Tangled

I saw this movie with my friend Jessica and I absolutely LOVE it! I've been waiting for Disney to do a Rapunzel movie for YEARS for obvious reasons and this one is just absolutely spectacular! This is my favorite song from the movie. ENJOY. It just screams me and what I've gone through in life and what I hope my true love to be like when I find it.

All those days watching from the windows




All those years outside looking in



All that time never even knowing



Just how blind I've been



Now I'm here, blinking in the starlight



Now I'm here, suddenly I see



Standing here, it's all so clear



I'm where I'm meant to be


And at last I see the light



And it's like the fog has lifted



And at last I see the light



And it's like the sky is new



And it's warm and real and bright



And the world has somehow shifted



All at once everything looks different



Now that I see you


Eugene(Flynn):



All those days chasing down a daydream



All those years living in a blur



All that time never truly seeing


Things, the way they were



Now she's here shining in the starlight



Now she's here, suddenly I know



If she's here it's crystal clear



I'm where I'm meant to go

Rapunzel & Eugene (Flynn):



And at last I see the light

Eugene (Flynn):



And it's like the fog is lifted

Rapunzel & Eugene (Flynn):



And at last I see the light

Rapunzel:



And it's like the sky is new

Rapunzel & Eugene (Flynn):



And it's warm and real and bright



And the world has somehow shifted



All at once, everything is different



Now that I see you, now that I see you


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw6q5189kpc&feature=related

Musings

Do you know what's weird? What's weird is that losing something you never had hurts just as much or more so than losing something you did have. It's like your dream/fantasy is no longer possible because all of the random variables are no longer in play, they don't matter anymore; the book has closed. Something you've always kept in the back of your mind, on the back burner, just in case. And when it's gone, even though you had no control over it, you feel a little sad and your heart breaks a little.

"My love, leave yourself behind


Beat inside me, leave you blind

My love, you have found peace

You were searching for release



You gave it all into the call

You took a chance and

You took the fall for us



You came thoughtfully

Loved me faithfully

You taught me honor

You did it for me



Tonight you will sleep for good

You will wait for me, my love



Now I am strong, you gave me all

You gave all you had

And now I am home


My love, leave yourself behind

Beat inside me, leave you blind

My love, look what you can do

I am mending, I'll be with you



You took my hand and added a plan

You gave me your heart

I asked you to dance with me



You loved honestly

Did what you could release

Ah, ooh



I know you're pleased to go

I won't relieve this love



Now I am strong, you gave me all

You gave all you had

And now I am home



My love, leave yourself behind

Beat inside me, I'll be with you"

-My Love, By Sia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtM_cc4SPJI


"Faith... sustains the soul through moments that otherwise would destroy us." -Emily Freeman

Love Quotes!

Okay, so I got bored. This happens a lot. ENJOY!


• "Faith... sustains the soul through moments that otherwise would destroy us." -Emily Freeman


"The best thing about loving and being hurt is that you get to know what true love really is. For as gold is tested in fire, so will love be perfected in pain."

Marvin Jay M. Torres

A priceless moment is when the person that you have fallen in love with, looks you right in the eyes to tell you that they have fallen in love with you.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,

A song is no song 'til you sing it,

And love in your heart

Wasn’t put there to stay -

Love isn’t love

'Til you give it away.

~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"

Love is no respecter of age or practicality

Neither morality: unabashed

She enters where she will

Unheeding that her immortal fires

Burn up human hearts...

~Phillip Pulfrey, from Beyond Me, www.originals.net

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney

A hundred hearts would be too few

To carry all my love for you.

~Author Unknown


Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. ~Robert Brault,

The love game is never called off on account of darkness. ~Tom Masson


They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. ~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston

Will you love me in December as you do in May,

Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?

When my hair has all turned gray,

Will you kiss me then and say,

That you love me in December as you do in May?

~James J. Walker

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,

After the day's great sun.

~Charles Hanson Towne

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal

Love is being stupid together. ~Paul Valery

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ~Bruce Lee

When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match. ~Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle


We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare

"God does not look on the outward appearance. I believe that He doesn't care one bit if we live in a castle or a cottage, if we are handsome or homely, if we are famous or forgotten. Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely." -Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Reflection

Look at me


I will never pass for a perfect bride, or a perfect daughter

Can it be im not meant to play this part

Now i see that if i were truely to be myself

I would break my family's heart



Who is that girl I see

staring straight back at me?

Why is my reflection someone I dont know?

Somehow I can not hide

who i am, though i've tried

When will my reflection show who I am inside?

When will my reflection show who I am inside...?

-Refelction, Disney's Mulan

Do you ever feel like no matter what you do, you're always letting someone down? I feel like that right  now. I think that even if I did have a job, my mum would still get angry. "We need to pay for this, make sure you tell me these things, how come you didn't tell me?, why didn't you ask me?"

I don't ask her for money because I know what she'll say. She'll say we don't have enough. As IF I don't already know. She'll want me to pay her back, which she knows I can't, so why does she give me money in the first place? I don't tell her money problems (mainly car problems) because I know what her answer will be to those too. "We don't have enough money right now." GOSH DARN IT! Can't she see that all I want to do is to make her happy? All I want is for her to look and me and be proud, not dissapointed or annoyed. No matter what I do, no matter what I say, it's never enough. I could be married, with a job and babies and a big house and three dogs and she would still find something! Or at least that's what I feel like she would do. Ok, maybe I'm not trying as hard as I should to find a job, but you know what? NO EMPLOYER IS GOING TO WANT TO TAKE ME WITH A MONTH LEFT UNTIL I LEAVE FOR SCHOOL, EVEN IF IT IS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

I just want to do something that will make her proud. Mum, I'm sorry I can't be what you want me to be, but for the time being......could you stop making me feel so worthless?

Calmness

Despite how my situation in life is right now, I feel surprisingly, almost eerily calm about everything. I know special things are in store for me and I can feel them gathering. This year has been one of the hardest I've ever had to go through. I've been in and out of the hospital with bizzare medical problems, had extreme trouble with finances, extreme trouble with school, and Satan has been doing everything in his power to bring me down. And things still are bad. But do you know what this tells me? That I am and was being prepared for something; something important that will affect the rest of my life.

I am READY for whatever God has planned for me. I am ready to go down whatever path He has laid out for me, no matter the cost. Because in the end, I know what's really important.
Even though things seem dark, I know I can't give up because I'm the key to all that's going to happen to me. I am NOT the only one that matters here. If I fall, who knows how many generations I will affect? Without me, the futures of many are at stake and I will be the one that has to answer to the consequences.

Pray always and be believing. Listen to the Holy Ghost, Christ and Heavenly Father. They will NEVER lead you astray. Have faith, be strong; things will work out. All trials work together for our good. Never forget it.

Self Esteem and Body Image Issues

I definitely know I'm not the only one with self esteem and body image issues, so I'm going to address the issue head on, no matter how painful or awkward.

Do you ever have those days where you don't want to look in the mirror, you don't want to try on your cutest outfit and you don't want to get out of the house, purely because you feel that the image you see in the mirror doesn't live up to the one in your head? Do you ever hold yourself back when you see a cute guy, the little voice in your head saying you don't stand a chance? I do. I have them all the time. Being and knowing that we are strong, beautiful, confident women has been harder and harder lately when all we see on t.v., in movies and in magazines are who are airbrushed, skinny and bikini clad; women whose appeareances are entirely unrealistic. No wonder we have issues!

But at one point in time, we're all going to have to accept that God made us look different for a purpose and if anyone knows what they're doing, its Him. True, we may want that perfect J-Lo butt (I have one and trust me girls, it's not all its cracked up to be), that anorexic thin waistline, bigger/smaller chests, smaller hips, smaller thighs, smaller everything. We pick and pick at every little minute detail in our reflection until we're a sobbing heap on the floor, fed up with trying because we've deluded ourselves into thinking there's no point in trying anymore. And even though I don't yet believe this about myself, I'm here to tell it to you.

You are a daughter of God, a future wife and a future mother, a sister and a friend. One day soon, a man will look into your eyes and want you to be the person he spends the rest of his life with; you are the person he wants to laugh with, cry with, and care for through the eternities. One day soon your "imperfect" stomach and "wide" hips will carry a child and one day soon, you will hold that child in your arms and they will look at you with loving, adoring eyes. You will be their world.


So every time you look into the mirror and that ugly, little voice rears its head, you turn those comments on their backsides; they have no place in a mind and body, in a temple, such as yours.

And no, to answer your question, I have not yet gotten to this point; but I am getting there. Each and every day I struggle, but I am struggling upwards. And one day, soon I hope, I will look into the mirror and finally believe those wonderful things I say to myself each day.

"I am beautiful, smart, strong and courageous. I am a future wife and a future mother. I am a daughter of God. I am a sister and a friend. I am of infinite worth."

Inspirational Songs and Quotes:

Firework- Katy Perry

Far Away- Ingrid Michaelson

Beautiful You- Jonny Diaz

Before the Morning- Josh Wilson

Hold Me- Jonny Diaz

What Love Really Means- J.J. Heller

Breath of Heaven- Amy Grant

I cannot find my way- Michael Mclean (From the Forgotten Carols)

"Our deepest fear"- Marianne Williamson

"What if God was one of us?"

Why is it so hard? I AM trying....When you want something so much it hurts and it's so cruelly out of reach. Or even worse, it's so tantalizingly close you can taste it and almost touch it, and it's just barely out of reach. And it's worse even still, when the current life situation you're in makes you wish for it and want it that much more. And it breaks your heart in two knowing there's a very real possibility that it might not happen, and then you'll never get out and you will be there always, living with the memory of what you have lost.

Prayers and scripture study are life savers in situations like this. I only hope I can keep the faith...