“If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.”

“It's possible to forget how alive we really are. We can become dry and tired, just existing, instead of really living. We need to remind ourselves of the juice of life, and make that a habit. Find those places inside that jump for joy, and do things”

“Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.” (Shakespeare)

Yes, my friends, I'm tired today. Tired of surviving, tired of singing, tired of standing. Tired of smiling when I don't feel like it, tired of being strong, tired of trying to move on. I'm just simply tired. I'm going home for the weekend, to curl up in my canopy bed and let my Mom pamper me. When I return, I'll be ready to face another countless days of standing, surviving, and being strong, but I'm going to allow myself to be weak this weekend. To be weak and just be me. There is just so much going on in my head these days - relationship unknowns, family heartaches, job frustrations, personal struggles - that I'm just ready to rest. Ready to put down my sword and sit under my shield for a while, letting the battle wage around me. I'm simply tired.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one” (C.S.Lewis)

“It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.”

“Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements”


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“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one” (C.S.Lewis)

“It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.”

“Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements”


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I love that one! Great quote... :-)...

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
-Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. -Rabbi Julius Gordon

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
-Jane Austen

~ Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.

~ I don't miss him, I miss who I thought he was

~ I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me- I’m going to smile.

~ There's a girl in my mirror crying tonight, and there's nothing I can say to make her feel all right.

life1973happened
~ There's a girl in my mirror crying tonight, and there's nothing I can say to make her feel all right."

I liked the above.

Here are some more I like...

"Don't seek anything other than contentment, because therein is the bliss and the comfort of your body. Then consider the case of a person who possesses the whole world, can he take with him in the grave more than cotton and a shroud?"
- A poet

"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions--not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness, not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation, but simply because these are what one believes."-Rollo May

"Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood."
- Umar ibn al-Khattab (radiAllahu anhu)

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"You've got to stand on your own two feet. Even when you don't think your strong enough. You've got the strength God gave all women to survive. You just have to tap into it."

~ A line from the, The Diary of a Mad Black Woman.

"There's no place like home." :)

(There's nothing like a good friend, too. Thanks K... )

The hottest love has the coldest end.
~ Socrates

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

~ Margaret Mitchell

I can't forgive myself for not having seen this before. I feel remiss for not participating.

Here's my beginning offering:

If you always do what you always did,
You'll always get what you always got.

Don't let what you can't do interfer with what you can.

If you think you can or if you think you can't,
Either way you're right.

Live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

Life is like long division, only your pencil hasn't got an eraser.

Nothing worth doing is worth doing only half-way.

If you don't have time to do it right the first time,
How are you going to find time to do right the second time?

Perfection is an abstract, coldly rigid and impossible to attain
"ideal"-- but beauty exists all around us, it's only standard is that
It touches and move the ones who take time to truly behold it.
Walk in beauty, my friends ~ Van Gogh

I will do my ever best to lighten your load,
Lest mine seems to be all one should carry.

Be kinder than is necessary...
Everyone is enduring some kind of battle.

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I can't forgive myself for not having seen this before. I feel remiss for not participating.

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LOL... Welcome to the thread Captain :-)

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LOL.............Welcome to the thread Captain :-)

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I'm only on page ten, or so...
Still trying to catch up with all that has been shared so far.
Some very good stuff! I especially like the Lincoln quotes, he is my hero!

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I'm only on page ten, or so....
Still trying to catch up with all that has been shared so far.
Some very good stuff!! I especially like the Lincoln quotes, he is my hero!

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You have a ways to go then , enjoy. And yes some real good stuff. I've really enjoyed this thread.

My name is a quote- friends are forever. And it's true. Your true friends, by what I mean... your true friends are the ones that are always sticking up for you, invite you to most places, share your thoughts and keep your most deepest secrets... never lets a boy get between you and her/him. You can say anything you want to them but yous till have boundries... she respects what you believe in (religion, beliefs etc), she/he doesn't care what you look like on the outside because they think that you're the most beautiful when you show your tru self (aka- personality)... the list is endless and I love my friends so much. Even though there gone they'll always be apart of me :)

I remember a number of years ago, I was having a very hard time in my life. I posted a bunch of inspirational quotes all around my back door so that I would see them when I was leaving to do whatever for the day. It did help having a visual of them!

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow,
I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall."
- Unknown

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

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown

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 not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author Unknown

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. ~Steel Magnolias

LEAN ON ME (Bill Withers)

Sometimes in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow.
But if we are wise, we know that there's always tomorrow.
Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend.
I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long 'til I'm going to need somebody to lean on.

Please swallow your pride, if have things you need to borrow.
For no one can fill those needs that you won't let show.

You just call on me brother when you need a hand.
We all need somebody to lean on.
I just might have a problem that you'll understand.
We all need somebody to lean on.

Lean on me when you't not strong, and I'll be your friend.
I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long 'til I'm gonna' need somebody to lean on.

You just call on me brother if you need a friend.
We all need somebody to lean on.
I just might have a problem that you'll understand.
We all need somebody to lean on.

If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry.
I'm right up the road, I'll share your load if you just call me.

Call me ( if you need a friend)
Call me
(REPEAT AND FADE)

I find myself at the close of an emotional weekend. A true roller coaster of emotions. By going home, I traveled not only distance, but also time. On Saturday morning, I left as a broken, hurting, sad woman - one that bore what I thought was the weight of the world on my tired shoulders. All I wanted to do was curl up under my shield and let the battle rage 'round me. I learned something this weekend. I learned a little more about myself and my resolve. I learned that my pain is not only mine, that my sorrow was shared, that my hurt was only the half to an unknown equation... and that equation was friendship.

I needed the time at home, the time walking the college grounds where I fell in love with my ex-fiance', the moments reliving my past, the quiet tears at my Father's grave, the pointless laughter at Mrs. Doubtfire with my Mom, the home-town church service, the reality check of being in my single canopy bed again, the reminder that although my past is laced with tears, sorrow, pain, and loss, that it is also colored with joy, happiness, fulfillment, and unimaginable hope.

Sitting in Newlin Hall at Centre College, listening to the beautiful strains of Yo Yo Ma's chamber music - sitting in some of the very seats that I once shared with the love of my life - I realized that, just as some of the notes were dissonant, resounding, and clashing against the plush tapestry of an Ivy League school, other notes floated above the audience, whispering of hope and resolution amidst the chaos of a modern chamber piece. I found myself lost in its strains, following the perfectly ordered randomness of the music... listening for the moment when it would change from its passionate dissolution to quiet peace.

I've found my balance once again. My balance between the ache and the peace, the pain and the healing, the sorrow and the joy. Long may it live in my heart, reigning over my emotions and outlook.

I only hope that I can give just a smidgen of my resolve and contentment to my dear friend who has found herself drowning in the chaos of her symphony. The difference between the music I heard yesterday and the dawning of today is that I am not simply sitting in the audience of her life, I'm sitting next to her, taking my bow to the strings of life and urging her on to a beautiful resolution and the sweet strains of peace.

(Forgive my ramblings, my friends, but I needed more than a few quotes this morning... I needed to paint a tapestry of my life before you, show you its colors, and let its chaotic beauty stand for you to see.)

HC,
Thank you for sharing with us what you are going through.
Hope you find your peace soon.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

My hope is to learn this and understand it so that my anger becomes healthy and hopefully one day, gone.

(For K)
"It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it."
~Zora Neale Hurston

(For me)

"Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?"
~Author Unknown

"May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand."
~Irish Blessing

"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected."
~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

"A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it."
~Helen Rowland

"Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well."
~Lord Byron

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
~Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
--Joseph Addison

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 he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
--David Weatherford

Everywhere I go, I am humbly reminded that no matter what obstacle is placed before me, I never have to look too far to find someone less fortunate than myself, that I can lend a helping hand.

“The best doctor in the world is a veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter -- he's got to just know.” ~Will Rodgers

“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” ~Frank Lloyd Wright

“Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is”

Grrr... Can you tell I loathe doctors today??

Any child will tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. -- Dennis Fakes

"Allheart Nobrain......get over here RIGHT now!!! " :eek:

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Any child will tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. -- Dennis Fakes

"Allheart Nobrain......get over here RIGHT now!!! " :eek:

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"Allheart Nobrain" wow... you just gave me a giggle... actually, it was more like a guffaw!! Wow, C, that was good... I love it!

My Mom only used my middle names when I was really in trouble. Yes, middle names. First grandaughter, two grandmothers, BIG name... :)

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"Allheart Nobrain" wow..... you just gave me a giggle.... actually, it was more like a guffaw!!! Wow, C, that was good.... I love it!

My Mom only used my middle names when I was really in trouble. Yes, middle names. First grandaughter, two grandmothers, BIG name... :)

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:) There were 5 of us... so Mom didn't even take the time to call out the name... we just heard her talking some sort of language awfully loudly... we each ran in a different direction and the dogs in the neighborhood started to howl.

( I am on the way to the lost and found... hopefully someone was kind enough to return my mind )... Hey, that could be another one.

So... I had to actually "pick" my name when I was in 3rd grade... as my teachers couldn't say my real name (I'm one of dem forners). So I picked my first name.

Then, another kid in my class (another wonuvdem forners) had the same name as me... so I had to pick a middle name so school records wouldn't confuse us.

... I picked a letter. Literally. My name is Sneezy B. Fun (not really, but you get the picture).

LOL! Niiiice...

Foreigner, huh? Where are you originally from?

s. Korea.

Wow! When I was in China, I lived in Dalian - not too far from North and South Korea.

Very cool.

MMmm... I love Korean food...

Today, my dear friends, I share my quotes with K. I believe we are on the same page today... a page of beginnings. Looking at the future, this new, unwritten chapter, this mysterious unknown. Last night I couldn't get this one phrase out of my head "The Land of Beginning Again" - from a poem I read a while back.... The Land of Beginning

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” ~ Seneca

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” ~T.S. Elliot

""There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." ~Louis L'Amour

""Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

A beginning does not always mean an ending; sometimes it simply means a re-focus, a new attempt at balance, an unwritten chapter. ~HistorianChick

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so...I had to actually "pick" my name when I was in 3rd grade...as my teachers couldn't say my real name (i'm one of dem forners). so I picked my first name.

Then, another kid in my class (another wonuvdem forners) had the same name as me...so I had to pick a middle name so school records wouldn't confuse us.

...I picked a letter. Literally. My name is Sneezy B. Fun (not really, but you get the picture).

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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose...

But you can't pick your...
Well, if you sneeze funny, everyone is going to love you!! :cool:

"Father forgive them for they know not what they do" - Our Lord

I hope you all don't mind me throwing that one in. But it's a nice reminder to me that if Our Lord could have forgiven,especially during the time that he said that, shame on me for not doing the same if far less difficult circumstances.

May all of you have a beautiful day.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour – his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear... is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.

~ Vince Lombardi

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston

Laughter is an instant vacation. ~Milton Berle

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

I'm in a Charles Bukowski mood today….enjoy!

“Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live”

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”

“Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of a$$, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.”

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”

“There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of ART out on its whore-a$$.”

“Well, people got attached. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attached to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.”

LOL! Wow, MA, thanks for the quotes! :D Love the one about stopping writing...

I love this thread... it is a perfect outlet for moods... quotes say things so much better than I could ever attempt to say.