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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Day 8/30

So I don't know what happened - I think it was due to the fact that I took my phone with me today and distracted myself with conversations - but I didn't run today, just walked! I wanted to still run but it was getting dark so had to head home.

I did some readings and had some thoughts about school again -- the usual -- I find every once in awhile the school nightmare whirls around my mind for atleast a day or 2.

I just wanted to live! To live life so the value of my life goes deeper by each passing day...

As my brother quoted to me "Some live to die. Some die to live"

50 things I want to do in life

1 - Finish Quran [Done]
2 - Teach a group/class english for atleast a day
3 - Go on a plane ride/trip on my own
4 - Acquire a career
5 - Buy a house
6 - Have my own mini cooper or small car before 33
7 - Visit my grandfather's grave again
8 - Attend cousin's wedding
9 - Learn arabic
10 - Learn farsi
11 - Go to picnic in motherland
12 - Work in a bank(bank teller)
13 - Write a letter (by mail) to uncle
14 - Go to Europe(even for just 4 hours)
15 - Improve knowledge on Islam
16 - Donate $200 to charity
17 - Attend graduate school
18 - Create/keep my artbook
19 - Buy a whole set/dress for mom
20 - Take little brother on a trip [Done]
21 - Visit my elementary school in home country (DONE)
22 - Write a thank you letter to Mr O'brien
23 - Make my own b. dress
24 - Compile dvd of home videos/family
25 - Meet Amir Khan :) (Attend a show)

26 - Create my own b.designs/ware

27 - Read Hadith

28 - Visit Toronto

29 - Redesign living room

30 - Write appreciation letter to friends

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Quotes


My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment - Oprah
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The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say -Kahlil Gibran

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus - Oprah

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up - Oprah

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design - Oprah

Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny - Oprah

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong - Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress - Gandhi

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? - Khalil Gibran

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood - Khalil Gibran

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. - Khalil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation - Khalil Gibran

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes - Khalil Gibran

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother - Khalil Gibran

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof - Khalil Gibran

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking - K G

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity - K G

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers - K G

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit - Khalil Gibran

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were - Khalil Gibran

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. ~

~ He that knows himself knows others. ~

~ You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet. ~

~ The only journey is the journey within. ~

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Day 8/30

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