"Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it." - Joyce Meyer

"When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen." - Harley Davidson

"I believe that when you realize who you really are, you understand that nothing can stop you from becoming that person." - Christine Lincoln

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas Alva Edison

"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." - J.K. Rowling

Quote from: LizMarie on December 05, 2014, 10:02:54 AM
"When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen." - Harley Davidson

I think this is really pertinent. Too often have transgender stories been told when the person holding the pen doesn't really understand.

My thought for today;

Never think you know how things will turn out, you may be pleasantly surprised.

Oh, and an extra thought is;

The best friends you have may be miles away, that doesn't make them any less best.

Two thoughts from one of the kings of horror. The second for me right now is the most powerful

"The scariest moment is always just before you start" - Stephen King

"You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will" - Stephen King

I started on the Atkins low carb diet yesterday. It's going pretty good but It's not safe to even look at a loaf of bread or a twinkie or even think about a cheeseburger. For me brussels sprouts, carrots, cheese, almond unsweetened milk (yuck), eggs, turkey bacon.........

It's sure safer than liposuction I know, so many I can knock off 20 pounds.

"It doesn't really matter who you used to be. What matters is who you've become." - Robert Tew

"Let go of all that keeps you from living now." - Anon

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear." - Jack Canfield

"Decide. Commit. Succeed." - Tony Horton

"Keep it simple. Keep it honest. Keep it real." - Anon

Today was a nice day. I boiled some shrimp & they were delicious. It is so hard finding foods that are approved by the low carb Atkins diet. All my girl friends are so supportive my diet efforts & enjoying being my close friend as I become one of them, a very nice attractive sexy woman.

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford

"Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow." - Anon

"Never let your fear decide your fate." - AwolNation (lyrics for "Kill Your Heroes")

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh

"Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost." ― Kellie Elmore

I used to be BIG into basketball and took many good things from it...

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan

"Courage is living by the free will that one creates for themselves, not the life of monotony determined by another." ― Michelle Cruz-Rosado

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." - Oprah Winfrey

"You need to understand that life isn't what you're given, it's what you create, what you conquer and what you aim to achieve." - Anon

"Once you become fearless.....Life becomes limitless." - Anon

"Doubt can only be removed by action." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Progress is impossible without change." - George Bernard Shaw

"It's your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you." - Sushan R Sharma

"Others may give up on you, but the most important thing is to never give up on yourself." - Anon

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." - Victor Hugo

"The dream is free but the hustle is sold separately." - Anon

"I'm on the hunt for who I've not yet become." - Sara Bareilles

"Whatever you believe about yourself on the inside is what you will manifest on the outside." - Anon

"There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela

"Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will." - Anon

"The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning

"There is something beautiful about having the chance to rewrite your future." - Anon

"Do not wait until conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect." - Alan Cohen

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The secret to change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new." - Socrates

"You can't start the next chapter if you keep re-reading the last one." - Anon

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." – Will Rogers

"If you're still looking for that one person that can change your life, just take a look in the mirror and that person will be looking back at you." - Anon

"Forget it enough to get over it, remember it enough so it doesn't happen again." - Anon

"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castenada

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. - Mark Twain

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough - Mae West

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all -Oscar Wilde

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life - John Lennon

"Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself." - Anon

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want." - Kevin Ngo

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible." - Christopher Reeve

"In the waves of change we find our true direction." - Anon

I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt nothing and succeed. -paraphrased from Dr. Robert Schuller

"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it." - Anon

"Sometimes things take time. Be positive, stay patient, and things will get better." - Anon

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." - Yoda

"Often when you think you are at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else." - Fred Rogers

"Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you." - Anon

"It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves." - Edmund Hillary

"Waking up to who tyou are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be." - Alan Watts

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." - George Bernard Shaw

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." - Paul Coelho

"You choose the way you see yourself. Don't let others do the casting." - Anon

"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old." - Peter F. Drucker

"Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations." - Ralph Charell

"At times when it seems like your life is not going the way you anticipated, it may just be that things are actually falling into place and you can't quite see the big picture... yet!" - Sherri Bishop

"Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again." - Anon

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." - Confucius

"When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over." ― Tony McCollum