Teh Journal of Wendy

In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life; It goes on. -Robert Frost-

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. -Arthur Ashe-

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
-William James-

When we realize that life lasts for a limited time, then we can get on with the business of living each day to the maximum. -Doug Manning-

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -Agatha Christie-

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill-

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. -Dale Carnegie-

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. -Dave Matthews Band-

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But here was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that this was my life. This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. -Alfred D Souza-

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides it's evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island. To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. -Baltasar Gracian-

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver-

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln-

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. -Stephen Vincent Benet-

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. -Leo Buscaglia-

There is more to life than increasing its speed. -Gandhi-

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
-Colette-

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. -William Feather-

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -W. Somerset Maugham-

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. -Pierre de Coubertin-

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. -Lou Erickso-

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life. -Harvey Mackay -

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. -Morrie Schwartz -

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. -Paulo Coelho-

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler -

Searching for that big happy moment in life, how many special little moments we let pass us by? -Unknown -

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. -Don Miguel Ruiz-

There is no goal better than this one: to know as you lie on your deathbed that you lived your true life, and you did whatever made you happy. -Steve Chandler-

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. -Henry Van Dyke-

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you. -Paramahansa Yogananda -

I am responsible for my own well-being, my own hapiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influences the quality of my days. -Kathleen Andrus -

Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox-

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
-George Bernard Shaw-

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. -Leo Buscaglia-

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
-Seneca-

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. -Henry Drummond-

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced... Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -Cherokee saying-

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein-

Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different. -Unknown-

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. -Langston Hugues-

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships. -Anthony Robbins-

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. -Leo Buscaglia -

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. -Helen Keller-

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. -Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Death is not the greatest loss in life, the greatest loss is what dies in us while we are still alive. -Norman Cousins-

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life. -Michael Leboeuf-

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. -Earl Nightingale -

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive and express what we really are. -Don Miguel Ruiz-

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. -Orlando A. Battista -

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now. -Leo Buscaglia-

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month -- get married.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
-Chinese proverb -

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. -William Arthur Ward -

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.
-Gail Sheehy-

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt -

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak...sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. -Unknown -

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow. -Jack Black-

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. -Unknown-

Some say, "Love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed,"
Some say, "Love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed."
Some say, "Love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need."
I say, "Love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed."
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance.
It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give,
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember, in the winter far beneath the bitter snow,
Lies the seed that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes the rose."

"The Rose" By: Bette Midler

I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone
I recommend walking around naked in your living room
Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)
It feels so good (swimming in your stomach)
Wait until the dust settles

You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn

I recommend biting off more then you can chew to anyone
I certainly do
I recommend sticking your foot in your mouth at any time
Feel free
Throw it down (the caution blocks you from the wind)
Hold it up (to the rays)
You wait and see when the smoke clears

You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn

Wear it out (the way a three-year-old would do)
Melt it down (you're gonna have to eventually anyway)
The fire trucks are coming up around the bend

You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn

You grieve you learn
You choke you learn
You laugh you learn
You choose you learn
You pray you learn
You ask you learn
You live you learn

"You Live, You Learn" By: Alanis Morrisette

GLINDA
(spoken) Elphaba - why couldn't you have stayed calm for
once, instead of flying off the handle!
(sung) I hope you're happy!
I hope you're happy now
I hope you're happy how you
Hurt your cause forever
I hope you think you're clever!

ELPHABA
I hope you're happy
I hope you're happy, too
I hope you're proud how you
Would grovel in submission
To feed your own ambition

BOTH
So though I can't imagine how
I hope you're happy right now

GLINDA
(spoken) Elphie, listen to me. Just say you're sorry:
(sung) You can still be with the Wizard
What you've worked and waited for
You can have all you ever wanted:

ELPHABA
(spoken) I know:
(sung) But I don't want it -
No - I can't want it
Anymore:

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules
Of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes: and leap!

It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!

GLINDA
Can't I make you understand?
You're having delusions of grandeur:

ELPHABA
I'm through accepting limits
'Cuz someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost!
I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down:
(spoken) Glinda - come with me. Think of what we could
do: together.

(sung) Unlimited
Together we're unlimited
Together we'll be the greatest team
There's ever been
Glinda -
Dreams, the way we planned 'em

GLINDA
If we work in tandem:

BOTH
There's no fight we cannot win
Just you and I
Defying gravity
With you and I
Defying gravity

ELPHABA
They'll never bring us down!
(spoken) Well? Are you coming?

GLINDA
I hope you're happy
Now that you're choosing this

ELPHABA
(spoken) You too
(sung) I hope it brings you bliss

BOTH
I really hope you get it
And you don't live to regret it
I hope you're happy in the end
I hope you're happy, my friend:

ELPHABA
So if you care to find me
Look to the western sky!
As someone told me lately:
"Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!"
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free
To those who'd ground me
Take a message back from me
Tell them how I am
Defying gravity
I'm flying high
Defying gravity
And soon I'll match them in renown
And nobody in all of Oz
No Wizard that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!

GLINDA
I hope you're happy!

CITIZENS OF OZ
Look at her, she's wicked!
Get her!

ELPHABA
Bring me down!

CITIZENS OF OZ
No one mourns the wicked
So we've got to bring her

ELPHABA
Ahhh!

CITIZENS OF OZ
Down!

"Defying Gravity" From: The Musical "Wicked"


"I think that sometimes in life we all find out things that we later on wish we had never found out. Whether it's a secret, a truth, or knowledge that we just aren't prepared to have, we all handle this sort of situation in our own way. Some of us worry obsessively over it until we're so used to the thought that it can't possibly bother us anymore. Some of us shut out the thought entirely thinking that the farther away we push it, the farther away the problem actually is. And some of us accept whatever it is as the permanent truth and refuse to believe that there is any way that we can change it.

No matter what way we choose to handle this problem, somehow, it always seems to come back and bite us in the butt. We get used to it and it changes. We ignore it and somehow, it becomes unignorable. We accept it and then it hurts us so bad that our lives change in their entirety.

The truth is, that no matter what we do, problems in our lives are unavoidable. We can shut other people out, or let a lot of people in but, either way, we will inevitably wind up being hurt. Whether by our own needyness or by the needyness of others, we will eventually become exhausted of everything we do to keep ourselves and others happy and we will always feel that there is something that could be better if life were a different way, although usually, we are very wrong in thinking so. In other words, we all think the grass is greener on the other side until we get over there and then, almost immediately, we start finding problems in the grass we then possess. I want to look better, I want to be thinner, I want to live longer...etc.

And, in life, no matter what we possess, we will eventually have to lose. Sometimes we lose an object that was important to us or a memory that we wanted to keep forever. Sometimes we lose the comfort of a close friend or the caress of what we thought to be a lasting love. And, sometimes, we lose something as simple as a dream that we once had for ourselves that we ignored for far too long. In the end, no matter what it is that we lose, or how it is that we lose it, somehow, it always leaves us feeling far more empty than we ever thought we'd feel..."

-Wendy Lee T. - June 12th, 2007.


Today something awful happened to me. I had been expecting it to happen for a long time now, waiting for the imminent pain and suffering which I would not be able to forgo. As I went to see what the message I had recieved from my boyfriend said, I knew what it contained could not be good.

So, taking a deep breath, I opened it and began to read. With each sentence my heart sank more and more at the truth I had known all along. This was it, our more than 5 month relationship was over. Finding it still hard to take in, I read the message several times before finally breaking down and letting myself cry just a little.

My initial response was to be angry. I tried to start off my reply to him with a lot of "How could you's" and "I thought you loved me's" but, as I wrote, I began to reflect on everything that had happened to me over the more than five months that I spent with him. I began forming a sort of list in my mind and as I wrote to him I began to include more and more of the good things that he showed to me.

A sincere message that started out with incredible sadness and even anger had turned into a message filled with good memories and reflections. Instead of telling him how much I hated him and then going off and sulking and crying for the rest of the day like I had originally planned to do, I told him how much he still meant to me and how I would still be there for him, ending my letter with a "Still close friends now and forever?" as if I had apologized to him for some stupid argument we had, had.

Then, turning on my MP3 player, it was almost like fate when the song "You Live, You Learn" came on. As I listened to the words, a grin started spreading across my face. Something just dawned on me and like that, I knew what I had to do. I couldn't spend another moment being sad about the love I had supposedly "lost". I had to pick myself up and start living the life that I had suppressed and pushed away for the past 15 years.

You see, Brian taught me to forgive myself, he taught me to love somebody else and to put them before myself, but most of all, he taught me how to live. I realized that if all of this around me had been some of the worst times in my life then life had no choice but to get better. If I lost love, I would love again. I just had to wait for it instead of trying to leap into it head first like I usually would do.

So, I'm here, writing to you now to let you know that the Wendy you knew, is back and better than ever!!! Hope you enjoy all of the quotes and song lyrics I found about living life and loving! You see, I figure that those people who said those things, they really knew how to live. I know now that I'm finally figuring out how to truly live and that maybe, deep down, I've known how to live all along.

Wendy


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