My Manifesto

We had to write a personal manifesto for my History of Civ through Theater class. Here is mine. Still dunno how I feel about it...

“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive, who is youer than you.” ~Dr. Seuss

My Life is My own

*- “Men are that they might have joy.” ~2 Nephi 2:25

• “While in the pursuit of happiness, one should stop and just be happy.”
• "Most of us are about as happy as we make our minds up to be." ~Abraham Lincoln
• “Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.”
• "It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from." ~C. S. Lewis
• “When things go wrong, you can either laugh or cry. I choose to laugh, because crying gives me a headache.” ~Marjorie Hinckley
• “Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.” ~L. Frank Baum
• “Don’t take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.”
• “Go on, enjoy yourself, call the life you live today your own… get rid of this too-much grief… for those solemn people and those people who scowl, life is not really life, but catastrophe.”
• ~Euripides
• "The best way to cheer yourself up: cheer everybody else up." ~ Mark Twain
• “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” ~C. S. Lewis

*- “But before ye seek for riches, seek ye for the kingdom of God.” ~Jacob 2:18

• “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” ~Albert Schweitzer
• “If you are rich, and you die, you still die.”
• “Spend your life on something that will outlast it.” ~ William James
• “The best things in life aren’t things.”
• “Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
• “There are two ways to be rich; make more or desire less.”
• "Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue." ~Albert Einstein
• "But if I feel like just a teardrop in the rain when I meant to be a river- God sees the ocean in me.” ~Cherie Call

*- “All these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good... therefore, hold on thy way.” ~ D&C 122:7,9

• "Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults." ~Socrates
• “Don’t say ‘why me?’ say ‘try me!’”
• “You don't have to move the sky, but you can chase the clouds away. You don't have to change the world, but you might do it anyway.” ~Cherie Call
• “Always expect the worst, then when good things happen you’ll be pleasantly surprised.” ~Marjorie Pay Hinckley
• “You fell? Well, get up.”
• "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." ~Lao-Tzu
• “This day we sailed on.” ~Christopher Columbus
• “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail better.” ~Samuel Beckett
• “When life hands you lemons- smile. How often do you get free stuff?”
• "Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right." ~Henry Ford
• “Our problems are opportunities to discover God’s solutions.”

Stick to your task till it sticks to you.
Beginners are many, but enders are few.
Honor, power, place and praise
Will always come to the one who stays.
Stick to your task till it sticks to you;
Bend at it, sweat at it, smile at it, too—
For out of the bend and the sweat and the smile
Will come life’s victories after awhile