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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." - Joseph Addison |
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." - Oscar Wilde |
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste 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 |
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
~ Robert Frost |
" Do not tell lies, for there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing covered up that will not be uncovered."
Gospel of Thomas |
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne
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"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion." - Thich Nhat Hanh |
Happy Mother's Day
Who fed me from her gentle breast And hushed me in her arms to rest, And on my cheek sweet kisses prest? My Mother. ~Ann Taylor Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother. ~Ann Taylor |
"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." ~Washington Irving |
mothers
"The real religion of this world comes from women much more than men-
from mothers most of all, who carry the keys of our souls in their bosoms." Oliver Wendell Holmes |
open the heart
we all know the pain of hurt feelings and rejection. but heartbreak isn't only the end: it can be a beginning, too. a heart broken is already transforming.
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why...
"If you press me to say why I loved him,
I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I." (Michel De Montaigne) |
How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.
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"It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had." ---Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it." ---Morrie Schwartz |
"Having a role model in life is a great thing to have; one who provides us with direction and inspiration. However, we will forever be restricted by that person's limitations if we live within their boundaries. Be influenced, but set your own standards and develop your own principals, if you are ever to live beyond someone else's dreams." ---Jason Shahan |
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.
- Virginia Woolf |
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ~Aldous Huxley
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. ~Author Unknown |
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
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They put on a front that appears accommodating, loyal, and yes, even sacrificial. Then, without warning, they raise their knife, and by the time you see the glint of the blade, it's almost always too late. ~ Les Parrott |
- Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. - - Mother Teresa of Calcutta - |
“I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody [to no one].” — Mother Teresa of Calcutta |
"Baby there's no mistakin' you're the love I wanna be in"
--Jason Alden song |
HOPE...
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. ~Emily Dickenson |
“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen." - Anonymous |
“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.” - Alex Karras |
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.” - August Wilson |
If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush. Vanessa Hudgens |
"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."-Elvis Presley .. |
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude!!:hangloose:
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action
" Every action of yours, strikes a cord in eternity."
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“Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent. ... It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...” — Catherine Britton
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"It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years -- we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on." - Sharon Salzberg |
"Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them." - Marcus Aurelius |
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful." - Marie Curie |
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. - Harold J. Smith
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“The simplest things are often the truest.” Richard Bach
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Sober Song
by Barton Sutter Farewell to the starlight in whiskey, So long to the sunshine in beer. The booze made me cocky and frisky But worried the man in the mirror. Good night to the moonlight in brandy, Adieu to the warmth of the wine. I think I can finally stand me Without a glass or a stein. Bye-bye to the balm in the vodka, Ta-ta to the menthol in gin. I'm trying to do what I ought to, Rejecting that snake medicine. I won't miss the blackouts and vomit, The accidents and regret. If I can stay off the rotgut, There might be a chance for me yet. So so long to God in a bottle, To the lies of rum and vermouth. Let me slake my thirst with water And the sweet, transparent truth. "Sober Song" by Barton Sutter, from Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey. |
Mangled quote - overheard
If you won't be part of the solution, get the fuck outa the way.
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
Rita Mae Brown |
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