Quotes

"The highest form of appreciation is not spoken with words, but by actions - what you do for others & how you treat them." - Julie (me)

*A favorite* "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have suceeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

*A favorite* "Life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about how you feel about yourself. It's about trust, happiness, and compassion. It's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building confidence. It's about what you say and what you mean. It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have. Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise. These choices are what life's about." - Nike ad

"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Ettiene De Grellet

"Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words." - Fr. Jerome Cummings

*A Favorite* "Well, it seems to me that the best relationships--the ones that last--are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is...suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with." - Dana Scully (The X-Files)

"It is better to get to know and love someone for who they are and not what you want of them." - Unknown

"Actions speak louder than words." - Unknown

"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." - Karen Casey

"True love is knowing a person's faults, and loving them even more for them." - Unknown

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses." - Confucius

"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away." - Alicia Barnhart

"Love is friendship, friendship is love. If love fails, friendship should remain. For friendship is the foundation of love" - Unknown

"Love is friendship caught on fire." - Dear Abby

"To keep your relationship brimming, with love in the cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up." - Ogden Nash

"True love comes quietly without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked." - Unknown

"One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love." - Leo Buscaglia

"As a rule, Man's a fool. When it's hot, He wants it cool. And when it's cool, He wants it hot, Always wanting What is not." - Unknown

*A favorite* "I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do...and in every single thought that you have, and how you say what you mean, and how you almost always mean something that's all about being straight and good." - Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets)

"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is." - George Santayana

"I love you because I know you're always there, there to catch me when I fall, there to listen when I need you, there when I feel alone." - Unknown

"Promise me you'll never leave me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave." - Winnie the Pooh

"Friendship often ends in love; but love before friendship--never." - Albert Camus

"Don't make pie crust promises: easily made and easily broken." - Mary Poppins

"The demons that haunt you are tough to deal with, but they will never go away unless you give yourself the opportunity to trust and love someone again." - Unknown

"To love another person is to see the face of God." - Les Miserables

"If you put it off too long - it may become too late!" - Unknown

"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." - Unknown

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'It might have been.'" - John Greenleaf Whittier

"The things which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't do when he had the opportunity." - Helen Rowland

"Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same." - Unknown

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end." - Disraeli

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." - Barbara De Angelis

"It is better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all." - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

"The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance." - Unknown

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." - Alexander Smith

"Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, And finds in your presence that life is worth while, So when you are lonely, remember it's true: Somebody, somewhere is thinking of you." - Unknown

"It's funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened..." - Unknown

"If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings." - Lisa Moriyama

"Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have." - Unknown

"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." - E. W. Howe

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." - Fr. Jerome Cummings

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Helen Keller

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." - Robert Anthony

"Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore

"Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge." - Carmelia Elliot

"Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy." - Unknown

"When looking at faults, use a mirror, not a telescope." - Yazid Ibrahim

*A favorite* "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable." - Helen Keller

"Life is a mixture of living and longing, learning and growing, with loving and laughing filling in the gaps in between." - Megan

"The best things in life are free." - Lew Brown & Buddy De Sylva

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao-tzu

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it!" - Unknown

"Things do not change. We change." - Henry David Thoreau

"Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path. But the lesson to be learned is always ours." - Melody Beattie

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Unknown

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Charlotte Bronte

"Patience is a virtue." -Unknown

"You make me want to be a better man." - Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets)

"I would rather have 20 minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special." - Julia Roberts (Steel Magnolias)

"When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim." - Tom Cruise

"Enjoy the little things. One day you may look back and realize that they were the big things." - Unknown

"The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys." - Unknown (dedicated to my dad) ;-)

"Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings." - Dave Barry

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Theresa

*A favorite* "Perhaps the dominant force in the average life is possesions. Life becomes a scramble for gain instead of a mission for God. We are so busy making a living that we forget to make a life." - A. P. Gouthey

"Artichokes are like humans: you have to go through so much to get to the heart." - Kathy Good

*A favorite* "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr

"I will not wish thee riches nor the glow of greatness, but that wherever thou go some weary heart shall gladden at thy smile, or shadowed life know sunshine for awhile. And so thy path shall be a track of light, like angels' footsteps passing through the night." - Words on a church wall in Upwaltham, England

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible." - Albert Einstein

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean 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. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." - Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude

"I get this feeling we'll be together again. No straight lines make up my life, all roads have bends. No clear cut beggings and so far no dead ends." - Unknown

"Oh she's nice, she's kind, innocent too. She's probably pretty, the seemingly right one for you. So just forget me, I'm only a friend. Though I'll be with you until the end." - Sharon M.M.

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act." -Barbara Hall

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop

"Si podrķa alcanzar para arriba y sostener una estrella para cada vez usted me hiciera sonrisa, el cielo entero de la tarde estarķa en la palma de mi mano." - Julie (me)

Songs With Good Messages (When you listen to these songs, pay attention to the words):
"Frozen"--Madonna, "Colour of My Love"--Celine Dion, "Don't Wanna Close My Eyes"--Aerosmith, "Wishing on Someone Elses Star"--Bryan White, "I Think I Love You"--Partridge Family, "That Don't Impress Me Much"--Shania Twain, "Can't Make You Love Me"--Bonnie Raitt, "Now & Forever"--Richard Marx, "Treat Her Like A Lady"--Celine Dion, "Sober"--Tool, "I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me"--Expose`, "Tell Him"--Celine Dion & Barbara Streisand, "Foolish Games"--Jewel, "Music Box"--Mariah Carey, "If"--Janet Jackson, "I Could Fall In Love"--Selena, "Stay"--Lisa Loeb, "Liar"--Rollins Band, "Breathe Again"--Toni Braxton, "Making Me High"--Toni Braxton, "Unbreak My Heart"--Toni Braxton, "When I Fall In Love"--Celine Dion & Clive Griffin, "Colors of the Wind"--Vanessa Williams, "Love Breaks Your Heart"--Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight, "Again"--Janet Jackson. Anything by The Carpenters rule!