So school has been more busier than usual and I'm trying to get through one day at a time. Learn so much, and my professor said OB/Labor&Delivery/Postpartum is one of the happiest floors to be on. I can definitely see that where patients are usually healthier and it's a more positive experience. I also think music majors would probably make super Obstetric nurses... Since I know many if not all have trained their ears to hear different off keys in music, they can definitely use that sense of hearing to differentiate between the accelerations and decelerations of the fetal heart monitor machine.

Anywho, here are some quotes that helped me got by ~ (posted on my facebook hehe)

May the bird of my love
escape from the cage
of personal limitations
and fly
singing the song of the Spirit
through all hearts and minds.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the memories, but find yourself moving on . . .

Don't let someone's opinion change you into someone you're not.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. - Robert H. Schuller

Your darkest moments only last as long as you allow them to. Just learn from the past and welcome the new dawn.

There are victories of the soul and spirit, even if you lose, you win. -Elie Wiesel

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Never forget the people who have believed in you.

Be better than you were yesterday.

三人行，必有我師焉：擇其善者而從之，其不善者而改之。― Confucius
When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.

There are people so poor, that the only thing they have is money.

熟能生巧 [shú néng shēng qiǎo] (Chinese idiom)
Literally: "with familiarity you learn the trick"
/ "practice makes perfect"

*****
Chen Yaozi (陈尧咨) lived during the Song Dynasty (宋朝) and was a famous archer. Because he was such an excellent s...hot, he became a bit cocky about his skill.

One day, Chen Yaozi demonstrated his archery skills to a large group of people. Everyone was awed that his shooting was accurate, that is all but one man.

Chen Yaozi took notice of this old man's indifference. "Hey, are you an archer? Can you do better than me?"

The old man shrugged off his scolding. "Well, you are really good at what you do. So what? It is only a matter of practice."

"How dare you insult me! What skill do you have, old man?" asked Chen with resentment.

So, the old man got a gourd which contained oil, a coin with a hole in the center, and a ladle. He put the coin over the mouth of the gourd, and poured oil from the ladle through the hole in the coin. Not even one drop of oil touched the coin!

Everyone was just as amazed at the old man's skill as they were with Chen's. "This really isn't anything special, I’ve just been at it for a long time" replied the old man.

Chen conceded that the man had a point and was afterwards more humble.

From this story, the phrase 熟能生巧 arose. It means with time, a skill can be mastered with after plenty of effort.

(Idiom story translated by Dave/landawei/mychinaconnection)

She took the leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.

Love others and have love for yourself, then celebrate all the possibilities that the future may hold for you. - Brad Nickason

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

There is no Love greater than Love with no object.
For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.(Rumi)

"When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible."

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.” – Proust

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.— Siddhārtha Gautama

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle

Believe you can and you are halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt.

Bitterness or Betterness your Choice.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. - Lao Tzu

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller

That's all for now ~ :) Happy Sunday ~

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I first began to blog in high school, and I was a lot more introverted at the time. It was one of my outlets where I was able to share my life with people around the world. I was accepted and made wonderful friends (some who came and go but definitely left lasting footprints in my heart). My thoughts were all over the place. As I kept blogging my style changed. When I went to revisit some of the blogs, it made my eyes turn because I couldn't believe I was so different from when I first began. I am able to better process and organize my thoughts since I'm use to seeing them all written down.

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