Tales of a lost Frog from Paris: Favorite Quotes

25 things to know about me

1) I have been a vegetarian since 1999

2) I had my driving license (on the 2nd time) in Dec. 2002, moto license (on the 1st time, youhou!) in Feb. 2008

3) Never had or was involved in a car accident

4) I wear lenses

5) I am 1/4 Polish

6) I have had 3 surgeries

7) I have lived in the same street for 26 years

8) I have a half-sister (20 years older) and a half-brother (16 years older) I, naturally, consider family as a whole! And 3 nieces, from my sister (age 21, 19 and 14)

9) My first name is Tahitian (but I'm not...)

10) Since 1998, I have become "water depth" phobic, sometimes claustrophobic.

11) I never had a one night stand

12) I have had 4 pets until now and all of them had a name beginning with an 'S' (not done on purpose)

13) I have 2 tattoos (so far...) and 3 holes on each ear

14) I never broke a bone

15) I studied a semester in an American High School in 2000 (after my High School diploma)

16) I began to have my hair died (color/highlights) when I was 14

17) I would sometimes skip High School in secret and go to the movies in Paris (great adventure at that time!)

18) I learned how to swim quite late, thus am not a good swimmer

19) I like to cook, especially deserts

20) Although baptized, I am atheist

21) I do not plan to get married (we'll see...)

22) I do not drink much and have been drunk only once in my life - update: okay three times now.

23) I am a movies and series addict

24) Because of the last 3 years events, I lost self confidence

25) Right now, I feel like a lost soul on hearth wishing to have a (good) job, thus money to pay a soon-to-come rent, a (nice) love life: a more interesting and fun life

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Favorite Quotes

Sometimes, you need a little motto to go on.

One of my favorite quotes is from Paul Bourget (a French writer)

"One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived"

So true!...

5 comments:

Laura Jane Williams said...: And so, I suppose, I think because I am?

x; April 16, 2008 at 6:25 PM
Penelope said...: It is so true!!!; April 16, 2008 at 7:08 PM
Frogmae said...: I guess you can say the usual "I think therefore I am", but "I think because I am" is also true, no?; April 16, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Marianne said...: That's a good one. Will think on it! M x; April 17, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Marjolein said...: This is from one of the books I read for my thesis, and it really is my motto:
John Clellon Holmes:
"I came to understand that passionate involvement in life, on any level, held out the only hope, and that lovelessness was the ultimate sickness of the age, and that its source was in all of us who refused to take the risk of vulnerability"; April 18, 2008 at 12:58 AM