I know the saying is "A penny for your thoughts," but I'm in the mood to share more than a penny's worth of my thoughts, or even my two cents worth. I'm talking a whole dollar's worth of thoughts here. For those of you who have forgotten (or just ignored the penny's value), one hundred pennies equal a dollar. That's right, one hundred of my little penny thoughts are going here. Don't think I have that many? Just watch me.
1. Happiness doesn't depend on your surroundings or the people you're with. It depends on you. You make yourself happy. I mean, look at people who live in third world countries. They have maybe a tenth of what Americans have, and yet...they're some of the happiest people on this planet. Why? They know stuff doesn't bring true happiness. They can make themselves happy.
2. Have fun once in a while. Yeah, work is good and all, but you need to have fun in life. I mean, what's gonna happen otherwise? "All work and no play makes jack a dull boy." How do I know fun is important? Because it was one of the 8 needs on The Sims. And if fun was low, then your sims wouldn't do anything. So, even though lessons in video games dont' usually mix with real life, this one does. Fun is something everybody needs. Take a break from that paper. Take a break from reality. Even if it's just ten minutes, you'll feel better. Sure you could push through it and get done, but Mary Poppins said it best, "In every job that must be done there is an element of fun. You find the fun and snap! the job's a game. And every task you undertake, becomes a piece of cake." Give it a try, why don't you?
3. Your friends are your friends for a reason. They care about you. They wouldn't care if you suddenly revealed to them that you're a fairy or alien from another planet. And if they mind, they're not your true friends. To quote Dr. Seuss, "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
4. Take time for the people you care about. Sometimes, just spending a little time with someone is enough to remind them that you care about them. Besides, what if the last time you spend time with them is the last time you see them alive? Treat each time spent with the people you care about as if it might be.
5. Take friendships seriously. Seriously. Keep in mind your slightest actions, or even inactions, can affect others. Don't act as if another friend is going to come along like the next bus. People are not buses. They are unique and different, and may only cross your path once. Friends are once in a lifetime treasures that need to be cared for. Take care of your friends and they'll be there for you.
6. If someone does a favor to you, you had best return it. If you keep receiving favors and don't pay it back, it makes you seem like a jerk (which you are) and makes the other person seem like wuss (which may or may not be the case). Besides, you should want to return the favor, and sooner rather than later if you're honestly and truly their friend.
7. Don't send mixed signals. Don't have your actions and words contradict each other. Don't say what you mean, ACT what you mean. Actions speak louder than words. People will forget what you say, but they will never forget what you did.
8. Waiting for something will not kill you. Waiting is good for you actually. You learn paitience. And in today's society of instant gratification, a little patience is rapidly becoming rare. Of course, the reason people don't have paitence is because they're selfish and lazy. Which leads me to
9. you are NOT the center of the earth. You are on the earth which is orbiting around the sun, which is orbiting in a galaxy which is orbiting around a supermassive black hole which in turn is orbiting around something else probably. Translation, the universe doesn't bow to your every whim. and if you expect it to...i laugh at you.
10. People will always be more important than any task at hand. Give your time to the people you love.
11. Work is good. people should work hard. But you need to take time to make some memories. I mean, do you want to look back on your life and say, "Man, that was so boring/ that sucked." Quite frankly, how good your life is gonna be is up to you.
12. Plato was right. "Be kind, for everyone you meet is going through a battle." Everyone is having their own problems. But people are very good at hiding these problems, and probably won't make it known. So be sensetive to others, because they're fighting their own personal battles just like you.
13. When you're driving, use your turn signals. I can't read your mind, you're protected by a steel cage padded with leather and foam. Also, don't assume everyone else is in your way to your destination.
14. Stop and smell the roses. No, really, take some time off from the hectic go-go-go attitude of life. appreciate the small moments.
15. You don't find memories, you
make them. So be willing to drop everything and play with your kids/friends. You'll be old and gray before you know it.
16. "I'll be happy when I'm married." "I'll be happy when i'm out of high school." "I'll be happy when i have a child." Quit waiting for happiness and go out and make it! You
can be happy
before and even
during these times. The longer you wait for happiness, the harder you have to search for it.
17. Drama is caused by miscommunication. Communicate, and don't let something as petty as, say, laundry or a boy, ruin a perfectly good friends.
18. Shut up and listen. Seriously, shut up. Close your mouth, turn off the t.v., cell-phone, whatever could distraction and open your ears. Watch the person for verbal cues and then when they're finished, and only then, should you talk.
19. Don't offer advice unless people specifically ask for it. Kinda being hypocritical here, but these are pieces of my mind. So technically it's not my advice.
20. Don't be hypocritical. If you are something, act like it. If you're not something, don't start acting like one. Basically don't confuse people.
21. Stand up for what you believe in. "Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything." Even if it's among your own friends, do it. "It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to our enemies. But a great deal more to stand up to our friends."
22. Your parents know a lot more than you give them credit for. So when they're telling you something, listen to them. They're just trying to protect you.
23. Boys, there are PLENTY of girls who are just waiting for a prince charming to show up. So get off your high horses and accept that all girls are beautiful and start sweeping us girls off our feet.
24. Girls, yes, boys are stupid a lot of the time. So don't expect a white knight to come one day and take you to his castle. instead, wait for the guy who awkwardly knocks at your door, hoping you'll still be as crazy about him twenty years from now as you are right then. See the boy you love as a prince, and you'll find true love.,
25. True love is not Romeo and Juliet love. That's called infatutaion. Everyone has their flaws. True love is putting someone's needs above your own, not killing yourself because your love just died. really, that just causes drama. And death.
26. Never plan anything too far in advance. You never know what's going to happen. Don't expect your life to go according to a plan. Murphy's law is just waiting to happen. What you should expect is that life will be sponteanous and crazy fun.
27. Don't assume your views are the only correct view on anything. People are entitled to their opionions, and it's rude to try and force people to believe what you believe.
28. If you don't help, you have no right to complain. This counts for food, elections and other projects.
29.I remember being young and all everyone wanted to be was grown up. Not me. I was happy being a kid. I had my whole life to be old. Why should I want to act like I was all grown up? Sure, i played House and I was the mommy...sometimes. But the point is, once everyone was all grown up, everyone wanted to be little kids again. Me? well, i still want to go back somedays, but i had a good childhood. I wouldn't trade it for anyone else's. I'm happy being where I am. I alwasy have been.
30. No matter how much you may hate it, exercise is good for you. Not just physically, but emotionally too.
31. never look a gift horse in the mouth.
32. Cartoons today suck (with a few exceptions). They rely on potty humor, crude humor, and just plain stupidity. I mean, its like only boys watch tv. Hey, I'm a girl and I like to watch tv just as much as boys do. That why i loved powerpuff girls growing up. it was a girls only show. The trouble is, i always got stuck with buttercup, the least favorite powerpuff girl. Now though, she's way cooler.
33. Avoid making other's suffer through your drama. the only way outsiders should be involved is to vent frustrations. Don't drag them into your drama with you. They hate it just as much as you do.
34. Girls, you are NOT fat. You are wonderful, and pretty and so talented. I'm sick of hearing perfectly good looking girls whine about how fat they are, as if that negates all other qualities about them and that's the only thing people see. if you don't want people to see that, show off your other qualities instead.
35. Everyone has good in them. Some people, it's very easy to see. Other people...well, you wonder sometimes. But there is good in everyone. You just have to look for it.
36. Read the directions. I mean, is this one REALLY that hard?
37. Be honest with people. Not brutally honest, but honest enough that they'll trust you to be so.
38. Be happy about who you are. Yeah, some days, "It sucks to be me." The thing is, you can handle those sucky days a lot better than someone else can.
39. Until you personally experience the pang of death, be kind to those who have lost loved ones. Some deaths are harder to get through than others. I say get through because you never get over losing someone so close to you. You just get through it. Some days will be better than others. Some days, people who have lost loved ones will be perfectly normal. Other days, all they want is a shoulder to cry on and listening ear. Be there for them in both times.
40. Harry Potter is better than Twilight. With HP, you can have a serious discussion about deep topics. With Twilight, you can only argue who's better: Jacob or Edward.
41. Hike a mountain. Any mountain will do. When you're at the top, look down at what you see. Be amazed at nature.
42. Go outside and enjoy a sunny day. Yeah, there's plenty like 'em. But today might be the day something special happens.
43. I know there's some dumb saying about 42 muscles to from but only 9 to smile or something like that. I'd like to say, laugh, and laugh often. it's good for you. Studies show people who laugh live longer. Why take life so seriously? No one gets out alive anyways. (that's a joke. Laugh!!)
44. Take the time to read a book. Not an e-book. A real, honest to goodness, paper book. Maybe even an old one, and enjoy that smell of old used book. New book it good too, but there's just something about old book...
45. Stop being so lazy. Go get a job or at least do something. Stop living off the hard work of other's people. your great-great grandfathers are rolling in their graves at your laziness. (This is directed at lazy people who don't want to get a job, not at you unfourtunate people who can't find a job.)
46. Only if you are a mom with kids should you do ANYTHING while sick. I don't care if it's school you're missing or work, STAY HOME! Keep your germs to yourself! Take care of yourself. let yourself rest. Don't make the rest of us share in your sickly misery.
47. Music is amazing, so listen to the good stuff. Not that rap crap. because you can shout and swear and complain about life without having to make it music.
48. Sleeping under the stars is good for you. It makes you realize how, in the scale of the universe, you're a speck of dust on a speck of dust floating through a bunch of dust. And yet, so much happens on this speck of dust.
49. Horton said it best, "I meant what I said and I said what i meant, an elephant's faithful, one hundred percet." And "A person's a person, no matter how small."
50. Annoying people of the world...go away. Seriously. No one likes you. Also, stupid people...just...don't.
51. You wanna know why everyone's all, "Don't do drugs?" because they wreak havoc on the inside of your body (and the outside too), and then you can't live without the crap because you're so addicted to it...I mean, really, do you want to get cancer, have hallucinations, get permanent brain damage, and make yourself dependent on something you honestly don't need?
52. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Why assume the worst when you can hope for the best?
53. Marriage is between a man and woman. That's how it's been for millenia, and that's what i stand by.
54. bad things happen to good people. This, however, is not without reason. All things shall work together for your good.
55. Can we all stop criticizing each other and start loving each other? I mean, would it kill us to be nice for once?
56. Sleep in once in a while. Sometimes, it's good to be lazy.
57. Whining about your life will not get you any sympathy. voicing legitimate concerns will.
58. Smile. Everyone else will too
59. Take pictures of the everyday little things. Because, more often than not, those are the big things that matter.
60. Write down the special/funny moments you have. if you don't, you forget them.
61. It's okay to be dumb crazy and to have fun with life.
62. You are never too "mature" for anything. If you say you are, you're just being as immature as a two year old.
63. Never say to me that I can't do something. I will go out of my way just to prove you wrong.
64. Stop worrying aobut what others are thinking about you. they're too worried thinking about what you think of them!
65. Listen to those rousing speeches in movies. They're meant to inspire.
66. if you want to go do something, then go do it! What's stopping you?!
67. It's okay to be in love with people that don't exist.
68. It's okay to play make-believe once in a while. You did it for you whole childhood. it's a part of who you are.
69. it's okay to believe in fairies, dragons, unicorns, santa, and any other mythical beings. Belief is good for the soul.
70. There are good people still in the world. Why don't you be one of them?
71. Certain foods have healing powers. You know what they are for you. eat them on your off days.
72. Sometimes, the smallest actions mean the most. Like calling someone, or just being willing to listen to their problems.
73. If you're smart, use your smarts for good. Don't go flaunting it off. That's annoying.
74. It's okay to start singing along with songs. I do it all the time.
75. Go watch a movie from your childhood. Enjoy the nostalgia. :)
76. Choose good friends who will support you no matter what.
77. Lfe is an adventure! Go live it.
78. your life is your own personal story, like a book. And you are the main character. So make decisions readers would be proud of.
79. "It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities." I have a feeling these next few are going to be famous quotes by people. After all, they said it better than i ever will.
80. "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
81. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." — Eleanor Roosevelt
82. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." — Abraham Lincoln
83. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."— Albert Einstein
84. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."— Oscar Wilde
85. "Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere." — Albert Einstein
86. "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
88. "Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."— G.K. Chesterton
89. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." — Anne Frank
90. "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right." — Henry Ford
91. "Life is to be enjoyed, not endured" — Gordon B. Hinckley
92. "You can either get through life by laughing or crying. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache." Marjorie Pay Hinckley
93. "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." — Albert Einstein
94. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."— Winston Churchill
95. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."— Mark Twain
96. "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."— J.K. Rowling
97. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
98. "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" — Audrey Hepburn
99. "Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda
100. If you have read all of these, I congratualate you. I also congratulate myself because I wasn't sure I had 100 little thoughts to write about. Granted, i cheated with the last 10 or so, but...I think those are quotes you need to remember. You now are one dollar richer. Go spend it wisely.
