Thanks.

"To move to a new place

-that's the greatest excitement. 

For a while you believe you carrying nothing with you,

all is canceled from before, or cauterized, 

and you begin again 

and nothing will go wrong this time." 

-Margaret Laurence

 (source)

Dear Beautiful City in which I Reside,

Thanks for being just far enough away from home that I can be gone, but close enough that I can visit when I want to. Thanks for my amazing friends and my good job. Thanks for having a great university. And thanks for the crisp Fall air. You were exactly what I needed this year. 

Much Love,

Danielle 

Stress Folks.

(source) 

So this week has been complete insanity. It seemed like everyday I had a "To-Do List" a million miles long. Don't you hate those weeks? For me they usually lead to anxiety attacks that my poor parents/roommates have to witness. Thank goodness they're understanding people! 

 (source)

But anyways, I've been thinking a lot lately about goals. I'm a goal-setting, list-making, calendar-writing kind of person. If I don't have organization and a clear list of things to do, I forget everything and nothing gets done. Some goals however, seem to always get pushed aside (like blogging more, or reading) no matter how much I try to plan them into my schedule. But I guess until I "find" more time, they'll just keep getting pushed aside.

Just a Little Hope

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

Albert Einstein

"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?"

Unknown

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."

Tertullian

 all pictures via weheartit

A few pictures from Europe

 

Amsterdam

Venice

Mt. Pilatus. Lucerne, Switzerland

Paris

London

Today I Believe

One of my favorite blogs is Laura Marie's A Diary of Little Things and Curiosities. She has the most inspiring posts called Today I Believe. She's doing a giveaway and one way to enter is to write your own Today I Believe list. So here it goes:

 Today I believe

 (photo found here)

 ...that even though I always complain about being cold, there is something exciting about the change from summer heat to crisp, fall air.

...that there's nothing better than getting lost in a good book.

...that calling your mom just to talk is a great stress reliever. 

...that getting behind on homework after only a week of school is very BAD.

...that birth WEEKS should be celebrated. Not just days :)

...that there's something exciting about the chaos of a college campus.

Hope everyone is having a great Wednesday!

Guess You Learn Something New Everyday

Sooo...I've been gone for awhile. Just jetting around Europe. Lake Powell. Enjoying my summer. Revisiting the past and repeating mistakes. But most of all learning some really important lessons. Someone else always says it better than I do so here's what I now know:

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

 -Mike Murdock 

(P.S. If it's a weakness...that's red flag number 1)

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
 -Albert Einstein

You did what you knew how to do and when you knew better, you did better.
 -Maya Angelou


I think we make the same mistakes more than once because we don't like to be wrong. We hope we weren't wrong...so we give it another try. Sometimes it takes falling on your face twice before you learn your lesson. Other times it takes three, or five, or fifteen. But the important thing is that you do eventually learn from them. 


I may be a little embarrassed how long it has taken me to learn certain lessons but I'm happy I've finally reached the point where I can wake up everyday and feel good about where I'm at in life. 


Another semester has just started and I couldn't be more excited. I like beginnings. They're a chance to leave the old behind and start new and fresh again. And I have a feeling this is going to be a good one. :)


P.S. My new apartment has the most worthless internet on earth. Can't get any pictures up now but I'll post some soon of my trip!