Joyas Voladoras

     The meaning I take from Brian Doyle's Joyas Voladoras is that all hearts are different physically, but emotionally we all have weaknesses that can break our hearts.  I think it is discouraging and pessimistic because it says "You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant..." and "All hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn..."This means that no matter what we do to protect ourselves from heartbreak, we will always be hurt in the end.  One of my favorite lines is "...the memory of your father's voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children..."  I like this like because I can relate to it.  Every Sunday morning my dad wakes up early and makes pancakes for me and my sisters before church.  It is something we look forward to, and has become kind of a tradition.

Quotes

These are some of my favorite quotes.

     "Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them."-Mia Hamm

     "Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."-Vince Lombardi

     "We often regret the things we didn't do more than the things we did do."-Unknown

     "I am thankful for all of those who said no to me.  It is because of them I'm doing it myself."-Albert Einstein

     "Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

     "Some people want it to happen, some people wish for it to happen, others make it happen."-Michael Jordan

     "You cna't just beat a team, you have to leave an impression in their mind so they never want to see you again."-Mia Hamm

     "Never let success get to your head; never let failure get to your heart."-Unknown

    

    

What is Worth Knowing?

     "They don't teach you how to love somebody.  They don't teach you to be famous.  They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor.  They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer.  They don't teach you how to know what else is going on in someone else's mind.  They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying.  They don't teach you anything worth knowing."  This quote by Neil Giaman tells us that in school, they don't teach us anything that will help us get through inportant situations in life.  The things we learn in school make it easier for us to get into college, get a job, and be successful.  However, they don't teach us how to take care of the things that make life more than just a job.  They don't teach us how to be good to people.  They don't teach us how to have a happy family.  We need to know how to read and write, but we don't need to spend ten years of our lives on it.  We need to take time and learn the other things, too.  They are they things worth knowing.