Breathing for Moments In Time

I always have been a massive fan of quotes. I just think that they exist for a reason, obviously. I mean we read them and think "wow that actually is true", but what the real challenge here is to actually live by them. I think I don´t even know a handful of people who actually live by a quote. But to be honest, I think they are inspiring! Because they are being honest and truthful with themselves. The quote or motto might not suit or appeal everybody but if someone choses to life by them they become powerful. They lead you to where you want to be in your life, because it´s your choice to life by them.
I wish I actually could really live by my favorite ones, but maybe I am still too unexperienced to do so.

Anyways I was thinking about a couple of quotes and I wanted to share my thoughts.

The probably most popular quote anybody could live by must be YOLO. I think even in the older generations most of the people have heard about it. It might sound stupid when you say it and it´s probably used for bad reasons most of the time or as an excuse.. but if you actually think about it, you truly only live once! Why don´t make it the best time in your life? It´s not like you are getting any seconds back. Just make the best out of it, because it´s your life.

Another one I just recently saw was Collect moments not things. That´s officially one of my favorite quotes now. Because it´s so true! Sometimes you just go out in the world and buy stuff or take pictures of things you think are important to you.. but maybe after some time you realize, it´s not the things what make your life special and worth it. It´s the moments you share with your loved ones. A beautiful or horrible moment will burn into your soul forever. But I´m not so sure if the newest cell phone will.

One of my best friends dad celebrated his 50th birthday this spring. He hold a speech talking about his life with his wife and his children. He remembered the day he got married and that his father set him free to the marriage with a quote: Way is, who forgives others to be different. I have never once forgotten this quote and I find it extremely beautiful. I already passed down this quote a couple of times to people I care about because I think you can take so much out of this quote and you could let it possibly change your life. Just the sentence itself is amazing. There are so many people trying to be way through reading a lot of books or watching a lot of movies. But I think the only true way to be way and in center with yourself is to see how you treat others and your loved ones. We need to learn to accept the others for who they are, not for what we want them to be. And I think that truly represents love if you can forgive others to be different.

Well my last quote for tonight is out of one of my favorite books which I already introduced on this blog.. jupp it´s The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbowsky. In the book there is this moment when Charlie tries to comfort Sam about her love life and he is saying We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve. 
If we are honest to ourselves, most of the people probably question themselves about "how do I deserce this, how do I deserve you?" Because usually people have insecurities and think that they are not good enough to get certain things. That´s why it´s so hard for some people to accept their luck in life and to see, realize and accept things or love. It´s our nature to put ourselves down, just in case it might be true.

This quote might be a tad bit sad, but at least it´s an honest one. Maybe we all can have peace with ourselves and learn to accept the things which are good for us.

So that´s it for tonight, but be sure to read a couple more quotes or life lines here and there! :)

Quick City Trip To Heidelberg :))

Well a couple of days ago, me, my family and some friends from America visit a couple of cities in Germany. And here is the next one I want to write about! It´s Heidelberg!!
This is probably one of the prettiest cities in Germany or Europe I have ever been to!
It is located as one of the larger cities in south-west Germany. There are still a lot of old buildings, because luckily this city wasn´t bombed much in WW2. My favorite houses are the timbered ones. I just think they look absolutely beautiful and it reminds of what life was like as a kid because I loved to look at houses like that and apparently I still do haha.

First we took some sort of railway up the hill to visit the castle or what is left of it! I have to say the view from the castle down on the city is absolutely breath taking!!
We actually were witness of a wedding and I though it was a cute idea to get married in castle Heidelberg! Although I have to say the couple didn´t look really happy, sorry :(
Apart from ruins you can see the wine cellar which contains centuries-old wine (crazy to imagine right?) and an old pharmacy where you can buy little gifts.
We had lunch at a cute little beer garden which is a typical thing for Germany haha.

(You can´t really tell in the picture, but there is a river right through the city which is a major plus (; )

Afterwards we walked a little bit through the city and just relaxed with a nice ice in the hand :)
Oh and we visit the student prison!! They used to put college students in there when they have been naughty. And these lovely student used their time wisely and decided to paint or write on the walls in the prison. Now it´s a tourism's attraction and I have to say some things written are just hilarious!!:D

Haha the last picture just cracks me up!!:D The cuss words back that time weren´t that creative either as ours are!:D
Anyways I had fun writing this, because I love looking back at things and remembering them!
I´ll just leave with a random picture of the ride home :)

The Reason I´m alive

I would like to introduce my newest favorite song!! It´s called The Big Bang by Rock Mafia!!

The song is actually kind of old as it was written in 2010! But I heard it in a couple of commercials and I recently watched the movie LOL which has the song in it as well. Surprisingly it didn´t have a top spot in the charts, but nonetheless it is an extraordinary song!

The official music video of The Big Bang is starred with Miley Cyrus and Kevin Zegers. Basically the story of the video is that Kevins girlfriend appears as a ghost to him until he suddenly realizes that she is in fact dead, but he just disavows it.

I really love the music video, because it shows real love and passion. Miley and Kevin are perfect for this song, they represent it so well! I really love it! :)

My favorite line is: 

Some people like to talk

But I´m into doing

What I feel like doing

When I´m inspired.

Cause I think it´s a good quote to live by. Do what makes you happy and don´t let the others rule your life. If you don´t feel like doing it, just don´t do it. It´s your life, live it to the fullest.

The beauty of lake constance

Sometimes it´s not necessary to go far away to see beautiful things. A couple of days ago, my sisters host mum from America flew to Germany to visit us and we decided to show her some of the wonderful places around here! Well actually it´s not really "around here" since I live close to frankfurt and the lake constance is well.. around constance, but it´s closer to frankfurt than to America anyway (;

And another plus of the lake is that my grandma lives in a little city called Radolfzell and her house is not even half a mile away from the lake! I used to spend my summer at her house all the time when I was little! So I grew up loving it!

That is the beautiful seaside! Well actually it should be lakeside.. but that just sounds well.. I´ll leave it with seaside haha
This spot is in Constance itself, but you can find many similar spots all around the lake. They are great if you just want to relax. Watching the water always calmed me and I love to take a book or something to draw with me. After two hours all your problems are solved (:
This song used to be one of my favorites back in the days and it kind of fits :)

The two pictures above are taken in the lovely city Meersburg! As the name says it´s right next to the lake! It´s a beautiful old city with the famous style of houses! It has everywhere cute little restaurants, café´s or little gift shops! 

What I love about this city (more likely a village) that each house is unique! There is no way two houses next to each other look like the same! (At least when they aren´t build recently). It´s refreshing, because I happened to notice that in America it´s not a rare sight, a couple of houses looking exactly the same. That´s why I love going into older cities in Europe :)

This is probably one of the most interesting villages in the world! These are called stilt houses and they are build on stems. The wonderful and remarkable thing about them is that they are completely made out of natural resources! The construction time goes back to the Bronze Age and even the Stone Age!

They offer a guided tour, well usually I´m not to fond of guided tours or museums in general, but I have to say that this tour was extraordinary!  The guide was very professional and had an amazing way to bring the old ages to us! What the people back in these Ages did was absolutely remarkable! They achieved work we could never even dream of accomplishing! I learned that their normal needed calories demanded about 11 Big Mac´s!!! And I wouldn´t call that normal these days! 

All in all, once in a while it´s nice to have some cultural refreshment and to see some lovely places :) It´s not my last time that I´ll be seeing this lake, that´s for sure!

That´s just a picture I took on my way home to Frankfurt.. I just love the fields and I´m a massive sucker for sunsets :)