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Happy Mother’s Day!!

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I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Author Unknown

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne

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.
Albert Camus

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and  we are never ever the same.
Flavia Weed

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

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Orson Welles

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
Author Unknown

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.
Anaïs Nin

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
Author Unknown

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, jr.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

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

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mocuriac

To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.
Norman Douglas

We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other.
Luciano De Creschenzo

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elizabeth Foley

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

Updated June 27, 2009

Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.
Dave Brenner

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 Butler

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Norman B. Rice

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How often do you practice random acts of kindness? I know I shave my legs before going to the doctor, stop and allow pedestrians to cross in parking lots, avoid littering and will occasionally call a friend just to let them know they’re on my mind. But really, do these things have that much of an impact on others or does it just make me feel better? My new goal is to, at least once a week, practice a random act of kindness. One that will put a smile on someone’s face or make their day a little brighter. Chances are they will one day ‘pay it forward.’ I’m going to start today by paying a complete stranger a compliment, *click here for update*
remember;

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller

If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
André Gide

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.
Author Unknown

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
The Dalai Lama

We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Casare Pavese

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivanada

As you go about your day, why not pick up the trash you find on the sidewalk?

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville

Compassion is an alternate perception.
M.C. Richards

Give another driver your parking spot.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire–oh, no–love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living–yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.
Henry Van Dyke

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.
Henry David Thoreau

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.
Anonymous 18th century monk

What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.
Thaddeus Golas

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

Spend a week just being aware of things in nature that befriend you!

To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru

Updated Oct. 31, 2008

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Deciderius Erasmus

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.
Joanna Macy

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Joan Borysenko

Write a note to the boss of someone who has helped you, thanking him or her for having such a great employee.

Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
St. Theresa of Lisieux

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow – perhaps it all will.
Albert Einstein

Give another driver your parking spot.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Kahlil Gibran

The best portions of a good man’s life. His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
Sally Koch

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

Updated June 22, 2008

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

3 things in human life are important. The 1st is to be kind. The 2nd is to be kind. & the 3rd is to be kind.
Henry James

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

A simple “hello”, a genuine smile, or compassionate glance, can all have such beautiful effects of which we’ll never really be aware.
A. Hall

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindrath Tagore

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Norman B. Rice

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Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again.
Alex Tan

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Author Unknown

Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein

Life’s not always fair.  Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
Cherralea Morgen

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire

What can appear to be your worst moments in life are sometimes just an invitation to yourself and to your next magical journey – a journey that we would never have had the courage to take unless forced to do so.
Mark Hoog

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
George Carlin

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it’s a good idea to turn off the sound.
Author Unknown

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson

Bad is never good until worse happens.
Danish Proverb

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

Updated Nov. 2, 2008

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
Dalai Lama

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives, which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Updated June 27, 2009

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach

There is no future, there is no past, I live this moment as my last
Jonathan Larsonabout

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran

Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

There is always room in your life for thinking bigger pushing limits and imagining the impossible.
Tony Robbins

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.
Unknown

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
C. Myss

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
St. Augustine

As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Buckminster Fuller

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
Louise Hay

The man who has done his best has done everything.
Charles M. Schwab

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We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, ‘Why did this happen to me?’ unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.
Phillip E. Berstein

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
Kahlil Gibran

… joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Kahlil Gibran

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell

Every evening I turn my worries over to God.  He’s going to be up all night anyway.
Mary C. Crowley

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Christian Nevell Bovee

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
Christopher Benson

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Jacques Prévert

Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect.  The wisest know nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tears are words the heart can’t express.
Author Unknown

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Chinese proverb

Tears have a wisdom all their own. They come when a person has relaxed enough to let go and to work through his sorrow. They are the natural bleeding of an emotional wound, carrying the poison out of the system. Here lies the road to recovery.
F. Alexander Magoun

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
Jewish Proverb

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Author Unknown

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From a headstone in Ireland

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again.
Alex Tan

What can appear to be your worst moments in life are sometimes just an invitation to yourself and to your next magical journey – a journey that we would never have had the courage to take unless forced to do so.
Mark Hoog

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions
Stefan Kanfer

Updated June 22, 2008

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
Caroline Myss

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
Byron Katie

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Success, Overcoming Adversity & Overcoming Failure

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Grenville Kleiser

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemy.
Rodrick Thorp

Never bend your head, always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr

Oh God – Thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.
Author Unknown

I am an idealist. I don’t know where I am going but I’m on my way.
Carl Sandburg

As I grow to understand life less and less. I learn to live it more and more.
Jules Renard

You never really lose until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
Charles W. Eliot

The greatest possession is self-possession.
Ethel Watts Mumford

Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. it doesn’t matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life.
Henry James

Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess today the mood, the pleasure, the power of tomorrow, when we are building up our being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself loses misery.
Matthew Arnold

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward John Phelps

it is only because of problems we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.
Douglas Malloch

Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you submit to your grief- your time for joy will come, believe me.
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Duke Ellington

Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.
Special Olympics Motto

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is the promise of daylight.
London Times

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David Thoreau

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Robert Frost

Updated Nov. 1, 2008

We cannot change the direction of the wind; but we can adjust our sails….
Author Unknown

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Michael Eisner

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
Author Unknown

The greatest glory in living, lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
Nelson Mandela

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Woodrow Wilson

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark

As long as you keep getting born, it’s alright to die some times.
Orson Scott Card

One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
Unknown Author

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe

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I love quotes and I have oodles I’ve collected over the years….sharing some of my favorites relating to LOVE…

To love and be loved is to feel the sun on both sides.
David Viscott

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
Author Unknown

It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
Bertrand Russell

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
Author Unknown

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
Oscar Wilde

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; That word is love.
Sophocles

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.
Author Unknown

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Brandi Snyder

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and  we are never ever the same.
Flavia Weed

Life without Love is like a harp without strings.
Author Unknown

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.
Charles Morgan

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.
James Earl Jones

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Author Unknown

What the heart gives away is never gone … It is kept in the hearts of others.
Robin St. John

Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong- sometimes it’s letting go.
Sylvia Robinson

Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.
Author Unknown

Updated June 27, 2009

To Love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

We are not held back by the Love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
M. Williamson

To the lamp of love: May it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial
Unknown

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

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