advice

we are obviously here to teach each other something....here is a little bit of what i have learned from the people i love:

• LOVE. don't forget to show those who deserve it that you mean it; every single day. show it to everyone you can, every day. we all need to be loved, dang it.
  
• Laugh your head off all the freaking time. life is too funny not to.
• "live your life so that people who know you, but don't know Him, will want to know Him because they know you."
• prioritize.
• enjoy the journey. you will miss it later regardless of what it's like along the way.
• "you never need to feel intimidated...we all use the toilet the same way!"
• "you can't have confidence/patience/charity until you practice confidence/patience/charity so much that they become a part of you. at first it will feel awkward and difficult. but if you are persistent, those attributes develop. it's like grafting branches onto an olive tree. at first the tress is like "wtf?! those aren't mine..." then after awhile it's like 'yeah, i dig these branches.' but unless you really want it, you won't get it."
• "if you love something, let it go. if it comes back to you it is yours. if it doesn't, it never was."
• "if you have an itch, scratch."
• "hearts ache that love may be love"
• some pursue happiness; others create it."
  

more to come...i'm tired. :)