Paula Abbott:
CLASS OF 1974
Catholic Central High SchoolClass of 1974
Springfield, OH
Paula's Story
Paula is from Springfield, Ohio. Paula's schools include Catholic Central High School. Paula later attended University of Cincinnnati, Concordia University Wisconsin (Teaching Certifications and English) , University of Salamanca, Spain.
Music Paula likes includes Big Mouth and the Power Tool Horns, Barb Bazaldua, Sir Elton John. Books Paula likes include The Shadow of the Wind, An Inconvenient Wife, Shantaram. Movies Paula likes include Don Juan de Marco, The Neverending Story, Selena Movie. TV shows Paula likes include HGTV, Bethenny Ever After, Real Housewives of New Jersey.
One of Paula's favorite quotes is:"The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And, yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious...and for that, I am grateful." -Elizabeth Edwards (thank you Tammy Erdmann)
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller
We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or fear.
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word and thought throughout our lifetime.
How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
People are like stained-glass windows. ...Expand for more
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. -Isadora Duncan
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is supply light and not heat. -Woodrow T. Wilson
We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. -Alice Bloch
What may be done at any time will be done at no time. -Scottish Proverb
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. - Abraham Maslow
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. -Iris Murdoch
Love is the difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. -Iris Murdoch
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. -Iris Murdoch
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours, all they hear is one continuous scream. - Iris Murdoch
We can only learn to love by loving. (Including the mistakes.) -I.M.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. -Iris Murdoch
Education doesn't make you happy, nor does freedom. We don't become happy just because we're free, if we are, or because we've been educated, if we have, but because education may be the means by which we realise we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears...it tells us where delights are lurking...convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever - that of the mind- and gives us the assurance, the confidence, to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers. -(yup) Iris Murdoch
"Scars remind us where we've been. They don't have to dictate where we're going."
"I do not have to attend every argument I'm invited to."
"Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side."
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.".
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