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These are quotations, to make you think about yourself...
I've learned - : that you cannot make someone love you. : All you can do is : be someone who can be loved. : The rest is up to them. : : I've learned - : that no matter how much I care, : some people just don't care back. : : I've learned - : that it takes years to build up trust, : and only seconds to destroy it. : I've learned - : that it's not what you have in your life : but who you have in your life that counts. : : I've learned - : that you can get by on charm : for about fifteen minutes. : After that, you'd better know something. : I've learned - : that you shouldn't compare : yourself to the best others can do : but to the best you can do. : : I've learned - : that it's not what happens to people : that's important. It's what they do about it. : I've learned - : that you can do something in an instant : that will give you heartache for life. : : I've learned - : that no matter how thin you slice it, : there are always two sides. : I've learned - : that it's taking me a long time : to become the person I want to be. : : I've learned - : that it's a lot easier : to react than it is to think. : I've learned - : that you should always leave : loved ones withloving words. : It may be the last time you see them. : : I've learned - : that you can keep going : long after you think you can't. : I've learned - : that we are responsible for what we do, : no matter how we feel. : : I've learned - : that either you control your attitude : or it controls you. : I've learned - : that regardless of how hot and steamy : a relationship is at first, : the passion fades and there had better be : something else to take its place. : : I've learned - : that heroes are the people : who do what has to be done : when it needs to be done, : regardless of the consequences. : I've learned - : that learning to forgive takes practice. : : I've learned - : that there are people who love you dearly, : but just don't know how to show it. : I've learned - : that money is a lousy way of keeping score. : : I've learned - : that my best friend and I can do anything : or nothing and have the best time. : I've learned - : that sometimes the people you expect : to kick you when you're down : will be the ones to help you get back up. : : I've learned - : that sometimes when I'm angry : I have the right to be angry, : but that doesn't give me : the right to be cruel. : : I've learned - : that true friendship continues to grow, : even over the longest distance. : Same goes for true love. : : 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 maturity has more to do with : what types of experiences you've had : and what you've learned from them : and less to do with how many : birthdays you've celebrated. : : I've learned _ : that you should never tell a child : their dreams are unlikely or outlandish. : Few things are more humiliating, and : what a tragedy it would be : if they believed it. : I've learned - : that your family won't always : be there for you. It may seem funny, : but people you aren't related to : can take care of you and love you : and teach you to trust people again. : Families aren't biological. : : 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 it isn't always enough : to be forgiven by others. : Sometimes you have to learn : to forgive yourself. : : I've learned - : that no matter how bad : your heart is broken : the world doesn't stop for your grief. : I've learned - : that our background and circumstances : may have influenced who we are, : but we are responsible for who we become. : : I've learned - : that sometimes when my friends fight, : I'm forced to choose sides : even when I don't want to. : I've learned - : that just because two people argue, : it doesn't mean they don't love each other : And just because they don't argue, : it doesn't mean they do. : : I've learned - : that sometimes you have to put : the individual ahead of their actions. : I've learned - : that we don't have to change friends : if we understand that friends change. : : I've learned - : that you shouldn't be so : eager to find out a secret. : It could change your life forever. : I've learned - : that two people can look : at the exact same thing : and see something totally different. : : I've learned - : that no matter how you try to protect : your children, they will eventually get hurt : and you will hurt in the process. : I've learned - : that there are many ways of falling : and staying in love. : : I've learned - : that no matter the consequences, : those who are honest with themselves : get farther in life. : I've learned - : that no matter how many friends you have, : if you are their pillar you will feel lonely : and lost at the times you need them most. : : I've learned - : that your life can be changed : in a matter of hours : by people who don't even know you. : I've learned - : that even when you think : you have no more to give, : when a friend cries out to you, : you will find the strength to help. : : I've learned - : that writing, as well as talking, : can ease emotional pains. : I've learned - : that the paradigm we live in : is not all that is offered to us. : : I've learned - : that credentials on the wall : do not make you a decent human being. : I've learned - : that the people you care most about in life : are taken from you too soon. : I've learned - : that although the word "love" : can have many different meanings, : it loses value when overly used. : I've learned - : that it's hard to determine : where to draw the line : between being nice and : not hurting people's feelings : and standing up for what you believe. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Value you yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes."
"Be different stand out, and work your butt off." ~Reba McEntire~
"He who does not make a choice, makes a choice."
"What we belive about God is the most important about us." ~A.W. Tozer~
"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong." ~Abraham Lincoln~
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your characer is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." ~Unknown~
"To save this world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?" ~W.H. Aulden~ "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier"
"Who does not destroy me, makes me stronger." ~Friedrich Nietzxche~
"Use soft words and hard arguments."
"It's amazing what you can accomplish, if you do not care who gets the credit." ~Harry S. Truman~
"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child." ~Knights of Pythagoris~
"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study."
"The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible." ~D. L. Moody~
"Courage is fear that has said it's prayers."
"There is nothing two men can't do if one of them is God."
"Conscience is God's presence in man."
"The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him." ~Josh Billings~
"The most important things in life, aren't things."
"It's no good to make a living if you don't make a life."
"He who lives without discipline, dies without honor."
"Bad things are not the worst things that can happend to us. 'Nothing' is the worst tings that can happen to us." ~Richard Bach~
"Before you speak it is necessary for you to listen for God speaks in the silence of the heart." ~Mother Teresa~
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true." ~Richard Bach~
"If you knew who walks beside you on the way you have chose, fear would be impossible." ~A Course in Miracles~
"They are able, because they think they are able." ~Virgil~
"Some have been thouight brave becase they were afraid to run away." ~Thomas Fuller~
"yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." ~Lyndon Baines Johnson~
"You want to have the perfect performand. But life isn't quite like that, so you have to learn to deal with what you have and not what you think you should have. In my own way. I won the battle because I didn't give up." ~Elvis Stojko~
"To be nobody but yourself in a world where everyone is trying their hardest to make you everyone else, is the hardest battle you'll ever fight."
"Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret." ~Henry Ward Beecher~
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." ~Confucious~
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, some is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
"The person who is all wrapped up in himself is over dressed."
"It is better to be faithful, than famous" ~Teddy Roosevelt~
"When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever." ~Dr. Laura Schlessinger~
"Everyone is responsible for his own acts." ~Cervantes~
"All I have seen, teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." ~Emerson~
"We are all pencils in the hand of God." ~Mother Teresa~
"I will prevent no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." ~Booker T. Washington~
"The heart will break, yet brokenly live on." ~Lord Byron~
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available." ~Jim Beggs~
"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not notice the door which opened for us." ~Alexander Graham Bell~
"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity." ~Mahatma Gandhi~
"Snobs aren't born; They're created."
"How can you judge something fairly when you don't know the rules? You can't play God, because you aren't Him."
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught." ~J.C. Watts~
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." ~Galileo Galilei~
"Each of us should do something everyday that we do not want to do, but know we should do, to strenghten our backbone and put iron in our soul." ~Henry Hitt Crane~
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." ~Will Rogers~
"If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will belive them."
"how come dumb stuff seems so smart while you're doing it." ~Dennis the Menace~
"You're NEVER too old to do goofy stuff." ~Ward Cleaver~
"If you cry because the sun has gone our of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
"What lies behing us and what lies before us are tiny maters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no farther than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." ~Alan Ashley Pitt~
"Act as if it were impossible to fail." ~Dorothea Broude~
"Character is power." ~Booker T. Washington~
"Success is always temporary. when all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your characte." ~Vince Gill~
"To do nothing is the way to be nothing." ~Nathaniel Howe~
"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from withing, no insurmountable barrier except our own ingerant weakness purpose." ~Elbert Hubbard~
"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can." ~Og Mandino~
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." ~Anais Nin~
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~Muriel Strode~
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." ~William Blake~
"Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got." ~Garth~
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life." ~Abraham Maslow~
"No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination." ~Ben Gaye II~
"No smile is so beautiful as the one that struggles through the tears."
"Stand up for what is right ever in you are standing alone."
"It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused." ~Marcel Proust~
"You will do foolish things with great enthusiasm." ~Colette~
"If you get excited about something, it's totally okay to show it." ~Jenna Elfman~
"When we long for life without difficulties: remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds, and diamonds are made under pressure." ~Peter Marshall~
"Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it." ~Hebrews 13:2~
"Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible some person ever reads." ~William J. Toms~
"I may not be perfectly beautiful, I may not be perfectly wise, I many not be perfectly obedient, but I am perfectly me."
"If you're satisfied to just get by. Step aside for the man who isn't."
"Don't ever frown, because you never kow when someone may be faling in love with your smile."
"Good things come to those who wait, great things happen to those who get off their butt and got for it." ~Jaesa~
"A true woman is noe that feels she needs no introduction, one that captures the attention of a crowd, and won't stoop the the level of a wonderbra."
"It is never too late to be what we might have been." ~George Eliot~
"Character consits of what you do on the third and fourth tries." ~James A. Michener~
"Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are."
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
"There are people who wil always come up with reasons why you can't do what you want to do. IGNORE THEM!"
"Sometimes a winner, is just a dreamer who never gave up."
"When you come to the edge of all the light you know you are about to step off into that darkness of the unknown, faith is konwing one of two things will happen: There will be something to stand on, or you will be taught how you fly." ~Barbara J. Winter~
"Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect." ~Scott Hamilton~
"Goals are like stars: they are always there. Adversity is like the clouds: it is temporary and will move on. Keep your eyes on the stars."
"It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong." ~Teddy Roosevelt~
"Man sees your actions, but God your motives." ~Thomas a Kempis~
"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." ~Mother Teresa~
"If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean." ~Vance Havner~
"A face without freckles is like a sky without stars." (that's me ;-) )
If you know the author to any of these quotes, and if you have any you would like for me to add.. Feel free to e-mail me...
