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When_I_See_You_Smile ...in her own words.

When_I_See_You_Smile "Happiness is a form of courage." ~Holbrook Jackson

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Gender: Female
Age: 32
Zodiac: Virgo
Marital Status: In a relationship
Occupation: English Teacher
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Religion: Christian
Political Views: Conservative

  • My Education

    College: Texas Tech University 2002
    Lubbock, Texas
    English Literature

  • My Favorites

    Music: Bon Jovi, Nickelback, Daughtry, Edwin McCain, Michael W. Smith, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Celine Dion, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, anything from the 80's, Broadway music (favorites include Les Mes, Phantom, and The Lion King), and much more...
    TV Shows: House, Brothers and Sisters, Grey's Anatomy, Bones, Private Practice, Life on Mars, Lost, American Idol, and re-runs of Friends and The Cosby Show
    Movies: The Cutting Edge, Pearl Harbor, Hitch, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Fever Pitch, Something New, The Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo, and Men of Honor
    Books: The Woman in White, Oliver Twist, Pride and Prejudice, and Fahrenheit 451 -- Hmmm, I'll come back to this list later! :)
    Quotes: ON ADVERSITY: "We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way." ~Author Unknown-------------------------------------------- ON LIVING IN ARIZONA: "You know you live in Phoenix when the four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and are you freakin' kidding me?!" ~Author Unknown-------------------------------------------- "What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance." ~Jane Austen (This is not about Arizona, but fitting!)-------------------------------------- "Heat, ma’am!" I said, "It was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones." ~Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir (Again, it's not actually about Arizona, but it fits!)------------------------------------------------------- ON ATTITUDE: "I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue." ~Author Unknown-------------------------------- "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818------------------------------------------------------ ON COFFEE: "I think if I were a woman, I'd wear coffee as a perfume." ~John Van Druten------------------------------------------------ "Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and [makes it] just as hard to sleep after." ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh--------------------------------------- ON KISSING: "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." ~Ingrid Bergman-------------------------------------------- ON LOVE: "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." ~Peter Ustinov--------------------------------- ON SMILING: "The shortest distance between two people is a smile." ~Author Unknown-------------------------------------------- "If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine." ~Author Unknown---------------------------------- ON STRESS: "Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you." ~John De Paola----------------------------------------------------- "Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." ~Etty Hillesum--------------------------------------------------- ON TEACHING: "The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning." ~Author Unknown-------------------------------------------- ON MUSIC: "You are the music while the music lasts." ~T.S. Eliot------------------------------------- "Music cleanses the understanding, inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself." ~Henry Ward Beecher---------------------------------- ON WEEKENDS: "Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays, but at least there's football." ~S.A. Sachs------------------------------------ "Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week." ~Joseph Addison----------------------------------- ON LIFE: "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away." ~Author Unknown

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