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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton
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The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
So glad you brought quotes back, Polly *s*
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Thanks, Spacey!! If only one other person besides myself enjoys this thread, then I too am glad to have brought it back. *hugs*
Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.
Duane Michals
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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
~ Frank Crane
Glad to see this thread back..always enjoyed reading and posting here..thanks Polly..*s*
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A friend in need... is a pest.
Benny Hill :P
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I believe that friends are quiet angels who sit on our shoulders and lift our wings when we forget how to fly."
Anonymous
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
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Life's too short...
...kiss slowly,
...love deeply,
forgive quickly!
unknown~
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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies, but not everyone lives.
Aaron McGruder
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Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.-- Shari R. Barr
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you are most welcome TE.....*bright smile*
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Barbara Johnson
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Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections. \
~Unknown
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn Rand
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"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."
Anonymous
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Helen Keller:
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 been opened for us.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." -- Unknown
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Barry LePatner
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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
Paul Bourget
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oh..that's a good one ms. lilacs *s*
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~Edith Wharton
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Peter McWilliams
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One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
~Alexander Jodorowsky
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*laughs at TE's post*
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette
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A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around
Carolyn Birmingham
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
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Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx
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Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter
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What's meant to be will always find a way.
Trisha Yearwood
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Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl G. Jung
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What we love to do....we find time to do.
~ John L. Spalding
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton
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Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
~Lou Erickson
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Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
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The supreme happiness of live is the conviction that we are loved.
~Victor Hugo
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
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All generalizations are false, including this one. :P
Mark Twain
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The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
*winks at Miss Heather and gives her that knowing look*
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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 been opened for us.
~Helen Keller
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*winks back at Polly* You got it.
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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Rose Lane
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Things in the past
Create a mask
Of sorrow and fear
When one should hear
The joy of now
Nor question how or why
But sigh with relief
And the belief
That we can weather
Anything
Together
Virginia Carver
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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.
Gene Brown
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If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
Joyce Chapman
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
Tillotson
*winks*
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You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. --Lewis B. Smedes
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. ;)
Walter Anderson
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I scream, You scream, we all scream for ice cream.
Anonymous
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*LOL*....oh Miss Heather...a good one, especially on such a hot day!!
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig
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"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy"
Thorton Wilder
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Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.
Georges Sorel
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When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.
Richard Corman
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The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.
Clay Aiken
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Amen!!!!
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"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."
Anon
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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
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We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.
James H. Douglas
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Phyllis Diller
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One less to feed
Tim Curry (Musketeers)
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin
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*LOL*....good one lilacs!!...speaking of frisbees....*W*
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
Boris Johnson
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even when you were throwing up, I could tell you still cared
Dell ( The Crying Game)
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Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.
George Carlin
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At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.
Michael Dorris
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
:P
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"I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better."
Glenda Jackson
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A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
John J. Pershing
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about Life
It goes on
Robert Frost
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Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.
Dennis Miller
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I have one that I got from m'friends t-shirt. He was Army.
"People Sleep Peaceably In Their Beds
At Night Only Because Rought Men
Stand Ready To Do Violence On Their Behalf."
163rd Scout INF 'Recon' US Army
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Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Eugene O'Neill
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"Bill Gates is just a white Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in a James Bond movie."
Dennis Miller
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People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl - and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.
Edward Jeffrey
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I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.
Hobbes (of Calvin and .....)
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The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours."
Eric Idle
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
Walter Anderson
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"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
-- Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin
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Laughter is an instant vacation.
--Milton Berle
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Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
Marguerite de Valois
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The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.
Mohandas Gandhi
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It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak and another to hear.
Thoreau
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Desiderius Erasmus
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You're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
Dennis Miller
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You're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
Dennis Miller
*envisions it and cracks up*...keep those funny ones coming, Jack!! :D
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We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved...
Anonymous
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop
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I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
A.E. Hotchner
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
Alexander Chase
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein
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Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
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He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
C.S. Lewis
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Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.
- - - Sandra Boynton
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Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.
Matt Lauer
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Forget love-- I'd rather fall in chocolate!!!
Simply put... everyone has a price, mine is chocolate!
unknown (but I sure like how they think) ;)
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? ~Author Unknown
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Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
Edwin C. Bliss
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Lily Tomlin
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.
Leonard Brandwein
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
Bette Davis
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Someday your prince charming will come. Mine just took a wrong turn, got lost, and is too stubborn to ask for directions.
Unknown
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*BOL*...oh lilacs....I love it!! :D
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Someday someone might come into your life and love you the way you've always wanted. If your someday was yesterday, learn. If your someday is tomorrow, hope. If your someday is today, cherish. - Unknown -
Glad you liked it Polly ;)
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The Seven Deadly Sins are
wealth without work
pleasure without conscience
knowledge without character
business without morality
science without humanity
worship without sacrifice
politics without principle
Mahatma Gandhi
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"A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face"
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It is our prerogative to imagine in one we love all of those gentle feelings that hope can supply, and to continue to do so until harsh reality intervenes with its war-chariots and spears, with its broken assignations and revealed deceptions, crying, 'Here I am! You must face me whether you will or nill!
Steven Brust
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As you make your way through life, let this ever be your goal, keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole.
Unknown Author
(who may or may not have worked for Dunkin Donuts)
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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin
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*snickers at the Cadette* Very good... hehe
and here's one that I've found is so perfect:
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. --
Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry
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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul
Arnold Bennett
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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Margaret Cho
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If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
Kin Hubbard
Polly is back from vacation.......never even missed me didja...* saucy grin*
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wfl...that donut thing used to be the motto of the very first Dunkin Donuts...Posted on the sides of their stores..*S*
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"A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts."
-- James Madison (essay in the National Gazette, 2 February 1792)
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
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It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor
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No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen
Epictetus
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I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."
Oprah Winfrey
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I must learn to love the fool in me, the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Harold Kushner
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Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Intelligence is plentiful, but strength of character is not
Joseph Joffre
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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
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And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
-Thomas Jefferson
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However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. (Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux)
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-Mark Twain
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Ronin.......Welcome back to the Boards......you have been missed. *S*
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Charles Kuralt
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Common sense from an old farmer (condensed)
* Keep skunks, bankers and lawyers at a distance.
* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
*Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.
* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.
* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain 't botherin' you none.
* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.
* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.
* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.
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I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
Javan
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin
He smiles when I enter a room.
He calls me love, not babe, and I feel his love.
He is proud to introduce me to his friends even when I am in my sweats.
He thinks I am beautiful before I go to the hairdresser.
He is a keeper.
Now......if I could just find him. ;). :-*
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Good ones, Polly *s
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Clint Eastwood
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have missed you, Spacey...glad to see you back at the boards. :)
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
Dorothy Gilman
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Ruhh-Rohh, George
Astro the Dog
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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
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just popped in my head.. not sure where I heard it or who said it..
The difference between dogs and cats: Cats think they are god. Dogs think you are god.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein:
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The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
Paula Poundstone
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Good one, Polly *L I like Paula Poundstone
Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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One man's trash is another mans riches
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
Charles Kettering
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"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps."
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1945
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison
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If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says "keep away from children."
Susan Savannah
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Brian Littrell
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We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
Mark Twain
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nice one DG..*S*
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain,
So the thought of you, remaining deeply folded in my brain,
Will not leave me. Alll things leave me: You remain.
Arthur Symons
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What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient...
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* For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and
wrong. (H L Mencken)
* Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there. (Will Rogers)
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Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick
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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting
otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
-- Theodore Rubin
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The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.
Sean Stewart
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Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
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No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ~ Francois Mauriac
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
TE.....have missed you in the Coffee Shop....pop in soon...*hugs*
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I know we usually only do one or so at a time. But I did a search a few months ago for quotes I wanted to add to my website. Here are some from a few very interesting women that I admire.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf
Susan B. Anthony
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
on foreign policy: How can you not be all on fire? ... I really believe I shall explode if some of you young women don't wake up --and raise your voice in protest against the impending crime of this nation upon the new islands it has clutched from other folks. Do come into the living present and work to save us from any more barbaric male governments.
Lucille Ball
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
• Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
• My God, I'm outliving my henna.
• Women's lib?...It doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Marilyn Monroe
It's all make believe, isn't it?
• If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
• I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.
• I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marie Curie
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
• I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
• There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted. - Albert Einstein
Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
What is to give light must endure the burning.
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Elenor Rosevelt was such an inspiring woman. I ask any that would to read her autobiography. She was simply classic.
Demi
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
Polly, I'll peek in soon ..*hugs*..seems that when I'm around ..no one else is..*s*
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl G. Jung
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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
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Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix
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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Ralph Gerard
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo
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If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
Dawn French...a full figured British actress/comic
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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.
William A. Ward
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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
David Brinkley
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speaking of the Oscars.......
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
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Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Cary Grant
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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James A. Baldwin
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
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hahaha...I love that last one, Spacey... ;D
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
Rudyard Kipling
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"When in doubt.... ATTACK!!!"
RAGNAR
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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
Hi Polly *s I kind of liked it too
Ragnar: Rape, pillage, burn...in that order? You're a scary man *l
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
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I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
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Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.
Anonymous
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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler
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I have my own little world, but it's okay.......they know me here.
Author Unknown
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck
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*ROTFLMBO*......now, THAT was cute, Spacey!!
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was
more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
anais nin
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
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No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky
Llewelyn Powys
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Nature does nothing uselessly
Aristotle
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I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.
Adeline Knapp
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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more
Erica Jong
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Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams
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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser
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Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
Erma Bombeck
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Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
Howard Cosell
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Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked "Brightness", but it doesn't work.
Gallagher
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*LMBO*.....oh, I like that one, Spacey.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
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A woman is like a tea bag...you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hi Polly *S Glad you got a laugh.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
Hal Borland
HOORAY FOR SPRING!!!
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Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson
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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
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“I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.” --
Maria Callas
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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton
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You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
Winston Churchill
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A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself. He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.
John Foster
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what
he laughs at
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Few great men would have gotten past Personnel.
Paul Goodman
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
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Time wounds all heels.
Groucho Marx
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"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that.
It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
Drew Carey
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
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The quote board lives *l
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Paul Beatty
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;) it lives
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Ambrose Bierce
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A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian
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Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?
Kevin J. Anderson
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Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin
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We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley
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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
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After spending countless hours and producing thousands of images in both my fathers' and Bretts' darkrooms, I needed to prove that the image was not the most important part of the process, that the process itself held the rewards I was looking for.
Kim Weston
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Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka
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Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Maude Adams
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
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Cripple him, and you have a Sir Walter Scott. Lock him in a prison cell, and you have a John Bunyan. Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have a George Washington. Raise him in abject poverty and you have an Abraham Lincoln. Strike him down with infantile paralysis, and he becomes Franklin Roosevelt. Burn him so severely that the doctors say he'll never walk again, and you have a Glenn Cunningham -- who set the world's one mile record in 1934. Deafen him and you have a Ludwig van Beethoven. Have him or her born black in a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have a Booker T. Washington, a Marian Anderson, a George Washington Carver. Call him a slow learner, "retarded," and write him off as uneducable, and you have an Albert Einstein. As one man summed it up: Life is about 20% in what happens to us and 80% in the way we respond to the events. - Ted Engstrom
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Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Steven Spielberg
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Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can break my heart.
A grammar school teacher altered this for her students. I thought it was a great edit job.
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Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Hellen Keller
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The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it
can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.
Glenn Doman
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Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements
Mary Schmich
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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
Tom Watson
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Happily, love turns out to be inseparable from the human condition; it may lie fallow for the longest time but there's no telling when it will crop up, or what will set it off, or whom it will strike. A smile, a glimpse, a memory, a gesture, an old song, a hint of perfume or cologne may bring it all back
unknown
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault
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It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Michael J. Fox in "Saving Milly"
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In keeping with the Season.........
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
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People used to explore the dimensions of reality by taking LSD to make the world look weird. Now the world is weird and they take Prozac to make it look normal.
Bangstrom
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*LOL*....cute Spacey!
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
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Found a funny quote site, Polly *l
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck
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Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
Alfred Painter
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
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Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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The less you speak, the more you learn.
My Mother
Not sure of the author, but heard this only from my mom *l
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)
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Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
John Dewey
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Thomas Carlyle
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor
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"O, what may man within him hide though angel on the outward side"- William Shakespeare
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Had to toss this one in..
"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."
--Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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~If It doesnt happen ,wasnt meant to be~
My grammie
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao Tsu
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
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The Meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Antonine de Saint-Exupery
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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
W. C. Fields
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Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise,
open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life.
Certainly it is worth the risk.
Leo Buscaglia
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character - Albert Einstein
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"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
.....Albert Einstein
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Out of all of mans earthly pleasures, sex - is perhaps his favorite
yet he has left it out of his heaven
Mark Twain
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
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A Hippopotamus would squah the lot of us,
If it sat on us.
-Spike Milligan
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Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
U.S. President
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I married Miss Right. I just didn't realize her first name was "Always".
-Any Husband-
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Welcome back, Jack... :) haven't seen you for a while!
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Welcome back, Jack... :) haven't seen you for a while!
Why thank you pretty Lady ;)
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As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
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Love that one, Easy! Here's another from that brilliant one....
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
.....Albert Einstein
Ooops... just checked and I posted that before... but.. hey, it's a good one, so I'll leave it.... *L*
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In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They are going to find you anyway.
Coach Bear Bryant
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Music, is well said, to be the speech of angels.
~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"
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"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
Abraham Lincoln
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Beauty, of whatever kind, invariably excites the human soul to tears.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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Love is a Fire. But weather is is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell
Joan Crawford
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane,
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“Love is not love until love's vunerable.”
Theodore Roethke -
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov
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Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
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I will Return
Gen. Douglas McArthur
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There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Frederick L Collins
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"Truly great friends are hard to find, diffuclt to leave, and impostable to forget."
G. Randolf
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
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I will Return
Gen, Douglas McArthur
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
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There is only two ways to live your life. One is though nuthing is a miracle, the other as if everything is a miracle
albert Enstein
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
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I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Rodney Dangerfield
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The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.
;D
Barbara Cartland
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin
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"Each hour wounds, the last one kills"
Neil Gaiman
American Gods
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
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(the promise of an official of the British government)".. is like a post dated check , drawn on
a closed account"
Gandhi
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs
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Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Think about how stupid the average person is; now realise half of them are dumber than that. "
- George Carlin
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge
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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
Alan Alda
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
Calvin Klein
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. ;D
W. C. Fields
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If silence is golden, I shall never get rich.
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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
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I will never Leave a solder
Colonel hal Moore
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I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
Javan
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
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It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.
Proverb
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson
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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
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All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.
Angelina Jolie
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin
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The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin
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Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Lincoln's Own Stories
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the thankful heart
will find in every hour
some hevenly blessings
henry ward beecher
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
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"Eat a Prune!" "Start a Movement!"
annonymous
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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
Fred Allen
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford
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"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness." - Tennessee Williams
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Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
Dr. Napoleon Hill
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The best way to future happiness is to be as happy as rightfully possible today.
Charles W. Eliot
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To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself
Harvey Fierstein
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You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford
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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 you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
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What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
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"Fear not for behold I bring good tideings of great joy
that shall be to all people"
an Angel
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James
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"I'm not 40; I'm 18 with 22 years experience"
Anonymous
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"Life is a series of choices and the choices we make affect not only our tommorows but those who care about us as well."
Anonymous
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
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If you haven't found something strange during the day,
it hasn't been much of a day.
John A. Wheeler
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
-Pearl Bailey
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
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A memory lasts forever.
Never does it die.
True friends stay together.
And never say goodbye.
-Anon.
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May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift
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I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
George Carlin
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
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"He who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall meet him everywhere."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
-Kahlil Gibran
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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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Once I told my old man, ‘Nobody likes me.’
He said, ‘Don’t say that—everybody hasn’t met you yet.’
Rodney Dangerfield
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A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
Edgar Guest
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
- Paula Poundstone
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All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Its nice to be nice to the nice
Major Frank Burns
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
John Dryden
Good Morning Coffee Shop
Piper
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"Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
-Kahlil Gibran
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I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.
Rodney Dangerfield
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People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm
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"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort"
-Herm Albright
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen
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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
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Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Nora Ephron
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
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Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Margaret Thatcher
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else
Emily Dickinson
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese
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If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor
Jennifer Jones
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain
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People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
Dorothy Gilman
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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen
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Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.
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Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together
and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
- Amy Bloom -
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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility...
It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
Love is watchful and sleeping, slumbereth not.
Though weary, it is not tired; though pressed, it is not straitened; though alarmed, it is not confounded...
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave
footprints in your heart.
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Don't let today's disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreams.
- Author Unknown -
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As you travel through life, your dreams will guide you, determination will get you there, and love will provide the greatest scenery of all.
- Michelle C. Ustaszeski -
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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything
Muhammad Ali
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There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
George Carlin
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire." -Aristotle
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I am sure this was posted once before *too lazy to look..lol*...but it's so fitting...
"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
--Anon
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Here's a special one, for a special One...
All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew You have faded and given place to Our radient moments Together. Now I cannot live apart from You...Your words are my food, Your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
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Don't sit so close to the TV. You'll ruin your eyes
Mom
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*dies laffin*...that was a good one Piper...LOL
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Smiles, danke Frau Megs
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"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we'll be a nation gone under."
-Ronald Reagan
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"Time, People and Life..... are all glossy magazines" Anonymous
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I believe everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can appreciate them better when they are right. You believe lies so that you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. And sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
-Marilyn Monroe
...seriously. truer words have never been spoken. that quote means so much to me right now.
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Oh Amanda, I do think Marilyn had a very valid point!!!!
I came back to give credit for the quote I left thinking was Anonymous..but saw it again later and noted the name....
"Time, Life and People - are just glossy magazines"
~ Loudon Wainwright III
Not very inspireing, but I did think it was 'cute'.
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"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful when she finds a good one.
--Mae West
Oh...how true! :)
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"What is meant to be... will always find a way.
--Trisha Yearwood
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'Tis better to have fought and lost Than never to have fought at all.
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -Victor Borge
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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar Gracian
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"Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle; rather a great reminder of just how strong true love can be." - unknown
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" We have a personal foul, on number 99 of the defense, after he tackled the quarterback, he's giving him the business down there, that's a 15-yard penalty"
Referee Ben Drieth
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."
-James M Barrie
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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault
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Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
Dave Barry
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette
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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
Fred Allen
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Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
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"A lively understandable spirit
Once entertained you.
It will come again.
Be still.
Wait."
Theodore Roethke
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The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
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When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. - Norman Vincent Peale
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True love can blind you but at the same time if you let it, it can also open your eyes."
Source Unknown
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
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Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
-Joshua J. Marine
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"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.” ... Marilyn Monroe
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"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.That will be the beginning."
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"The question that drives me hazy......Am I, or others crazy"?
Albert Einstine
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln
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"The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can."
Margo Kaufman
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
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Grief is the helpless wishing that things were different when you know they are not and never will be again.
Robert Slater
*Whispers toward the clouds* : Happy Birthday Mom!
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"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be”
Marcel Pagnol
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
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"LOVE IS...the greatest refreshment in life"
Pablo Picasso
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True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.
Ben Johnson
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You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
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Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.
by Rozina Hasham
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
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We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
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"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides"
-David Viscott
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We'll do what we gotta do, see what we gotta see, and if in the end we end up
together, then we'll know it was meant to be.
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
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"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the
entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."
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"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold & good health have vanished."
-Og Mandino
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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each momment wounds.. the last kills
Anon
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
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Show me your friends and I will show you your future
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You will become on the outside what you believe on the inside
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Died at 30. Buried at 60.
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He slept beneath the moon
He basked beneath the sun
He lived a life of "going-to-do"
And died with nothing done
James Albery
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He who deliberates fully taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
Chinese proverb
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Death isn't the greatest loss in life
The greatest loss is what dies inside of us as while we live.
Norman Cousins
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
General Douglas MacArthur
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If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then realize that you are its author.
Each day you have the chance to write a new page in that story. I encourage you to fill those pages with responsibility to others and to yourself. If you do, in the end you will not be disappointed.
John Maxwell
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To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey
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We can’t change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I’m not as depressed as you think I should be, I’m sorry to disappoint you.
- Randy Pausch ( 1960-2008 )
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
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A gossip is one who talks to you about others. A bore is one who talks to you about himself. And a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
William King
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Cicero
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Quote for the day
Whatever you give a woman, she's going to multiply.
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.
If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
Sooooooo.......
If you give her crap, you will receive more shit than any one human being can handle.
Love and appreciate the women in your life.
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Well behaved women rarely make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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That (Promise) is like a post dated check
drawn on a closed account.
Gandi
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The only thing that is truly yours- that no one can control or take from you, is your attitude. So if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier."
Unknown
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After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler
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“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
Oscar Wilde
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'Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death'
Earl wilson
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“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
Voltaire
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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
but those that will not break it kills.
it kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.
if you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.”
Earnest Hemmingway
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“better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
Confucius
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"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the 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 those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
~Theodore Roosevelt~
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At a critical moment I said: "I would rather you go and regret you going, then to stay and regret your staying." Someday I'm gonna learn to keep my mouth shut.
Peter McWilliams
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Two I live by.
"Cute and fuzzy, until PISSED OFF"...
- Me.
"Lifes a Jerk(prick, asshole, bitch etc), until you become one"
- Mom's used it for years, unsure of an Author.
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"There is nothing to fear, but fear itself."
Winston Churchill
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"a knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other."
M.C. Richards
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"I've woken to a world of shit"
Crixus ~ Spartacus on Starz
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"Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?"
George Price
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Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
~Don Quixote
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.......absence makes the heart grow fonder
Roman poet Sextus
.......abstinence makes the hard grow longer
wayne arrants