Many things may catch your eye but few will catch your heart..... PURSUE THOSE. We come to love not by by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely. --- The Land Before Time
A lot of people come in and out of our lives but only a treasured few make a difference, leave an impression of love that lasts forever, only a few are as special as you.
My friend, if I could give you one thing I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you... Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years trying to get people interested in you. --- Dale Carnegie
If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one. --- Jim Evans
Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This--this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.--Louis L'Amour
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.--Jacques Cousteau
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.--Fr. Theodore Hesburgh
Just because the river is quiet does not mean the crocodiles have left. --Malay proverb
Formula for success: Underpromise and overdeliver. --Tom Peters
I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know. --Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness," 1902
Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones. --Hindustani Proverb
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. --Walter Bagehot
Experience is always the hardest teacher, because you take the test before you learn your lesson.
The heart does heal and you will love like this again. Except that when you do, you'll deny that you ever loved like this before.
I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.-Steel Magnolias
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.-- Lynda Barry
Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet that still clings to the heel that crushed it.
Dear Lord,
So far today I've done all right. I haven't gossipped, haven't lost my temper, haven't been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish or over-indulgent. I'm very thankful for that. But in a few minutes, Lord, I'm going to get out of bed, and from then on, I'm probably going to need a lot of help. Amen.
Ilse, a childhood friend of mine, once found a raspberry in the camp and carried it in her pocket all day to present to me that night on a leaf. Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry and you give it to your friend.--- Found on one of the walls of the New England Holocaust Memorial Boston, Massachusetts
If the world attacks and you slide off track, remember one fact, I got your back.---Will Smith, "Just the Two of Us"
Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.
---Charlie Krueger
Risk more that others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and impossible to forget.
The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern. --- Max Lucado
You never lose by loving, you always lose by holding back.
The man who follows the crowd will usually go no farther than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before. --- Albert Einstein
A bird does not sing because it has an answer -- it sings because it has a song.
A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you become, and still gently invites you to grow.
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
A single reason why you can do something is worth 100 reasons why you can't.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.---Benjamin Franklin
Don't spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for.---The Vatican Sayings,Epicurus
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Everywhere children are schooled to become masters at answering questions and to remain novices at asking them.--Dillon, 1988
If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.---Dale Carnegie
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.---Erma Bombeck
Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail..
There are 3 billion women who don't look like supermodels and ONLY 8 WHO DO.
Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.
When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently.
When you are standing on the edge of a cliff a step forward is not progress.
To be sensual is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. --James Baldwin
It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.---Calvin and Hobbes
You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling
isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count. ---Winnie-the-Pooh
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.---Piglet
"Do not confront me with my failures....I have not forgotten them." Jackson Browne, "These Days"
"every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief. All kill their inspiration and then sing about their grief."-U2
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.---George Eliot
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. ---Emmanuel
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ---Ann Landers
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.---Robert Louis Stevenson
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend. - Anton Chekhov
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.--- C. S. Lewis
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
--Abraham Lincoln
Hope as we might
Be as it may
For regrets that we carry
Only we are to blame.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away. --- Henry David Thoreau
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. --- Chinese Proverb
If you're gonna win, win graceful
If your're gonna love, love faithful
If your're gonna learn, learn by teaching
If your're gonna fall, fall reaching. --- Robert Ellis Orall
No one can choose your mountain
Or tell you when to climb
It's yours alone to challenge
At your own pace and time.
You're not automatically educated when you get out of college. Education is a process, not a package. Its goal is not the acquisition of a specific set of skills or body of knowledge, but a maturity of mind and emotions that enables one to be a better person as well as a better engineer, lawyer, or scientist.-- T.T. James
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
--- Vauvenagrues
A man is like a fine wine. He starts out raw as grapes, and it's a woman's job to stomp on him and keep him in the dark until he matures into something she'd like to have dinner with.
Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?
I have learned that no matter what, never turn your life around for someone who doesn't love you back.
Your opinion of me is not as important as mine is. --- Fidelis Mnkandla
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled in dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not just exist. I shall use my time. --- Jack London
I know that I'll always want more, better, faster. I'll never be happy with where I'm at or what I've got. I doubt that I'll ever be satisfied. But I'm trying very hard to remember, too, that I've already got more than most, and that I've already got enough. For that I am striving to be ever thankful.---Chad King
Things cannot always go your way.
Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations,
Cultivate the gift of taciturnity,
And consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work,
So that those about you may not be annoyed
With the dust and soot of your complaints.
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, no even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.-- From The Four Loves, CS Lewis
Life is a journey, not a single destination. We are all searching for happiness. It's ok to feel 'lost' sometimes, as it is in these lost times that we go inside ourselves and find more of our hidden potential. The next time you feel like life is going nowhere, take some quiet time to listen to the awesome power inside you. It's there, just waiting to come out. --- Paul Hanna
May we always have…
Enough happiness to keep us sweet;
Enough sorrow to keep us human;
Enough faith to give us courage;
Enough wealth to meet our needs;
Enough trials to keep us strong;
Enough failure to keep us humble;
Enough friends to give us comfort;
Enough determination to make each day a good day.
Sometimes things get so loud
And the mouths just keep on
Talking and talking
And the noise has no rhythm,
It's like a war of sounds.
Then I see my family in our quiet home
Under the dark sky
And I smile. --- Fay Hoover
Each day as you wake up, make the decision to strive to do what's right.
Approach your life as you would your game....
...when you make a mistake, learn from it, correct it, and get ready for the next point. Life moves too fast to sulk and dwell on the past.
...when you're down, fight harder to get back on top. Life is full of hardships.
Fight hard against those feelings of despair.
...when you're doing everything right and still can't win, be patient. No matter how good we are or how hard we struggle to make the right decisions, life often makes us wait.
...when you are on top of your game, relax and enjoy it. Life is fully appreciated when we survive adversity and can relax in the sunlight of success.
Each sunrise brings a new opportunity. No matter how bad the day before was, today is brand new. When you wake up, seek the strength and courage to do the right thing. ---Aaron Ballinger
Pray not to be sheltered from dangers,
But to be fearless in facing them. --- Rabindranath Tagore
In the end only one person in this world can drag you down Or lift you up, and that person is you. --- Tom Potter
Friends come and go in life,
Except for a precious few
Whose lives are so inexplicably intertwined,
That when they meet their lives are changed forever.
They will never be the same,
And they will remain close to one another forever.--- Aaron Schwartz
Love is...looking into a person's eyes,
Realizing all of your dreams could come true,
And being totally willing to give it all up
To make the other's dreams come true.
No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not. --- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Somebody somewhere is dreaming of your smile
And in your presence finds a life worth while.
When you are lonely remember this is true;
Somebody somewhere is thinking of you.