FAT MAN, THIN MAN, FATTER MAN...GOOD GRIEF!! I have been "overweight" or whatever other descriptive you care to use to call me fat, most all of my life with occasional spurts of weight loss. I've been up and down the scale several times, (mostly up) and have gained and lost over 300+ pounds in my life. However, I've begun to see myself as more than just a "fat" person...it gets easier to take on a different outlook when one doesn't fight for every breath, or have joints scream in pain every time you move. For the story of what got me to this point please click on the page: "HOW DID I GET HERE?"

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WISH I HAD SAID THAT! (My Favorite Quotes)



"Success will never be a big step in the future; success is a small step taken just now." ~Jonatan MÃ¥rtensson






"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." -Charles R. Swindoll





"To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did." -Unknown


“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.” ~Proverb


“Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” -Walter Anderson




"Worry is today's misuse of the future's imagination"



"When the student is ready, the teacher appears."


"Boundaries teach me to let good people in, let unhealthy people go, do what I need to find dignity within myself, love others, and trust God."







"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." - Abraham Lincoln



“To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.”



“It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”

 ~ Francis Bacon



"Don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself..." 1Cor.6:19



Jesus had no servants, Yet they called Him Master.
Had no degree, Yet they called Him Teacher .
Had no medicines, Yet they called Him Healer.
Had no army, yet kings feared Him.
He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world.
He committed no crime, yet they crucified Him.
He was buried in a tomb, yet He lives today.
Feel honored to serve such a Leader who loves us.



When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
~Author Unknown



Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil......it has no point.


If at first you don't succeed; do it like your mother told you.



Watch your thoughts ; they become words. 
Watch your words; they become actions. 
Watch
  your actions; they become habits. 
Watch your habits; they
  become character. 
Watch your character; it becomes your
  destiny.




“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is
out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

 




"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)



"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."
- Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)



"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)



"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)



"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)