Michael Newman:
CLASS OF 1980
York Community High SchoolClass of 1980
Elmhurst, IL
Michael's Story
Michael is from Elmhurst, Illinois. Michael's schools include York Community High School. Michael later attended North Central College (Journalism/Political Science) .
Music Michael likes includes Peter Gabriel. Books Michael likes include Perks of Being a Wallflower, Bill Hybels, The Bible. Movies Michael likes include Lincoln, The Rainmaker.
One of Michael's favorite quotes is:""Oh, God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell, if it's now doomed to crawl back â to be sucked back â into it?" ~~ C.S. Lewis
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior...
This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~~ Charlie Brown
Love is the answer and you know that for sure
Love is a flower you got to let it grow
So keep on playing those mind games together
Faith in the future out of the now
~~John Lennon - "Mind Games"
"Stay firmly in your own path, and dare." ~~ Paul Gauguin
Love is the currency that makes us want to listen.
The people that are the hardest to love are the one's that need it the most.
The Greeks never wrote obituaries. The only thing that they asked after a man died was did he have passion.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
One hour of planning is worth 10 hours of work.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life...Expand for more
would be easy, they only promised it would be worth it.
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -Anais Nin
"Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue."
-Ambrose Bierce
"I desire so to live that if at the end, I have lost every friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."-Abraham Lincoln.
You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.
All human evil comes from this: a man's being unable to sit still in a room. - Pascal
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Choice not chance will probably determine your destiny.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~ Abraham Lincoln
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. And once being cut open, the risk is also there for everlasting pain...and everlasting love.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.-Confucious
This above all: to thine self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
~ William Shakespeare
"Duty is ours, results are God's." John Quincy Adams
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Muriac
Never underestimate what God can do when grace is involved.".
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