I am A Grate Speller

1. Approve of yourself.

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”

2. Your limitations may just be in your mind.

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

3. Lighten up and have some fun.

“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.”

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

4. Let go of anger.

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to

anything on which it is poured.”

5. Release yourself from entitlement.

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was

here first.”

6. If you’re taking a different path, prepare for reactions.

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

7. Keep your focus steadily on what you want.

“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way

you can manage it.”

8. Don’t focus so much on making yourself feel good.

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

9. Do what you want to do.

1.Go on a search for as many good climbing trees as possible, climb as high as you both can in all of them, compile photo evidence

2.Go to a major chain bookstore, and leave notes to future readers in copies of your favorite books

3.Have her dress up as a ghost and you dress uup us Pacman. Walk around downtown holding hands, and whenever anyone sees you two, pretend to be embarrassed, and run off screaming “wocka  wocka wocka.”

4.Create photo evidence suggesting that you went on an adventure that didn’t really happen

5.Dress up as superherous and stop at least one petty crime “ie. jaywalking, littering….”

6.Build forts out of furniture and blankets, and wage war with paper airplanes.

7.Try and visit as many people as you can in one night, and turn as many things inside their apartment upside down as you can, without them noticing.

8.Go to the airport, get the cheapest, soonest departing flight to anywhere when you show up, and stay there for a weekend.

9.Write a piece of fiction together. Outside at a cafe. Ask strangers when you get stuck.

10.Dress to the nines, pretend to be married, and test drive very expensive vehicles at an auto dealership.

11.Do the lamest tourist thing in your area that you have both secretly wanted to do forever. Have an unabashed good time!

12.In the middle of the night, drive to the beach, so you arrive just as the sun is rising. Have a breakfast picnic, then fall asleep together. Bring a sun umbrella.

13.Drive somewhere unknown and have dinner in a city you’ve never been to. With fake names.

14.Go to a minor league baseball game under the stars. Tell each other stories about how bad you are at athletics. Randomly cheer for both teams. Eat lots of Cracker Jacks.

15.Go around the city with sidewalk chalk and draw hearts with equations inside on random things

16.Walk around a city and perform short silent plays in front of security cameras

17.With camera and pair of boots, make photolog of a day in the life of the invisible man.

18.Walk around the city all night and find a place to eat breakfast at dawn

19.Go to a restraunt and convince the cook to create something completely new for you.

20.Rent a movie you’ve never seen before. Set on mute and improvise dialogue.

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in
front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large
empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, rocks
about 2″ in diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them
into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course,
rolled into the open areas between the rocks.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The students laughed. The professor picked up a box of sand and
poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

“Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this is
your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your
partner, your health, your children - anything that is so important
to you that if it were lost, you would be nearly destroyed.

“The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your
house, your car.

“The sand is everything else. The small stuff.

“If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the
pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend
all your energy and time on the small stuff, you will never have
room for the things that are important to you.

“Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your
partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean
the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.

“Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. Set
your priorities. The rest is just sand.”

I’ve learned that no matter how thin you slice it, there’s always two sides. I’ve learned that it’s taking me a long time to become the person I want to be. I’ve learned that it’s a lot easier to react than it is to stop and think. I’ve learned that you either control your attitude or it controls you. I’ve learned that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had, and what you’ve learned from them, than how many birthdays you’ve celebrated. I’ve learned that quantity is more important than quality when it comes to friends. I’ve learned that it isn’t enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you just have to learn how to forgive yourself. I’ve learned that no matter how badly your heart is broken, the world won’t stop for you. I’ve learned that backgrounds and circumstances might have influenced who you are, but we are responsible for the people we become. I’ve learned that you can’t make somebody love you, all you can do is be somebody who can be loved. I’ve learned that the word ‘love’ has many meanings, but it loses value when over-used and most importantly, I’ve learned that no matter how old or wise you think you are, life never stops teaching.

i think little kids are the smartest people in the world. i’m not kidding. they have no inhibitions, no fear of saying the wrong thing, nothing. they’ll tell you the truth, straight up, everytime. they have the best imaginations. when we group, we lose these things, and we turn into boring, self-centered, untruthful people and try to be just like everyone else.

look at this superrr cute thing i found. XD

what is love?

“When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over
and paint her toenails anymore.

So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when
his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.”

Rebecca- age 8

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
Billy - age 4

“Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on
shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.”

Karl - age 5

“Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of
your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.”

Chrissy - age 6

“Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.”

Terri - age 4

“Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she
takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.”

Danny - age 7

“Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired
of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.
My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they
kiss”

Emily - age 8

“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you
stop opening presents and listen.”

Bobby - age 7

“If you want to learn to love better, you should start with
a friend who you hate.”

Nikka - age 6

“Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he
wears it everyday.”

Noelle - age 7

“During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared.
I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.
He was the only one doing that. I wasn’t scared anymore.”

Cindy - age 8

“My mommy loves me more than anybody .
You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.”

Clare - age 6

“Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.”

Elaine-age 5

“Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still
says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.”

Chris - age 7

“Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left
him alone all day.”

Mary Ann - age 4

“I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all
her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.”

Lauren - age 4

“When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and
little stars come out of you.”

Karen - age 7

“Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn’t
think it’s gross.”

Mark - age 6

“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it.
But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.”

Jessica - age 8

There are just certain things in my life that are better off unknown; things i wish i never asked,never saw, never heard or never even felt. =|

Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point- that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you.There is only one alternative-self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believed you are loved. You will always think its a mistake or luck.Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.
-Jennifer James

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oh i love this one. Its simply true! :/

Cats and rabbits
would reside in fancy little houses
and be dressed in shoes and hats and trousers
in a world of my own

All the flowers
would have very extra special powers
they would sit and talk to me for hours
when i’m lonely in a world of my own

There would be new birds
lots of nice and friendly and howdy-do birds
Everyone would have a dozen bluebirds
within a world of my own

I could listen to a babbling brook
and hear a song that i understand
I keep wishing it could be that way
because my world would be a wonderland.


Alice in Wonderland-In a world of my own

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited. - Sylvia Plath

I can relate to that so much, it’s amazing.

Have you ever felt like that ? That you want it all?