"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.-Octavia
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You don’t have to be an Angel to sing harmony, and you don’t have to be a child to love the mystery. You don’t have to be a wise man on bended knee the heart of this Christmas is in you and me.
"Nothing is ever final in man's experience. Beyond every ending there is always a fresh beginning. Beyond every seeming failure there is always a new opportunity. Beyond every door that closes there is always another, waiting to be opened. Nothing is ended accept one phase...and growth should constantly bring greater phases of experience." W.W. Hausmann
We can never turn back the pages of time, though we may wish to relive a happy moment, of say good-bye one last time we can't because the sands of time continue to fall and we can't turn the hourglass over.
Yesterdays are over my shoulder so I can't look backward too long there's just too much to see waiting in front of me and I know that I just can't go wrong.
-Jimmy Buffett
"there are so many different ways to be connected to people. they are the people you feel this unspoken connection to, even tho there’s not even a word for it. there are the people who you’ve known you’re whole life that know you in this way that other people cant because they’ve seen you change, they’ve let you change."
"We laughed until we had to cry and we loved right down to our last good-bye. We are the best we'll ever be, just you and me for a moment. Time goes on. People touch and then they're gone. But when we reminisce, we'll say there wasn't much we missed. And we'll recall we had it all. For a moment."
If anyone wants to trade, e-mail me!!!
~Lindsey
" THE MARK OF TRUELY GROWING UP IS NOT THE DAY THAT ONE GIVES AWAY HIS BABY BLANKET, THAT ONE QUITS WETTING HIS BED, OR THAT ONE STOPS WHINING AND CRYING. ITS RATHER WHEN ONE STILL SHEDS THE SAME TEARS, AND THEY'RE NO LONGER BECAUSE OF A SCRAPED KNEE, BUT BECAUSE OF THE LOSS OF A FRIEND. IN A WAY, I HOPE I NEVER GROW UP.
"One compares, the other contrasts;
one always eats, while the other fasts.
One watches sci-fi, the other mystery;
one excels in math, while the other aces history.
One thinks she's smart, the other thinks she's dumb;
One likes to smoke while the other chews gum.
One likes hill, the other bends;
Together they're inseparable, together they're friends."
~by Katherine Blattel
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Don't be fooled by me.
Don't be fooled by the face I wear.
For I wear a thousand masks that I am afraid to take off and none of them are me.
Pretending is an art that's second nature with me, but don't be fooled, for God's sake don't be fooled.
I give the impression that I am secure,
that all us sunny and unruffled with me,
within as well as without,
that confidence is my name and coolness my game;
that the waters are calm and I am in command,
and that I need no one.
But don't believe me, please.
My surface may seem smooth, but my surface is my mask.
‘Neath’ this lies no compliance.
Beneath dwells the real me in confusion, in fear, and aloneness.
But I hide this. I don't want anyone to know I.
I panic at the thought of my weakness and fear of being exposed.
That is why I frantically create a mask to hide behind;
a nonchalant sophisticated facade,
to help me pretend, to shield me from the glance that knows.
But such a glance is precisely my salvation.
My only salvation. And I know it.
That is, if it is followed by acceptance, if it is followed by love.
It is the only thing that will assure me of what I can't assure myself,
that I am worth something.
But I don't tell you this. I don't dare. I am afraid to.
I am afraid your glance will not be followed by acceptance and love.
I am afraid you will think less of me, that you will laugh at me,
and that you will see this and reject me.
So I play my game, my desperate game,
with a facade of assurance without, and a trembling child within.
And so begins the parade of masks, and my life becomes a front.
I idly chatter to you in suave tones of surface talk.
I tell you everything that is really nothing,
and nothing of what is everything,
of what is crying within me;
So when I am going through my routine do not be fooled by what I am saying.
What I would like to be able to say,
what for survival I need to say, but I can't say.
I dislike hiding, Honestly!
I dislike the superficial game I am playing, the phony game.
I would really like to be genuine and spontaneous, and me,
but you have got to help me. You have got to hold out your hand,
even when that is the last thing I seem to want.
Only you can wipe away from my eyes that blank stare of breathing death.
Only you can call me into aliveness.
Each time you try to understand and because you really care,
my heart begins to grow wings, very small wings, very feeble wings, but wings.
With your sensitivity and sympathy, your power of understanding,
you can breath life into me.
I want you to know that.
I want you to know how important you are to me,
how you can be the creator of the person that is me if you choose to.
Please choose to. You alone can break down the wall
behind which I tremble, you alone can remove my mask.
You alone can release me from my shadow world of panic and uncertainty;
Don not pass me by.
Please... do not pass me by.
It will not be easy for you;
a long conviction of worthlessness builds strong walls.
The nearer you approach me, the blinder I strike back.
I fight against the very thing I cry out for. But I am told that
love is stronger then walls, and in this lies my hope.
Please try to beat sown those walls with firm hands,
but with gentle hands for a child is very sensitive.
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"There's a blessing in our friendship.
It's a bond between we two;
For the Lord brought us together and I thank Him now for you.
You've been there when I needed you,
we've shared our dreams and plans,
and when at times I've fallen down
you've always given me your hand.
You are always such a joy each time that we're together,
but more than that you are my friend and in my heart forever."
And a hero comes along, with the strength to carry on, and you cast your fears aside, and you can survive, so when you feel like hope is gone, look inside and be strong, and you finally see the truth, that a hero lies in you.
--"Hero"
Sung by Marieh Carey
Unlike a summer day, My heart is void of joy, Unlike the winter eve, It does not contain the brittle cold, The fire of autumn consumes my soul, For it is the calm before the storm
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk rejection.
To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and pain, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow, or love.
Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave. He has forfeited his freedom.
Only a person who dares to risk is free.
True Friends
Real friends or True friends.
Which one are you.
Real friends are usually a friend in need.
Which make them a friend in deed only.
True friends are few and far between.
They will be beside you through thick and thin.
True friends lend a ear and listen.
Then give advice or opinions without sometimes telling you what you want to hear.
True friends offer a shoulder to lean on.
They are the extra strength you sometimes need to go on in life.
True friends provide comfort and protection just by being theirself.
Bust most of all true friends give their friends a love that will last a lifetime and a feeling that even a song can't fully explain.
Because once you have had a true friend you realize they don't have to be there in body just in your mind to help you through the trial and troubles of life.
When you get what you want in your struggle for self, and the world makes you king for a day,
just go to the mirror and look at yourself and see what THAT man has to say. For it isn't your
father or mother or wife whose judgement upon you must pass, the fellow whose verdict counts
most in your life is the one staring back from the glass.
Some people might think you're a straight shootin' chum and call you a wonderful guy. But, the
man in the glass says you're only a bum if you can't look him straight in the eye.
He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, for he's with you clear to the end. And you've
passed your most dangerous test if the guy in the glass is your friend.
You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years, and get pats on the back as you pass,
but your final reward will be heartache and tears, if you've cheated the man in the glass.
Good times are even better when they're shared *A good long talk can cure almost anything* Listening is just as important as talking* You can never have too many shoes!* An understanding friend is better than a therapist, and cheaper too! * Laughter makes the world a better place* Friends are like wine, they get better with age* Sometimes you just need a shoulder to cry on* Great minds think alike, especially females* You are never too old for slumber parties* Girls just want to have fun* It's important to make time to do "girl things" * Gems maybe precious but friendship is priceless*
Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
...of all the words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these.... it might have been.
Do not concentrate on the "Pursuit of Happiness", for that way lies grief.
Concentrate instead on the "Happiness of Pursuit".
"TO LAUGH OFTEN AND LOVE MUCH; TO WIN THE RESPECT OF INTELLIGENT PERSONS AND THE AFFECTION OF CHILDREN;TO EARN THE APROBATION OF HONEST CRITICS AND TO ENDURE THE BETRAYAL OF FALSE FRIENDS;TO APRECIATE BEAUTY; TO FIND THE BEST IN OTHERS; TO GIVE OF ONE'S SELF; TO LEAVE THE WORLD A BIT BETTER,WHETHER BY A HEALTHY CHILD,A GARDEN PATCH , OR A REDEEMED SOCIAL CONDITION; TO HAVE LAUGHED AND PLAYED WITH ENTHUSIAM ,AND SUNG WITH EXULTATION; TO KNOW THAT EVEN ONE LIFE HAS BREATHED EASIER BECAUSE YOU HAVE----THIS IS TO HAVE SUCCEEDED."
------RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)
Around The Corner: By Henson Towne
Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end.
Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
and before I know it, a year is gone.
I never see my old friend's face,
for life is a swift and terrible race.
He knows I like him just as well,
as in the days when I rang his bell
and he rang mine.
We were younger then,
but now we're busy, tired men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
tired of trying to make a name.
"Tomorrow" I say "I will call on Jim"
"Just to show that I'm thinking of him."
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
the distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner- yet miles away,
"Here's a telegram"
"Jim died today."
And that's what we get and deserve in the end,
Around the Corner, a vanished friend.
"If I had never met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do and I will."
Together as one let our souls be free
Come take me away to ecstasy
You know down inside you always wanted me
But fate found a way for us not to be
Time to our love is like water to a tree
Come on, baby, why can't you see
Together as on let our souls be free
Come take me away to ecstasy
When I moved my friend wrote me this poem. It was very sentimental to me. When first read it I cried even now if I read it and I am in a depressed mood I can cry. I hope this inspires someone out there. It is a beautiful poem in my opinion. I hope you enjoy.
The Feel of Death
Wet my eyes may be,
but my soul is dried up.
It died along with you.
You could have stayed
but that was not your choice.
Instead you found one of the easiest routes...
and you took it.
No sad good-byes, or sweet farewells,
only a long drawn out scream.
My ears swelled from your cries,
and my hands filled with your blood.
I can still see your sad eyes,
the same ones that had once seen happiness.
When your last moment of life came,
those eyes saw death coming.
It came slow and painful.
You feel no pain now.
You feel
nothing.
Her weeping passed eventually, and she spent most of the night staring dry-eyed into the dark, gripped by those dark, and bitterly satisfying fantasies of revenge which only a jilted and previously complacent lover can fully understand.
There is a destiny that makes us brothers
None goes his way alone,
The things we send into the lives of others,
Comes back into our own.
-Author-Unknown
Please don't say I love you those words touch me much to deeply and they make my core tremble I don't think you realize the effect you have over me and please don't come so close......It just makes me want to make you near me always
-Jewel
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold,
her early leafs a flower,
but only so an hour,
then leaf subsides to leaf,
so
so dawn turns into day...
Nothing gold can stay...
Any child can tell you that the only reason, and sole purpose of a middle name is..
so, they can tell when they are in big trouble...
Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved."
Things happen in life that you can't change but that doesn't mean you can't go on living.
Of all things you wear, your expression is the most important
SMILE...It makes people wonder what you've been up to!!!!
"Today give a stranger one of your beautiful smiles. It may be the only sunshine he sees all day."
don't cry because its over, but smile because it happened
what you give ---you get back-- what you keep is lost forever
In Order To Win, All You Have to Give Is What You Have
life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those you think
Who am I, you may wonder? I am someone
you know very well.
For I am every man you meet and every woman you meet.
Anonymous
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Love exists when another person's security and satisfaction are as important to you as
your own - Harry Stack Sullivan
The Love In Your Heart Wasn't Put There To Stay, Love Isn't Love Till You Give It Away
"There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies."
"Love lets, love forgets."
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
If, out of time, I could pick one moment and keep it shining, always new, of all the days that I have lived, I'd pick the moment that I met you
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse, however, If I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I will help you become that
Where so ever you go, go with all your heart
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost
I've learned that: Good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace being there, thanks is a feeble word, memories forget the hard times, words can never replace feelings, and hero’s often go unsung
Be courageous and bold. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do, more than the ones you did
Fall down seven times, stand up eight
To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world
True friends are like diamonds, precious but rare. False ones are like autumn leaves, found everywhere.
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend."
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
"Friend - one who know all about you and still loves you just the same."
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
"True friends are discerned not by prosperity but through the trials of adversity, distress, quarrels, sorrow and misfortune. Such friends are rare and there value is beyond estimation, a gift from God."
-- Sirach --
the good friends know you more in the first 5 seconds that others in all the life.
the secret to have good friends is to be one
the silence between two friends is comfortable.
"Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by."
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
.........G. Randolf
A true friend walks in when the world walks out."
True friendship is like a rose – we can't realize its beauty until it fades
"We started as total strangers, and ended as lifetime friends. We shared a season of our lives, but every season has to end."
"Do not be dismayed at good-byes, a good-bye is necessary before meeting again and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends."
Pour avoir un ami,
Il faut etre un ami!
(To have a friend, you must be a friend!)
Make new friends~~~But keep the old~~~Some are silver~~~And the others gold ; )
Making a friend takes a moment. Being a friend takes a life time
A true friend is someone to whom you can tell everything, but to whom you don't have to tell anything.
Here is one I used in my speech, "Side by side or miles apart, dear friends are forever close to the heart."
Who gave me life and held my hand
and caught me when I fell;
Who never slept to comfort me
when I was scared or ill;
Who praised me when I did my best
and wept when I did wrong;
Who smiled at silly things I did
but taught me to be strong;
Who gave and shared and cheered me on
and cared with heart in hand?
Who will always be a part of me---
my MOTHER, my best friend.
"Turn a stranger away and you have lost the opportunity to make a friend. Turn a friend away, and you have diminished yourself."
"Friends are made by many acts- and can be lost by just one."
"One of the best thing to hold onto in this world is a friend."
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, others stay a while, and leave footprints on our hearts, and we never are the same again.
Someone who helps in times of pain,
Someone who listens to everything for no true gain,
Someone who puts up with you when your mad,
Someone who helps with you when you're feeling sad,
Someone who is always there for you, no matter what.
That's a real friend.
"if i could give you one gift, my friend, i'd give you the ability to see yourself as others see you so you would know how very special you are"
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me:
I'd like to be the help that you've always been glad to be:
I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day,
As you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.
--Edgar A. Guest
No one knows the precise moment a friendship is made. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which causes it to overflow; so, in a series of kindnesses there is that last one which causes the heart to run over. :)
Life is like a book. Just when you think you have almost finished reading, you realize that a whole new chapter is only beginning.
If you are trying to make a friend happy give them these things in a bag. It should contain Hershey Hugs, erasers, pennies, rubberbands, and marbles. Attach this message onto the bag. It should say:
Hugs--to let you know you're loved!
Erasers--to make all of your troubles disappear!
Pennies--so you can never say "I'm Broke"!
Rubber Bands--to streach beyond your limits!
Marbles--in case someone says "You've lost yours"!
A FRIEND IS A TREASURE
A friend is someone we turn to
When our spirits need a lift,
A friend is someone we treasure
For our friendship is a gift,
A friend is someone who fills our lives
With beauty, joy, and grace
And makes the world we live in
A better and happier place.
"Always forgive your enemies-nothing annoys them so much."
"Promise you won't forget about me, ever. Not even when I am a hundred."........Winnie the Pooh
"Don't follow where the path may lead; instead, build a bridge to where there is no path and leave a trail."
-unknown
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
"My faith is the evidence of things unseen."
"Among them you shine like stars in a dark world."- Philippians 2:15
"FAITH makes all things possible. LOVE makes all thongs easy. HOPE makes all things work.
Love will find a way...-Eccl.4:9-10
"Place your gaze on God and a glance at your problems."
"God enters by a private door into every individual."
DONT GAIN THE WORLD AND LOSE
HOW TO OBSERVE THANKSGIVING
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS INSTEAD OF YOU CROSSES;
COUNT YOUR GAINS INSTEAD OF YOUR LOSSES.
COUNT YOUR JOYS INSTEAD OF YOUR WOES;
COUNT YOUR FRIENDS INSTEAD OF YOU FOES.
COUNT YOUR SMILES INSTEAD OF YOU TEARS;
COUNT YOUR COURAGE INSTEAD OF YOUR FEARS.
COUNT YOUR FULL YEARS INSTEAD OF YOUR LEAN;
COUNT YOUR KIND DEEDS INSTEAD OF YOUR MEAN.
COUNT YOUR HEALTH INSTEAD OF YOUR WEALTH;
COUNT ON GOD INSTEAD OF YOURSELF.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!
"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
"Sympathy is your pain in my heart."
"The will to do, the soul to dare."
"The idle lose it , the intelligent use it , the persistent make it"
"The best way to predict our future is to create it"
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the rules
If you are convicted of a crime, your fate is determined by 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty
We were smarter yesterday as freshman, than we are today as seniors
What goods is a kiss if its not by the one you truly love?
Basically you have three choices: Stand up and be counted, sit down and shut-up or lay down and die
A little shot is a big shot that kept shooting
We've come a long way baby, but we can't stop walking now
Its better to burn out, than fade away
Its like meeting the man of my dreams, than meeting his beautiful wife
-Alanis Morisette
Tomorrow is another day!
-Scarlett O'Hara
The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences.
--Henry Ward Beecher
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything
...
ALSO ANY ONE WHO THINKS MARRIAGE IS A 50/50 PROPOSITION
DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WOMEN OR PERCENTAGES!
Most people need love most when they deserve it the least.
Men give affection to get sex. Women give sex to get affection.
"men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct; what they like to be is a man's last romance."
"love is the answer, but while you waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions"
People in cars cause accidents. Accidents in cars cause people.
Each and every day
Words from my mouth can never say
How much more I love you
Each and every day
The way you laugh
The way you cry
The way you always catch my eye
As time goes by I try to say
How much more I love you
Each and every day
But I can't think clear
Anytime you're near
I've never been so scared to say
That I love you more
Each and every day
You're the best friend I could ask for
You're my hero, my life, and so much more
And I wait for the day
That you will say
How much more you love me
Each and every day
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i just recently realized that i had lost my best friend, not by death, but because of change. the same day i realized this, i read this and it put me in a daze that just woke me up and blurred me at the same time. i don't know if it pertains to friendship, but oh well.
if i knew you and you knew me,
if both of us could clearly see,
and with and inner sight divine,
the meaning of your heart and mine,
i'm sure that we would differ less,
and clasp our hands in friendliness;
our thoughts would pleasantly agree
if i knew you and you knew me.
"If I had never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I
didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do and I will."
--
I'd like to be the kind of friend
that you have been to me;
I'd like to be the special help
that you've been glad to be.
I know I'm blessed, for only God
can make a friend like you;
You know just how to cheer me up
whenever I feel blue.
Could I but have one wish fulfilled,
this one only would be---
I'd like to be the kind of friend
you've always been to me.
I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made
of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you because you have done more than
any creed could have done to make me good,
and more than any fate could have done to
make me happy.
You have done it without a touch,
without a word, without a sign.
You have done it by being yourself. Perhaps that is what a friend means, after all.
-author unknown-
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I know your in pain
but yet you say your not
I look into your eyes
only to see your lies
I don't know what to do
the answers are so blurred
All i want to do is help you heal your pain
but i doubt i can do it
You were there for me
and now i am here for you
You deserve my help
because you are a friend
You so great
so, please, let me help
Listen me when i say what i do
I care for you always and forever
The past may have caused this difference
The future will be unknown
The present is what you make of it
SO:
Don't give up
Don't give in
You've worked so hard
You've come so far
I am here for you
I won't leave
Please hear this now
I always be here for you
Think about it.... (¯`'·.¸ ¸.·'´¯)
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............think about it..... (¯`'·.¸ ¸.·'´¯)
<@ (_¸.·'´ `'·.¸_)`<@
The old man turned to me and asked
"How many friends have you?"
Why 10 or 20 friends have I,
And named off just a few ~
<@
He rose quite slow with effort
And sadly shook his head
" A lucky child you are
To have so many friends," he said,
But think of what you're saying
There is so much you do not know
A friend is just not someone
To whom you say "Hello"
<@
A friends a tender shoulder
On which to softly cry
A well to pour your troubles down
And raise your spirits high
<@
A friend is a hand to pull you up
From darkness and despair...
When all your other "so called" friends
Have helped to put you there
<@
A true friend is an ally
Who can't be moved or bought
A voice to keep your name alive
When others have forgot
<@
But most of all a friend is a heart
A strong and sturdy wall
For from the hearts of friends
There comes the greatest love of all!!!
<@
So think of what I've spoken
For every word is true
And answer once again my child
How many friends have you??
<@
And then he stood and faced me
Awaiting my reply
Softly I answered
"If lucky......
one have "I"
"You!!!!"
Pass It ON @}~~}~~}
"A friend is someone who understands me, and knows me inside out, and helps keep me together and believes without a doubt, I could moved a mountain, someone to tell it all too.......if I had only one friend left, I'd want it to be you"
"One passes throught the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been in the closest intimacy.
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don't cry becaue its over, but smile because it happened
If, out of time, I could pick one moment and keep it shining, always new, of all the days that I have lived, I'd pick the moment that I met you
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse, however, If I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I will help you become that
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost
I've learned that: Goodbyes will always hurt, pictures will never replace being there, thanks is a feeble word, memories forget the hard times, words can never replace feelings, and heros often go unsung
Be corageous and bold. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do, more than the ones you did
Fall down seven times, stand up eight
To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the rules
If you are convicted of a crime, your fate is determined by 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty
We were smarter yesterday as freshman, than we are today as seniors
What goos is a kiss if its not by the one you truly love?
Basically you have three choices: Stand up and be counted, sit down and shut-up or lay down and die
A little shot is a big shot that kept shooting
We've come a long way baby, but we can't stop walking now
Its better to burn out, than ade away
Please don't say I love you those words touch me much to deeply and they make my core tremle I don't think you realize the effect you have over me and please don't come so close......It just makes me want to make you near me always
-Jewel
Its like meeting the man of my dreams, than meeting his beautiful wife
-Alanis Morisette
Tomorrow is another day!
-Scarlett O'Hara
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything
True friendship is like a rose - wecan't realize ita beauty until it fades
"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with
the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are
utterly simple?"
"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but
it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly
presents every so often - just to save it from drying out
completely."
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be
well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship
is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the
shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
-George Washington
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not
something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the
meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
-Muhammad Ali
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as
real strength."
-Ralph W. Sockman
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is
to be expected only from the strong."
-Leo Rosten
1. Don't worry about knowing people,
just make yourself worth knowing.
2. Friends are those rare people
who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
3. If you can buy a person's friendship,
it is not worth it.
4. True friends have hearts that beat as one.
5. If you cannot think of any nice things to say
about your friends,
then you have the wrong friends.
6. Make friends before you need them.
7. If you were another person,
would you like to be a friend of yours?
8. A good friend is one who neither
looks down on you nor keeps up with you.
9. Be friendly with the folks you know..
If it weren't for them you would be a total stranger.
10. A friend is never known till he is needed.
11. Friendship is a responsibility...not an opportunity.
12. Friendship is the cement
that holds the world together.
13. Friends are those who speak to you
after others quit.
14. The reason a dog has so many friends is that
he wags his tail and not his tongue.
15. Pick your friends, but not to pieces.
16. A friend is one who puts his finger on
a fault without rubbing it in.
17. The way to have friends is to be willing to lose
some arguments.
18. If a friend makes a mistake,
don't rub it in....rub it out.
19. Deal with other's faults as gently as if
they were your own.
20. People are judged by the company they
keep and the company they keep away from.
21. A friend is a person who can step on your
toes without messing your shine.
22. The best mirror is an old friend.
23. The best possession one may have is a true friend.
24. Make friendship a habit,
and you will always have friends.
25. You will never have a friend
if you must have one without faults.
26. Doing nothing for your friends results in
having no friends to do for.
27. Anyone can give advice,
and yet a real friend will lend a helping hand.
28. You can make more friends by being interested
in them than trying to have them be interested in you.
29. A real friend is a person who,
when you've made a fool of yourself,
lets you forget it.
30. A friend is a person who listens attentively
while you say nothing.
31. You can buy friendship with friendship,
but never with dollars.
32. True friends are like diamonds,
precious but rare;
false friends are like autumn leaves,
found everywhere.
33. A friend is someone who thinks you're
a good egg even though you're slightly cracked.
See to fear is to be human
to let it stop you is not
to love to hate, its all the same
in the end how will you know
but only in the end.
To open my eyes
to open my heart
only you could do it
this I knew from the start
never will I know
because through time I will go
as the same as one can see
what would happen to you and me
but if your hearts content
then its worth the small time spent
once I small your smile
but only in a dream
to that it will never end
but in the end!!!!
Never sure of a face
never sure of the place
on for which we will never know of the case
I know I could never see,
in a prison of hate my heart is trapped
to know is not what you see
but to feel is when you know
you say it with a smile
on a firey staff that will never go away
there is no feeling on to which we can run
just what is know
and the song we have sung
you say you won't meet me
for you fear the worst
you are probably right
keep my face out of sight
and end the end there will be
just a memory of what you though of me
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BLUE_TREES
I write again!
I am at once, here and there, I am not!
I write not of twisted veils of shattered hatred,
I write instead of yellow leaves on blue trees bellow a sky of crimson mellow.
I sing of joyfull things things and broken dreams of ships on the sea of eternity!
I write of naught!
Of nothing!
Of then of now, of what is sandwiched in between.
I tell you nothing in great depth!
I have nothing to say!
I am no-one no-where!
I am not.
Betwixt the reality and the dream is paper with my name and it calls with lying hopes and happy fear!
But is this a true lie?
I have said as much but not quite how the painted ones flew beyond their shells of
radical realignment, or of the bloated ones they flew above.
Why is the now-then not here?
Why do I ask?
Why do I write?
I have not, will not, it was not done, ever.
My hatred for you love tickles my fingers while chirping happly!
Do you see?
Now you are me and I bid you farewell!
Hello my friend, we are here above the sea of pain counting buttercups and the joyous ones chop themselves to pieces before us.
Happy is the one who knows!
Yet life is cheap and death is cheaper, so into the well of darkness we drop our pennies.
I nod to me, you smile back and walk away into the wall of frozen thoughts.
They touch you, I am lost, we are then and rotted truth pours in.
I hate the me in you, yet we are one, but you are gone and I am here with the one you used to be.
True this is to I?
It is! It is!
And I saw great cats with rotting teeth and no eyes staring into the souls of those who stood before, the hopeful ones, with empty dreams and no minds.
They smile at me and I laugh with them, for joyously I say unto you,
We are one
Jon Alan Webb
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RIGHT NOW...
-somebody is very proud of you.
-somebody is thinking of you.
-somebody is caring about you.
-somebody misses you.
-somebody wants to talk to you.
-somebody wants to be with you.
-somebody hopes you aren't in trouble.
-somebody is thankful for the support you have provided.
-somebody wants to hold your hand.
-somebody hopes everything turns out all right.
-somebody wants you to be happy.
-somebody wants you to find him/her.
-somebody is celebrating your successes.
-somebody wants to give you a gift.
-somebody thinks that you ARE a gift.
-somebody hopes you're not too cold, or too hot
-somebody wants to hug you.
-somebody loves you.
-somebody wishes you would lavish them with your thoughts.
-somebody admires your strength.
-somebody is thinking of you and smiling.
-somebody wants to be your shoulder to cry on.
-somebody wants to go out with you and have a lot of fun.
-somebody thinks the world of you.
-somebody wants to protect you.
-somebody would do anything for you.
-somebody wants to be forgiven.
-somebody is grateful for your forgiveness.
-somebody wants to laugh with you all night long about old times.
-somebody remembers you fondly and wishes that you were there.
-somebody is praising God for you.
-somebody needs to know that your love is unconditional.
-somebody values your advice.
-somebody wants to tell you how much they care.
-somebody wants to stay up all night watching old movies with you.
-somebody wants to share their dreams with you.
-somebody wants to hold you in their arms.
-somebody wants YOU to hold them in your arms.
-somebody treasures your spirit.
-somebody wishes they could suspend time because of you.
-somebody praises God for your friendship and love.
-somebody can't wait to see you.
-somebody wishes that things didn't have to change.
-somebody loves you for who you are.
-somebody loves the way you make them feel.
-somebody wants to be with you.
-somebody is hoping they can grow old with you.
-somebody wants you to know they are there for you.
-somebody's glad that you're his/her friend.
-somebody wants to be your friend.
-somebody stayed up all night thinking about you.
-somebody is alive because of you.
-somebody is very remorseful after losing your friendship.
-somebody is wishing that you noticed him/her.
-somebody wants to get to know you better.
-somebody believes that you are his/her soul mate.
-somebody wants to be near you.
-somebody misses your advice/guidance.
-somebody has faith in you.
-somebody trusts you.
-somebody needs you to send them this letter
-somebody needs your support.
-somebody needs you to have faith in them.
-somebody will cry when they read this. (me)
-somebody needs you to let them be your friend.
You don't have to send this to all of your friends. But do send it to those who come to mind as you read it. Add to it as you pass it along for the little or big things in life you want your friends to have and to know.
Sometimes, in the hustle and bustle of life, we neglect our
friends, and these little things that friendships entail. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Teresa
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WHAT DO ANGELS LOOK LIKE?
Like the little old lady who returned
~ your wallet yesterday.
Like the taxi driver who told you that your eyes
~ light up the world, when you smile.
Like the small child who showed you
~ the wonder in simple things.
Like the poor man who offered to
~ share his lunch with you.
Like the rich man who showed you that it
~ really is all possible, if only you believe.
Like the stranger who just happened to come along,
~ when you had lost your way.
Like the friend who touched your heart,
~ when you didn't think you had one to touch.
Angels come in all sizes and shapes,
~ all ages and skin types.
Some with freckles, some with dimples,
~ some with wrinkles, some without.
They come disguised as friends, enemies,
~ teachers, students, lovers and fools.
They don't take life too seriously,
~ they travel light.
They leave no forwarding address,
~ they ask nothing in return.
They wear sneakers with gossamer wings,
~ they get a deal on dry cleaning.
They are hard to find when your eyes are closed, But
~ they are everywhere you look, when you choose to see.
"The
Heart Already Knows...What The Mind Can Only Dream Of...Trust Your Heart."
Listen to what your heart feels not what others feel & you will be
happier with your own choice's you make in life!
Is
It Love Or Infatuation?
Infatuation is instant desire, one set of glands calling to
another.
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It takes root and grows,
one
day at a time.
Infatuation is marked by a feeling of insecurity. You are excited
and
eager but not genuinely happy. There are nagging doubts,
unanswered questions, little bits and pieces about your beloved
that you would just as soon not examine too closely. It might spoil
the dream.
Love is the quiet understanding and mature acceptance of
imperfection. It is real. It gives you strength and grows beyond
you
- to bolster your beloved. You are warmed by his presence, even
when he is away. Miles do not separate you. You have so many
wonderful little films in your head that you keep replaying. But
near
or far, you know he is yours and you can wait.
Infatuation says, "We must get married right away. I can't risk
losing him." Love says, "Be patient. Don't panic. Plan your future
with confidence."
Infatuation has an element of sexual excitement. Whenever you are
together you hope it will end in intimacy. Love is not based on
sex.
It is the maturation of friendship which makes sex so much
sweeter. You must be friends before you can be lovers.
Infatuation lacks confidence. When he's away, you wonder if he's
cheating. Sometimes you check.
Love means trust. You are calm, secure and unthreatened. He
feels your trust, and it makes him even more trustworthy.
Infatuation might lead you to do things you will regret, but love
never steers you in the wrong direction.
Love is elevating. It lifts you up. It makes you look up. It makes
you
think up. It makes you a better person than you were before.
- Ann Landers
===
Being A Friend
Author Unknown
There is a difference between being an acquaintance and being a
friend.
First, an acquaintance is someone whose name you know, who
you see every now and then, who you probably have something in
common with and who you feel comfortable around.
It's a person that you can invite to your home and share things
with.
But they are people who you wouldn't share your life with, whose
actions sometimes you don't understand because you don't know
enough about them..
On the other hand, a friend is someone you love. Not that you are
"in love" with them, but you care about them and you think about
them when they are not there. The people you are reminded of
when you see something they might like, and you know this
because you know them so well. They are the people whose
pictures you have and whose faces are in your head regardless.
They are the people you see in your mind when you hear a song
on the radio because they made you go up to the person they like
and ask them to dance with them, or maybe you danced with
them, maybe they stepped on your toes, or just put their head on
your shoulder.
They are the people you feel safe around because you know they
care about you. They call just to see how you are doing, because a
friend doesn't need an excuse. They tell you the truth, the first
time,
and you do the same. You know that if you have a problem, they
are there to listen.
They are the people who won't laugh at you or hurt you, and if they
do hurt you they try hard to make it up to you.
They are the people you love, regardless of whether you realize it.
They are the people you cried with when you got rejected from
colleges and during the last song at prom and at graduation.
They are the people that when you hug them, you don't think about
how long to hug and who's going to be the first one to let go.
Maybe they are the people that hold the rings at your wedding, or
maybe they are the people that give you away at your wedding, or
maybe they are the people you marry.
They are certainly the people that cry at your wedding because
they are happy or because they are proud.
They are the people who stop you from making mistakes and help
you when you do.
They are are the people whose hand you can hold, or you can hug
or give them a kiss and not have it be awkward because they
understand the things you do and they love you for them. They
stick with you and stand by you. They hold your hand. They watch
you live and you watch them live and you learn from them. Your life
is not the same without them.
These are your friends.
How many do you have?
====
The Important Things
Sometimes people come into your life and you know
right away that they were meant to be there, to serve
some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help
you figure out who you are or who you want to become.
You never know who these people may be (possibly
your roommate, neighbor, professor, long lost friend,
lover, or even a complete stranger), but when you lock
eyes with them, you know at that very moment they will
affect your life in some profound way.
Sometimes things happen to you that may seem
horrible, painful, and unfair at first, but in reflection you
find that without overcoming those obstacles you would
have never realized your potential, strength, willpower,
or heart.
Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by
chance or by means of good luck. Illness, injury, love,
lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all
occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small
tests, whatever they may be, life would be like a
smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. It would
be safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless.
The people you meet who affect your life, and the
success and downfalls you experience, help to create
who you are and who you become. Even the bad
experiences can be learned from. In fact, they are
probably the most poignant and important ones.
If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart
forgive them, for they have helped you learn about trust
and the importance of being cautious to whom you open
your heart.
If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally,
not only because they love you, but because in a way,
they are teaching you to love and how to open your
heart and eyes to things.
Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and
take from those moments everything that you possibly
can for you may never be able to experience it again.
Talk to people that you have never talked to before,
and actually listen.
Let yourself fall in love, break free, and set your sights
high. Hold your head up because you have every right
to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in
yourself, for if you don't believe in yourself, it will be
hard for others to believe in you. You can make of your
life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go
out and live it with absolutely no regrets.
Most importantly, if you love someone tell him or her,
for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
And learn a lesson in life each day that you live! Today
is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday.
Was it worth it?
====
" Let It Go "
To "let go" does not mean to stop caring,
it means I can't do it for someone else.
To "let go" is not to cut myself off; it's
the realization I can't control another,
To "let go" is to admit powerlessness,
which means the outcome is not in my hands.
To "let go" is to enable, but allow
learning from natural consequences.
To "let go" is not to try to change or
blame another, it's to make the most of myself.
To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow
another to be a human being.
To "let go" is not to be in the middle
arranging all the outcomes but to allow
others to affect their destinies.
To "let go" is not to be protective, it's
to permit another to face reality.
To "let go" is not to deny, but to accept.
To "let go" is not to nag, scold, or argue,
but instead to search out my own
shortcomings and correct them.
To "let go" is not to criticize and regulate
anybody but to try to become what I dream
I can be.
To "let go" is not to regret the past, but
to grow and live for the future.
To "let go" is to fear less, and love more.
- Author Unknown
===
You Are
You are strong
when you take your grief and teach it to smile.
You are brave
when you overcome your fear and help others to do the same.
You are happy
when you see a flower and give it your blessing.
You are loving
when your own pain does not blind you to the pain of others.
You are wise
when you know the limits of your wisdom.
You are true
when you admit there are times you fool yourself.
You are alive
when tomorrow's hope means more to you than yesterday's mistake.
You are growing
when you know what you are but not what you will become.
You are free
when you are in control of yourself and do not wish to control
others.
You are honorable
when you find your honor is to honor others.
You are generous
when you can take as sweetly as you can give.
You are humble
when you do not know how humble you are.
You are thoughtful
when you see me just as I am and treat me just as you are.
You are merciful
when you forgive in others the faults you condemn in yourself.
You are beautiful
when you don't need a mirror to tell you.
You are rich
when you never need more than what you have.
You are you
when you are at peace with who you are not.
====
About Love....
If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you, be
gentle with
yourself. There is nothing wrong with you. Love just didn't choose to
rest in the
other person's heart.
If you find someone else in love with you and you don't love him/her,
feel
honored that love came and called at your door, but gently refuse the
gift you
cannot return. Do not take advantage, do not cause pain. How you deal
with
love is how you deal with you and all our hearts feel the same pains and
joys,
even if our lives and ways are different.
If you fall in love with another and he/she falls in love with you and
then love
chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it or to assess blame. Let it
go. There
is a reason and a meaning. You will know in time.
Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can
really do
is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life.
Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it
away. Give it
back to the person who brought it alive in you. Give it to others who
deem it
poor in spirit. Give it to the world around you in anyway you can.
This is where many lovers go wrong. Having been so long without love,
they
understand love only as a need. They see their hearts as empty places
that
will be filled by love, and they begin to look at love as something that
flows to
them rather than from them.
The first blush of new love is filled to overflowing but as their love
cools, they
revert to seeing their love as need. They cease to be someone who
generates
love and instead become someone who seeks love.
They forget that the secret of love is that it is a gift and that it can
be made to
grow only by giving it away.
Remember this and keep it to your heart.
Love has its own time, its own seasons and its own reason for coming and
going.
You cannot bribe it or coerce it, or reason it into staying.
You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes
to
you.
But if it chooses to leave from your heart or from the heart of your
lover, there
is nothing you can do and there is nothing you should do...
Love always has been and always will be a mystery.
Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life.
IF YOU KEEP YOUR HEART OPEN, IT WILL COME AGAIN!
"Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin."
God loves us; not because we are lovable but
because He is love, not because He needs to receive but because He delights to
give.
We don't have to be perfect to be a blessing.
We are asked only to be real, trusting in His perfection
They say it takes a minute
to find a special person,
an hour to appreciate them,
a day to love them,
but then an entire life to
forget them.
I
love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with
you.
2. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.
3. 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.
4. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
5. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you
can't have them.
6. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in
love with your smile.
7. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
8. Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time
on you.
9. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one,
so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
10. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
11. There's always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is
keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.
12. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know
someone else and expect them to know you.
13. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
very few people come into
our life and get close, but it is of these we
care the most, and with that in mind I would drink a toast, to health,
happiness, friendship, may we always remember and love those that mean the
most
Written by afriendtln