Hehe, hopefully this will be my holidays. I've come to the conclusion that I enjoy days of doing nothing the most. =)

So my last paper was today, and I decided to tumblr/Google-image the word "freedom" because there are treasures to be found. And you know how people always say a picture paints a thousand words? I've decided that it can be true. =)

This is how I feel at the moment. Like there's a wind blowing and the sun's shining and I can just stand there and enjoy the feel of it.

And a few more gems:







And also:

To be Christ's captive is to be completely free.
- Elisabeth Elliot

I am free to run
I am free to dance
I am free to live for You
I am free
Yes, I am free
I am free!
- Newsboys

Quotes...

"Each of us, in the journey through mortality, will travel his own Jericho Road. What will be your experience? What will be mine? Will I fail to notice him who has fallen among thieves and requires my help? Will you? Will I be one who sees the injured and hears his plea, yet crosses to the other side? Will you? Or will I be one who sees, who hears, who pauses, and who helps? Will you?"
-Thomas S. Monson

"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
-Marian Wright Edelman

"We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."
- Vaclav Havel

"Everywhere in these days people have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort. But this terrible state of affairs must inevitably have an end, and all will suddenly understand how unnaturally they are separated from one another. It will be the spirit of the time, and people will marvel that they have sat so long in darkness without seeing the light... But, until then, we must keep the banner flying. Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw other souls out of their solitude, and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea may not die."
-Fydor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamozov"

"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly."
-Patrick Overton

More quotes...

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

- Martin Luther King

Each of us, in the journey through mortality, will travel his own Jericho Road. What will be your experience? What will be mine? Will I fail to notice him who has fallen among thieves and requires my help? Will you? Will I be one who sees the injured and hears his plea, yet crosses to the other side? Will you? Or will I be one who sees, who hears, who pauses, and who helps? Will you?

- Thomas S. Monson

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

- Marian Wright Edelman

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

- Vaclav Havel

Everywhere in these days people have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort. But this terrible state of affairs must inevitably have an end, and all will suddenly understand how unnaturally they are separated from one another. It will be the spirit of the time, and people will marvel that they have sat so long in darkness without seeing the light... But, until then, we must keep the banner flying. Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw other souls out of their solitude, and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea may not die.

- Fydor Dostoevsky
"The Brothers Karamozov"

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.

- Patrick Overton

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Pic quotes...

This was the Irish blessing on the farewell card my Asean mates gave me back in 2005... with their well wishes inscribed... I still have that card today.

Ah, happiness! Sounds so simple, eh?

Happiness in the palms of your hands...

Live out your dreams! =)

Yet more quotes...

Some of the quotes that I found inspiring. =)

Random quotes...

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a bit more.

- Sean O' Keefe in Jodi Picoult's Handle with Care.

ten days of perfect tunes
the colors red and blue
we had a promise made
we were in love

to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn't be good enough
for me, no

to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn't be good enough

- Heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

- Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

It's a change
that reaches down and suddenly lifts you,
At the end
of a rainy day when you sat alone and cried.
It's a sign
that lets you know there is a life awaiting,
The day
you make your peace with the love in you that died.

When the pain dies down
And the dam becomes a river.
The fire burns out under the rain.
Can you feel it now?
It's gone from you forever.
Fading out under the rain.

Like a train,
That takes its time pulling out of the station.
It's a dream
that comforts you in the middle of the night.
It's a song
that carries you to a better emotion.
And now,
Now you know it's going to be alright.

When the pain dies down,
And the dam becomes a river.
The fire burns out under the rain.
Can you hear me now?
A simple conversation
Fading out under the rain.

The past is there behind you
and nothing is forever.
Dancing on the river again
da da da da da da
la da da da da
la da da da da da dum
la da da da da da daa

When the pain dies down,
And the dam becomes a river.
The fire burns out under the rain
Can you feel it now?
It's gone from you forever
Fading out turning away.

When the pain dies down....

-When the Pain Dies Down sung by Chris Stills

From Grey's Anatomy Season 5 Episode 22: What a Difference a Day Makes...

Today is the day my life begins. Today, I become a citizen of the world. Today, I become a grown up. Today, I become accountable to someone other than myself and my parents, accountable for more than my grades. Today, I become accountable to the world, to the future, to all the possibilities that life has to offer. Starting today, my job is to show up, wide eyed and willing and ready. For what? I don't know. For anything. For everything. To take on life. To take on love. To take on the responsibility and possibility. Today, my friends, our lives begin. And I for one, can't wait.

- Becca Wells as played by Amy Gumenick

***

Today is the day my life begins. All my life, I've been just me, just a smart-mouthed kid. Today I become a man. Today I become a husband. Today I become accountable to someone other than myself. Today I become accountable to you, to our future, to all possibilities that our marriage has to offer. Together, no matter what happens, I'll be ready. For anything. For everything. To take on life. To take on love. To take on possibility and responsibility. Today, Izzie Stevens, our life together begins. And I for one, can't wait.

- Alexander Karev as played by Justin Chambers

Quotes...

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

- George Chakiris
American dancer and actor
1934-present

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

- Francis Bacon
English lawyer and philosopher
1561-1626

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

- John Perry Barlow
American writer
1947-present

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

- George Iles
English author
1852-1942

Quotes...

Just a few of my favourite quotes. =)

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love.

-Washington Irving-
American poet, essayist and author.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven in the lives of others.

-Pericles-

Athenian statesman, orator and general

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

-John F. Kennedy-

What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed.

-Henry David Thoreau-

In "A Week on the Concord and Meirimack Rivers"

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

- Anthony Brandt-

Author

The bitterest tears are shed over graves are of words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

-Harriet Beecher Stowe-

American author and abolitionist

Voiceover from One Tree Hill season 6 episode 3: Get Cape . Wear Cape. Fly...

"Quentin Fields was a basketball player. He was also a son. A brother. Somebody’s teammate. Somebody’s friend. I never knew Quentin Fields and I guess now I never will. Did you ever wonder what it would be like if you weren’t you anymore? If you were suddenly gone how would your world react? Whatever you imagined was wrong. There’s nothing romantic about death. Grief is like the ocean: it’s deep and dark and bigger than all of us. And pain is like a thief in the night. Quiet. Persistent. Unfair. Diminished by time and faith and love. I didn’t know Quentin Fields but I’m jealous of him because I see how his absence has affected the people that did know him so I know that he did matter to them. And I know he was loved. People say Quentin Fields was a great basketball player. Graceful. Fluid. Inspiring. They say on a good night it almost seemed as though he could fly. And now he can."

As written by Samantha Walker played by Ashley Rickards.