Carly Cohen's Clobbers

1. Hatred is like red lights, as much as you try to avoid it, it will come to you eventually and slow you down.
2. A life without hatred is a life well spent.
3. It takes more effort to hate someone than it does to like someone, so just be nice.
4. Being hated for what you do is almost acceptable. Being hated for what you believe is unacceptable.
5. Hatred is a language we all speak, as much as we try not to.
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1. Pride is not arrogance, it is self appraisal.
2. Appraisal from others gives one more pride, but too much pride just takes away all appraisal. 
3. Pride doesn't equal perfection, it equals satisfaction. 
4. People can't be proud of you until you are proud of yourself.
5. People will be proud of you until the time when pride takes the form of arrogance.
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1. Morality is the difference between right and wrong, up and down, leading everyone to which direction they deserve.
2. A moral compass doesn't always point due north, but a person with morals would be able to work past it regardless.
3. Morality is the paved portion of the road of your life- if you ever feel yourself fall off course, think back to your morals.
4. Morality isn't needed to be a good person, though once you are a good person, it comes naturally.
5. Morals are the unspoken rules th...
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1. Wisdom is the steps to get to the level of being 'wise'.
2. Wisdom is life's thank you gift for hanging in there.
3. With everything you learn in a lifetime, one's wisdom increases until they can officially be labeled 'wise'.
4. Wisdom knows no age, only thoughts and actions of people.
5. Wisdom is the television of you, playing only one show: your intelligence.

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Due to the unfortunate event of Alexandra Karones not having internet and the learning lab computers possessing incompetent brains and not being able to load her website, these are her much anticipated clobbers!

SOLITUDE! DUH DUH DUH!!!!!!!
1. Solitude is a much needed meditation period for a person to reflect upon their life.
2. Only the most selfless individuals can return from solitude without any complaints.
3. Too much time spent in solitude is a bad thing; people need people, it is simply h...

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1. Sometimes solitude is all anyone needs in order to accompliosh even the toughest of goals.
2. If no one gives you gratitude, but instead a bunch of attitude, then solitude will make everything better.
3. Solitude is like stress: you may not like it, but in the end, you end up with success.
4. Solitude makes the heart grow lonely, and the brain grow stronger.
5. If you don't like my attitude, then you can go sit in solitude. -Mr. Cullum
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1. Recognition goes to those who don't sit back and wait for it; it goes to those who do things just for the sake of doing them.
2. Recognized can be good or bad, welcomed or unwelcomed, but at the end of the day, it leaves everyone better off.
3. Having the generosity to recognize the ones around you will only give you more recognition.
4. You can go your whole life begging for recognition from those around you, but self-recognition is what really counts.
5. Recognition is to acknowledge your pe...
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1. A promise between friends is just another stack of money thrown into the vault.
2. A promise is a sacred present shared between friends.
3. To promise is to give yourself away.
4. A promise is forever.
5. If you break a pinky promise, you break a heart.

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1. When everything in your life seems to go wrong, hope is the anchor that will pull you through to the end.
2. One cannot fail until he has given up hope.
3. Hope is the core of every life: without hope, there'd be no life.
4. Hope is never-ending, because one is always hoping that his original hope will come true.
5. Being optimistic doesn't suffice, for hope is the one feeling that puts your optimism to work.

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