Sunday, January 3, 2010

Renee's 2009 Personal Best Status Post and Quotes

1. God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.

2. Life may not lead you where you want, but have faith and you are exactly where you were meant to be.

3. Be strong in the Lord, never give up hope. Don't live life in fear, forgive and forget, but DON"T forget why your here. Words to live by!

4. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

5. Look back on the past and don't regret anything. Learn from your mistakes, those are what made you who you are today! :D

6. Happiness is not something we find, it's something we create.

7. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face....You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

8. It doesn't matter what you've heard, impossible is not a word. It's just a reason for someone not to try. Over come the odds, You don't have a chance, but that's what faith can do. When the world says you can't, it'll tell you that you can.

9. Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

10. Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

11.To achieve anything in life it requires faith, belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. If you believe then all dreams are possible.

12. It does not matter what anybody else thinks or does – it is what you do that matters.

13. Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

14. Life is too short to hold grudes against people. Let go of them and move on, say your sorrows and hold nothing. For bitterness and resentment will only cheat you out of enjoying the life that is truly meant for you.

15.We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

16.When one door closes, another one opens. But sometimes we are looking at the closed door and we do not see that another door has opened for us.

17. I can not predict the future, I can not change the past, I have the present moment and I must treat it as my last.

18. When you look in the mirror do you smile at what you see? If no, then you haven't seen the true beauty of God's creation. You are made perfectly and unique, so smile back and accept the beauty of who you are.

19. Patience is considered a virtue which implies self control and tolerance as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. It seems this concept should be easy, but yet at times I think the longer we wait for something the easier it becomes to be defeated with just giving in or giving up. Yet some of the most rewarding things come from those things we had to wait on or work harder for in life.

20. A good friend is someone who cares enough to go beyond the surface, who doesn't judge you, and loves you for who you are on the inside.

21. All glory to God for taking something that was broken, pieced it back together and made it into something beautiful.

22. I think there are times in our lives when we doubt or question if what we are doing is the right thing. Sometimes the truth is revealed to us in different ways, but at other times you may have to trust and have faith. There are always variables you can't see.

23. If you live or ponder on the past you will never know your full potential of all you can be. So live for today and dream for tomorrow and know that everyone has the power within them to change history or make a difference in the world.

24. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

25. If you have no fear and trust in God, then you have the confidence and faith to accomplish anything.

26. You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

27. Dreams are what makes us strive in life to do things that we never thought were possible.

28. God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, or sun without rain. But God did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears and a light for the way.

29. No one falls in love by choice, it is by chance. No one stays in love by chance, it is by work. And no one falls out of love by chance, it is by choice.

30. A true friend loves U for who U are, lifts U up when your down, shares your joys, and never leaves.

31. Have you ever been at the fork in the road of life and both roads have promise, but you aren't feeling led to go down either of them? I must continue to have patients and faith in God that he is working in ways that I can not see and that in time my answer will be revealed.