Life Quotes

I just wanted to share some of the Life Quotes that I enjoy or that have great meaning to me and help me through some things. Hope you enjoy!

1. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck

2. If I can endure for this moment,whatever is happening to me.No matter how heavy my heart,or how dark the moment may be.If I can but keep on believing,what I know in my heart to be true.Then darkness will fade into morning,and with this dawn a new day, too.

3. Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. ~Dorothy Thompson

4. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

5. Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

6. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~ Anne Bradstreet

7.The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. ~M. Scott Peck

8. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ~ Thomas Paine

9. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~ Dale Carnegie

10. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ~ Peter F. Drucker

11. There are no gains without pains. ~ Benjamin Franklin

12. I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

13. Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones

14. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly ~ Robert F. Kennedy

15. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

16. All love that has not friendship for its base,Is like a mansion built upon the sand

17. A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.

Words to get you through the Day.

Just wanted to share this with everyone. At church services Sunday night we sang a song that I had not heard before and It really opened my eyes. I think this could be one of my favorite songs now and if you are going through any trying time just sing it. It will bring tears to your eyes.

Because He Lives

God sent His son, they called Him Jesus He came to love, heal, and forgive. He lived and died to buy my pardon, An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives. Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, All fear is gone. Because I know He holds the future, And life is worth the living just because He lives.
How sweet to hold a newborn baby, And feel the pride and joy he gives. But greater still the calm assurance, This child can face uncertain days because He lives. Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, All fear is gone. Because I know He holds the future, And life is worth the living just because He lives.
And then one day I'll cross the river,I'll fight life's final war with pain. And then as death gives way to victory, I'll see the lights of glory and I'll know He lives. Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, All fear is gone! Because I know He holds the future And life is worth the living just because He lives!

My College Drama

Wow! Has my life Changed since High School. Where do I even begin? Well let's see. I started going to AUM the fall after graduation. Nursing was my major. I was sooooo excited. For as long as I could remember I wanted to be in the medical field and I had finally narrowed down exactly where. I was going to be a nurse. I was going to help people. Well my first two years there were great. They were just my basic classes. You know Biology, Chemisty, Anatomy, all the stuff that you could learn in books. This time was a little hectic because I was planning my wedding to my High School Sweetheart, Daniel. Most of you reading this will remember him because I was with him all but one year of high school. We were married on May 15th 2004. (I'll write about that wonderful experience later). Well it came time to start my actual nursing school and I couldnt be happier when I received my letter in the mail that I had been excepted. This was such and honor you see because not everyone that had completed those first two years was excepted. So off to the bookstore I went to buy all the things I would need. Who would have thought it would have been so much. I needed a fork lift just to get back to my car. That night I was so excited that I opened everything and looked through every single book. By the end of the night I was so overwhelmed at all the material that I thought to myself " Shawna, are you really up for all of this?" I decided that I was and went on to bed. The first day of nursing school approached rapidly. I was very excited and nervous all at the same time. So after the first week of classes I was even more overwhelmed than I was before. The vast amount of material that had to been learned so rapidly was crazy. And this was way more serious than my underlevel classes. I couldnt just learn this stuff for the test and then forget most of it. I had to retain each and every single thing that I learned. I loved Labs however. That is when I got to do all the cool stuff like learn how to put an I.V. in or learn how to insert a Catheter. All the things you think of when you think of nursing. So to make a long story short I got through the first semester. It was tough but I was okay! And thus the dreaded second semester started. This was the semester that was known as the horrible semester and everyone knew that if you could make it through that semester that you could make it through the rest with a breeze. Who would have thought that the material you had to learn was double the amount of last semester? And that wasnt even the rough part. My much beloved labs turned into a nerve racking fiasco. This semester we started to work in the hospitals with real people. It was no longer the funny looking dummies in the fake hospital beds at the school. This was real live people with real live blood running through their vains. So the school labs turned into a place where you test your skills in front of nursing professors and one tiny little misshap got you lots more practice time in the pretend hospital and a big fat F for that week. If you passed you were sent off to the hospitals to take care of these live patients.

This where I started to crack. My first patient was one of the worst cases I could have ever had to start out with. This person had so many different problems that I wont go into detail about but it was the first time I actually realized that THIS PERSON'S LIFE IS IN MY HANDS!!! One little mistake made by me could cost them their life.Could I really do this? The pressure was unbeleivable. Why had I never thought about this before? Why was this happening to me now, after three years of nursing school? Well I pushed through and made myself keep going. There was no way I could quit now. So after many days at the hospital I realized something. This had caused me to change. I had shut myself off from my emotions in order to get through the day. I had hardened my heart in order to be able to treat a patient without falling apart and crying because of their situation. During the middle of all of this My Uncle died from cancer and I could not cry. I had trained myself to not cry. This was not the person I wanted to be. I wanted to be a nurse to help people not to stop caring. By this time I was a complete mess trying to figure out what I wanted to do. My husband saw how much I was tormented and he was soooo supportive. So needless to say after that semester ended I decided that Nursing was no longer the career path for me. So I changed my major to business, which is the complete opposite of nursing. I knew that really wasnt what I wanted to do but I needed a complete change. So I stuck with it for a few semesters.

I currently am not going to school. I keep thinking about going back and I will eventually I just want to be completely sure about what I want to do with my life. I cant afford to waste anymore time and money on classes that aren't really what I want. I am still young and have plenty of time to decide. I don't want to be one of those people who go to work everyday and hate what they do. TO BE CONTINUED.