Mike McDonald:
CLASS OF 1983
Stadium High SchoolClass of 1983
Tacoma, WA
Mike's Story
Mike's schools include Stadium High School.
Books Mike likes include Vertical Vegetable Gardening, Outliers, The Litigators. Movies he likes include One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Sixteen Candles.
One of Mike's favorite quotes is:"Serve--and hate will die unborn.
Love--and chains are broken
We are all mortal...until the first kiss...or second glass of wine. - Eduardo Galeano
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
― Mother Teresa
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. Albert Einstein
I'll take character over reputation… Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - AJ Perez
Also - Just because you ARE character doesn't mean that you HAVE character. - The Wolf / Pulp Fiction....
“There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."”
Carrie Fisher quotes
"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."- John Lennon
I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't. Kurt Cobain
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt Cobain
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. Frank Sinatra
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! Kurt Cobain
A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. – Tim Cahill
It is not down in any map; true places never are. Herman Melville
The mind is everything; what you think, you become. - Buddha
Good wine is a necessity of life - Thomas Jefferson
Expecting life to treat you well just because you’re a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge you because you’re a vegetarian.
There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it.
You surround yourself with people who make you laugh.
Forget the bad, and focus on the good.
Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't.
Life is too short to be anything but happy.
Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. -Christopher M...Expand for more
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"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways." - Sigmund Freud
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." - Carl Jung
"... to thine own self be true...," Polonius' advice to his son Laertes... Hamlet
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
It takes a long time to grow young - Pablo Picasso
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. Ellen Goodman
Finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
- William James
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
- Charles Dickens
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
- Catherine the Great
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
- Alexander Chase
What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
- Benjamin Franklin
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
- Pablo Picasso
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
- Charlie Parker
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever.
- David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
- Benjamin Franklin
If I let go of what I am, I become what I might be - Lao Tzu
Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It's culture. It's the essence of civilization and the art of living.
Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesn’t mean that we've stopped loving them or we've stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.".
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