THIS IS YOUR LIFE
DO WHAT YOU
LOVE,
AND DO IT OFTEN.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR
JOB, QUIT.
YOU DON'T LIKE SOMETHING,
CHANGE IT.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME,
STOP WATCHING TV.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE, STOP;
THEY WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU WHEN YOU
START DOING THE THINGS YOU LOVE
STOP OVER ANALYZING,
ALL
EMOTIONS ARE BEAUTIFUL
LIFE IS
SIMPLE. WHEN YOU EAT, APPERCIATE
EVERY
LAST BITE.
OPEN YOUR MIIND, ARMS, AND HEART TO NEW THINGS,
AND PEOPLE, WE ARE UNITED IN OUR DIFFERENCES.
ASK THE NEXT PERSON YOU SEE WHAT THEIR PASSION IS,
AND SHARE YOUR INSPIRING DREAM WITH THEM.
TRAVEL OFTEN;GETTING LOST
WILL
HELP
YOU FIND YOURSELF.
SOME OPPORTUNITIES ONLY COME ONCE, SEIZE THEM.
LIFE IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU MEET, AND
THE THINGS YOU CREATE WITH
THEM
SO GO OUT AND START CREATING.
LIFE IS
LIVE YOU DREAM
SHORT AND SHARE
YOUR
PASSION.
Walt
Disney
was fired by a newspaper editor
because "he lacked imagination and had no good
ideas." He went bankrupt several times before he built
Disneyland. In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the
city of Anaheim, California because it would only attract
"riffraff."
Thomas Edison
His teachers said that he was "too stupid to
learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs
for being "nonproductive." As an inventor, he made
1,000 unsuccessful attempts to invent the light bulb. When
someone asked him how it felt to fail 1,000 times he said
" I didn't fail all those times, the light bulb is
an invention with 1,000
steps."
Albert Einstein
He didn't speak until he
was 4 years old and did not read until he was 7. His parents
thought he was "subnormal" and one of his teachers
described him as "mentally slow, unsociable and adrift
forever in foolish dreams." He was expelled from
school.
The Beatles
Decca Records turned down a recording contract
with The Beatles with an evaluation saying "We don't
like their sound. Guitar Groups are on their way
out."
A person
personally auditioned as a singer by the name of Reg Dwight in the 1960's. The person
who ran the auditions shoved the singer out
of his office for wasting his time. That singer is now better
known as
Elton John
Imagine if these people had given up, thinking they
were failures and would never achieve success. Do you think
they ever felt down and depressed? Sure. But they didn't
allow that gloomy state to overtake them, to overpower their
desire to succeed. In every case they did succeed-in a
huge way, far greater than their wildest dreams.
Bad experiences can be viewed as positive. They can be
stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks. It's
your choice. But be determined to
NEVER GIVE
UP
nmq/nmf/ Andrew
Lock the costco
connection
Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn’t look safe; he looked poor and hungry. He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He knew how she felt. It was those chills which only fear can put in you. He said, “I’m here to help you, ma’am. Why don’t you wait in the car where it’s warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson.”
Well, all she had was a flat
tire, but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Bryan crawled
under the car looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his
knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the tire.
But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt.
As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the
window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from
St. Louis and was only just passing through. She couldn’t
thank him enough for coming to her aid.
Bryan just smiled as he closed
her trunk. The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount
would have been all right with her. She already imagined all
the awful things that could have happened had he not stopped.
Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job
to him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there
were plenty, who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived
his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act
any other way.
He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next
time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that
person the assistance they needed, and Bryan added, “And
think of me.”
He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been
a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for
home, disappearing into the twilight.
A few miles down the road the lady saw a small cafe. She went in to grab a bite to eat, and take the chill off before she made the last leg of her trip home. It was a dingy looking restaurant. Outside were two old gas pumps. The whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The waitress came over and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. She had a sweet smile, one that even being on her feet for the whole day couldn’t erase. The lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant, but she never let the strain and aches change her attitude. The old lady wondered how someone who had so little could be so giving to a stranger. Then she remembered Bryan.
After the lady finished her meal, she paid with a hundred dollar bill. The waitress quickly went to get change for her hundred dollar bill, but the old lady had slipped right out the door. She was gone by the time the waitress came back. The waitress wondered where the lady could be. Then she noticed something written on the napkin.
There were tears in her eyes when
she read what the lady wrote: “You don’t owe me
anything. I have been there too. Somebody once helped me out,
the way I’m helping you. If you really want to pay me
back, here is what you do: Do not let this chain of love end
with you.”
Under the napkin were four more $100 bills.
Well, there were tables to clear,
sugar bowls to fill, and people to serve, but the waitress made
it through another day. That night when she got home from work
and climbed into bed, she was thinking about the money and what
the lady had written. How could the lady have known how much
she and her husband needed it? With the baby due next month, it
was going to be hard….
She knew how worried her husband was, and as he lay sleeping
next to her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and
low, “Everything’s going to be all right. I love
you, Bryan Anderson.”
There is an old saying “What goes around comes around.”
Life is a gift
–
Live it, Enjoy it, Celebrate it, and Fulfill it.
.
i want a
guy
who calls you
beautiful
instead of
hot,
who calls you
back
when you
hang
up on
him
who
will stay
awake
just to
watch you sleep
The boy who
kisses your
forehead
who wants to show you
off to the world
who
thinks
your pretty without
makeup
on. The one who
is
constantly reminding
you of
how much
he cares about you
and
how lucky he is
to have
you.