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  • Oct 2, 2008, 06:27 AM
    HistorianChick

    Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor

    There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
  • Oct 7, 2008, 06:01 PM
    friend4u178

    "Go out looking for one thing , and that's all you'll ever find"

    Robert Flaherty

    "I like long walks , especially when the are taken by people who annoy me"

    Oscar Wilde
  • Oct 7, 2008, 08:01 PM
    Alty

    Okay, I'm in a mood, care to guess which one?

    "I'm a terrible lover. I've actually given a woman an anti-climax." (Scott Roeben)

    "I love sex. It's free and doesn't require special shoes." (Anonymous)

    "For me, love is very deep, but sex only has to go a few inches." (Stacy Nelkin)

    "There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that." (Lewis Grizzard)

    "Nothing makes you forget about love like sex." (Staci Beasley)

    "I have no luck with women. I once went on a date and asked the woman if she'd brought any protection. She pulled a switchblade on me." (Scott Roeben)

    "If sex doesn't scare the cat, you're not doing it right." (Anonymous)

    Yup, guess my mood. :)
  • Oct 7, 2008, 08:10 PM
    friend4u178
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  • Oct 7, 2008, 08:38 PM
    ISneezeFunny

    "I can't afford to doubt myself. It's too expensive."
    --Sneezers
  • Oct 7, 2008, 08:54 PM
    Alty

    Aw, poor Sneezy. Sneezy, if it makes you feel any better, Wiggy spent $18,000 dollars today and we have nothing to show for it. :(
  • Oct 8, 2008, 02:50 PM
    friend4u178

    "Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."
  • Oct 8, 2008, 02:52 PM
    HistorianChick

    According to WikiAnswers, the human head weighs 12 pounds. Today, mine feels like 57.

    :)
  • Oct 8, 2008, 03:01 PM
    Alty

    "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
    - Charles Caleb Colton

    "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
    - Anais Nin

    "A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
    by Jasmine Fitzwilliam

    "Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
    - sent by Steve

    "Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
    - Elbert Hubard

    "A Friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway!!!"

    To My friends on AMHD, you are my friends although we've never met, you accept me for who I am, I know it's sometimes a challenge. I love you guys, don't know what I'd do without you now that I have you. :)

    Alty.
  • Oct 9, 2008, 06:55 AM
    HistorianChick

    When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom
  • Oct 12, 2008, 06:54 PM
    friend4u178

    "If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

    -- Ann Landers
  • Oct 13, 2008, 08:50 PM
    Couchcarrot

    Psalm 116:7

    Return, O my soul, to your
    Tranquility, for the Lord
    Has been good to you.
  • Oct 14, 2008, 05:53 AM
    JudyKayTee
    My mother used to say, "If you do that again I will kill you."

    Does that count? It influenced my life greatly and I can (occasionally) still hear her voice saying it.
  • Oct 14, 2008, 03:26 PM
    Couchcarrot
    Here's a quote from a man whose sayings have helped me to
    See certain situations in a better perspective in the past:

    When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.

    Mahatma Gandhi
  • Oct 14, 2008, 05:42 PM
    startover22
    "Have a happy heart Start"
    My husbands grandma is failing... I can hardly think of her without tears. We are all so close, she is 91 almost 92. She is the MOST beautiful woman I have ever had in my life.
    I don't even want to imagine my life or my kids life without the constant positivity she shows us all. I have to come to terms... and like she always tells me to "Have a happy heart."
    If ever I would want to be like someone, it would be her...
  • Oct 14, 2008, 06:06 PM
    rankrank55

    I found this quote inside of a Hershey's bar wrapper and it changed my whole outlook of what being beautiful means:

    "The best cosmetic for beauty is happiness."

    It makes so much sense; when you see someone smiling you don't tend to rate their physical appearance... anyone smiling and happy is beautiful!
  • Oct 14, 2008, 09:20 PM
    spyderglass

    Carl Sandburg-
    'Nothing happens unless first we dream.'

    For everything there is a season,
    And a time for every matter under heaven:
    A time to be born, and a time to die;
    A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
    A time to kill, and a time to heal;
    A time to break down, and a time to build up;
    A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
    A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
    A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
    A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
    A time to seek, and a time to lose;
    A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
    A time to tear, and a time to sew;
    A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
    A time to love, and a time to hate,
    A time for war, and a time for peace.

    Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

    Amy Tan (on love)
    'I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.'
  • Oct 15, 2008, 10:09 AM
    HistorianChick

    If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

    Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
    ~Charles Simic

    The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~Henry Miller

    It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. ~Mexican Proverb


    To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.

    ~William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence," 1810
  • Oct 15, 2008, 02:38 PM
    friend4u178

    "Love doesn't make the world go around.

    Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

    ~Franklin P Jones


    "The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."

    ~Abigail Van Buren
  • Oct 15, 2008, 05:44 PM
    spyderglass

    Thanks guys. Those were a few of my favorite.

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