Organized Chaos

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I'm just way too in love with this. ♥

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I’ll take character over reputation… Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.  - AJ Perez

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I totally stole this quote off my friend Anita's Facebook page.  It just completely embodies what I think the whole point of it/this/life all is.. simply being a better you and through that, being a better daughter, sister, friend, wife, mother, etc. Ahh, good ol' Buddha. ♥

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

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Today's quote is actually courtesy of my dear friend Kimmie. 
Basically, I stole it from her blog. ;)

"If you want to be successful, be excellent.
If you want the best the world has to offer,
offer the world your best." -Oprah

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A quote from an odd and a-bit-out-there but quirky-funny movie that a friend of mine forced me to watch a few years ago and which I somehow found myself in love with for its sheer brilliance.

You don't appreciate the chaos and absurdity of life on this planet. You don't understand irony, or ethnicity, or eccentricity, or poetry, or the simple joy of being a regular at the diner on your block. I love that. You don't drink coffee or alcohol. You don't over eat. You don't cry when you're alone. You don't understand sarcasm. You plod through life in a neat, colorless, caffeine free, dairy free, conflict free way. I'm bold and angry and tortured and tremendous and I notice when someone has changed their hair part, or when someone is wearing two very distinctly different shades of black or when someone changes the natural temperment of their voice on the phone. I don't give out empty praise. I'm not complacent or well-adjusted. I can't spend fifteen minutes breathing and stretching and getting in touch with myself. I can't spend three minutes finishing an article. I check my answering machine nine times every day and I can't sleep at night because I feel that there is so much to do and fix and change in the world, and I wonder every day if I am making a difference and if I will ever express the greatness within me, or if I will remain forever paralyzed by muddled madness inside my head. I've wept on every birthday I've ever had because life is huge and fleeting and I hate certain people and certain shoes and I feel that life is terribly unfair and sometimes beautiful and wonderful and extraordinary but also numbing and horrifying and insurmountable and I hate myself a lot of the time. The rest of the time I adore myself and I adore my life in this city and in this world we live in. This huge and wondrous, bewildering, brilliant, horrible world.

-Jessica, from Kissing Jessica Stein

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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

-Pablo Picasso

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To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.

-Reba McEntire

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger- but recognize the opportunity.

-John F. Kennedy, Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959

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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

-Albert Einstein