Quotes :)

Here are my quotes!

a lot where in the other post...but that's ok :)

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting” ~E. Cummings

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~E Cummings

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

“You were born an original. Don't die a copy.” ~John Mason

“Sorry I actually eat unlike some people...Sorry I can be myself around guys unlike some people... Sorry I like to have fun and I don’t care what people think about me... Sorry I am me!” ~ totally unknown…but my goodness I could have written this J

“I’m not a perfect girl. My hair doesn't always stay in place and I spill a lot of things. I’m pretty clumsy & sometimes I have a broken heart </3 my friends & I sometimes fight and maybe some days nothing goes right. But when I think about it and I take a step back. I remember how amazing my life truly is and that maybe, just maybe - I like being imperfect.” ~once again unknown, but I still love it

“Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”  ~Les Brown

“You can make whatever you want out of YOUR life, but first you have to not be afraid to try.”

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”  ~J.M. Power

“God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.”  ~Author Unknown

“Excellence is not a skill.  It is an attitude.”  ~Ralph Marston

“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”
~Dr. Seuss

“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”  ~Author Unknown

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there”
- Will Rogers

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss (I Can Read with My Eyes Shut)

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
— Dr. Seuss (oh my goodness I love this quote so much J)

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
— Dr. Seuss

"You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!"
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

"I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone."
— Dr. Seuss

"You'll be on your way up!
You'll be seeing great sights!
You'll join the high fliers
who soar to high heights."
— Dr. Seuss

"When he worked, he really worked.
but when he played, he really PLAYED."
— Dr. Seuss

“Reach for the sky” Woody

“To Infinity and beyond!” Buzz Lightyear

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.” Emperor

“What do you do when things go wrong? Oh! You sing a song!” Snow White

“The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up.” Timothy Mouse

“All it takes is faith and trust” Peter Pan

There’s something about being alive that is just so amazing! You’re thinking….duh Natalie…we’re all alive woohoo so exciting ;) but really. Think about it. I haven’t thought about it in a really long time. But then I got pneumonia and was lying at the top of the steps begging my mom to just kill me, and God to just let me die. Good times J then when being on an antibiotic and breathing treatment for three more days I was STILL stuck in bed. Half way through the day my mom and I were lying there, listening to Little Women on CD (which was pretty fun) and I turned to her and said “are we really going to do this? Tomorrow? And the next day?” (and then I proceeded to just start yelling for no reason..being sick can do weird things to you) I then proceeded to say how I hated being stuck in the bed, which grew into how I hate being stuck in Delaware, and how I just want to leave and be somebody else. Pretty much one of the most depressing days of my life yes. Honestly though, I’m glad I got sick. I think God might have been waking me up. For so long I’ve been complaining about how I’m never going to be famous or get to do anything awesome because I’m stuck here being Natalie. My life has kind of been turning into a get through each day and try and make it to the next. My attitude was pretty much a boring, dull, who cares cares kind of attitude, even way before I got sick. I was just getting worn out and sick of life. I think God was like GET SOME REST GIRL. I didn’t listen. Hence the pneumonia J The day I was FINALLY able to leave the house I felt like I was in a whole new world J When I got to bible-study I just sat there and listened to all the people that I care about so much, and thought about how I’ve really been taking them all for granted. When Kati Davis literally crashed into me for a hug I realized how lucky I am to have her for a best friend <3. I taught the next two days at GCA and LCA and thought about how I’m so lucky to have such a big impact on my 13 students, and how I’m lucky to have any students at all. I’m doing what I’ve wanted to do since I was five, be a violin teacher! On my wall at home I have a quote board with some of my favorite quotes. It’s been a long time since I’ve actually read those quotes. I’d been thinking that all those dreams I have will never come true because I’m stuck here. But then I realized that people don’t just get what they want by thinking about it! Here are some of my quotes:

“All our dreams can come true IF we have the courage to pursue them” ~Walt Disney <3 (side note, I love Walt Disney…he’s the best)

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are” ~E. Cummings

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”  ~J.M. Power (wow much?! Totally my quote!)

“Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars” ~Les Brown

“You can make whatever you want out of YOUR life, but first you have to not be afraid to try.”

“Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”
~Dr. Seuss

“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”  ~Author Unknown

 “If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.” ~Author Unknown

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there” ~Will Rogers

"You're off to Great Places!  Today is your day!  Your mountain is waiting,  So... get on your way!"
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)

"Only you can control your future."  ~Dr. Seuss

I have to go out there and get my dreams! I can’t just sit here and expect someone to give them to me on a silver platter. And if I can’t get them right now, I’m mine as well get ready for them. “Forgetting” to practice violin everyday, getting through lessons just because I can sight read really well…that’s not going to get me into the Philadelphia orchestra, or the Hollywood studios orchestra now is it?! Another quote I have is “My life is my message” ~Gandhi. What messages have I been sending to people with my life?

I guess it’s better to learn late then never J I can tell you this. I’m learning, and I’m changing. Well I gotta go now. I’m gonna go out there and get my dreams  :)

P.s here are the rest of my quotes if you’re interested J

“You were born an original, don’t die a copy”

“When you feel like giving up remember why you held on so long in the first place”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.” ~Dr. Seuss

“Don’t cry because it’s over, Smile because it happenedJ” ~Dr. Seuss

“Meeting you was fate, becoming friends with was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control”

My all time favorite quote in the whole world:

“Pooh,” said piglet. “Yes piglet?” said pooh “Nothing, I just wanted to be sure of you.”

There are so many good quotes out there. Me thinks I shall post a blog with just all my favorite quotes, cause quotes make me extremely happy J

:)

My absolute favorite thing ever :) I read it whenever i'm feeling down...soooo awesome

I feel a little strange putting up reasons why i make other people smile :) bututttt...i think its cute :)

and my mom thought it should be published anyway :)

25 Reasons Why Natalie Wilson Makes Kati Davis Smile!

1. She's an awesome hugger
3. She's only a phone call/email/Fb message away
2. She doesn't care that i mixed up 2 and 3 on this list
4. She gives me ridiculously huge balloons on my birthday
5. Wer'e so alike (sour patch kids!) yet soooo different (eagles/cowboys)...and that's why we're best friends <3
6. We have a limtless supply of inside jokes/memories so there's almost never an awkward silence between us...almost ;)
7. I can read her mind. Really. It's freaky.
8. She doesn't mind when...crap, i forget (kati...just so you know this has been bothering me FOREVER :P)
9. She understands what its like to tower over all her friend.
10. We come up with the most brilliantly epic ideas together and 99.9% of the time succeed in carrying them out.
11. I just love her :))))))))))))))))) favorite :)
12. She has an amazing mom who gives amazing hugs and cooks amazing food and is pretty much my 2nd mother :)
13. She's a pretty good critique...considering she only has positive things to say :) she's on of the only people i trust to read my writing.
14. She gets me and i get her. and even when we don't it's funny
15. She doesn't mind looking like a complete and total idiot in public. (FACT!)
16. "It's like and underwater tunnel!" <- nuff said :)
17. She talks and talks and talks and asks my opinion and talks and laughs and talks to herself and talks and yells at mark and talks ad cries and talks and prays and talks...and does it again. (hahahahhahaha soooo true)
18. She has a silent laugh that she hates TOO!
19. I can always count on her for ice cream
20. She always finds a way to brighten my day :) ( you too <3)
21. She geets me after a week like its been 10 years (CAUSE IT HASSSSS!!!!)
22. she makes me feel like i'm funny...(just saying...i don't understand this...i find you hilarious..you feel funny?! you are funny! it's awesome :)
23. She doesn't mind that i creep on her 24/7 and have hung up on her 349287098709874029387029874309538563984 times...and counting.
24. Her dad's pretty cool too :)
25. She's my mental patient :) (awesome)

Kati this list pretty much applies right back at you :) with a few changes possibly...but not too many!

Regret

Regret. Everyone has regret, some small and some big. I have regrets. I regret hanging up on my mom when she told me Emily and Abigail were going to sleep at their grandparents instead of our house :) To this day i regret not accepting my mom's offer of buying me a Cat in the Hat stuffed animal at Universal Studios when i was 5 years old. That regret gave me nightmares until my Christmas when i was 7. My parents got me that stuffed animal that day :P (and yes i seriously had nightmares over a stuffed animal).  I think i thought i hurt my mom's feelings when i rejected her offer...even though I've found out in the last year that she couldn't have cared less :) Anyway, there are those small regrets, but then there are bigger ones. In my case right at the moment is the one of getting into a relationship that ended up really being really stupid. My question for whoevers reading this is if i have things that remind of that regret....should i keep them? should i keep letters/emails because whenever i read them i learn from them and know what not to do in the future? or should i throw them out because when i read them i feel like such an idiot and i beat myself up for giving away parts of myself i wish i hadn't? I'd really love any thoughts anybody has.  Cause I'm cleaning out my "memory, personal, junk, various" box (yup I'm one of those people that has that :P) and I'm having some issues with it. sooooo i'd love to know if i should keep it and remind myself of what i shouldn't do? or trash it.

All kinds of advil

Random thought, well not really random since I just had some…but anyway. Advil can’t fix everything. Sure it can temporarily ease the pain of cramps, headaches, fevers, and stomach aches…but it can’t fix heartbreak, lonliness, sadness,  jealousy or any other “heart” problems (although it can sure help :P) This is why we have people. Our best friends are our heart advil that we take when the little pink pill just doesn’t help. I call Kati, talk to Dan or Allison, and just laugh with mark because they are my advil. But…there is one thing my heart advil has that real advil doesn’t. Advil works for a couple hours then you have to take more or then pain will just become unbearable again.  Heart advil works constantly…and has no limit to the amount you can have a day. The best kind of advil though is heart soul body and mind advil! You say…where can I find such a thing?! And I say in the bible…in prayer…in Jesus. That’s the real advil J

Time

Here is my rant on time that I wrote a while ago :) i love it...and still agree/feel everything i say in here

Time.  It’s how when we’re 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 we think that there is all the time in the world to waste our lives away before a career and future come knocking at our door.  All that time that was supposed to last forever suddenly vanishes and it's time to grow up. Time to find a college, time to pick a major, time to clean up that resume.  A time when you can no longer pretend that you’re a little kid, and a time when you finally feel the need to be older, healthier, and more mature. Before you could have ice cream and popcorn everyday without feeling guilty, but now you worry about how it will affect you in five years. Every minute of every day has to be planned out, and the to do list gets longer and longer.  Responsibility is put on your shoulders for various things that you never asked to be responsible for…such as yourself.  The fun and games of 14 seem years gone by at 15. Psats and SATS loom near in the future, and it seems that if you fail that one day, you will fail everything and all your dreams will be forever unreachable. You come to the point where you no longer are positive that you want to stay close to home forever…that you might actually want to see some of the world. You have frequent moments in the day where you think “remember when I used to do that, or say this?” and “remember when I wished I could do this? Well…here I am...and I wish I was still wishing for it.” You wish that even though she says you still can, that you could sit more comfortably in your mommy’s lap and just cry even though there’s nothing to cry about, but no…that would be a dramatic teenager thing to do...and one must never stoop to that. When reading 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th grade journals you wish that you still spelled peanut butter “pnt bttr” and that a day was still as simple as “Today mommy, daddy, Lizzy, mark, and Jennifer got hair cuts. I got a new sweater for my birthday. It’s SO pretty and I get to wear it to my piano lesson!” The days when all that mattered was planning the recital or “restaurant” for the next time one of your cousins came seem to have slipped away. You no longer have the belief that you will never leave mommy and daddy, and now all you can think about is going to college and getting married. Life is all about plans now; college plans, wedding plans, having kids plans. You have a deeper understanding of what heartbreak and sadness is, and also joy and happiness. You’ve learned lessons the hard way, and have actually started to learn that what your parents say is best…is most usually the best. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Those years are gone. Whoever said that 18 is the year you are an adult was crazy, 15 is when the all the years before seem to have disappeared…not 16, 17, or 18. New dreams have replaced the old, and new goals are set. Time. It is the unspoken alarm bell that wakes all of us up from the dream we’ve been living. Time. Time to move on; time to live a new dream.

-Funny how you think of stuff like that in the middle of the night. Its interesting to think of how somewhere there is a little blond haired green eyed girl who just like I did, can’t WAIT to be 15. Or even 10. She’ll wear pink dresses, have tea parties, go out to ice cream with daddy, and sit on mommy’s lap, never realizing that these days are going to go by so fast. She’ll turn ten and she won’t even care, she’ll just be anticipating 11, 12, and 13.

P.S just so everyone knows...i never feel guilty about eating popcorn and ice cream :) i did for about an hour.

hello there :)

Well. I'm going to attempt blogging :) key word = attempt

I've always wanted to do this...but I'm guaranteeing that there will be times when i go for a while not writing anything...just warning you :) (whoever you are, if you are)

A couple of the posts going up tonight are journal entries I've written in the past 1-2 years, they're probably the deepest things I've written in a while since I never seem to have time for journaling anymore :) hopefully this will change that!

so...here we go!