Shannon Rivas:
CLASS OF 2008
Gainesville CollegeClass of 2008
Gainesville, GA
Shannon's Story
Shannon is from Duluth, Georgia. Shannon's schools include Gainesville College. Shannon later attended Georgia State University (Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics) .
Books Shannon likes include The Lovely Bones, The Four Agreements, The Five Love Languages. Movies Shannon likes include Avatar, Dumbo, True Lies. TV shows Shannon likes include I Don't Have Cable.
One of Shannon's favorite quotes is:"âIt seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.â
-David Wolfe
"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."
Henry A. Kissinger
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
-Lao Tzu
"It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a
pessimist who is always right."
-Unknown
"The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness."
-Albert Einstein
âI laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.â
-Colin Raye
âI love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.â
-Audrey Hepburn
âLife is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live!â
-Bob Marley
"The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul.
And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both grow old.
Well I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I hope so. "
-Modest Mouse
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best thing to hold onto in life is each other.â
-Audrey Hepburn
"Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is,
without either clinging to it or rejecting it."
-Sylvia Boorstein
"The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger,
but in wisdom, understanding, and love."
-Jennifer Edwards".
More about Shannon:"âI don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.â -Maya Angelou
My family is amazing, my friends are amazing... therefore my life is amazing!".
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