Quotes: The Sequel

So I met this guy. His name is Ben, and he's pretty awesome. He also knows some pretty awesome quotes, which has inspired me to create

QUOTES:

THE SEQUEL

Ben's Quotes

and other quotes I found

coming soon to theaters near you

Let the quotes begin!

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'The generation that is not changed by the world will be the generation that changes the world.'

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'He is not a fool who loses what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.'

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'One of the devil's favorite lies is 'you can not.' One of Gods favorite truths is 'I can.'

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'There's room for all of God's creation on this earth...right next to my mashed potatoes.'

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'She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be assured that she was doing the right thing after all'

~The Great Gatsby

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'and today was brilliant,

glossy and blue,

like swimmingpool shadows

and pictures of you.'

~Typewritten life

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'How soothing 

to know

that the wind

will never be taken

out of

my sails.

You are the wind.

You are the sails.'

~Tyler Knott Gregson

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'You have my heart.

But you also have my breath caught in my lungs. Each bone in my spine, each bone in my body. Every muscle aches and surges with you. You have so much more than my heart. You have everything it keeps alive.'

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So beautiful. 

'I believe..'

Oh how I love Bob Ross. He is fantastic and so darn....Bob Ross-y. My boyfriend showed me this video and told me it reminded him of me....

HAHAHAHAHAH

He's a keeper. Anyway, this is golden. 

'I believe every day is a good day when you paint.'

'Just caress it'

'I believe it will bring a lot of good thoughts to your heart'

'Let's build a happy cloud...there are no limits here'

'Make love to your canvass. Fluff it.' 

'We don't make mistakes, we make happy accidents.'

'TOTAL POWER.'

Oh my goodness, I am going to die laughing. 

Quotes Board DIY

I am totally bored with my room. It's been the same since I was a Freshman. I'm a Senior. My bulletin board still says 'Cornerstone 2010.' It's 2012....the END of 2012.

THIS IS A PROBLEM. 

To cure my space restlessness, I will probably be posting a lot of DIYs (YAY) and organization ideas. So let's start with that awful bulletin board! 

As I said before, I love quotes and have stumbled upon (literally) many fantastic quotes I don't want to forget and would love to display around my space. The problem is I'm not allowed to make new holes in my walls to hang things. The solution? QUOTES BOARD! 

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 You will need:

• Chalkboard paint
• scissors (I remembered them this time!!) 
• small pins
• magazines 
• green paper
• a pencil (which I forgot to include :( ) 
• printed quotes :)
• glue stick

Step 1:

 Paint a large rectangle on your bulletin board. This will take a few coats because the cork likes to soak it in. I already had mine done from a previous project. Wait for it to dry.

Step 2:

 Flip through your magazine and cut out pages that have articles on them. Cut out branches from those pages and begin to tack them onto your board. There is really no way to mess this up, even if your not a fantastic artist. Just draw a thick tube that narrows to a point, then add one or two smaller points onto the first tube.
Continue cutting and pinning branches until your board looks like this:

 Use chalk to label the board. Suggestions:
Quotes
Beautiful Words
Words
A wise man once said...
Shut up and Listen!

Step 3:

Now it's time for the leaves. These are a little tricky to freehand (like I did) if drawing isn't your thing. There are plenty of websites out there that have leaf patters you could print and use. Here's a good one: http://0.tqn.com/d/scrapbooking/1/0/R/e/fallleafpattern.jpg
I used around 17 leaves. Make sure you make them big enough to fit your quotes on! Cut them out.

Step 4:

Before you put the quotes on the leaves, pin them where you want them to go on the tree. This will prevent you from putting your quotes all the same direction on the leaves, which makes for a pretty boring looking tree. Vertical leaves will work for shorter quotes, and horizontal leaves for longer ones.

Step 5:

Take one leaf off the tree at a time and make sure you take notice of which way it was facing. Now begin cutting out your quotes in small strips. You'll have to break them up to get them to fit on the leaves, but I see this as a challenge. I try to cut them between words and in places that will make it sound more poetic. Try cutting between different word groups and see how the words flow in your mind when you read it. For example, the quote on this leaf says 'Sometimes God calms the storm, sometimes God calms the sailor, but sometimes He makes us swim.' ~NOTW. I cut it up into groups like this:

'Sometimes God calms the storm,

Sometimes God calms the sailor,

But sometimes He makes us swim.'

~NOTW

Step 5:

Keep cutting and pinning quotes until you use all the leaves. Ta da! Now your Quotes Board is finished! You could even add pictures to some of the leaves or detail to the bottom of the board. Get creative and make it your own! 

Here are some of my leaves and examples of cutting and grouping words

Happy Crafting!

'"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."
"How so?"
"Well, when you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day."
~Calvin and Hobbes

#justsayin

I love quotes.
Some of the stuff that people say is beyond worth repeating. One of my friends has this crazy ability to stumble across the most wonderful quotes ever. I'll share my favorites with you :)

"I could do without a tan on my left hand where my fourth finger meets my knuckle."      ~Ed Sheeran

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"Sometimes God calms the storm.

Sometimes God calms the sailor.

But sometimes He makes us swim."

~NOTW

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"She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails."  ~Elizabeth Edwards

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"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."                       ~F. Scott Fitzgerald 

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 "What doesn't kill us makes us something." ~Unknown

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"In defense of marrying young: I do not claim that marriage is for everyone or that family is for everyone. So please don't claim that young marriage should be for no one."

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"The storms will come and the winds will rise and the gusts will threaten to pull you from your roots. Let the winds come. Let them rage and know that you will not break in the breeze, you will bend. Bend. Always bend because you are made of more strength than you know, because you are better than breaking."   ~TylerKnott

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 Creativity takes no excuses.

If its important enough, you'll make time for it.

If you don't know where to start, start anywhere.

If you feel stuck, ask someone to help you out.

If you're tired, take a timed break.

If you don't know how to do it, do what you can.

If you believe that you can do it, you will.

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"Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree, bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy." ~How He Loves

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"I just want to be alone with someone else there"  ~Unknown

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  "I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that is exactly like being found."          ~Claire LaZebnik

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"And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do." ~Michael Scott

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