Lisa M Brister

Love what you do and do what you love.

 

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein

 

Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn. -Ralph Banks

 

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

 

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - E.E. Cummings

 

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

 

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs

 

Imagination is necessary for survival.

 

Take what lessons life has taught you and run with it, never fear what can be only what could have been. - Michael Jordan, Jr

 

Ama me fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota. ("Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away.") - Carmina Burana

 

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

 

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. - Cynthia Nelms

 

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I wanna live life and never be cruel.

 

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time…The youth gazed with great delight upon the beautiful face until he caught the maiden’s eye…The mysterious communication that is established across a house between two entire strangers, by this means moves all the springs of wonder. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard

 

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill

 

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. - Helen Keller

 

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown

 

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln

 

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

 

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.

 

When someone asks you "if you're a god?" you say, "Yes!"

 

We must remember there are many more important things, many more important things . . . off hand, I can't think of what they are, but I'm sure there must be something.

There are two ways to live your life.
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One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)