Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
~Author unknown
Never let a problem to be solved become more
important than a person to be loved.
~Barbara Johnson
The greatest good you can do for another
is not just to share your riches, but
to reveal to him his own.
~Benjamin Disraeli
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
~Author unknown
Life
The adventure of life is to learn.
The purpose of life is to grow.
The nature of life is to change.
The challenge of life is to overcome.
The essence of life is to care.
The opportunity of life is to serve.
The secret of life is to dare.
The spice of life is to befriend.
The beauty of life is to give.
The joy of life is to love.
~William Arthur Ward
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others
cannot keep it from themselves.
~Sir James Barrie
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
~St. Francis de Sales
Hold On Tightly To What Is Truly Important In Life
Hold on to faith; it is the source of believing
that all things are possible. It is the fiber
and strength of a confident soul.
Hold on to hope; it banishes doubt and enables
attitudes to be positive and cheerful.
Hold on to trust; it is at the core of fruitful
relationships that are secure and content.
Hold on to love; it is life's greatest gift of all,
for it shares, cares and gives meaning to life.
Hold on to family and friends; they are the most
important people in your life, and they make
the world a better place. They are your roots
and the beginnings that you grew from;
they are the vine that has grown through time
to nourish you, help you on your way,
and always remain close by.
Hold on to all that you are and all that you have
learned, for these things are what make you unique.
Don't ignore what you feel and what you believe
is right and important; your heart has a way
of speaking louder than your mind.
Hold on to your dreams; achieve them diligently
and honestly. Never take the easy way or
surrender to deceit. Remember others on your way,
and take time to care for their needs.
Enjoy the beauty around you.
Have the courage to see things differently and clearly.
Make the world a better place one day at a time,
and don't let go of the important things that
give meaning to your life.
~Kelly D. Caron
The most important trip you may take in life
is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye
If nature has made you a giver, your hands
are born open, and so is your heart.
And though there may be times when your hands
are empty, your heart is always full, and you
can give things out of that.
~Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
It is better to be hated for what you are,
than loved for what you are not.
~Andre Gide
Online Friendship
Online friend I have never seen you before,
but I know you are really there.
I click you into reality, like magic in the air.
Your voice is like an angel, though I really do not hear.
Your hug as warm as any, of the loved ones I hold dear.
You are always there for comfort, or a word of cheer.
Though you are very far away, I always have you near.
You are a very special friend, like none I have ever known.
As long as you are in cyberspace, I will never be alone.
~Author unknown
The heart has reasons
that reason does not understand.
~Author unknown
Nothing but the heart can change the heart.
~Carroll O'Connor
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
~Goethe
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
~Addison
A smile is a curve that sets things straight.
~Phyllis Diller
The Making of Friends
Life is sweet because of the friends we have made
And the things which in common we share;
We want to live on, not because of ourselves,
But because of the ones who would care.
It's living and doing for somebody else
On that all of life's splendor depends,
And the joy of it all, when we count it all up,
Is found in the making of friends.
~Edgar A. Guest
Joy is a net of love that captures souls.
~Mother Teresa
Some people, no matter how old they get,
Never lose their beauty --
They merely move it from their faces
Into their hearts.
~Martin Buxbaum
A diplomat is a man who...
always remembers a woman's birthday
but never remembers her age.
~Robert Frost
The ultimate lesson all of us
have to learn is unconditional love,
which includes not only others,
but ourselves as well.
~Author unknown
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream,
not only plan, but also believe.
~Anatole France
If you put truth above your own desires
And value those as friends who feel the same
If you take pride in things that you've accomplished
And when you're wrong, stand up and take the blame
If you can understand your limitations
And not waste time on tasks beyond your scope
But take the future as a brand new challenge
That you can meet with confidence and hope
If you can listen to those who would advise you
And then judge for yourself just what is right
If you can keep in touch with all about you
And settle differences without a fight
If you can find delight in simple pleasures
And see the rainbow, not the falling rain
If you can lose and never give up trying
Believing that there's nothing done in vain
If you can staunchly stick by your convictions
And not let others set your goals for you
If you can be as practical as need be
And still remember sometimes dreams come true
If you can live the life that you believe in
And trust your judgment and maturity
Then you'll be not just happy and successful,
But the worthwhile person you are meant to be.
~E. M. Gerus
Time is too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
time is eternity.
~Henry VanDyke
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
~James Dean
Try to remember to forget
Anger, worry and regret.
Live while you have life to live.
Love while you have love to give.
~Author unknown
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
~Robert Blake
Dance like no one is watching
and love like it will never hurt.
~Author unknown
Winners
Winners are people like you.
Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear
failing, but they refuse to let fear control them.
Winners don't give up. When life gets rough, they hang
in there until the going gets better.
Winners are flexible. They realize there is more
than one way and are willing to try others.
Winners know they are not perfect. They respect their
weaknesses while making the most of their strengths.
Winners fall, but they don't stay down. They stubbornly
refuse to let a fall keep them from climbing.
Winners don't blame fate for their failures
nor luck for their successes.
Winners accept responsibility for their lives.
Winners are positive thinkers who see good in all things.
From the ordinary, they make the extraordinary.
Winners believe in the path they have chosen even when
it's hard, even when others can't see where they are going.
Winners are patient. They know a goal is only as worthy
as the effort that's required to achieve it.
WINNERS ARE PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
THEY MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO BE.
~Author unknown
Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart.
~Mencius
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
What is essential is invisible to the eye.
~The Fox in The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
Live Each Day With Love
Life is a constant process of growth and change.
Each day is a miracle filled with new
discoveries and challenges.
Some days bring hurt and disappointment also, but
these, too, are challenges, and as you grow and
change you learn to handle them with more ease.
Growing older means growing in experience,
growing in courage and compassion, growing in
love and growing in strength.
Growing older means changing your life to make
it meaningful to you, changing your attitudes,
and staying flexible about everyday living.
Life keeps getting better as long as
you have a positive attitude.
Remind yourself of all the things you love
about life, stay in touch with your loved ones and
friends, and do what your own heart tells you to.
Your tomorrow will always bring you good things
if you live each day with love. ~Donna Levine
Happiness is not a destination;
it is a manner of traveling.
~Author unknown
The best and most beautiful things in this world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is the only cement that will
ever hold the world together.
~Woodrow Wilson
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity. ~Kahlil Gibran
Everyone Needs Someone
People need people and friends need friends
And we all need love for a full life depends
Not on vast riches or great acclaim
Not on success or on worldly fame
But just in knowing that someone cares
And holds us close in their thoughts and prayers
For only the knowledge that we're understood
Makes everyday living feel wonderfully good
And we rob ourselves of life's greatest need
When we 'lock up our hearts' and fail to heed
The outstretched hand reaching to find
A kindred spirit whose heart and mind
Are lonely and longing to somehow share
Our joys and sorrows and to make us aware
That life's completeness and richness depends
On the things we share with our
loved ones and friends.
~Helen Steiner Rice
When you open your heart,
You open your mind.
~Beth Mende Conny
Wherever a beautiful soul has been,
there is a trail of beautiful memories.
~Author unknown
Remember that alittle love goes a long way.
Remember that a lot...goes forever.
Remember that friendship is a wise investment.
Life's treasures are people...together.
Realize that it's never too late.
Do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Have health and hope and happiness.
Take the time to wish upon a star.
And don't ever forget...for even a day,
How very special you are.
~Douglas Pagels Collection
Love is not two people gazing at each other,
but two people looking in the same direction.
~Antoine de Saint Exupery
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are,
but in what direction we are moving.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Always Have A Dream
Forget about the days when its been cloudy,
but don't forget your hours in the sun.
Forget about the times you've been defeated,
but don't forget the victories you've won.
Forget about the misfortunes you've encountered,
but don't forget the times your luck has turned.
Forget about the days when you've been lonely,
but don't forget the friendly smiles you've seen.
Forget about the plans that didn't seem to work out right,
but don't forget to always have a dream.
~Author unknown
To Achieve Your Dreams, Remember Your ABCs
Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits.
Believe in yourself.
Consider things from every angle.
Don't give up, and don't give in.
Enjoy life today; yesterday is gone,
and tomorrow may never come.
Family and friends are hidden treasures;
seek them and enjoy their riches.
Give more than you planned to give.
Hang on to your dreams.
Ignore those who try to discourage you.
Just do it!
Keep on trying. No matter how hard it seems,
it will get easier.
Love yourself first and most.
Make it happen.
Never lie, cheat, or steal;
always strike a fair deal.
Open your eyes, and see things as they really are.
Practice makes perfect.
Quitters never win, and winners never quit.
Read, study and learn about
everything important in your life.
Stop procrastinating.
Take control of your own destiny.
Understand yourself in order to better understand others.
Visualize it.
Want it more than anything.
Xccelerate your efforts.
Zero in on your target and go for it!
~Author unknown
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving.
Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
~Amanda Bradley
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship doubles your joys and divides your sorrows.
~Author unknown
Thank You Friend
I never came to you, my friend, and went away without
some new enrichment of the heart;
More faith and less of doubt,
more courage in the days ahead.
And often in great need coming to you,
I went away comforted indeed.
How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase
that tells all that your love has meant to me,
all that your friendship spells?
There is no word, no phrase for you
on whom I so depend.
All I can say to you is this,
God Bless You precious friend.
~Grace Noll Crowell
Out of all the treasures in the world there is nothing more
precious than giving someone a piece of your heart.
~Author unknown
To love and be loved in return,
is to be born anew.
~Karen Lyn Penaluna
A casual glance...exchanged at what cost?
In that long moment...a lifetime lost.
~Sandi A. Perry
Daring Greatly
It is not the critic who counts
Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
Or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit goes to the man who is actually in the arena
Whose face is marred by dust and blood
Who strives valiantly
Who errs and comes short again and again.
Who knows great enthusiasms
The great devotions.
Who spends himself in a worthy cause
Who at best knows in the end
the triumph of high achievement
And who at the worst, if he fails
At least fails while Daring Greatly
So that his place shall never be
With the timid souls
Who neither know victory or defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind.
~Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
~Goethe
People will forget what you said, will forget what you did,
But will never forget how you made them feel.
~Author unknown
The best portion of a good man's life is
his little nameless, unremembered
acts of kindness and of love.
~William Wordsworth
You cannot do a kindness too soon...
For you never know how soon...
It will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't Quit
When things go wrong
as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging
seems all uphill,
When the funds are low,
and the debts are high,
And you want to smile,
but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing
you down a bit...
Rest if you must,
but don't you quit.
Success is failure
turned inside out,
The silver tint of
the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell
how close you are,
It may be near
when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight
when you're hardest hit...
It's when things go wrong
that you mustn't quit.
~Author unknown
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
~Elbert Hubbard
When one door closes, another opens;
but we often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door that we do not see
the one which has opened for us.
~Alexander Graham Bell
Tears are often the telescope by which
men see far into heaven.
~Henry Ward Beecher
The soul would have no rainbow,
if the eyes had no tears.
~Author unknown
You have to have a darkness...
for the dawn to come.
~Harrison Ford
You gain strength, courage and confidence
by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which
you think you cannot do.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
The difference between winners and losers is attitude.
~Karen Lyn Penaluna
It All Depends On How You Think
If you think you are beaten - you are.
If you think you dare not - you don't.
If you'd like to win but think you can't,
It's almost certain you won't.
If you think you will lose, you've lost,
For out in the world you'll find
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of your mind.
If you think you're outclassed, you are.
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But sooner or later the one who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.
~Author unknown
Just think,
you're here not by chance,
but by God's choosing.
His hand formed you
and made you the person you are.
He compares you to no one else.
You are one of a kind.
You lack nothing
that His grace can't give you.
He has allowed you to be here
at this time in history
to fulfill His special purpose
for this generation.
~Roy Lessin
The only people with whom you should try to get even
are those who have helped you.
~John E. Southard
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Mencius
Friends are family you choose for yourself.
~Author unknown
'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
~Louisa May Alcott
Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.
~Author unknown
Friendship
There's a miracle of friendship
That dwells within the heart
And you don't know how it happens
Or where it gets its start
But the happiness it brings you
Always gives a special lift
And you realize that friendship is
God's most perfect gift.
~Author unknown
A friend is the one who comes in
when the whole world has gone out.
~Grace Pulpit
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
~Wilson Mizner
Love is what's left in a relationship after all the
selfishness has been removed.
~Cullen Hightower
Love suffers long
And is kind.
Love envies not.
Seeks not her own.
Thinks no evil.
Bears all things.
Believes all things.
Hopes all things.
Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:4-6
Love is the reward of love.
~Schiller
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~Jean Anouills
Love knows not its depth until the hour of separation.
~Kahil Gibran
The Rose Beyond The Wall
A rose once grew where all could see,
sheltered beside a garden wall.
And, as the days passed swiftly by,
it spread its branches, straight and tall.
One day, a beam of light shone through
a crevice that had opened wide.
The rose bent gently toward its warmth
then passed beyond to the other side.
Now, you who deeply feel its loss,
be comforted, the rose blooms there.
Its beauty even greater now,
nurtured by God's own loving care.
~Author unknown
(In Loving Memory of my Mother who passed beyond to the other side on 6~26~99)
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart
and can sing it back to you
when you have forgotten the words.
~Author unknown
The Rose
Some say Love...
It is a river that drowns the tender reed
Some say Love...
It is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed
Some say Love...
It is a hunger, an endless aching need
I say Love...
It is a flower, and you its only seed.
It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken,
who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live.
When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember...
In the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed
That with the sun's love
In the spring
Becomes the Rose.
~lyrics by Amanda McBroom
