's because I like you I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.
-Finding Nemo




“If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.”


“When Something Bad Happens You Have Three Choices. You Can Either Let It Define You, Let It Destroy You, Or You Can Let It Strengthen You."


”

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.






I’m so tired of people needing a reason for doing everything in their lives.
 Do it because you want to.
Because it’s fun.
Because it makes you happy.




My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.
— Johnny Depp





Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion.
You must set yourself on fire.
- Arnold Glasow

"It's impossible" said pride.
"It's risky" said experience.
"It's pointless" said reason.
"Give it a try" whispered the heart.



Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein




There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kill.
- Buddha



"Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final"
— Rainer Maria Rilke




"Some people pass through our lives for a season to teach us lessons that could never be learned if they stayed."






“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
 – Roald Dahl




“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain. And most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
—Dale Carnegie




“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
- Kahlil Gibran


“My humanity is bound in yours, for we can only
be human together."



To win that wonder of the world,
A smile from her bright eyes,
I fought my King, and would have hurled
The gods out of their skies.





Sometimes it takes a good fall to know where you stand

.

Don’t let the past steal your present.
- Cherralea Morgen




It’s never too late to be who you might have been. - George Eliot




Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. - Kobi Yamada



"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." -Victoria Holt



"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." ~Gandhi




“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was,
the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
— Marcel Pagnol



There’s so much grace in acceptance.

It’s not an easy concept, but if you embrace it,

you’ll find more peace than
you’ve ever imagined.

- Loretta LaRoche



I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
- Ken Venturi



There’s no NEXT TIME,

it’s now or never.



You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. - Dr. Seuss



We go together like a mani and a pedi,
a latte and extra foam,
like a celebrity and rehab.




Stoop and you’ll be stepped on; stand tall and you’ll be shot at.
 - Carlos A. Urbizo




Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
- Henry Ward Beecher



The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elizabeth Foley



In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
 - Martin Luther King, Jr


My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur
when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled.
For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort,
that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start
searching for different ways or truer answers.
- M. Scott Peck

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Love me and I may be forced to love you.
- William Arthur Ward



Out of clutter, find simplicity.

From discord, find harmony.

In the middle of difficulty,
Lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

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ONE LOVE

I never had the courage to tell you this before, but everyday away from you makes me love you even more.

— HAROLD THURMAN WHITMAN

Happiness is not a destination. It is merely a method of traveling.

— BURTON HILLS

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. -John Lennon

“Stay up till four in the mornin’ and the tears are pourin’. And I want to make it worth the fight. What have we been doin’ for all this time? Baby if we’re gonna do it, come on do it right.”
- Gwen Stefani

All I can see is my future in your eyes

I’m gonna get to you…
you’re gonna give in to me.”



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Anyone still checking this site out?!

It's Been Awhile

"I'm in the war of my life, at the door of my life, got no choice but to fight til it's done."- John Mayer

You don’t need to change a thing about you babe, I’m telling you, from where I sit you’re one of a kind. Relationships I don’t know why they never work out and they make you cry, but the guy that says goodbye to you is out of his mind.

You are responsible forever for that which you have tamed.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine.

Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart

Take your time...don't live too fast, troubles will come and they will pass."

Your love's a gathered storm I chased across the sky.

1
It was one of the best days of my life,
a day during which I lived my life
and didn't think about my life at all.

2
And as we wind on down the road
our shadows taller than our soul
there walks a lady we all know
who shines white light and wants to show
how everything still turns to gold
and if you listen very hard
the tune will come to you at last
when all are one and one is all
to be a rock and not to roll.
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

3
All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutters
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
Rush - The Pass

4
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking.

5
they cant kill your dreams, so they assassinate your character.

6
I can't change the direction
of the wind, but I can adjust my
sails to always reach my destination.
- Jimmy Dean

7
People are particularly stupid today.
I can't talk to any more of them.
- Gilmore Girls

8
I know he'll break my heart.
I know I'll fall apart and
I know because this is how it starts.
Maybe it's wrong of me
to wish that we could be,
but your kiss matched mine
so perfectly.

9
"i wrote the story myself. it's about a girl
who lost her reputation and never missed it."
- Mae West

10
"failure is an event, not a person.
yesterday ended last night."
- Zig Ziglar

11
you want everything to be just like the
stories that you read but never write.

12
"i've been on a calender, but never on time."
- Marilyn Monroe

13
"we are here to laugh at the odds,
andlive our lives so well that
death will tremble to take us."
- Charles Bukowski

14
"the lower you fall, the higher you fly."
- Chuck Palahniuk

15
a stumble may prevent a fall.
++English proverb

16
"do not choose to be wrong
for the sake of being different."
- Herbert Louis Samuel

17
"don't try to be different. just be good.
to be good is different enough."
- Arthur Freed

18
"the weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. it works in reverse, too. when i see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, i know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
- PJ O'Rourke

19
"i am only one, but i am one. i cannot
do everything, but i can do something.
and i will not let what i cannot do
interfere with what i can do."
- Edward Everett Hale

20
if I should be bold, I’d ask you to hold
my heart in your hand.

21
The things I know, anyone can know – but my heart is mine and mine alone.
- Goethe
-

22
I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.
- Lauren Bacall

23
he's got brand new friends, I've got a few new songs but mostly new headaches and reasons not to call.

24
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
- Eminem

25
Love don't come so easily, this doesn't have to end in tragedy. I have you and you have me. We're one in a million, why can't you see?
Rooney - When Did Your Heart Go Missing?

26
God saw you gettin tired, and a cure was not to be. so he put his arms around you and said come with me. We all watched you slowly pass away, and there was nothing we could do to make you stay. A golden heart stopped working, And hard working hands at rest. God took you to prove to us, that he only takes the best.