More quotes to think on

I love Children's books. I think they are full of wisdom. (I want a tattoo connected to "where the wild things are" but I am not entirely sure I will still want it when I'm 50 so I'm holding off for now.)  I believe that things said to children are usually way more insightful than anything that's ever said to adults. 

 

Observe:

 

 

Charles Schulz 

 “I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.”

“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”           

 “I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.”

 “I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.”

 "In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back."

 “To live is to dance, to dance is to live.”

 “That's the secret to life . . . replace one worry with another.”

 “Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves and then we have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.”

 

Dr Suess

 “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

 “Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

 “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”           

 “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”           

 “You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?”

 "Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you."

 Walt Disney:

 “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”

 “It's kind of fun to do the impossible..”

 “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. “

 Murice Sendak: (Author of “Where the Wild Things are”)

 “There must be more to life than having everything”

 “It is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.”

 “As it turns out sometimes the so-called "right way" is utterly the wrong way. What a monstrous confusion.”

 

 

A. A. Milne (Author of Winnie the Pooh)

 

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

 

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.”

 

“I used to believe in forever, but forever is too good to be true.”

 

“Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.”

I have never read a book by Charles de Lint . . .

 . . . But I still think the man is a genius.

(Read the following quotes and you'll agree with me)

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.  

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.  

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? 

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live? 

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun. 

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. 

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. 

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. 

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. 

The best artists know what to leave out. 

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. 

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. 

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. 

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. 

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it. 

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of. 

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? 

I love to draw (or paint, or colour, or cut things out of paper, or anything in that general genre) It makes me happy.

 

I like to draw people most of all. I think my sister is the prettiest person I know, she's the focus of a lot of my drawings. She has all the right angles and makes the best facial expressions. She also takes more photos of herself then anyone I know. Which means even when we're both at school I have plenty of points of reference. 


I draw my friends too. I drew this of my first serious boyfriend back when he was still my boyfriend. (it's kind of strange looking but it was based off a kind of strange photo of him) He was all musically gifted and wrote me a song. I am definitely NOT musically gifted. So I can't write people songs, but I can draw. 
 

I made this one for a friend. It's currently hanging up in his apartment. I love making things for my friends but I feel like it's pretentious to just do it, like saying "oh my art is so lovely. Don't you want some?." So it makes me feel good when they ask me to make them something.  

I love ballet. My whole life I have always loved it. I used to take ballet but quit a couple years ago because I didn't have time. I was horrible at it. I am a little too tall and not anywhere near as graceful or coordinated as a ballet dancer should be. I pretty much m as far from a ballerina as you can get. So i can't do ballet (and am a wee bit bitter towards anyone who can do ballet) So I get my ballet fix by painting them instead. 

update

It's been a while since I've written here.

My family moved back to Pennsylvania after living for the past 5 years in Mississippi. It's interesting being back. 

 As much as I have mixed feelings on my college, I am glad I picked a college that is bringing me back to the south in the fall. Even though I will still be coming here to go to school it's weird to think I've left  Canton and will no longer have a house in Mississippi. It's weird to think that I won't be spending christmas break hanging out at Cyprus swamp.

I seriously love Mississippi

I love your overly cheerful women and and the fact that complete strangers strike up conversation with you. I love that you have 5,000 stores that sell monogrammed paper napkins, I find your obsession with beauty pageants to be kind of strange, 

I love the way your people pronounce my name Ay-uh-lin and call everyone baby.

I love that I can wear t-shirts in December. 

I love how you divide everyone in to two groups: State fans and Ole Miss fans and how one of the first questions anyone asks when they meet you is "where do you go to church?"

I love Liberty park, the Madison Wal-Mart, the MJCT, Actors Playhouse, the Canton Square, Cyprus swamp, Cups, Keifers, Malco theatre, and Heroes and Dreams. 

I love that people have FINALLY stopped calling me a "damn yankee" 

I love the sense of pride people from Mississippi have about their state and how people who have lived here their whole lives don't realize how nice it is. 

I love that Piggly Wiggly is a real grocery store and that cotton actually grows on plants.

I LOVE Sonic (Seriously, if we don't get one those in Mercersburg one day I don't know how I'll survive)

I love your obsession with show choir

I love how everyone in this state is completely insane and there aren't people like them anywhere else (In good, and bad ways) 

I love your over the top fashion

I love how crawfish are something amazing you eat and not something you just catch in the river at summer camp. 

I love all the people here who have changed my life. 

I love how even though you are ranked so low in everything as a state you still have so many wonderful qualities and you are one of my favourite states. 

I love that no matter how long this note is I will never be able to say what living in Mississippi and knowing the people here has meant to me over the past 5 years. 

So much has changed in the past 365 days it's insane. To all my Mississippi friends, my life would suck without you. 

It's just really lonely here.

Congratulations Andrew

And the rest of the class of 2010