For this assignment, choose 1 quote from your quote journal to post on this blog. Write the quote at the top of your response to this post and then write your reaction to that quote -or- find someone who wrote about the same quote as you and respond to that person's post.
*2 points extra credit - Respond to one of your classmates' postings (in addition to your own)
Example:
"As you grow, you learn more, if you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay you know, it's growth" (Albom, 118).
I like this quote because I agree with Morrie that each year I grow older, I learn a little bit more about myself and what I want out of life. I still don't have it all figured out, but I have more "peace of mind" than I did at 18 or 21. This doesn't mean I'm looking forward to wrinkles and broken hip bones, but I am looking forward to the wisdom that comes with old age. ~Ms. S.
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- Taryn
- American expat currently living and teaching in Mexico. Lover of all things running.
28 comments:
Quote:"Its like being a child again."
I think even out the age of 16 I wish someday I was still a kid. Those days of elementary school doing artwork, going to gym, and playing on the playground. This quote just reminded me how you can still be a child even when you are 16. You can have those days where you can just goof around with friends and have fun.
Kayla Osterbauer
Quote " Dont let go to soon, but dont let go to late."
I think if people let go to soon other people will have things they wanted to say to you but if you let go to late and everyone has said what they wanted to you will just keep suffering in pain and have a horrible death.
Marcus Higgins.
Quote:"How can I be envious of where you are-when I've been there myself."
I like this quote because when we start to get jealous of people younger than us, we have to remember that we have aldready had our times at that age and hopefully we lived it well.
Allison Moncrief
Marcus Higgins
Nate Cassidy
"if you hold back emotions-if you don't allow yourself to get all the way throught them- you can never get to being detatched from them."
i think that this is totaly true because that everyone needs to get through their emotions and work it out because you grow from them and learn for all your mistakes and emotions and you will eventually learn how to get ver things better and then jsut forget about things and not even think/ worry about them like morrie calls detacting
Quote:
"no matter ewhere you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our short sightedness; we dont see what we could be. we should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become."
I really like this quote because it is very true: i think we try to twist ourselves into everything that is cool or the better thing to do. By doing this, we dont let ourselves be all we can. We see things almost 2 dementionaly, and its not helping anyone. To be the absolute best, we need to concentrate on aceiving that.
-Maddie Wikstrom
Taylor Evangelist
Quote:"How can I be envious of where you are-when I've been there myself."
Like Allison said, when we envy people younger than us we need to take time to realize that we had once been in that same place. Each person gets to experience different stages of life in their own way. Nobody needs to envy anyone younger than themselves because chances are.. they've been there themselves.
Quote. "Fore me, Ted, living meand i can be responsive to the other person. It means i can show my emotions and feelings.
I think this is true because if you cant be responsive you cant show an emotion or show your true feelings. To show true feelings you need to be able to expalin yourself and talk about what your feeling.
Lindyy Lindberg ^^
the one above is mine.
Quote: "part of the problem is that everyone is in such a hurry."
I think that this is such a true statement. I chose this quote because i can relate to it..everyone can. We all go through life in such a rush. Not really realizing what were doing and not taking in the atmosphere thats givin. We don't take the time to acknowledge the people around us, we just take everything for granted and never just slow down to take it all in.
Angela Keran
Quote: "When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
This quote really stuck out to me because it makes perfect sense. I think that when a person realizes that they are going to die someday, they realize all the things that really matter in life. They stop thinking about the things they automatically do in their life and take on a new perspective of the world. I don't know what it's like to be dying, but I think that the day I do know what it's like will be the day my life changes the most.
Samantha Marren
Quote:"The fact is, you are going to die eventually."
I think this quote is good just because everyone dies at a certain point. You can't think you aren't going to, because when it comes close to that time you will be very miserable. So you need to live life to its fullest and do the most you can to make life the best it can be.
Joe Rubbelke
Quote:"You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean."
I think this quote is saying to us that your never alone.I think the wave crashing into the shore is simbolic to problems we have in life. You're not by yourself, you're part of something bigger.
Jeff Birkholz^^^^^^^^
"love eachother or die."
We need to love eachother. This quote brings up war. If no one cares about what we do or how we act towards eachother, that means we might do something destructive to someone else. If there was more love, it wouldn't happen. I think we should learn to accept people for who they are. Don't judge others.
Camille Chapman
Quote: "people get mean when they are threatened"
I feel that this is entirely true. people are usually fine until they are confronted. I have seen this many times people were fine just talking until one person posed a threat.
Orion Weiland
Pachi M. Yang
"Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you, on the contrary you let it penetrate you FULLY. That's how you're able to leave it."
It reminds me something similar to World AP. Where to reach being ENLIGHTEN you must stop your desire of craving and let go of what you want in order to be capable to leave it and you'll eventually reach enlightment. I believe that detachment can be in a good or bad situation depending how people use it; to as a degree of negative or positive.
Sally Baltaian
Quote - " .. because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. "
I believe this is completely true, and I hope when i'm older i will find meaning in my life and won't want to go back. Sometimes I think it is alright to want to go back if you want to relive something because it was such a great time. When i'm older, I want to be happy like Morrie.. and hope to be able to think of life like he does.
"Death ends a life, not a relationship". (Albom,174)
I think that this quote means when someone dies, the relationship you had with that person is still there, and wont go away, memories still go on.
Kaylyn Langer
"part of the problem is that everyone is in such a hurry."
i completely agree with angie. This qoute is so true. No one actually takes a moment to sit back, and relax to be thankful for everythign we have. Everyones always in such a rush. Sometimes we all just need to sit back and look at the great things and life we've been given.
Vanessa Evans
Quote"Dont let go to soon but dont hang on to late"
Now this is my favorite quote and i like it because it's true. it means that you should let go to soon, dont give up , there still a fighting cahce and more to see, but you dont want to hang on to long, tou dont want to dwell on the past because theres alway sothing thats ahead of you in life, something to look forward to
Myles Buersken
Quote: "Dont let go to soon but dont hang on to late"
I agree with what Myles said. People shouldn't give up too soon, but if you hold on too long, you could lose what you wish you could've had.
Dylan Secor
Quote:"The fact is, you are going to die eventually."
Everyone needs to live their life to the fullest. Do things that you enjoy, not things that other people want you to do. Don't worry about what is going to happen to you because you are going to die. It's inevitable!
Dylan Secor
Quote:"Learn how to die and you'll learn how to live"
Very true quote because alot of the emotions you go through knowing that you are going to die soon shows how important life really is and you should make the right decsions to live life to the fullest.
Dan Paredes
Replying to Nate cassidys quote:
Nate is right emotions need to belet out not held in they are something to be expressed and shown.You grow up from them as well as he said because as you grow you endure more emotions.
Dan Paredes
Quote:"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves.And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesnt work,dont buy it."
This is very wise because todays culture is all about whos the most fit whos the strongest. Culture today is very shallow and has been getting worse. If your not perfect your not happy. This kind of image to younger kids trying to be unhealthy because of their weight.
Vanessa Evans
In Marcus's quote i think it really is a good message. I think you need to hold on and go for the things you need and love the most for as long as you can, but you can't hold on so long and never let go of something and let it hold you back.
Joe Rubbelke
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