Quotes Lisa Loved

I had some of the same ones highlighted that mom had, but I am going to share them anyway!

1.  We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
(This one reminds me a lot of: life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you deal with what happens to you!)

2.  Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

3.  ...kids, more than anything else, need to know their parents love them.  Their parents don't have to be alive for that to happen.

4.  If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

5.  The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.
(I liked the whole brick wall analogy.)

6.  Not everything needs to be fixed.
(I think this was especially meaningful to me.  I am one that really wants things done a certain way and at a certain time.  But, not everything needs to be fixed, handled, organized, etc.  Sometimes, it is ok to just let things happen - like driving around in dented cars).

7.  Time is all you have.  And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

8.  Almost everybody ahs a good side.  Just keep waiting.  It will come out.
(LOVED THIS ONE)

9.  It's not how hard you hit.  It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.

10.  Experience iswhat you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

11.  The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

12.  Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.

13.  If I could only give three words of advice, they would be "tell the truth."  If I got three more words, I'd add: "All the time."

I thought the book and Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" was really good.  It is interesting to think about what we would say if we had a final opportunity to share something with the world.  I felt so sad afterward to know that he had died.  He seemed like he had really come into his own and was a really genuine person.  It is sad to me that people like that have to sometimes die early.  I felt for his wife too.  I can't imagine how that would be to watch your spouse die.  And, his children.  It would be so hard to know that you would die while they were so young - some of them so young that they probably wouldn't remember you.  How inspired it was for him to do this lecture/book.  It really will be a legacy and a connection for him and his family.