Bye Jem
Hi girls
I have to write an essay for extra credit (and for a cash prize
) only 300-400 words on a 'law of life' and explain it, give examples, tell why its important to me, and how the world can be a better place if people follow it. I have a few good quotes I like that I found, but I don't know which one to use and expand on
Anyone want to offer some advice?
Here's my choices so far: (and yes I can make it up myself but I like these and obviously I'll credit the source) The underlined is the main law I'd talk about (I need to cut down the long quotes though
just read the underlined
)
1) "Here's to the future.
The only limits are the limits of our imagination. Dream up the kind of world you want to live in, dream out loud, at high volume."
2)
“But in the end, you've got to become the change you want to see in the world.”
3) "At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in. Life is messy, that's how we're made.
So, you can waste your life drawing lines, or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross. Here's what I know: if you're willing to take the chance, the view from the other side is spectacular."
4) "At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle.
And its not so important that it's happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you, and once in a while people may even take your breath away."
5) "A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and
even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying."
6) "It's not a day on the calendar. Not a birthday, not a new year. It's an event, big or small, something that changes us. Ideally, it gives us hope. A new way of living and looking at the world. Letting go of old habits, old memories...
What's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning. But it's also important to remember that amid all the crap...are a few things worth holding on to."
and 2) its a LIFT 
at your fame in the paper 
rool : .... Next time i'm doing more than snogging in it :shifty :
But there *was* a lot of 
in the vid, which made me *very* happy 
