Thomas Jefferson once said," Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." I like this quote and think it trying to tell us something important, and it makes a good point. When he says our greatest happiness does notdepend on the condition of life, the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom. I like this quote because i believe the same thing. The world is ran by money, everything has to do with money, and America just becomes more and more materialistic. We all seem to always want the latest things like the newest iphone or game systems or clothes, and once we get them we are happy until a newer version comes out or we see something better that we like. It's things like this that we care about and makes us us happy but in reality our happiness shound not depend on little things like the latest electronics, clothes or newest things that wont even last forevr. but what should matter is our loved ones our good health, and we should be greatful for all this that we have. When I look back on it now i realize that things like electronics and material things make us so happy and it's nice and all to have them but when i think about it thats not what should matter, the things in our life that should make us happy is our family and we should be lucky to have what we have like our good health because there are many people in the world that would love to have good health and be alive instead of an ipod or iphone,  or wii. I see now that we just take these extra things for granted because we don't realize that not everyone is as fortunate as us to be able to be alive and healthy like people with cancer or disabilities.
     Not only do some people take there health or family for granted but they take their jobs for granted. At times like this, with the way the economy is people should be greatful to have a job as oppose to the people that don't and struggling. There are some people in this world that have everything they could ever want and much more, but can they truly say they are happy and mean it? Because happiness shouldn't come from getting everything we want it should come from living a good and meaningful life and we should be proud of the life that we have or are living. Like helping someone in need, and donating stuff to the poor, or giving food to the hungry. Our happiness should not come from material things but the feeling that we did something good and helped, this is what i believe Thomas Jefferson meant when he said our happiness should come as a result of good conscience. But the quote as a whole is just saying our happiness should come from things that matter not just objects that will later be forgotten.

Ralph W. E. once said, " Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment, the more experiments you make the better." I like this quote and wish I could abide by it, but I am too shy too. Many people in the world have the same problem as I do, and i don't know why I am shy, i just am, I've been thiis way since i was younger but it seems to have gotten worse. I like this quote because it gives people a good piece of advice. When he says people should experiment i think this as well because the more one experiments the more one learns, it's like learning from your mistakes. We would never be able to learn from our mistakes without making then and realizing what we did wrong. Sometimes when we make a mistake we get so mad at ourselves and think why couldn't have we done better or tried something else, but what we don't see is we can now try something else and we try something else and learn what not to do.
    When he says we should experiment he is trying to say we need to try new things or just do what we want and not be to shy or scared of what everyone else thinks, if we want to do we should do it. Some people at times are scared to say something because they think people will makes rude comments and laugh, and maybe they will but who cares, their opinion or remarks shouldn't matter because at least we were bold enough to say something.  But we shouldn't just experiment by speaking up but by doing what we want, sometimes people don't wear a certain thing or do a certain hair style because they don't think they would look nice with it on them and other people would think so too, but it shouldn't matter. If we want to wear something we should wear it despite what anyone else thinks.
    So we all just need to start doing what we really want to do and stop worrying about what everyone else thinks because in the end their opinion isn't going to matter, all that's going to matter is that we finally put the shyness and squeamishness to the side and had the courage to do what we wanted to do, and if it makes us happy then why shouldn't we do it. in the end our opinion is the only one that matters.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, " Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." I like this quote and feel it is something we should live by. I believe it is a good thing to follow because its saying not to waste your time thinking about all the bad things that are going on or have happened to us, but to think about the good and not to think about the bad. sometimes this is what we all need to do, especially when we are having a bad day we just need to take a deep breath and think about all the good things that are happening and be greatful for those good things. Sometimes we have bad days and think to ourselves why me? But we should really just think of all the good things we have like or health or our family, because when we do have bad days like this we could always go to our family for their help. The first part of the quote say not to watse ourselves in rejection, this good advice because like for example sometimes when someone doesn't like us or taks about us behind our backs we get angry and think why don't they like me or why did they say that about me?. But what we really should be doing is letting it go and move on, and by doing this we look like the bigger person, and we are, because instead of worrying about it and making a big deal about it we let it go and that just makes the other person look worse. In the end all this quote is trying to say is we should just not let the bad things in life get to us and when we are having a bad day we just need to think of all the good even if it is just the little things, because even the little things can make a difference and could make are day when its going bad. Because no matter how bad things may be, the good should always out weigh the bad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, " make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." Everyone is different and only we know and have our OWN limitations and so that is why we have to put our heart into everything we do to make the most of ourselves, although not all us do try to exceed our limitations and make the most of ourselves. I believe Emerson was trying to tell people that we are all only as good as we make ourselves to be, and if we don't try to do our best, and succeed in life then it is our own fault because we had the choice to do better and more for ourselves. Like teenagers that drop out high school, we may not know why they dropped out but some of them may have had the choice to stay in school and try to make the most of themselves but they didn't and it was their own fault. Many teens and people face their own obstacles everyday and some of them face them and do their best to get passed them, like some teenage girls get pregnant but instead of dropping out of school and giving up they continue school and try to go on and make the most of themselves. Aside from this their are everyday things like cheating, stealing and lying that we do, even little things like this show that we don't always try our best and try to exceed our limitations. When we cheat we are being dishonest and using someone elses' knowledge and trying to pass it as our own but it's not and this just harms ourselves because then we didn't actually learn the material and try it ourselves.when we steal we are not trying to be all we can be because we are just being dishonest and taking things that don't belong to us. Although we may not think these little things matter, they do, and we are just harming ourselves and not showing ourselves and others all that we can be and everything we are capable of doing in life, we are just belittling ourselves.  So in the long run we all just need to try to make the most of ourselves because in the end that is all we have of ourselves and we don't get another life to try again, all we have is now, so we must try to make the most of ourselves in this life to show that we can reach our expectations or exceed our limitations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, " make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." Everyone is different and only we know our OWN limitations and so that is why we have to put our heart into everything we do to make the most of ourselves, although not all us do try to exceed our limitations and make the most of ourselves. I believe Emerson was trying to tell people that we are all only as good as we make ourselves to be, and if we don't try to do our best, and succeed in life then it is our own fault because we had the choice to do better and more for ourselves. Like teenagers that drop out high school, we may not know why they dropped out but they had the choice to stay in school and try to make the most of themselves but they didn't and it was their own fault. Many teens and people face their own obstacles everyday and some of them face them and do their best to get passed them, like some teenage girls get pregnant but instead of dropping out of school and giving up they continue school and try to go on and make the most of themselves. Aside from this their are everyday things like cheating, stealing and lying that we do, that don't show that we are trying to make the most of ourselves but trying to make ourselves think we are. When we cheat we are being dishonest and just harming ourselves. So in the long run we all just need to try to make the most of ourselves because in the end that is all we have of ourselves and we don't get more chances our another life to try again, all we have is now, so we must try to make the most of ourselves in life.