Nabeel Qureshi @ Georgia Tech
Click here to watch Dr. Nabeel Qureshi’s talk at Georgia Tech tonight from 6:30-8:30 p.m. EST, and you can interact on Twitter #NabeelGT. His talk is called “Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus.”
Happy Diwali
I am a day late. But hey, the celebration is still going down.
For you on this November morning
This Week’s Picks: November 3, 2013
By: Gabriela Yareliz
Welcome November!
Can you believe it? Already November. It is so cold outside, and it gets dark quickly. In one day, the temperature changed like 15 degrees. There is longing in the air. Longing for: seeing pets, family laughter, eating soup, staying under the covers all morning, reading something that makes you genuinely smile (and not cry from horror or laugh to cope with horror), listening to music that touches the soul, being hugged, feeling sunshine on your face, seeing an empty calendar, dancing out of happiness, a never ending walk…
1] Hoy
2] Insanity is our way of life. However, we need not be stressed and sad. Madness (a la Zorba) can be a good thing; it can keep you sane.
3] Best Things in Life
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6] Muscles
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8] El Barco
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10] De las pelis preferidas–Federico Moccia me tiene captivada.
11] An excellent series on dating and marriage
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Esclavo
Notes on love
By: Gabriela Yareliz
1] Friendship first is a solid foundation
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I no longer wish to be loved childishly. I want to be loved with the strength and charm of maturity. I don’t want to be smothered by the fear of jealousy and insecurities. I don’t want a relationship based solely upon shutting the world out and locking each other in. I want to be somewhere where I can breathe. Where, even in the midst of a million people with a million heartbeats surrounding me, I can still know the sound or even play the tune, or nod my head to the rhythm of the one I call “home.” I want to call you home.
– Unknown
3] Chocolate or Flowers?
Camila Cabello from Fifth Harmony was asked: Chocolate or Flowers?
She responded: “You can’t eat flowers…!”
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So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.
– Sylvia Plath
5] When you find love, cherish it.
6] Declare it
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If you’re ever with a girl who is too good for you, marry her.
-Unknown
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9] Perspective
10] Improvement
11] Risk
12] Multi-faceted
13] Time
14] Exclusivity
Designed to live by choice
From Life’s Greatest Lessons or 20 Things I Want My Kids to Know, by: Hal Urban
“We can’t choose what happens in our lives, but we can choose how to respond. We have the ability to survive hardship and overcome handicaps. We have the capacity to rise above negative circumstances because we have free will, the freedom and power to choose. Human beings weren’t designed to live by chance. We were designed to live by choice.” Pg 36
“God asks no man whether he accepts life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.” Henry Ward Beecher
Fe-he-he-he-he-nay
By: Gabriela Yareliz
Eric Matthews rocks. The Feeny call.
I will never…
By: Gabriela Yareliz
This will be a fun blog. All about the things we accept we will never be or have. They say never say never– but perhaps there are things we can actually say never about.
Inspired by:
http://www.garancedore.fr/en/2012/07/09/je-ne-serais-jamais/
I’ll never like Chipotle
Every time I walk by this place, I cringe. Yesterday, while walking through SoHo, a woman was like, “I think we should have gone to Chipotle.” Nooooo, believe me you are fine without it. I have tried to love Chipotle and give it a chance, but I prefer other fake Mexican joints.
I’ll never dye my hair a purple-ish red.
Latinas do this a lot, and I have never liked it. It’s different from the Henna look (even though I am wary of Henna). So, I am pretty sure I would never venture to dye my hair in that lifelong dreaded color. It traumatized me from a young age.
I’ll never get my ears pierced.
No sir. Modesty and Adventist simplicity to the death.
I’ll never look good in or buy skinny jeans.
I don’t wear skinny jeans. I don’t own a pair. I dislike tight clothes and my body shape looks like a pear or something weirdly voluptuous in these jeans. My idea of beauty is not having the silhouette of a Kardashian in tight, tight clothes. I would rather wear clothes that is more loose fitting.
I’ll never stop feeling sorry for suck-ups.
Sucking up = losing dignity. Dear people who suck up, what is the point in losing respect for yourself and placating with no restraint hoping to gain someone’s approval (very popular survival tactic in law school) from people who ultimately only care about themselves and care nothing about how you have to face yourself in the mirror. Be respectful always, but never a doormat or desperate for approval.
Make sure you can face yourself and God.
GABRIELA YARELIZ 