Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the
moments that take our breath away

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have problems remembering how to fly.

A coincidence is when God performs a miracle and decides to stay anonymous

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
~French Proverb

Circumstances don't make you what you are -- they reveal what you are.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dale E. Turner

Make your mark.
And life will offer comfort,
Rise every day,
Determined to live a little more
This day than the last.
Entertain no fear
For fear is death.
Fall not in health or charater;
Knowledge grasp-it is
The only wealth, firmly
Make your mark.

Home is not where you live but they understand you
-Christian Morgenstern

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel
-Horace Walpople

Anyone can become angry-that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way-that is not easy!
-Aristotle

"Who taught you all this, Doctor?"
The reply came promptly: "Suffering"
-Albert Camus, The Plague

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. ~ Baltasar Gracian

Culture is a treasure which follows its owner everywhere
-Chinese proverb

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ Chinese proverb

When the mind is ready, a teacher appears.
~Zen Proverb

Success is that old A B C -- ability, breaks and courage. ~ Charles Luckman

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is -- try to please everybody. ~ Herbert Bayard Swope

Platonic friendship is the name given to the period between the first look and the first kiss.

Everybody should have at least two friends-one to talk to and one to talk about.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with a few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appelation.
~George Washington

IF YOU THINK

If you think you are beaten, you are:
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost:
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will:
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are:
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.

So then in all of your plannings, in all of your work toward material success, don't forget the supreme challenge to you, to me, to each of us, is not solely to make a living but to make a life.

The dedicated life is the life worth living.
You must give with your whole heart.
~Anne Dillard

Words are like winter's snowflakes. ~ Homer

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant; it's that they know so much that ain't so.
~ Josh Billings

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
~ George Bernard Shaw

A school should not be a preparation for life; A school should be life.
~Elbert Hubbard

Yesterday is already a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision;
But today well lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Don't let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know you were meant to do.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moment of comfort,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~Marten Luther King,Jr.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it Today!

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.

Be willing to accept a temporary inconvinience for a permanent improvement.

When someone lets you down,
Don't give up on him.

Do good and good will follow you.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words -- wait and hope.
~ Alexander Dumas the Elder

The door to success is labeled PUSH.
~ Oscar Wilde

What Peter tells you about Paul tells you more about Peter than it does about Paul.
~ Anon

Common sense is not so common.
~ Voltaire

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
~ John C Lilly

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith

If you keep your mind sufficiently opened, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
~ William Orton

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
--Oscar Wilde

Experience is a wonderful thing.
It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
--Charles Caleb Colton

The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
--Christian Morgenstern.

Life is like email,
Sometimes you just don't get it.

Don't be afraid to be you.

The heart has its reasons,
which reason knows not of
-Pasol

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man or
polishes him up depends on the stuff he is made of.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets by it,
but what he becomes by it.

Words are so dangerous-more easily misunderstood than kisses or even a smile.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

To live in perpetual present, memories, dreams, desires, hungers, the urge towards a tomorrow are all rooted in the present.
Without now there is no before, just as there can be no after.

Every pain that you undergo in this process is for the higher growth.
A seed has pain to sprout, and a sprout has pain to become bigger.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced.
It is always so.
When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Don't look at the lack in your life.
See what you have.
Then abundance increases.

See the nature of mind:
if there are ten good qualities and one negative,
the mind clings on to that one negative.
Ten compliments and one insult, the mind will forget all the ten compliments.
It hangs on to the one insult and goes on and on and on about it.

Anger is meaningless, because it is always about something that has already passed.

A smile costs nothing, but gives much.
It enriches those who receive,
without making poorer those who give.
It takes but a moment,
but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I
cannot change;
the Courage to change the things I can;
and the Wisdom to know the difference.

Don't tell God how big your problems are...
Tell your problems how big your God is.

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you,
not because they are nice, but because you are.

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

A woman must always bring courage to life-
and it takes courage to build a home anywhere.

We may not choose how we are born,
or
how early chapters run,
but
we can bend our energies
to round
our little tale and close the book upon a perfect end.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly,
The fool complains,
The honest man walks away and is silent.

The friendship that can come to an end,
never really began.
-Pubilius Syrus (Moral sayings)

Rivers flow;
the sea sings.
Oceans roar;
Tides rise.
Who am I?
A small pebble on a giant shore.
Who am I to ask who I am?
Isn't it enough to be?
-Judie Robson

Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.
-Tehyi Hsieh.

A friend is someone who knows
the song in your heart and can
sing it back to you when you have
forgotten the words.

My father always used to say
that when you die, if
you've got five real friends,
then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

We all take different paths in life,
but no matter where we go,
we take a little of each other everywhere.
- Tim McGraw

Anticipation is sweet....
when you are sure of the outcome....

Life is a grindstone,
and whther it grinds a man or polishes him up,
depends on the stuff he is made of.

Talent forms itself in solitude,
Character in the storms of life.

Politeness is like an air cushion.
There may be nothing in it but it eases jolts wonderfully.

Launching a dream is,
Like taking a breath of fresh air...
Like a surpise gift always waiting to be opened...
Like a journey to a favorite place!

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

I have no troubles with my enemies,
But my goddamn friends,
They are the ones that keep me walking the floor at night.

Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.

I asked God to take away my pain. God said, No.
It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.

I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. God said, No.
Her spirit was whole, her body was only temporary.

I asked God to grant me patience. God said, No.
Patience is a by-product of tribulations; it isn't granted, it is learned.

I asked God to give me happiness. God said, No.
I give you blessings. Happiness is up to you.

I asked God to spare me pain. God said, No.
Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to me.

I asked God to make my spirit grow. God said, No.
You must grow on your own, but I will prune you to make you fruitful.

I asked for all things that I might enjoy life. God said, No.
I will give you life so that you may enjoy all things.

I asked God to help me LOVE others, as much as he loves me.
God said...Ahhhh, finally you have the idea.

The strongest people are not those who always win
but those who stand back up when they fall.

There are things that we never want to let go of,
people we never want to leave behind,
but keep in mind that letting go isn't the end of the world,
it's the beginning of a new life.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

Yesterday is the past,
Tomorrow is the future,
Today is a gift that's why it is called the Present!

Drop a coin where a child can find it;
Learn something new, then...
Teach it to someone else.
Look a child in the eye and
tell them how great they are.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.--Rabbinic saying.

Somehow along the course of life,
you learn about yourself and realize there should never be regrets,
only a lifelong appreciation of the choices you've made.

Happiness lies for those who cry,
those who hurt,
those who have searched and those who have tried.
For only they can appreciate the importance
of the people who have touched their lives.

Life's short. Look around once in a while so you don't miss it.

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together,
to hurt you to the heart;
the one to slander you and
the other to get the word to you.--Mark Twain

"Advice is like snow: the softer it falls,
The longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind."--Coleridge

The only thing we can never know is how to know how to ignore what we can never know."--Rousseau, 1762.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

Enthusiasm is contagious.
You could start an epidemic!

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle- Plato

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge,
I wouldn't jump with them,
I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

A good conscience is a soft pillow.

Thank God for what you have, TRUST GOD for what you need.

Harsh words break no bones but they do break hearts.

For every minute you are angry with someone,
you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.

Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and wherever you are.

You are richer today if you have given or forgiven.

Don't frown, because you never know who's falling in love with your smile!

Don't hold a grudge.
Don't be afraid to say, "I'm sorry."

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

The real measure of a man's wealth is what he has invested in eternity.

Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

No man/woman is worth your tears and the only one who is, will never make you cry.

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true."

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

The choice you make today will usually affect tomorrow.

To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.

Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depend upon others.

We take for granted the things that we should be giving thanks for.

Take time to laugh, for it is the music of the soul.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Man looks at outward appearance but the Lord looks within.

Home is the place where we grumble the most, but are often treated the best.

Happy memories never wear out....re-live them as often as you want.

If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.

Everyone has beauty but not everyone sees it.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

When one door of happiness closes,
another opens but often we look so long
at the closed door that
we don't see the one which has opened for us.



The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch,
swing with, never saying a word,
and then walk away feeling like
that was the best conversation you've had.

Whatever you think that you will be.
If you think yourself weak, weak you will be.
If you think yourself strong,strong you will be.

Dream what you want to dream;
Go where you want to go;
Be what you want to be,
Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong, Be what you want to be,
enough sorrow to keep you human,
enough hope to make you happy.

Sing a song. Hope a hope.
Dream a dream.
Listen to advice. (but only when it feels right).
Smile,laugh,be joyful....
And then keep forever in your heart
What it is that makes you so happy.

When you were born,
you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so that when you die,
you're the one who is smiling and
everyone around you is crying.

Do more than exist,
live.
Do more than touch,
feel.
Do more than look,
observe.
Do more than read,
absorb.
Do more than hear,
listen.
Do more than listen,
understand.
Do more than think,
ponder.
Do more than talk,
say something.

Always put yourself in others' shoes.
If you feel that it hurts you,
it probably hurts the other person too.

God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.

I've been,beaten, choked, kicked, lied to, swindled,
taken advantage of,and laughed at...
The only reason I hang around is to see
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!

POSSIBILITIES

Life's filled with possibilities,
that challenge us each day..
To take a chance,try something new, see things in a different way.
And its through these special moments
That we learn to change and grow,
To explore the precious gift of who we are and what we know.
For it's not until we try that we find out what we can do.
So don't wait until tomorrow to discover something new!

LIVE EACH DAY TO THE FULLEST

Yesterdays's troubles are written on sand,
brushes out of existence by God's own hand.
The things of the future, our hearts may fear,
can all be resolved when tomorrow is here.
Out of a lifetime, these hours alone,
the hours of TODAY are completely our own-
So as each sun is setting there's reason to say
"Thanks,Lord, for your gifts- above all for this day."

The world's like a garden,
filled with blossoms, bright and rare
and True Friends
Are the flowers that bloom there.

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