Words of Wisdom

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The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. - Epictetus The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal. - Cicero People often say motivation doesnt last. Well, neither does bathing - thats why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar If you dont go after what you want youll never have it. If you dont ask, the answer is always no. If you dont step forward, youre always in the same place. - Nora Roberts Only those willing to risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Elliot Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. - Josiah Gilbert Right is right, even if everyone is against it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. - William Penn See where your own energy wants to go, not where you think it should go. Do something because it feels right, not because it makes sense. Follow the spiritual impulse. - Mary Hayes-Grieco Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitaly alive, along with which comes your inner voice which says this is the real me, and when you find that attitude follow it. - William James Six essential qualities are the keys to success: sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, and charity. - William Menniger Someones opinion of you does not have to become your reality. -Les Brown Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. -Ambrose Bierce We first must make our habits and then our habits make us.
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- John Peyton What we learn from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless, or more powerful. - Blair Lee When firmness is sufficient; rashness is unnecessary. - Napoleon Bonaparte When the character of a man is not clear to you look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. - Billy Graham When you have a number of disagreeable tasks to do, do the most disagreeable first. - Josiah Quincy Whether you think you can or whether you think you cant, youre right. - Henry Ford You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. - Richard Bach You can finish school, and even make it easy, but you never finish your education, and its seldom easy. - Zig Ziglar If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. - Napoleon Hill If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. - Pat Riley If you have no confidence in self, than you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before youve started. - Marcus Garvey Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Segan Iron rusts from disuse, stagnate water loses its purity, and in cold weather it becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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- Leonardo de Vinci There are two great days in a persons life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. - William Barclay There is no elevator to success you have to take the stairs. - Unknown There is nothing permanent except change. - Heraclitus There is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas Edison Those who wish to sing always find a song. - Swedish proverb Time is free, but its priceless. You cant own it, but you can use it. You cant keep it, but you can send it. Once youve lost it you can never get it back. - Harvey McKay Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. - Miguel de Cerrantes You dont develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Barbara de Angelis You dont need explanations for everything. Recognize that there are such things as miracles, events for which there are no ready explainations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. - Harry Browne You have powers you never dreamed of . You can do things you never thought you could. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind. - Darwin P. Kingsley You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. - Brian Tracy You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed it you dont try. - Beverly Silles You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
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- David Viscott You must have an aim, a vision, a goal. For the man sailing through life with no destination or port-of-call every wind is the wrong one. - Tracy Brinkman You will make more friends in one week by getting yourself interested in other people than you can in a year of trying to get other people interested in you. - Arnold Bennett You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. - J. Krishnamurti It takes seventy-two muscles to frown but only thirteen to smile. - Unknown Its not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. - Roy Disney Kindness and honesty can only be accepted from the strong. - Unknown Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is wisdom; mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. - Lao Tzu Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon Life is too short to be small. - Benjamin Disraeli Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive, one must never, for whatever reason, turn his back to life. - Eleanor Roosevelt Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. - Denis Waitley Love all, trust few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare Love does not exist in gazing at eachother, but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. - Aristotle He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Nietzsche Hold yourself to a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. - Henry Ward Beecher Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha Hope can always cope. - P.K. Thomajan Hope is one of those things in life that you cannot do without. - LeRoy Douglas Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. - Billy Graham I am a verb. - Ulysses S. Grant I am definitely going to take a course in time management . Just as soon as I can work it into my schedule. - Louis E. Boone I dont fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you? - George S. Patton Our attitude towards life determines lifes attitude towards us. - Earl Nightingale Paralyze resistance with persistence. - Woody Hayes People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backwards to their ancestors. - Edmund Burke Perseverance is not a long race, it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliot

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Please all, and you will please none. - Aesop Positive thinking wont let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. - Zig Ziglar Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make me feel important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. - Mary Kay Ash Procrastination is the art if keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight D. Eisenhower The shortest distance between two points is under consruction. - Noelie Alito The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. - Henry Ward Beecher The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide worlds joy. - Henry Ward Beecher The way I see it, if you want a rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - G. K. Chesterton The way to succeed is to double your failure rate. - Joe Paterno The years teach much which the days never knew. - Ralph Waldo Emerson There are admireable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strengths and your truth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, It all depends on me. - Andre Gide There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell

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One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essense of life. - Anatolia France One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. - Jonathan Swift One of the greatest moments in anybodys developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get aquainted with himself as he really is. - Norman Vincent Peale One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and a clever thing to say. - Will Durant One of the virtues of being very young is that you dont let the facts get in the way of your inmagination. - Sam Leverson One problem of gazing to0 frequently in the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. - Michael Cibenko Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others. - Unknown Opportunities may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. - Unknown Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. - Helen Keller Real Success comes in small portions, day by day. You need to take pleasure in lifes daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success. - Denis Waitley Reason and judgement are the qualities of a leader. - Tacitus Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, youll find one at the end of your arm As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, and one for helping others. - Audrey Hepburn Remember, what you say comes back to you.
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- Zig Ziglar Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. - Lawrence Sterne Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder him. - Tom Stoppered Responsibility is the price of freedom. - Elbert Hubbard Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood. - Dr. Frank Crane Your eyes cant hit what your eyes cant see, float like a butterfly sting like a bee, rumble young man rumble. - Muhammed Ali Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. - Benjamin Franklin Youth is a circumstance which you cant do anything about. The trick is to grow up without growing old. - Frank Lloyd Wright Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. - Thomas Fuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To change and to change for the better are two different things. - German Proverb To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. - Doug Larson To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. - Unknown Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely. - Unknown

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Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Dr. Robert Schuller Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain Two wrongs dont make a right, but they make a good excuse. - Thomas Szasz Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. - John F. Kennedy View life as a continuous learning experience. - Dennis Waitley The best things in life arent things. - Art Buchwald The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement. - Unknown The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - Samuel Johnson The control center of your life is your attitude. - Anonymous The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be. - Ayn Rand The distance is nothing; its only the first step thats difficult. - Marquise de Deffand The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination. - Tommy Lassoed The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. - Thomas Carlyle Habit is habit and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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- Mark Twain He who angers you conquers you. - Elizabeth Kenny Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves up to it. - Emily H. Sell Love is not getting, but giving. - Henry Van Dyke Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. - Vincent Van Gogh Love is the beauty of the soul. - St. Augustine Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Love is not what you are, but who you become. - Miguel de Cervantes Love rules without rules. - Italian Proverb Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didnt spend half out time wishing. - Alexander Woodcut I have always admired the ability to bite off more than you can chew and then chew it. - William Demille It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. - Native American Proverb You never lose by loving, you always lose by holding back. - Barbara De Angelis Its alright letting yourself go as long as you can get yourself back. - Mick Jagger Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of anothers personhood. - Karen Casey
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What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things. - Author Unknown If you judge people, you dont have time to love them. - Mother Teresa A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson All you need is love. - John Lennon Enjoy youself these are the good ole days you are going to miss in the years ahead. - Anonymous The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts ever quite wish to. - Dodie Smith She never once gave up. My mom is my hero. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. - Mark Twain First, say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do. - Epictetus There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy, and its only reward is that its easy. - Unknown If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. - St. Francis of Assisi Peace, like charity, begins at home. - Unknown Kindness in words, creates confidence. Kindness in thinking, creates profoundness. Kindness in giving, creates love. - Lao Tzu Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. - Plato
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If you would be loved, love, and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. - Gandhi You never know what happiness a simple act of kindness can bring about. - Bree Abel The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply feels for all who live. - Madame de Stal We should be careful to get out of the experience only the wisdom that is in it. - Mark Twain Experience: the most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my god you learn. - C. S. Lewis There are high spots in our lives and most of them come about through encouragement from someone else. - George Adams In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure. - Heart Warrior Chosa

Shared joy is double joy; Shared sorrow is half sorrow. - Swedish Proverb You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop and look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along. - Eleanor Roosevelt The journey from who you once were to who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. - Barbara De Angelis Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday.
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- Sally Koch Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - James M. Barrie You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl in life? - Rumi Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. - Helen Keller Knowledge is love, and life, and vision. - Helen Keller People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I dont believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cant find them, they make them. - George Bernard Shaw Face the thing you fear and you do away with that fear. - Source Unknown Love is fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. - Mother Teresa Love is not what we become; But its where they are. - Stephen Louis True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island . To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fourtune; to keep him is a blessing. - Baltasar Gracian One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japeneses Proverbs Hold a friends hand through times of trial, let her find love through a hug and a smile; But also know when its time to let go for each and every one of us must learn to grow. - Sharon A. Heilbrum Make yourself a blessing to someone. You kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge. - Carmelia Elliot The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it. - C.C. Scott

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Wherever you go, there you are. - Buckaroo Bonzi Its such a secret place the land of tears. - Unknown Other people may be there to help us, guide us, along our paths, but the lesson to be learned is always ours. - Melody Beauty Family a group experience of love and support. - Marriane Williamson Things do not change, we change. - Henry David Thoreau I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchhill Moral action is the meeting place between what is human and what is divine One must not always think about what one should do but tather what one should be. A persons true wealth is the good he or she does in the world. - The Prophet Muhammad We cant take credit for our talents. Its how we use them that counts. - Madeline LEngle It is the enemy who can teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance. - Ten Zin Gyutso Your heart is your own guru. We are, each of us angels, with one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano de Creceszo I believe that unearned truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need. The remainder is needed by others. - St. Augustine You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Gandhi

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It isn't enough to talk about peace, one must believe it. And it isn't enough to believe in it, one must work at it. In this world you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough. One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. - Ira Gershwin Hope is necessary in every condition. - Samuel Johnson Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it. - Mother Teresa 9 Requisits for Contented Living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Find the good and praise it! - Alex Haley Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
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- Buddha It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Dont be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Mier If a man does his best, what else is there? - Gen. George S. Patton Do, or do not, there is no try. - Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back) There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ego. - Friedrich Nietzsche Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. - George Washington Carver I have not failed, Ive just found 10,000 ways that dont work. - Thomas Edison Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Its kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney Be nice to people on your way up because youll see them on your way down. - Jimmy Durance
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone that can do him no good. - Samuel Johnson If everything seems under control your just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Ill sleep when Im dead. - Warren Zevon Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - George Lichtenberg Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau Fill whats empty, empty whats full, and scratch where it itches. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Luck is the residue of design. - Branen Ricky Reality is mearly an illusion, albeit a very persistant one. - Albert Einstein A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - JFK Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sarte Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech.
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- Martin Farquhar Tupper Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Friends may come and go, but ememies accumulate. - Thomas Jones To dream of the person you wish to be is to waste the person you are. - Unknown The true meaning of life is to plant trees under those whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Herberson The ordinary acts we practice everyday at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity may suggest. - Thomas Moore The hardest thing in life is letting go of what you thought was real. - Unknown I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and mean keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out alright, what is said against me wont amount to anything. - Abraham Lincoln Life is the act of drawing without an eraser. - John W. Gardner Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. - Leon Trotsky In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. - Yogi Berra
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Tomas Jefferson In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Regret for the things we do can be tempered by time; it is the regrets for things we didnt do that is inconsolable. - Sidney J. Harris Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Leighton If your going through hell, keep going you. - Winston Churchill I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Flemming Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver The significant problems that we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently oppressed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Aurther Schopenhauer Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Life is pleasent. Death is peaceful. It is the transition that is troublesome. - Isaac Asimov To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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- Oscar Wilde Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix A clever man commits no minor blumbers. - Grothe Argue for your limitations, and sure enough their yours. - Richard Bach A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Egotistic: a person more interested in themselves than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Wise men make proverbs, but fools follow them. - Samuel Palmer The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onuses When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Grothe You got to be careful id you dont know where youre going, because you might not get there. - Yogi Berra He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mac West You can pretend to be serious, you cant pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Attention to health is lifes biggest hindrance. - Plato The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I always prefer to believe in the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. - Rudyard Kipling Always do right. This will gratify some, and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. - Theodore Roosevelt The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox Theres only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and thats your own self. - Aldous Huxley He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty. - Lao-Tzu It is only with the heart thay one can see rightly; what is essential is invisable to the eye. - Antoine de Saint Exupery It is easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. - Al Franken Its never too late to be who you might have been. - George Elliot We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. - C. Malesherbes Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa We must not allow others limited perceptions to define us. - Virginia Satir Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. - Oprah Winfrey Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. - Langston Coleman Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. - Tombstone in Ireland
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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kanji Miyazawa While we are mourning the loss of a friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. - John Taylor Tears are Gods gifts to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. For death is no more than turning of us over from time to eternity. - William Penn Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. - Katherine Casey A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn. - Unknown I know that God will not give me something I cant handle, I just wish he didnt trust me so much. - Mother Teresa The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. - Harry Golden We aquire the strength we have overcome. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Some of Gods greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. - Garth Brooks I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. - Jewish Proverb Turn your words into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take, you can sit on a mountain more comfortably than you can sit on a tack. - Author Unknown If you can find a path without obstacles, it probably doesnt lead anywhere. - Frank A. Clark Bad is never good unless worse happens. - Danish Proverb
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Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. - Aurther Golden We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. - Charles C. West Things are never so bad that they cant be made worse. - Unkown If you dont like something, change it; If you cant change it, change the way you think about it. - Mary Engelbreit Every path has a puddle. - George Herbert A bad grade is only a letter in the essay of life. - Lee Drake When it is dark enough you can see the stars. - Ralph Waldo Emerson We find comfort among those who argue with us - growth among those who dont. - Frank A. Clark There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. - Michael de Montaigne Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Author Unknown Its not easy taking problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. - Ashleigh Brilliant The soul would have no rainbows had the eyes no tears. - John Vance Cheney If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. - P.S. I Love You Life didnt promise to be wonderful. - Teddy Pendergrass

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Much of your pain is self-choosen. - Kanil Gibren The difficulties in life are intended to make us better not bitter. - Author Unknown A problem is a chance for you to do your best. - Duke Ellington Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. - O. Henry Damaged people are dangerous. They know how to survive. - Josephine Hart Problems are messages. - Shakti Gawain Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell in our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. - Voltaire A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. - Mignon McLaughlin The course of true anything never does run smooth. - Samuel Butler Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times; if one only remembers to turn on the light. - Steven Kloves Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings while counting your troubles. - Maltore D. Babcock Sometimes its worse to win a fight than to lose. - Billie Hollday The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. - Norman Vincent Peale Problems are the price you pay for progress. - Branch Ricky
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You never know what youve got until its gone. - Author Unknown Heav hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. - Antoine Ravarol Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. - Join Mitchell A childs life is like a piece of paper on which everyone who passes leaves an impression. - Chinese Proverb Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. - Don Wilder Life is just a chance to grow a soul. - A. Powell Davis A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford One loyal friend is worth a thousand relatives. - Euripides The best mirror is an old friend. - Proverb Friendship isnt a big thing - its a million little things. - Author Unknown A real friend is the one who come in when the whole world goes out. - Grace Pulpit A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. - Author Unknown A friend can tell you things you dont want to tell yourself. - Francis Ward Weller Friends are relatives you make for yourself. - Eustache Deschamps Waters may dry
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Flowers may die But true friends will never say goodbye. - Author Unknown Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. - Yassir Arafat A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain even when you are fooling everyone else. - Author Unknown A friend is someone who is there for you when hed rather be somewhere else. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. Friends are Gods way of taking care of us. Count your age wurh friends but not with years. A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what. True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side. Your friend is the person who knows all about you, and still likes you. If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldnt jump after them, Id be at the bottom to catch them. Ill love you forever, Ill like you for always, as long as Im living my baby youll be. Ill love you forever, Ill like you for always, as long as Im living my mommy youll be. - Ill Love you Forever Love me or hate me Im still gonna shine. I cant promise to solve all your problems, but I can promise you wont have to face them alone. Smiles and tears Giggles and laughs Late night calls And cute photographs Ill be there for you Until the day of my death, Best friends forever Till my very last breath.

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When words fail, music speaks. I forgive but I dont forget. Its not our abilities that show who we truly are its our choices. Memories last forever. You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. Who are you to judge me, I know Im not perfect and I dont claim to be, but before you start pointing fingers make sure your own hands are clean. Unless youve lived my life, dont judge me because you dont know, never have, and never will know every little thing and detail about me. How people treat you is their karma, how you react is yours. Ive built a wall not to keep people out, but rather to see who loves me enough to climb over it. Theres always another chance, it just depends how hard you fight for it. The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. - Vince Lombardi Make the present good, the past will take care of itself. - Knute Rockhe If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price. - Bud Wilkinson It aint what you eat, but how you chew it. - Delbert McLinton If you sacrifice early, youll win late. - Todd Blackledge The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. - Vince Lombardi The difference between failure and success is doing nearly everything right and doing it exactly right. - Edward C. Simmons Things that hurt instruct. - Benjamin Franklin

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When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on. - FDR Adversity causes some to break, and others to break records. - Author Unknown Every game is a chance to measure yourself against your own potential. - Bud Wilkinson Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. - Lou Holtz Discipline is not a dirty word. - Pat Riley Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in between, you are either in or out. - Pat Riley Team guts always beat individual greatness. - Bob Zuppke Fall seven times, get up eight. - Japanese Proverb You win some, you lose some, some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. - J. Askenburg I can accept failure, everyone fails at something, but I cannot accept not trying. - Michael Jordan When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson Attitude is the minds paint brush. It can color a situation gloomy and gray, or cheerful In fact, attributes are more more important than facts. - Mary C. Crowley No matter what sin we have commited, no matter how terrible it may be, God loves us. - Billy Graham Dont bug me! Hug me! - Bumper Sticker Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. - Cyrus A. Bartol

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Fractures well cured make us more strong. - Ralph Waldo Emerson All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. - Henry David Thoreau The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials. - Danish Proverb He knows the water best who has waded through it. - Danish Proverb Go confidently in the direction of dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. - William Arther Ward Our greatest gift is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. - Confucius Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. - G. H. Lewis Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is who you really are, while your reputation is mearly what others think you are. - John Wooden He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon wither himself away. - Raymond Hull Do not wish to anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. - St. Francis de Sales Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. - Frank Outlaw How a man plays the game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it. - Author Unknown
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Those who dont know how to weep with their whole heart dont know how to laugh either. - Golda Meir Good character is more to be praises than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to built it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage, and determination. - John Luther Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. - Elbert Hubbard Character consists of what you do on the 3rd and 4th tries. - James A. Michener The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and confidence, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr. You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself one. - Henry David Thoreau Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin Never explain your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. - Elbert Hubbard A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg even though youre slightly cracked. - Bernard Meltzer A friend knows the song of my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - Author Unknown A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view. - Wilma Askinas The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Friends are like angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. - Author Unknown Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever quite the same. - Flavia Weedn Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. - G. Randolf Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts. - Author Unknown Dont walk in front of me because I may not follow. Dont walk behind me because I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Cainus We are not made for the moutains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the calley and the ordinary things in life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength. - Oswald Chambers Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. - Buddha Do what you can with what youve got wherever you are. - Theadore Roosevelt Life is what happens while you are busy making plans. - John Lennon Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. - Louise Driscoll Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate ones identity. - Eric Fromin If you will it, there is no dream. - Theodore Herzl If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
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- Henry David Thoreau The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard Dont let what you cant do stop you from what you can do. - John Wooden You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. - Henrik Ibsen Its our choices that show who we really are, far more than our abilities. - J. K. Rowling Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today? Today is a gift. Thats why we call it the present. - B. Olatunji To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, thats all. - Oscar Wilde You dont get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only choose how you are going to live. Now! - Joan Baez When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller If you want to be happy, be. - Leo Tolstoy Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco In three words I can sum up what Ive learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost Who you know is equally as important as what you know. Success comes from both intelligence and persistant diligence. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellance, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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- Aristotle Small people remain small because they think small, act small, or dont act at all. Preparation is essential. Understand the game before you play. Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Life is but a game, however, in this game the rules are not revealed until well into the game; and then, to only those courageous enough to seek them. Weve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. - Jesse Jackson A pessimist sees the difficulties in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand. - A traditional Irish blessing Flatter me, I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me and I will never forget you. - William Arthur Ward There are no speedlimits on the road to excellence. - David W. Johnson Be more commited to your dreams than your fears. God answers knee mail. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. It is not the years in your life, but the life in your years that counts. Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Our mind can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

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Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao-Tzu We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill I believe in you, even when the words are not spoken. I care about you even when we are apart. - Flavia Today I walked the highway With faltering steep and slow; My load seemed very heavy, And long the way to go, A comrade walked beside me, And I glanced his way, I saw that he, too, carried His burdens through the day. I smiled and reached to help him, I lefted half his load; My own seemed strangly lighter As we journeyed down the road. - Author Unknown I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it. - Maya Angelou To have a rose, you must accept the thorns. - Joe Sin If you keep on doing what youre doing, youre going to keep on getting what your getting. - Dr. Phil McGraw Dont ever quit! When things go wrong as they sometimes will When the road youre trudging seems all uphill When the funds are low, and the debts are high And you want to smile, but have to sigh When care is pressing you down a bit Rest if you must, but dont quit. Success is failure turned inside out. The silver tint of the clouds of doubt
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And you can never tell how close you are It may be near when it seems so far So stick to the fight when your hardest hit Its when things go wrong that you must never quit! - Author Unknown Friendship is the hardest thing to explain. Its not something you learn in school, but if you havent learned the meaning of friendship, than you havent really learned anything. - Muhammad Ali No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt If you can change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Author Unknown If opportunity doesnt knock build a door. - Milton Berle Our doubts are traitors and make us lose what good we might of won, by fearing to attempt. - Author Unknown You cannot shake hands with clenched fists. - Indira Gandhi Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. - Soren Kierkegaard We have two ears and one mouth so that we may listen more & talk less. - Zeno Woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help. - Ecclesiastes Never forget the hard times and the early days. Always remember where you cam from. - David Liederman Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire Tell me and Ill forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and Ill understand. - Chinese Proverb A friend is one believes in you even when you cease to believe in yourself.

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A hug is worth a thousand words, a friend is worth more. Everyone is a friend until they prove otherwise. I get by with a little help from my friends. - John Lennon Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. Sometimes you pick your friends, sometimes they pick you. Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship. The friendship that can cease has never been real. - Saint Jerome No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. - George Elliot The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. - Wilson Mizner Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. - Kahil Gibran I no doubt deserve my enemies, but I dont believe I deserve my friends. - Walt Whitman True friendship is never serene. - Marquise de Sevgne Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life. - James Francis Byrns You my friend, I will defend. And if we change, well love you anyway. Everyone hears what you say, friends listen to what you say, and best friends listen to what you dont say. No lapse of time or distance of place can lessen the friendship of those who are truly persuaded of the eachothers worth. The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Elizabeth Foley

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You only meet your once in a lifetime friend once in a lifetime. - Little Rascals A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you. A real friend is one who will not only entertain you, but one who cares about you and will be there when you cry. Best friends are better than boyfriends. As I reach a time of complete uncertainty, friends are my most precious asset. A friend will strengthen you with her prayers, bless you with her love, and encourage you with her hope. A reassuring presence, a light when times are dark, a hand reaching out, is what friendship is all about. Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. You never lose by loving, you always lose by holding back. - Barbara de Angelis A friend is a shoulder to lean on, an ear to listen, and a heart to comfort. Hold true friends with both your hands. Rekindled friendships often burn brighter. You lifted me up when I could no lift myself, you made me smile when I forgot how to, you were there for me in my time of need, and you were there for me when I needed nothing at all. Never forget the time I spend with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. Dont know what Id ever do without you from the beginning to the end, youve been right here beside me so I can call you my best friend, through the good times and the bad whenever I lose or if I win, I know one thing never changes and thats you as my best friend. If I could give you one gift my friend, I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you, so you would know how very special you are. A false friend is worse than a true enemy. A true friend is someone who makes us do what we can.
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Good friends help you move. Really good friends help you move a body. Dont cry because Its over, smile because it happened. Dreams are necessary to life. - Anais Nin To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France Nothing happens unless first we dream. - Carl Sandberg When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality. - Dom Heleder Camara The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. - Elizabeth Gilbert Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. - Goethe Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. - Harriet Tubman I think we dream so that we dont have to be apart so long. If were in each others freams, we can be together all the time. - Hobbes No one should ever negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. - Jesse Jackson If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time. - Marcel Proust No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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- Marian Wright Edelman If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all, and so today I still have a dream. (The Trumpet of Conscience) - Martin Luther King, Jr. If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. - Mary Beth Danielson The best thing in every nobel dream is the dreamer. - Moncure Conway There is nothing like a dream to create the future. - Victor Hugo A mans dreams are an idea to his greatness. - Zadok Rabinowitz Dream as if you will live forever, live as if youll die today. - James Dean Dont be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. - Author Unknown If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true. - Walt Disney Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill Gratitude unlocks the fullness in life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of the past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will be suddenly filled with gratitude, feeling that nurtures the soul. - Rabbi Harold Kuher

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He is a wise man who does not grieve for things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. - Epictetus When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. - Peace Pilgrim We must either find a way, or make one. - Hannibal Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations. Our possibilities become limitless. - James Paolinetti Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein Make no little plans they have no magic to stir mens blood make big plans, aim high in hope and work. - Daniel H. Burnham Live life fully while youre here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be wierd. Go out and screw up! Youre going to anyway, so might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Dont try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. - Anthony Robbins In youth we learn, in age we understand. - Marie von Ebner-Sechenbach One day at a time -- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering. - Author Unknown There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesnt matter who gets the credit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked. - Mark Twain You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile good. - Charles Carlson

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We do not inherit earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children. - Native American Proverb Victory and defeat are each of the same price. - Thomas Jefferson You cannot define talent. All you can do is build the greenhouse and see if it grows. - William P. Steven Everyday is a fresh opportunity to continue a quest toward our mission. - Harold McAlindon There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. - Logan Pearsall Smith Win without boasting, lose without excuse. - Albert Payson Terhune It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francis de la Rochefoucauld Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Marie Curie Only do what your heart tells you. - Princess Diana The difference between school and life? In school, youre taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, your given a test that teaches you a lesson. - Tom Bodett To do something however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being. - John Lubbock When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly, and unquestionably. - Walt Disney Keep sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow, perhaps it all will. - Albert Einstein I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela Action is the foundational key to all success.
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- Anthony Robbins Wherevery you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your sunshine. - Anthony J. DeAngelo If you dont think everyday is a good day, just try missing one. - Cavett Robert Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. - Winston Churchill Everyday may not be good, but there is something good in every day. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. - Francesca Reigler Think bigh thoughts, but relish small treasures. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. The only disability in life is a bad attitude. - Scott Hamilton I dont like that man. I must get to know him better. - Abraham Lincoln Whenever you fall, pick something up. - Oswald Avery Anywhere is paradise, its up to you. - Author Unknown I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. - Wernter von Braun Ive got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when Im blue. Laugh as much as you breath and love as much as you live. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what us most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. - Maria Robinson

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To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because to greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Experience is the name everyone gives their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde Sometimes its the smallest decision that can change your life forever. - Keri Russell The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than the appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company a church a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. We play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you we are in charge of out attitudes. - Charles R. Swindell If you want to do everything until youre sure its right, youll probably never accomplish much of anything. - Win Borden This is my wish for you: comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, love to complete your life. - Author Unknown The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. - Flora Whittenmore Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. - Kevin Arnold Never bend your head, hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. - Helen Keller A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin

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It doesnt matter if you try and try and try again, and fail, but it does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. - Charles F. Kettering I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. - Anne Freud In the dance of life every choice can change the rhythm. We must try not to sink beneath our anguish but battle on! - J.K. Rowling To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bernard Russell My strength is made perfect in weakness. - 2 Corinthians When you feel your worst, thats when you get to know yourself the best. - Leslie Grossman Happiness is beneficial to the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. - Marcel Proust There are times in everyones life when something constructive is born out of adversity when things seem so bad that you have got to grab your fate by the houlders and shake it. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. - Francis Bacon God gave burdens, also shoulders. - Yiddish Proverb When suffering comes we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. - Mignon McLaughlin Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is greater. - William Hazlift If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. - Henry David Thoreau

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If tears could build a stairway, And memories a lane, Id walk right up to heaven And bring you home again. Although its difficult today to see beyond the sorrow. May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow. - Author Unknown You cant run away from trouble, there aint no place that far. - Uncle Remns Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it, you may be smart enough to see that is what you would have wanted had you known. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa There is a little magic in everything and a little loss to even it out. - Lou Reed The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. - Theodore Rubin Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted. - Johann Paul There is no education like adversity. - Disraeli If youre in a bad situation, dont worry itll change. If youre in a good situation, dont worry itll change. - John A. Simone Sr. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Neitzsche Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. - Edwin Markham Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

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I owe much to my friends; but all things consided, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs to life under a sting even better than under a caress. - Andre Gide Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has more patience. Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormate. - Horace Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. - William James Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. - Andre Gide If the thunder is not loud, the peasent forgets to cross himself. - Russian Proverb To become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. - Oscar Wilde Let your joy scream across the pain. - Elizabeth Wilder Thorns and stings And those such things Just make stronger our angel wings. - Emme Woodhull-Bache The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better. - Barbara Pletcher Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you. - Cynthia Kersey The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles de Bois

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Sometimes questions are more important than answers, - Nancy Willard An average person with average talent, ambition, and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. - Brian Tracy There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them. - Clare Boothe Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. - P.S. I Love You Things dont go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so that you can be all that you are intended to be. - Charles Jones Until you make peace with who you are youll never be content with what you have. - Doris Mortan If you live each day as if it were your last, then when your last day arrives you will have no regrets, your life will have been a masterpiece; you will have lived life the best way it can be lived - one moment at a time with grace and appreciation. - Richard Carlson We may go to the moon, but thats not very far. The greatest distance we still have to travel is within us. - Charles de Gaul Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. - Shakti Gawain When plans are laid in advance, its suprising how often the circumstances fit in with them. - Sir William Osler Catch a passion for helping others and a richer life will come back to you! - William H. Danforth If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane. - Jimmy Buffett
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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today. - Pierre de Ronsard It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. - Albert Einstein Whatever you are be a good one. - Abraham Lincoln Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. - Author Unknown Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. - Author Unknown Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James Arthur Baldwin I believe in angels, The kind that heaven sends, I am surrounded by angels, But I call them friends. - Author Unknown Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. - African Proverb The best of times is now. - Oprah Winfrey The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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- Jimmy Johnson Everything will be all right in the end, if it's not all right, it's not the end. - Author Unknown God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr The best way to predict your future is to create it. - Peter Drucker While seeking revenge, dig two graves one for yourself. - Doug Horton Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. - Benjamin Franklin Remember, if youre headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! - Allison Gappa Bottke Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. - Richard Bach Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. - Chinese Proverb Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snow flake. Let us use it before it is too late. - Marie Beynon Ray Decorate yourself from the inside out. - Andrei Turnhollow If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. - Toni Morrison One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. - Oscar Wiled
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The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. - Ulysses S. Grant You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. - Leo Airman Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. - Author Unknown Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But, it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that! - Rocky Balboa movie It's not what you achieve in life its what you overcome. - Tiger Woods Find the good. Its all around you. Find it, showcase it and youll start believing it. - Jesse Owens Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking. There are too many people who think the only thing thats right is to get by, and the only thing thats wrong is to get caught. - J. B. Watts The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. - Martha Washingon The most important thing in life is to stop saying I wish and start saying I will. Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. - David Copperfield The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills

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them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. - Elizabeth Kruger Ross Its not the hours you put in your work that counts, its the work you put in your hours. - Sam Ewing I have failed many times, and thats why I am a success. - Michael Jordan When you are lonely, I wish you love. When you are down, I wish you joy. When you are troubled, I wish you peace. When things are complicated, I wish you simple beauty. When things look empty, I wish you hope. Dont worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind. - Milton Garland You cant turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. - Bonnie Pruden No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can aquire it. - Napoleon Hill Never does the human soul appear so strong and nobel as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. Action makes more fortune than caution. - Luc de Clapiers An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson When preparation and opportunity meet you have success. - Lisa Leslie People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they dont know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. - George E. Allen
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Every dream must have a goal first. - Lisa Leslie People who accomplish things didnt fall on top of the mountain, they worked their tails off. Success is not a one-time choice. You have to recommit yourself everyday. Even when you dont feel inspired, you have to gut it out and put in the work. - Mia Hamm The first thing I do after losing is forget it. - Nancy Lopez Believe you can do anything and then take a stab at it. - Nancy Lopez The most important personality trait is to be successful is to always be positive, because thatll make good things happen. - Nancy Lopez Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. - Al Capp There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different than the things we do. - Freya Madelin Stark Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons! - Ann Ruth Schabader You cannot be a light to others unless you are plugged in. - Author Unknown If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you cant accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not in your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. - Charles Dickens There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. - Jonas Silk Dont be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. - Zig Ziglar
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Dont let go too soon, but dont hang on too long. - Mitch Albom In the book of lifes questions, the answers are not in the back. - Charles M. Schultz Normal is not something to aspire to, its something to run away from. - Jodie Foster A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. - Michel de Montaigne All the knowledge I posses everyone else can aquire, but my heart is all my own. - Johann Von Goethe Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont matter and those who matter dont mind. - Dr. Seuss Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost I was once afraid of people saying who does she think she is? now I have the courage to stand up and say, This is who I am. - Oprah Winfrey I started to repeat to myself, If Im not where I want to be, its because Im not good enough yet. Which meant is was up to me. - Sally Field If God wanted me otherwise, otherwise He would have created me otherwise. - Johann Von Goethe If you dont get lost, theres a chance you may never get found. - Author Unknown It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing be what he is. - Desiderious Erasmus It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - Lee Cummings

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Real difficulties can be overcome: it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. - Theodore N. Vail People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do. - Anon There is one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget about your troubles. - Josh Billings Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Arnold Schwarzenegger The greatest things ever done on earth have been done little by little. - William Jennings Bryan The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something thats in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered. - Tina Turner Remember this -- very little is needed for a happy life. - Marcus Aurelius Antionus Motivation is what gets you started. Habit keeps you going. - Jim Ryan Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. - Leonardo de Vinci The future is uncertain but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. - Ilya Prigogine Wanting to be someone your not is a waste of the person you are. - Kurt Cobain You pile up enough tomorrows and youll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. - Meredith Wilson A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. - Desiderius Erasmus When you cease to dream, you cease to live. - Malcolm Forbes

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Do something. If it doesnt work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. - Jim Hightower My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. - Gracie Harmon Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle Everyday brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. - Oprah Winfrey Train yourself to let go of the things you are afraid to lose. - George Lucas Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. - Maria Collins Take chances, make mistakes. You must fail in order to practice being brave. - Mary Tyler Moore There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. - Lady Blessington In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Channel Dreams come in a size too big, so we can grow in to them. - Josie Bisset Dont spend time beating on a wall, hoping for it to transform into a door. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger Dont compromise yourself. You are all youve got. - Janis Joplin The first step to getting the things you want in life is this: decide what you want. - Ben Stein Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. - George Bernard Shaw The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up. - Mark Twain Unless you try something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of eachother everywhere. - Tim McGraw To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and dont worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. - Author Unknown Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin You must be willing to do the things today others dont do in order to have the things tomorrow others wont have. - Les Brown The first and most important step to success is the feeling that we can succeed. - Nelson Boswell There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them. - Laura Preble The first step to getting somewhere is to decide that you are going to stay where you are. - John Pierpont Morgan Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. - Robert Schueller When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. - Wayne Dyer Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. - Sir Fancis Bacon Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there. - Samuel Insull The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you who must raise your sails. - Rabindranath Tagore My strength lies in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur Storms purify the atmosphere. - Henry Ward Beecher
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. - Cicero If you look at what you have in life, youll always have more. If you look at what you dont have in life, youll never have enough. - Oprah Winfrey We all have a few failures under our belt. Its what makes us ready for the successes. - Randy K. Milholland I would much rather have regrets about no doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life would have been like if Id just been myself. - Brittany Rene Challenges are the gifts that force us to find a new center of gravity. Dont fight them. Just find a different way to stand. - Oprah Winfrey Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals. - Voltaire Sometimes we have to be silent in order to be heard. - Wilma Askinas Just being yourself, being who you are, is a successful resolution. - Author Unknown The hardest battle you are ever going to fight is the battle to just be you. - Leo Buscaglia Be brave, take risks, nothing can substitute experience. - Paulo Coelho Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid. - Keri McGrath Absence makes the heart grow fonder. The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
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- Mark Twain Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. - Sweedish Proverb Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, Its about learning to play in the rain. Dont try to duck from what life throws at you, learn to catch it, and throw it back. People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage yours. You just have to learn to forget the people who forget you. Never live life unnoticed. Pain is weakness leaving the body. Mistakes only make us stronger. You dont have to change friends if you understand that your friends change. Always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them. Heros are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, no matter what the consequence. Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when youre down, will be the ones to help you back up. Just because someone doesnt love you the way you want them to doesnt mean they dont love you with all they have. It isn't always enough to be forgiven by others, sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself. The people you care about most are sometimes taken from you too soon. You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. No matter how much you care, some people just dont care back. Never be to proud to ask for help.

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If you have the choice to pick right or kind, always pick kind. Life is a fight, and even though it seems like youre gonna get knocked out, you must keep fighting! Never be afraid to fail because through failure comes success. Loving someone doesnt mean keeping them. Sometimes it means you have to love them enough to let them go. Always be curious. Freedom is worth the responsibility. Dare to be different and if your friends cant accept you for who you are then they are not really your friends. When in doubt, just take the next small step. Cry with someone, it is more healing than crying alone. Its okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Its okay to let others see you cry. Dont compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it. Everything can change in the blink of an eye, but dont worry, God doesnt blink. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind. Whatever doesnt kill you really does make you stronger. When it comes to going after what you love in life, dont take no for an answer. Over prepare, then go with the flow. Always choose life. Believe in miracles. The best is yet to come. Often those who are not the easiest to love are the ones who need it the most.

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Never let an argument last, never hold a grudge, it will make your heart heavy. Spend time alone with yourself everyday. Your friends can be an elevator, or a cage. Sometimes the best answer is silence. Love and compassion can heal the deepest wounds. The greatest gift you can give someone is your time. Your perception of others is a reflection of your own reality. Fear God, and your enemies will fear you. You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cant fool all of the people all the time. - Abraham Lincoln Education is what remains when one has forgotten what they learned in school. - Albert Einstein When everyone is against you it means that you are absolutely wrong or absolutely right. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

It wasnt fair the way you had to leave; but I can still see your face, still hear your laugh, and I want to go to you, so I can never let you go. In the beginningm it didnt all make sense, I thought things would be okay, as they had always been. And as Ive missed you through the years, Im glad part of me has gone with you, as part of you is still with me. All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to you mom! Dont tell me the sky is the limit, when theres footprints on the moon. Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones that dont and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. Never give up on someone you cant go a day without thinking about. Its not who you are that holds you back, its who you think youre not.

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I believe everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. Things go wrong, so that you appreciate them when theyre right. You believe lies, so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe There are 4 things you cant recover in life: The stone after its thrown The word after its said The occasion after its missed. The time after its gone. Try to realize its all within yourself. No one else can make you change and to see youre really only very small and life flows on within you and without you. Only love lets us see normal things in an extraordinary way. Id rather have bad times with you, than good times with someone else. Id rather be beside you in a storm, than safe and warm by myself. Id rather have hard times together, than have it easy apart. Remember Id always love you baby, youre the only one that holds my heart. Someday someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked with anyone else. Dont let someone become a priority in your life when your just an option in theirs. Be mindful what you toss away Be careful what you push away And think hard before walking away. People are going to want you, need you, exceed you, take you, love you, hate you, play you, rate you, save you, and break you. But thats what makes you. Even if its killing you inside you need to stick it out. Hold your head higher with every ignorant thing you hear, stick your chest out further with every hardship that you go though. Keep going on, even if its destroying you. Recovery is always an option, even when its far away. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. - David Brinkley You were given this life because you were strong enough to live it. Erasing yourself from someones life is not as simple as walking out the door.
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Ive made mistakes in my life. Ive let people take advantage of me, and Ive accepted way less than I deserve. But Ive learned from my bad choices and even though there are some things I can never get back and people who will never be sorry, Ill know better next time and I wont settle for anything less than I deserve. Behind every beautiful thing there is some kind of pain. - Bob Dylan Courage doesnt always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, Ill try again tomorrow. - Mary Anne Radmacher There comes a time in life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it, and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus soley on the good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy. Dont change how you look, change how you see. Never ruin an apology with an excuse. Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional. Id rather be beaten with truth than be soothed with lies. The enemy is fear. We think its hate; but it is fear. - Gandhi To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice a gift. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. A wise girl kisses, but doesnt love, listens, but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left. - Marilyn Monroe Its not about who youve known the longest. Its about who came, & never left your side. To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter, - Euripides The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. Our scars remind us that the past is real. Strength does not come from physical capacity it comes from indomitable will.
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- Mahatma Gandhi Someday everything will all make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason. Theres only so many times you can allow someone to let you down before you cant handle the disappointment anymore. Im selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I made mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you cant handle me at my worst then you sure as hell dont deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe Being happy doesnt mean everything is perfect. It means youve decided to see beyond the imperfections. Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. Behind every successful person lies a pack of haters. Move on. Its just a chapter in the past. But dont close the book, just turn the page. My hunger for success is fueled by my passion. Be strong now, because things will get better, it might be stormy now, but it cant rain forever. The resurrection gives my life meaning, direction, and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a hundred reasons to smile. A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. - Alan Watts Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. - Bette Davis Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schultz Ones first love is always perfect until one meets ones second love. - Elizabeth Aston
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All love that has not friendship as its base is like a mansion built apon sand. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox Love is everything its cracked up to be it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. - Erica Jong Dont wait for the last judgement. It happens everyday. Live for the moments you cant put into words. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lesson. We have to swift todays possibility under tomorrows rug until we cant anymore. Until we finally understand ourselves what Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, that even the biggest failure even the worst mistake beat the hell out of not trying. - Meredith Gray (Grays Anatomy) You may say that Im a dreamer, but Im not the only one, I hope someday youll join me and the world will be as one. You just have to live your life not caring what they think, and shake off the drama and prove to them that youre better than they think you are. The truth is: You dont know whats going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed. Our eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look ahead than to look back at the past. Life is about falling -- Living is about getting back up. Laugh your heart out Dance in the rain Cherish the moment Ignore the pain Live, Laugh, Love Forgive & Forget Life is too short to be Living with regrets I live in the present I only remember the past and anticipate the future. There is only one happiness in life, to live and be loved. Life is too precious
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To worry about stupid stuff So have fun, go party & fall in love Say what you want to say Do what you want to do Regret nothing And dont let people who Dont matter bring you down Remember the 3 Rs: Respect for self Respect for others Responsibility for all your actions Embrace those who love you and whom you love, and rid yourself of those who only bring you down. Its true that we dont know what weve got until we lose it, but its also true that we dont know what were missing until it arrives. Take your time, dont live too fast. Troubles come, and they will pass. Lifes journey is not to arrive at the grave safely and in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, Daaaamn, what a ride! To My Haters I keep it real and thats a promise. I may be whatever you wanna call me, But Im honest. When I walk by, you stop and stare, Well, keep looking cause I dont care. I have my own life and style, Not trying you please you or smile. When it comes to competition, youre out. So shut your hatin self And keep me out of your mouth. You are only limited by your own fears and inaction. Be yourself because there is no one like you. WORK like you dont need the money, LOVE like youve never been hurt, and DANCE like no one is watching. Never run away from your problems because once you have to face them again itll be twice as hard to overcome.

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. Some people are like slinkies. They dont have a purpose, but they bring a smile to your face when you see them going down the stairs. Every story has an end, but in life every end is just a new beginning. Millions saw the apple fall, Newton asked why. - Bernard Baruch Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. - Mother Teresa God doesnt require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. - Mother Teresa Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because its hurtful. - Benjamin Franklin The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing. A wise man does not need advice and a fool wont take it. He who can does, He who cant, teaches. If you dont know where your going, how do you expect to get there? Being cool, is not trying to be cool. Its faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Wisdom begins in wonder. To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. The wisest mind has something yet to learn. Be of use, but dont be used. Winners never quit, quitters never win. Money cant buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Nothing shows a mans character more than what he laughs at.
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One thing I can give and still keep : my word. Lifes battle is never won by the fastest or the strongest, but by the man who thinks he can. You dont have to be friends with everyone, but you do have to be friendly. The tragedy in life doesnt lie in not reaching your goals. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. - Benjamin Mays It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge. - Adolph Hitler A clever person solves a problem, a wise person avoids it. - Albert Eistein Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. - Albert Einstein Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. - Alexander Pope It is easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them. - Alfred Alder Acquaintance, n : A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. - Ambrose Bierce Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoot We dont see things as they are. We see things as we are. - Anais iNn Id rather live with a good question than a bad answer - Arych Firmer A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Grecian Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for telling the truth.
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- Benjamin Disraeli Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. - Kurt Lewin You can do anything, but not everything. - David Allen Character is what you have left when youve lost everything you can lose. - Evan Esar Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements. - Bo Bennett It is more important to know where your going, than to get there quickly. - Mabel Newcomer A person who trusts no one cant be trusted. - Jerome Blatther I dont know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby The more you know, the more you realize how much you dont know -- the less you know, the more you think you know. - David T. Freeman There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. - Optics There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. - Harold Stephens The less you know, the more you believe. - Bono You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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- Eric Hodder Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. - Jerry Sniffled Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henry Bergson Fight for your opinion, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. - Charles A. Dana Wisdom is knowing the right path to take Integrity is taking it. - M. H. McKee It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. - Ellen Parr Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think. - Jeff Duntemann To aquire knowledge one must study; but to aquire wisdom, one must observe. - Marilyn Vos Savant The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche The only normal people are the ones you dont know very well. - Joe Ancis Too many people are thinking of security rather than opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. - James F. Byrnes Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a a second-rate version of someone else. - Judy Garland Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
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- Leo Buscaglia The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. - Alexandra Penney The worst prison would be a closed heart. - Pope John Paul II There are many things in life that will catch your eye. But only a few will catch your heart.... - Ben Crenshaw Do all things with love. - Og Mansion Friendship is Love without his wings. - Lord Byron Love . . . the essence of God. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. - Helen Hayes Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. - Og Mansion What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich Each day is a little life. - Schopenhauer He is happiest who finds peace in his home. - Goethe We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. - Martha Grimes Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. - Doris Mortman Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. - Sophocles My life is my message. - Ghandi
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them. - Lady Bird Johnson It does not require many words to speak the truth. - Chief Joseph Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. - Henry Ward Beecher Commitment is a line you must cross....it is the difference between dreaming and doing. -Bernie Fuchs The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in. -Bill Copeland Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. - Chinese Proverb No man walks with dignity whose step is rushed. - Anonymous Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein Never take away hope from any human being. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" - John Greenleaf Whittier Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. - Goethe A child educated only at school is an undereducated child.
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- George Santayana Every exit is an entry somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard No man is a failure who is enjoying life. - William Feather Only those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. - Robert Kennedy Attitudes are contagious. Do you want people around you to catch yours? - Bob Moawad Oh, the places you'll go, oh, the things you'll see. - Dr. Seuss The human mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open. - Walter Gropius Humor makes all things tolerable. - Henry Ward Beecher Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine Nothing I never said ever did me any harm. - Calvin Coolidge If you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. - Katharine Hepburn Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. - New England Saying I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all. But whatever I have placed in Gods hands, that I still possess. - Martin Luther The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James The ancestor of every action is thought. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Im not trying to find answers anymore. Im trying to live what I know. - Phil Jackson
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Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. - George Halas A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. - Richard Nixon Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. - Mother Teresa Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. - Charles Dickens Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened; vision cleared; ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have labouriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. - Victor Hugo The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. - Helen Keller The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. - H.T. Leslie Love talked about is easily turned asidelove demonstrated is irresistible. - Dr. Stan Mooneyham Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on you. - L. Thomas Holdcroft Youve got to continue to grow, or youre just like last nights cornbread stale and dry. - Loretta Lynn We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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- John Maxwell Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. - Barbara Johnson No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. - Charles P. Steinmetz One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength. - A. J. Crown Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain. - Dale Carnegie The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - W. M. Lewis

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Poems
Wings Of The Angels A gentle wind blew cross the land Reaching out to take a hand For on the winds the angels came Calling out a mother's name. Left behind, the children's tears Loving memories of the years Of joy and love, a life well spent And now to God a mother's sent. On angel's wings, a heavenly flight The journey home, towards the light To those who weep, a life is gone But in God's love, 'tis but the dawn. Your Mother Is Always With You Your mother is always with you... She's the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the street. She's the smell of bleach in your freshly laundered socks. She's the cool hand on your brow when you're not well. Your mother lives inside your laughter. She's crystallized in every tear drop... She's the place you came from, your first home.. She's the map you follow with every step that you take. She's your first love and your first heart break....and nothing on earth can separate you. Not time, Not space... Not even death.... will ever separate you from your mother.... You carry her inside of you....

I Love You Forever

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To my mom: Mom you mean the world to me Its hard to live without you You were always by my side Through thick and thin you helped me Now when youre gone my life is hard to live Its hard to breath Its hard to see And its hard to think about anything but you. Even though your love will shine in me Forever, its still hard not to look for your hand to hold. Even though your not here with me in the flesh, I still have you in my heart and in my memories. I love you forever mom. Love Lives On Those we love are never really lost to us we feel them in so many special ways through friends they always cared about and dreams they left behind, in beauty that they added to our days... in words of wisdom we still carry with us and memories that never will be gone... Those we love are never really lost to us For everywhere their special love lives on. I Learned From You I learned about love from you, Watching your caring ways. I learned about joy from you In fun-filled yesterdays. From you I learned forgiving Of faults both big and small. I learned what I know about living From you, as you gave life your all. The example you set is still with me I'd never want any other. I'm thankful for all that you taught me, And I'm blessed to call you "Mother." The Broken Chain We little knew that morning,
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God was going to call your name, In life we loved you dearly, In death we do the same. It broke our hearts to lose you, You did not go alone. For part of us went with you The day God called you home. You left us beautiful memories, Your love is still our guide, And though we cannot see you, You are always at our side. Our family chain is broken, and nothing seems the same, But as God calls us one by one, The chain will link again. Irish Funeral Prayer You can only have one mother Patient kind and true; No other friend in all the world Will be the same to you. When other friends forsake you, To mother you will return, For all her loving kindness, She asks nothing in return. As we look upon her picture Sweet memories we recall, Of a face full of sunshine And a smile for one and all Sweet Jesus, take this message, To our dear mother up above; Tell her how we miss her, And give her all our love.

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Would pat you on the back And sometimes in passing She'd show you the right track. Sometimes Mom in passing Would say, "You sure look nice!" And sometimes in passing She could, make you, think twice. Sometimes Mom in passing Would lightly touch your hair And sometimes in passing She'd show you what was fair. Sometimes Mom in passing Would ask, "What do you mean?" And sometimes in passing She would get in between. Sometimes Mom in passing Would give you, "that look" And sometimes in passing Would give you what it took. But this time, Mom is passing From this world to the best And this time in passing She'll pass the final test. And when Mom has passed And the pain is so unkind Just look and you'll find her There in your heart and mind. In Memory A thousand times I needed you A thousand times I cried If love alone could have saved you You never would have died A heart of gold stopped beating Two twinkling eyes closed to rest God broke my heart to prove he only took the best Never a day goes by that youre not in my heart and my soul.

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Mother This Ones For You Mother, who gave me her heart her very soul. Mother, whos understanding never wavered. Mother, the one who dried my tears. Mother, she led me to the path of His love. Mother, who washed my clothes and cleaned the house. Mother, who instilled confidence in her child. Mother, who walked me to school. Mother, who loved me like no other. Mother, who quelled the anger within me. Mother, who drove me to all my practices. Mother, who never forgot my special occasions. Mother, who protected her family, as a lion to a cub. Mother, who always supported my father. Mother, who saved for the familys daily needs. Mother, who was always the last to eat. Mother, who was always the first to rise. Mother, a love that knew no limits. Mother, who forever placed her family, before herself. Mother, who was grateful for every passing acknowledgement. Mother, whos eyes shined when she heard the words, I love you Mom. Mother, who always saw the good in me. Mother, who always taught me to never, never give up. Mother, who instilled in me to be better. Mother, who made me believe I could accomplish anything. Mother, mother mother, you were like no other. Mother, you will always be in my heart, In my deeds, in my thoughts, in my life, and in my prayers. Surely, beyond the stars, theres a special place for mothers.

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My Mother Taught Me My mother taught me all the good things about life. I sometimes wonder why she never taught me all the bad. My mother taught me how to listen when people talk. I sometimes wonder why she never taught me to make them listen. My mother taught me to read, write, and draw. I sometimes wonder why she never taught me to paint. My mother taught me proper table manners. I sometimes wonder why she never taught me to use my hands. My mother taught me how to sew. I sometimes wonder why she never taught me rip it & throw. My mother taught me how to thank you. I sometimes wonder why she never taught me to say yea okay whatever. My mother taught me about getting along with girls. I sometimes wonder why she never taught me about being wary of guys. My mother taught me to always smile. I sometimes wonder why she never taught me to hold back a tear. My mother taught me to cherish fond memories I sometimes wonder why she never taught me how to move on in life. Dont Forget About Me! Should I be feeling guilty, was there something I didn't do? Did I not do enough to show all the love I had inside for you? If you could say three words to me, would they be the one I'd want to hear? When I knock on heavens door for you will you push me away or hold me near? There's a million questions that I have inside, And a million more that keep coming to mind, Like where are you now and are you free from all your pain? If someone asked you about me would you even remember my name? I hope I've never left you disappointed or ever let you down, That all you've done is smile for me and upon me you've never frowned, I want you to be proud of me, in the many years how far I've come, From the smallest to the biggest things that I have ever done. Even though you left me here without a mum so young, I'd never say your name in vain, disrespect you or do you wrong. So all the questions I have inside, I guess they'll grow to more, Just promise me you'll be there the day I knock on heavens door.

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Your Mother, Your Angel You look back on memories you forgot you had, And at times you'll smile even though it hurts so bad. Your mother is a special woman and no one can take her place, You'll find a piece of mind when you remember he smiling face. Your mother is an angel now she flies high above the rest, and in your hearts always and forever she will be the best. She has earned her wings and it's time for her to fly, I know it hurts no one is ever ready to say good-bye. She knows you do not understand and that you cry at night, But as you finally drift of to sleep let her memory hold you tight. She will be your guardian angel through the rest of your life, Helping lead you on the path between what' wrong and right. your mother loves you so very much and her love will always remain true, Please don't ever think for a second that your mother will forget you. A mothers love is like no other in the whole world, d she has the most wonderful memories of a little boy and girl. She has taken them with her as she's flown away, Up to Heaven free of pain which is her new home to stay. So although you can not see her and you wish she could be there, Your mother can always hear you and your mother will always care. A mother does not forget the two greatest loves of her life, And she loved nothing more than being your mommy, and your daddy's wife. She is so proud of her family and that's in her heart to stay, Even though she's and angel and has had to fly away. So as you cry your tears remember your mothers love, Being sent to you from her, from the beautiful Heaven above. She will be there through your good times, she will be there through your bad, She'll be there when you are happy, she'll be there when your sad. Your mother has become and angel now, it is her time to fly, And you will never know how bad it hurt me to watch you have to say good-bye.

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Letter from Heaven To my dearest family, some things I'd like to say But first of all, to let you know, that I arrived okay. I'm writing this from heaven. Here I dwell with God above. Here, there's not more tears of sadness; Here is just eternal love. Please do not be unhappy just because I'm out of sight. Remember that I am with you every morning, noon, and night. That day I had to leave you when my life on earth was through. God picked me up and hugged me and He said, "I welcome you. It's good to have you back again; you were missed while you were gone. As for your dearest family, they'll be here later on. I need you here badly, you're part of my plan. There's so much that I have to do, to help our mortal man" God gave me a list of things that he wished for me to do. And foremost on the list, was to watch and care for you. And when you lie in bed at night the day's chores put to flight. God and I are closest to you...in the middle of the night. When you think of my life on earth, and all those loving years. Because you are only human, they are bound to bring you tears. But do not be afraid to cry: it does relieve the pain. Remember there would be no flowers, unless there was some rain. I wish that I could tell you all that God has planned. If I were to tell you, you wouldn't understand. But one thing is for certain, though my life on earth is over, I'm closer to you now, than I ever was before. There are many rocky roads ahead of you and many hills to climb; But together we can do it by taking one day at a time. It was always my philosophy and I'd like it for you too; That as you give unto the world, the world will give to you. If you can help somebody who's in sorrow and pain; Then you can say to God at night..."My day was not in vain." And now I am contented...that my life was worthwhile. Knowing as I passed along the way I made somebody smile. So, if you meet somebody who is sad and feeling low; Just lend a hand to pick him up, as on your way you go. When you're walking down the street and you've got me on your mind; I'm walking in your footsteps only half a step behind. And when it's time for you to go...from that body to be free. Remember you're not going...you're coming here to me. Sleep Mommy
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Sweet smile on your face as you sleep the pain away, Resting in God's arms now, although in the ground your body lay. He needed another angel in the Heavenly choir and that's why you had to go. As you promised, you are still with us watching your children here below. I never would have imagined the end would be like this, me comforting you. Holding your hand, telling you not to worry was not an easy thing for me to do. And even in your weakest hour you tried to comfort me too, Caressing my face, and calming my soul as only a mother can soothe. You have always been there through the thick and the thin No matter what I've done, unconditionally you love never wavering. When I told you of the mistakes I made and all the times people saw me fall You simply nodded and gently replied 'so have we all'. The key to success is learning from the past Ensuring a brighter future is now the present task. A pillar of strength even until the end Fighting all life's battles, knowing it's triumphantly you would win Pushing me to be the best that you know I can be Reminding me to keep the faith and allow God to lead me. Knowing it's through Christ that I can do all things And as He never makes a mistake I will come through victoriously. I miss you more than these words could ever say The pain in my heart is from one unimaginable day After I cried all that I could; my eyes still shed countless more tears And when I try to sleep, I have nightmares of ten-thousand fears I walk in footsteps on an unsure path My load feels so heavy I am not sure I will last. Silly though I may be I am afraid of life now that you're gone Because I've always had a mother. And Mommy, what about my sister and baby brother. I wish you could have stayed just a little while longer, there's so much left to do I wonder if I prayed hard enough and if so, did they get through. Finding relief in knowing I will see you again someday soon Remembering all you taught me as my soul I continue to groom I will walk in footsteps you have walked before me Seeing the path you walked lead you, Mommy, straight into victory. So as you sleep Mommy, in the cradle of the Lord, I am reassured of God's promises in His Holy Word. I dream of the day when Heaven's gates open to receive me And with your smiling face and loving eyes, reunited once again I will be.

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Daughter of My Heart You turned out even better Than I often dreamed youd be; Youre more than I had hoped for; Youre a sweet reward to me. You grew up to be a mother Full of wisdom, warmth and love, A good and fine role model, A blessing from above. I couldnt be any prouder Than I am today of you; Youre my daughter and my friend, And a wonderful person, too. You have my love forever; I adored you from the start; Its a privilege to be your mother, Dear daughter of my heart. We Love You Mom Your little girl growing up now, trying to do what would make you proud, its been over ten years now, but yet I still sit here in disbelief, this isn't possible, it never happened, the woman who brought me into this world is, gone, gone forever.. why did you have to leave so soon? I still need you. I still need my mom. I will never understand, there is no reason that will justify, but I know you are always in my heart, and you are always watching over me I love you mom...

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"MY ANGEL God sent an angel to this earth, I called you Mother who raised me from birth. You listened to me through laughter and tears, and were there for me for so many years. Now what can I do, Oh, what can I say? For God has taken my angel away. To spread your wings far above, to fill the sky with your beautiful love. The most giving woman I've ever known, but now our Lord has called you home. A life eternal in His loving care, by His grace one day I'll see you there. Goodbye for now, Mom, until we meet again; My angel, my mother, and my best friend. If I Knew If I knew it would be the last time That I'd see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep. If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more. If I knew it would be the last time I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise, I would video tape each action and word, so I could play them back day after day. If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra minute to stop and say "I love you," instead of assuming you would KNOW I do. If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day, Well I'm sure you'll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away. For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for an oversight,
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and we always get a second chance to make everything just right. There will always be another day to say "I love you," And certainly there's another chance to say our "Anything I can do?" But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get, I'd like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget. Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike, And today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight. So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today? For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day, That you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish. So hold your loved ones close today, and whisper in their ear, Tell them how much you love them and that you'll always hold them dear Take time to say "I'm sorry," "Please forgive me," "Thank you," or "It's okay." And if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today.

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Loss of Mother Poem Now that I am gone, remember me with smiles and laughter. And if you need to cry, cry with your brother or sister who walks in grief beside you. And when you need me, put your arms around anyone and give to them what you need to give to me. There are so many who need so much. I want to leave you something -something much better than words or sounds. Look for me in the people I've known or helped in some special way. Let me live in your heart as well as in your mind. You can love me most by letting your love reach out to our loved ones, by embracing them and living in their love. Love does not die, people do. So, when all that's left of me is love, give me away as best you can. ~ Author unknown

Missing Mamma The sun came up this morning; It wasn't very bright. My dark mood casts a shadow; It's hard to see the light.

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We all have just one mother And, now that her life on earth is done, The emptiness and loss I feel Make it hard to see the sun. Tomorrow is a brand new day; May the pain and sadness lighten. I will remember all her love, And then the sky will brighten. Gone is not forgotten; Her love reminds behind; She's traveled in a new direction Love knows no space or time. I will always love her. She will care for me from above. She will send me starlight and rainbows To remind me of her love. If Roses Grow in Heaven If roses grow in Heaven Lord Please pick a bunch for me. Place them in my Mother's arms and tell her they're from me. Tell her I love her and miss her, and when she turns to smile, Place a kiss upon her cheek and hold her for a while. Because remembering her is easy, I do it everyday, But there is an ache within my heart That will never go away.

Forever in our Hearts A million times we needed you, A million times we cried, If love alone would have saved you, You would of never died. In life we loved you dearly, In death we love you still,
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In our hearts you hold a place, No one can ever fill. A light from our household is gone, A voice from our love is stilled, A place in our vacant home, Which never can be filled. Some may think you are forgotten, Though on earth you are no more, But in our memory you are with us, As you always were before. It broke our hearts to lose you, But you did not go alone, A part of us went with you, The day God called you home. Your precious memories are for keepsakes, with which we never part, God has you safely in his keeping, But we have you forever in our hearts.

In Our Hearts We thought of you with love today. But that is nothing new. We thought about you yesterday. And days before that too. We think of you in silence. We remember how you look. Now all we have is memories. And your picture in a frame. Your memory is out keepsake. With which we'll never part. God has you in his keeping. We have you in our heart..

My Rock, My Mom When you just can't express how much you miss her... Sometimes I catch myself
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Thinking, "When I phone, I can talk of this or that!" Then remember, I'm alone. She was always there To answer my calls To listen to my "small talk" Or when I climbed the walls. At times, I didn't feel like talking And somehow, she understood Didn't say she wished I'd call Or make me feel like I should. Now, I wish I would have More times, to show I cared To say, just how important Were, all those times we shared. I could have shown my love So much more than I did I never, did it enough Even when I was a kid. Now it's too late to do or say All those things I wish I had No way to ease the pain inside When my heart is sad. She was my "anchor" to this life The "rock", that I clung to The place, where I could turn When, nowhere else would do. Now, the ravages of time Have worn my "rock" away And all I have to cling to Are memories of yesterday.

Memories and Mother Focusing on the happy, littlest of good memories. When Mother came to our room To tuck us in at night, Her face would look so gentle In the soft, bedside light. And though we may not always Have behaved our best that day, She'd let us know she loved us In a very special way:
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An extra fold to the coverlet, A little pat, a hug, And we'd settle down to dreamland Feeling safe and snug. And of all the childhood memories That there have ever been, We love best to recall the times When Mother tucked us in.

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