Inspirational

LESSONS IN LIFE

• I’ve learned that goodbyes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good and bad will bring tears, and words can never replace feelings.

• I’ve learned that some people expect more than they are willing to give.

• I’ve learned that we don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

• I’ve learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world. – Trey Parker and Matt Stone

• I’ve learned that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

• I’ve learned that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

• I’ve learned that you can keep going, long after you can’t.

• I’ve learned that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

• I’ve learned that just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.

• I’ve learned that it isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

• I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

• I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right.

• I’ve learned that no matter how serious life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

• I’ve learned that to ignore the facts, doesn’t change the facts.

• I’ve learned that silent company is often more healing than words of advice.

• I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. – Maya Angelou

• Watch your thoughts, for they become words – Watch your words, for they become actions – Watch your actions, for they become habits – Watch your habits, for they become character – Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

MOTIVATION

• Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Lou Holtz

• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun

MISC.

• When you reach the top, keep climbing. – Proverb

• The key to change…is to let go of fear. – Rosanne Cash

• The key to success is often the ability to adapt.

• We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

• Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine

• There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. – Phyllis Battome

• Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

• If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase. – James E. Faust

• You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. – Dale Earnhardt

• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

Friends & Family

FRIENDS

• Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away but there the fastest when you call.

• Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.

• Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.  ~Emily Kimbrough

• It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

• To have a good friend is one of the highest delights in life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.

• The most beautiful discover true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. – Elisabeth Foley.

• Guys have friends that are girls because it gives them someone to talk about their feelings with…girls have friends that are guys because there is sooo much less drama!

• Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.

• Today I caught myself smiling for no reason… then I realized I was thinking about you.

• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when they discover that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

• When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. – Edgar Watson Howe

• You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be – Johann Casper Lavater

• I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have. – Steve Pavlina

• A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face.

• All of my friends and I are crazy. That’s what keeps us sane!

• True friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient; it’s about being there when it’s not.

• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust

• You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can’t forget. Those are your friends.

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?” – Winnie the Pooh

• “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh,” he whispered.”Yes, Piglet?”"Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw, “I just wanted to be sure of you.”” – Winnie the Pooh 

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. – Gloria Naylor

• A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen.

• The friendship that can cease has never been real. – St. Jerome

• You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can’t forget. Those are your ‘friends’.

• Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. – Eustace Budgell

• The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. – Elizabeth Foley

• Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

• A true friend sees  the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things. – Sasha Azevedo

• Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

• Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.

• Gratitude preserves old friendships, and procures new.

• When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. – Edgar Watson Howe

• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Kahlil Gibran

• If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours. – Proverb
  

• It is not what you give your friend, but what you are WILLING to give him that determines the quality of friendship. – Mary Dixon Thayer

• The best relationships – friendships and otherwise – tend to be those where you can say anything to the other person but you don’t say everything. – Audrey Beth Stein

• A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

• Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus

• Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship. True friendship is never serene. – Mariede Svign

• Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. – Mark Twain

• The best mirror is an old friend. – George Herbert

• The friendship that can cease has never been real. – Saint Jerome

• Never consider any one unworthy. Because you might wake up one day to realize that you have lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones.

• Best friends are like stars, sometimes you can’t see them, but they are always there.

• When it hurts to look back, and you are afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.

• There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will.

• A true friend laughs at your stories even when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they’re not so bad. – Proverb

• Friendship is love with understanding. – Proverb

• A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. – Jim Morrison

• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. – Ed Cunningham

• Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us to rise to our best. – Joseph B. Wirthlin

• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you’ve forgotten the words.

• A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.

• A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be.

• Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with its blinding love. We stand close to each other, hand in hand, showing each other we understand. Some friends may come and go, but you are the truest friend I know.

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FAMILY

• Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet. – Bill Cosby

• Everybody is afraid of something – heights, clowns, tight spaces – those are things you get over. But then there is our children – will they fit in, will they be safe – those are fears you never get past. So sometimes all you can do is take a deep breath, pull them close and hope for the be…st. Things don’t always work out, but you gotta love it when they do.

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MOTHER

• A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes, a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her. – Jodi Picoult ~ Handle With Care {novel}

• A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. – Cardinal Mermillod

• A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.  ~Tenneva Jordan

• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.  ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

• Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul

• It’s not easy being a mother.  If it were easy, fathers would do it.

• The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks.  ~Carrie Latet

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CHILDREN

• Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. – Nadia Boulanger.

• If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. – Abigail Van Buren

• If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away. – Ted Trueblood

• Too often we give our children answers to remember, rather than problems to solve. – Roger Lewin

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MARRIAGE

• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. – Pearl S. Buck

• Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner everyday. – Barbara De Angelis

• What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

• You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.

• Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash. – Dr. Joyce Brothers

• Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. – Lao Tzu

• To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up. – Ogden Nash

• To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. – Helen Rowland