My Favorite Quote: ~ Everyone hears what you say, friends listen to what you say, best friends listen to what you don't
say.
Love
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"I could not easily find the way to her heart, because it was so easy getting lost in her eyes." - Nelson Hong
"Love is measured, not in moments of time, but in timeless moments."
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then,
but the strings remain forever."
"Love is like quicksand - the deeper you fall in, the harder it is to get out."
"Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell."
"The face is the mirror of the mind,and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." - Saint Jerome
"A life filled with love must have some thorns;
but a life empty of love will have no roses."
"Love is like a knife, it can stab the heart
or it can carve wonderful images into the soul that will last a lifetime."
"Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,
hurts the deepest, and feels the stongest."
"It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return,
but what is most painful is to love someone and never finding
the courage to let the person know how you feel."
"It's funny, most people can be around someone
and then gradually begin to love them and never know
exactly when it happened..."
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." - Robert A. Heinlein
"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
"No guy is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry."
"If you try to put love into words, you will come up breathless." - Nelson Hong
"Love in its entirety should not be defined, but rather expressed." - Nelson Hong
"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." - Alexander Smith
"To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart,
and to sing it to them when they have forgotten."
"She looked into my solemn eyes, and drowned in my sea of tears." - Edwin Chiu
"If a person doesn't feel the same way as you do, then why continue to feel for that person? Because in your heart you know, that person means everything to you, no matter what." - Nelson Hong
"What's life without love? What's love without life?" - Nelson Hong
"I don't make you feel special, I just remind you that you are special." - David F. Sims
"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again-this is the brave and happy life."
"To truly love, and to be loved, is all that matters in one's emotional life" - Nelson Hong
"Your tears are like bullets to me, and your smile and eyes are a comfort to my heart."
Friendship ~
"Friends are those rare people who ask how you are
and then wait to hear the answer." - Unknown
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller
"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge I wouldn't jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch them."
"No matter the person, significant or otherwise in your current life, everyone who ever enters your world leaves you a piece of themselves. Learn from them and enjoy them." - Megan S.
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success." - Oscar Wilde "A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be somewhere else." - Unknown
"Never hurt your friends, not even in a joke." - Unknown
"Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." - Unknown
"A true friend knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
"The friendship that can come to an end, never really began." -Pubilius Syrus
"Close your eyes to the faults of others and watch the doors of friendship swing wide."
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." -Charles Caleb Colton
"A real friend warms you by his presence, trusts you with his secrets, and remembers you in his prayers."
"We are on the wrong tack when we think of friendship as something to get rather than something to give."
"A friend will joyfully sing with you when you are on the mountain top, and silently walk beside you through the valley."
"The best antique is an old friend."
"Put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are." - Gail Godwin
"Friends bring the most joy and the most pain. But they always find a way to mend your heart back together after they break it." - Noelle Daly
"Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship." - Anonymous
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"True friends are the people who are there for you unconditionally. They are the people who never question you and support you no matter what the circumstances are. They are the people worth living for." - Anonymous
"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 williing to trust him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the friends that you can call at 4 A.M. that matter." - Marlene Dietrich
"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself." - Frances Ward Weller
"The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say." - Kahil Gibran
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. - William A. Ward
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend forever."
"People who can hold their tongues rarely have any trouble holding their friends."
Survival ~
"Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge." - Carmelia Elliot
"He who cries the loudest shows the most pain he who keeps it all inside dies in vain." - Blake Baxter
"Life will go on, but the only way that it will, is if you go with it." - Amanda Koetter
"There are times when you're tired, and times when you don't believe in yourself. That's when you have to stick it out, and draw on the confidence that you have deep down beneath all the doubts and worries." - Jim Abbott
"If at night you cry for the sun, your tears won't let you see the stars."
"Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path. But the lesson to be learned is always ours." - Melody Beattie
"Your life lies before you like fresh-fallen snow.
Be careful where you walk, for every step will show." - Unknown
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." - Unknown
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard
"Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but everyday and every night of your life, they are eating at you." - Norman Vincent Peale
"...we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given it." - Romans Chapter 5
"Throughout life, people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad; let God deal with the things they do, cuz hate in your heart will consume you too." - Will Smith
Inspiration
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"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice that thorns have roses."
"Don't live today as though it's your last; rather live today as though it's your first." - Carly Stanton
"Everyone has their own idea of how they want to live, inside their mind they write it themselves. But if you let someone else write it, you will never be proud of yourself. If these notes are written in love and honesty, then they cannot be erased." - Megan L.
"I try to only worry about things I have control over." - Steve Nash
"If you don't take charge of shaping your destiny, others will apply their agenda to you." - Eric Allenbaugh
"As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move." - Katherine Hepburn
"Two stonecutters were asked what they were doing. The 1st said, I'm cutting this stone into block. The 2nd replied, I'm on a team that's building a cathedral" -Old Story
"I believe I'm one of the best pitchers in the world. I know I am as far as results go. But you can't live on your legacy. Every time I step on the mound I have to prove it." - Michele Smith
"It's not how hard you've pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish."
"The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but taken each day, one step at a time. The goal is accomplished, the dream is attained, and the prizes? The wisdom and strength that are gained." - Michael Jordan
"You win some, you lose some, but you always try again." - Unknown
"History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream without also including the power to achieve that dream. It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, or just claim, it was only a dream."
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice." - Old Indian Saying
"And to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." - Psalms Proverb
"If you have built castles in the air, you need not despair; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Life is like a beautiful flower blossoming each season, as we disperse our wonderful diversities and dreams every year. - Amity Lin
Think About It
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"To the world you are just one person, but to a person you may be the world."
"We are torn between a craving to know and the despair of having known." - F. Sagan
"...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." - Greg Anderson
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect." - Margaret Mitchell
"One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself." - Sara Seannette Duncan
"It is worth a thousand pound a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things." - Samuel Johnson
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abe Lincoln
"Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy?" - H. Jackson Browne
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things." - Katherine Graham
"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there."Harvey Mackay
"You have to stand for something or you'll fall for anything." - Linda J. Henderson
"Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff." Dr. Michael Mantell
"When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees." - Kenneth Kaunpa
"Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." - Alice Swaim
"One faslehood spoils a thousand truths." - African Proverb
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"Let him that would move the world first move himself." - Seneca
"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple." - Carol Burnett
"A scab is like a lie; the more you pick them, the worse it gets, but if you stop, it'll heal eventually, though there will be a scar there forever." - Cindy Hong
"Lonliness is the most terrible proverty." - Mother Teresa
"We as individuals, according to the thoughts of one such, think in a unique sense, which is bad grammar, meaning we think in our own separate ways, meaning, hypothesis nonwithstanding correctness checking, we are the sum of the vectors and tangents that make up the electrochemical impulses that define 'thoughts' in the commonly known sense, therefore, defining who we are as the sum of our thoughts, the first hypothesis notwithstanding correctness checking, we are who we are." - Raghav Krishnapriyan (Nelson Raghav-ified)
"Don't judge me by who my friends are. Don't judge me by how I dress. Don't judge me by my appearence. Judge me by how I think, who I am." - Nelson Hong
"If you haven't worked hard then don't complain; you can't have rainbows without some rain." - Cindy Hong
"Keep the pictures, they never change, only the people in them do."
"Focus on the goal in mind and never look back. If you climb a mountain and look down, you'll surely fall, but if you keep your eyes on the mountain top, you'll get there someday." - Cindy Hong
"Be careful whose toes you step on today because they might be connected to the foot that kicks your ass tomorrow!!" - Brandon Ramos Thackeray
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." - Mark Twain
"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 which has opened for us." - Alexander Grahm Bell
"How far we travel in life matters far less than
those we meet on the way." - Unknown
"It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it." - Unknown
"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information." - Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
"It's smart to pick your friends - but not to pieces."
"It's not fair to ask others what you are unwilling to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"You see things that are and say,"Why?" But I dream things that never were and say,"Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams, 'The Dilbert Principle'
"We as individuals think in a unique sense, therefore making us who we are." - Nelson Hong