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~ &hearts PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS &hearts ~

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.


&hearts ~ &hearts


[&hearts] IMPORTANT THINGS ABOUT ME:

-I am a Catholic Christian.
-I've been an Irish dancer since I was eight. I am in Open Championships, the highest level available at feiseanna.
-I am a member of AllPoetry.
-I have often been mistaken as my mother's younger sister.
-I won the grand prize in a Hewlett Packard writing contest at seven years old.
-I prefer when people are themselves.
-I've been a pianist since I was five, but know next to nothing about theory.
-I love reading and writing.
-I love Science Fiction shows and movies. Favorites include "Firefly", "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Battlestar Galactica", "Stargate SG-1", and "Stargate Atlantis."
-I know who I am, and will not sacrifice that for anything.
-I enjoy music of almost every genre.
-I am an Honors and A.P. student.
-I care for everyone, hate no one, and am a friend to anyone who wants me to be. Whether or not they are a friend of mine is up to them.
-I would die for my family, my friends, and for my Lord.
-I love walking in the rain.
-I am stronger than I look... in more ways than one.
-I am an artist of sorts, but do not share my artwork with anyone but my family.
-I am a singer. I take voice lessons and sing at Mass, and hope to eventually enter the high school choir.
-I can be serious (especially when the situation demands it), but overall I'm a pretty fun person.
-I'm not easily offended, but can be deeply hurt, and if that happens, it takes a long time for me to heal.
-I like to use emoticons.
-God is writing my love story.



[&hearts] HYMN QUOTES:

"Be with me, Lord, when I am in trouble, be with me, Lord, I pray." -- Marty Haugen

"For You are my God: You alone are my joy. Defend me, O Lord." -- John Foley, S.J.

"Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me." -- Jill Jackson/Sy Miller

"The Lord is my light and my salvation... of whom should I be afraid?" -- David Haas

"God, to whom shall we go? For You alone have words of eternal life." -- Michael Joncas

"I believe in the sun, even when it isn't shining; I believe in love, even when there's no one there. And I believe in God... even when he is silent." -- Carey Landry



[&hearts] QUOTES THAT MEAN SOMETHING TO ME:

"Everything has its beauty, but not everybody can see it." -- Confucius

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." -- Albert Einstein

"That is the truest sign of insanity - insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit they are crazy." -- Nora Ephron (This SO applies to me!!)

"Have no fear of perfection - you will never reach it." -- Salvador Dali

"And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." -- George Harrison

"Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like it's heaven on earth.” -- Mark Twain

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." -- Maya Angelou

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." -- Thomas Dewar

"The empty set is like God. It's nowhere and everywhere at the same time!" -- Ethan (the older highschooler who helps my Geometry teacher)

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- Plato

"A good Irish dancer combines grace and fluidity with power and strength - not just in their dance, but in everything they do." -- Me

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein

"If you have to take a leap of faith, it's usually good to know where you're jumping...." -- Me

"Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people." -- Albert Einstein

"But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." -- Plato

"If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. " -- Virginia Woolf

"What is done in love is done well." -- Vincent Van Gogh

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -- Plato

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." -- Helen Keller

"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough is love." -- Henry Miller

"Say what you mean, but more importantly, mean what you say." -- Me

"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents." -- Miss Maudie Atkinson (To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee)

“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.” -- Charles Caleb Colton

“Best friends listen to what you don’t say.” -- Anonymous

“Not all who wander are lost.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Why walk alone?" -- Cat Stevens

"Promise you won't forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave." -- Winnie the Pooh

"I'm enough of a human puddle as it is, thank you very much." -- Me

"All people want is someone to listen." -- Hugh Elliott

"I will not say 'do not weep,' for not all tears are an evil." -- Gandalf the White

"No pain, no brain." -- My Dad

"You think, 'I'm totally in love with this person, and I'll never feel this way for another ever again'... but then someone else steals your heart just as easily." -- Someone I know

"Friends are the family you choose for yourself." -- Unknown

"I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away...." -- Seether

"Sometimes holding hands is holding everything." -- Unknown

"I don't know him anymore. I'm beginning to wonder if I ever did." -- Me

"Don't do anything you're not ready to." -- Lonlycrusader

"Be someone you are not, and your true self will slowly and effectively fade away." -- Me

"Drive like hell, and you'll get there." -- My dad

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I think I'm finally learning that you have to let people go in order for them to come back to you." -- Me

"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with." -- Unknown

"Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend..." -- 'How to Save A Life' by The Fray

"Who you are is not up for discussion." -- My dad

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than that fear." -- The Princess Diaries



[&hearts] RANDOM BROTHER QUOTES:

"I'd hug you, but... I smell bad." -- My brother

"Just because something doesn't work, doesn't mean it's broken." -- My brother

"Unlike what many think, the phrase 'tripped and fell' is not redundant. You can trip and not fall, and fall without tripping." -- My brother

"Talent and skill are two different things." -- My brother

"Scratch all you want... the itch isn't going away." -- My brother

"I'm a genius as long as you are there to correct me." -- My brother

"I am Hokey-Pokey." -- My brother

"It's not a good idea to pick out the wedding cake before the first date...." -- My brother

"If you don't let me hug you, I will poke you." -- My brother

"Irish dance isn't just jumping around on a stage, wearing cool shoes. It's WAR." -- My brother