Well done. Well done. Minnesota. History was made and it was the right kind of history. Hopefully many states will follow the 12th state that legalized same-sex marriage until all 50 are giving all Americans equal rights. Upon hearing that news I was in touch with friends that didn't have the same rights based on who they loved. And I thought it was quite powerful when I heard its not about a wedding - just becasue this happened doesn't mean I am going to rush out and have a huge wedding - what matters is today that I an given the right to when and if that time comes. Today I have the same rights as my neighbor. Today I am an equal. TODAY I AM AN EQUAL. wow how powerful to hear such words and how amazing that must have felt for those who were denied such a common right that so many of us take for granted.
It was finally seen the way that it should have been seen all along... who someone loves plays no role in someone eles's life other than that person and the person he/she loves. Its no busy of mine other than to support and most of all doesn't give me or you any right to judge or to say no you can not marry the one you love becasue so and so has a problem with it. My advice to all of you who have issue with such its time to grow up and see the whole picture - stop judging. Start realizing life is different for all and we all have the right to live the life we choose and most of all be given the same rights across the board no matter who you are or who you love. TODAY I AM AN EQUAL...a statement ALL Americans should have. know. and feel. They don't call this the land of the free and the home of the brave for nothing. Its time to fight for these rights and change. Trust me when I say that Billy and Tommy & Annie and Katie they are just like Tom and Katie & Bill & Ann...They are all just simply living the best life they know how. All just wanting happiness and love. All just working to make a life for and with the ones they love. They are more alike then they differ. When I look at my friends I see no difference - they are just my friends. Good people. Fun people. Supportive people. People that make this world a better place and make you better by just being around good people. Its amazing what you will find once you stop judging and start embracing. Today Minnesota stopped judging and they are now embracing. And I am filled with happiness for countless friends that are now happy to simply be who they are and say I am an equal. Way to go Minnesota!!
"More than anything I want to trust in a journey that I don't understand."
"I write entirely to find out what I am thinking & feeling, what I am looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
"Loving you changed my life. It should come as no surprise that losing you has done the same."
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
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- Michelle
- "Life lies in the JOURNEY not the Destination." Everyday I awake to embrace the day I have been given. Thru times of struggle and in happiness--I find reasons each and everyday to LOVEthisLIFE.
Every story is one to be heard....
"You have been given the chance to live, so LIVE."
"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future. Therefore, you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go. But more importantly it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey."
"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty and your purpose when you are confused."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go - but I believe I have ended up where I needed to be."
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me - I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
"Some people just live life in a way that well seems against the grain - never taking the paved way the easy way never living to the checklist of life...but maybe just maybe they are seeking a little bit more from life."
"All of your life is about growing into your personal best...all of your life is about growing into greatness."
"When something bad happens, you have three choices...you can either let it define you, let it destroy you OR you can let it strengthen you."
"I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders."
"Do one thing everyday that scares the complete shit out of you."
"Try to be like a turlte, at ease in your own shell."
"There is a great mystery that none of us will get until that last breath and EVERYTHING will become VERY CLEAR."
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."
"Overcome the notion that you must be regular it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary."
"Too much has been given much is required. You must do something for the greater good to show your gratefulness for the blessings in your life."
"The CHALLENGE of my LIFE is to see how far I can take it."
"There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go."
Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?"
"Maybe mistakes are what makes our fate - without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we never veered off course we wouldn't be who we are now."
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"Michelangelo said the best way to judge the essential elements of a sculpture is to throw it down a hill and the unimportant pieces will breake away. Sometimes life is like that. It tosses us down a hill. But when we reach the bottom and only the important things are left, that's when our vision clears. That's when we hold on tight to what we know, while hope stirs inside us. It's all a matter of perspective."
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky."
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces - I would still plant my apple tree."
"Turn your wounds into wisdom and your mess into your message."
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
"When you find the way others will find you. Passing by on the road they will be drawn to your door. The way that cannot be heard will be echoed in your voice. The way that cannot be seen will be reflected in your eyes." -Choose your own journey even if it means taking a path no one ever has.
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer anwsers."
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