| Stuff to Live By |
| Quotes From People and Books that Have Shaped My Life |
| Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. ~Anonymous From Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul |
| Some men will give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, will obtain a victory, by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. ~Herodotus, as told by Andrew Collins |
| Don't give up. Don't ever, ever give up. ~Jim Valvano |
| The Miss of a Great "Miss" You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ~Barbara De Angelis |
| I'll never forget the day I first saw "a dream walking." Her name was Susie Summers (name changed to protect the fantastic). Her smile, which sparkled beneath two twinkling eyes, was electric and made people who received it (especially guy people) feel very special. While her physical beauty was astounding, it was her invisible beauty I shall always remember. She really cared about other people and was an extremely talented listener. Her sense of humor could brighten your entire day and her wise words were always exactly what you needed to hear. She was not only admired but also generally respected by members of both sexes. With everything in the world to be conceited about, she was extremely humble. Needless to say, she was every guy's dream. Especially mine. I got to walk her to class once a day, and once I even got to eat lunch with her all by myself. I felt on the top of the world. I would think, "If only I could have a girlfriend like Susie Summers, I'd never even look at another female." But I figured that someone this outstanding was probably dating someone far better than myself. Even though I was president of the student body, I just knew I didn't stand a ghost of a chance. So at graduation, I said farewell to my first big crush. A year later, I met her best friend in a shopping center and we had lunch together. With a lump in my throat, I asked how Susie was. "Well, she got over you," was the reply. "What are you talking about?" I asked. "You were really cruel to her the way you led her on, always walking her to class and making her think you were interested. Do you remember the time you had lunch with her? Well, she stayed by the phone the entire weekend. She was sure you were going to call and ask her out." I was so afraid of rejection, I never risked letting her know how I felt. Suppose I had asked her out and she'd said no? What's the worst thing that could have happened? I wouldn't have had a date with her. Well, guess what? I DIDN'T HAVE A DATE WITH HER ANYHOW! What makes it worse is that I probably could have. ~ Jack Schlatter From Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul |
| We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit... ~Aristotle, as told by Andrew Collins |
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| DRIVE FOR SHOW; PUTT FOR DOUGH. ~as told by Scott Spargo |
| Confused My knees start to shake, When you're in sight. My mind is filled with wonder, My heart with fright. When will this feeling stop? When did it start? How can I listen to my mind, Without breaking my heart? I'm so confused. What should I do? I can't think of anything, Except you. Should I ignore you, Or just give it time? I can't think straight, My heart controls my mind. ~Anonymous From Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II |
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| If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ~Mother Teresa |
| All you need is love. ~John Lennon |
| There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy. ~Anonymous From Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul |
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| 1. Be at each match 1 hour before the match is scheduled to begin. 2. Have all equipment on when you arrive at the field. 3. Remember who you represent and act accordingly. MAKE WISE DECISIONS. 4. Remember why we are going to this tournament. 5. Curfew for Friday and Saturday night is 10:00 PM. We play two matches on Saturday and hope to play at least two on Sunday so you will need your rest. 6. DO NOT WASTE YOUR ENERGY IN THE POOL! 7. Eat a good dinner both nights and a light breakfast both mornings. 8. Have Fun!!!!!!!!!! ~Andrew Collins, given to the GUSC '84 Lady Storm before the 2000 Myrtle Beach Great Carolina Shootout |
| Always give 100%. ~Justin Gainey |
| Work hard and you will earn the right to deserve. ~Archie Miller |
| Never believe anything you haven't experienced for yourself. ~Cornelius Williams |
| Advice From The Pack |
| Life is like a box o' choc'lates. You never know what you're gonna get. ~as said by Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump |
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| The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. ~John Holt From Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III |
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| Questions, Comments or Prayer Requests? Is the sun shining? Are you alive? Then smile! It's a good day! ~Jeffrey Phillips |
| Theodore is never sober, only he is drunk with himself and not with rum. ~Sec. of War Elihu Root on Theodore Roosevelt From Edmund Morris's Theodore Rex |
| In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus |
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| God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December. ~ James M. Barrie |
| Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. ~Robert Herrick from "To Virgins, to Make Much of Time" |
| There is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery. ~ Dante from The Inferno (Canto V) |
| Hang in there, kiddo. ~ Jeff Phillips |
| If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~ Stephen Levine |
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| What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry? ~Anonymous |
| You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt |
| One is taught by experience to put a premium on those people who can appreciate you for what you are. ~ Gail Godwin |
| Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget. Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they are always there. ~Anonymous |
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| Don't let the past hold you back. You're missing the good stuff. ~ Anonymous |
| What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. ~ Martina Horner |
| Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. ~ Dean Koontz |
| To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao-Tzu |
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| Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ~Napoleon |
| Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. ~ William Butler Yeats |
| Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford |
| I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. ~Socrates |
| If there is no wind, row. ~Anonymous |
| A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. ~Charles Kingsley |
| If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ~ Winnie the Pooh |
| It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ~Walt Disney |
| A friend is a second self. ~Cicero |
| If words could say all that we feel, there would be no need for an embrace. But language has its limitations, and the heart has none. It expresses itself spontaneously in even the smallest things we do. ~ Robert Sexton |
| Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mahatma Gandi |
| I don't believe in mathematics. ~Albert Einstein |
| Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't 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 |
| Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. ~Sigmund Freud |
| There are many things in life that will catch your eye. But only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those. ~Anonymous |
| The Computation For my first twenty years, since yesterday, I scarce believed thou couldst be gone away; For forty more I fed on favors past, And forty on hopes that thou wouldst they might last; Tears drown'd one hundred, and sighs blew out two; A thousand, I did neither think nor do, Or not divide, all being one thought of you; Or in a thousand more, forgot that too. Yet call not this long life; but think that I Am, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die? ~John Donne |
| Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists...when we are parted we feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ~ Goncourt |
| To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ~Steven Covey |
| Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other. ~ Anonymous |
| Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. ~ Charles Augustin Sainte - Beauve |
| Live and savor every moment... this is not a dress rehearsal. |
| You know you're in love when at those times you're apart, you find yourself gazing at the sky in the direction he/she lives and feeling some peace in knowing that you live under the same sky. ~Anonymous |