The Naysayers

"The greatest revenge is to accomplish what others say you cannot do." -Unknown

I've never really understood why some people seem to feed off of throwing up roadblocks and creating problems where there are no problems to begin with. The hardest part to take is when it comes from people who should be encouraging you. I've found so many times that things really can be as simple as you make them. If you want to make them complicated, you can, but why would you want to?
I'm not even close to being the world's smartest human, but neither am I lacking in scruples or incapable of clear thinking. It is so trying to be questioned as though you have the mental capacity of a small child. The final conclusion I came to at the end of today though, was that it's my life and I'm the only one who can live it and enjoy it to the fullest. There is no room in my life for negative people. Life is beautiful, and yes life is at times tragic, but life is rich. Call me crazy, but I don't ever want to stop dreaming, or stop going on life adventures. That, to me, is the stuff of life. I don't put much stock in the ordinary, I don't aspire to be normal. I don't feel ready to be satisfied with average. Carpe diem.

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

I was needing some encouragement tonight, and I found these quotes:
"It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own." -- Pablo Picasso

"To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." -- Elbert Hubbard

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway ." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is much easier to be critical that to be correct." --Benjamin Disreli

"Blame is safer than praise." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned." -- Dale Carnegie

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain... and most fools do." -- Dale Carnegie