“Rather, she was talking about self-knowledge, about an authentic belief system, an inner sense of oneself that can never be rocked. Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you the moment you come into a room, that can’t be manipulated or shaken. Without that sense of self, no amount of paper, no pedigree, an no credentials can make you legit. No matter what, you have to feel legit inside first.”
sometimes poetry is a stream other times it is an action there’s to the bold ones
“It’s not H-A-P-P-Y-N-E-S-S Happiness is spelled with an “I” instead of a “Y”
"Because when I was young and I'd get an A on a history test or whatever, I'd get this good feeling about all the things that I could be. And then I never became any of them."
“It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?”
“You’re just living for the weekend— I’m just dying for the week”
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
a man was in the water and he could not swim. a boat came along and the man asked, “get in. you will drown.” “no, jesus will save me.” so, the man rowed away. a bigger boat came along and said, “get it or u will drown.” “no, jesus will save me.” the man died and went to heaven. he asked jesus y didnt u save me? jesus said, “i sent two boats u big dummy.”
"How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?"
“We spend money that we do not have on things we do not need to impress people who do not care.”
“The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn’t good enough, would be stilled.”
When life gives you lemons, question lifes motives. Why lemons? Why now? What purpose do they serve? Is the purpose in the meaning inherent in the lemons?
