“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry;
to get my work done and try to love somebody
and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou

Live for the moments you can’t put into words.

“Love is patient, love is kind; it does envy, it does not boast; it is not proud.
It is not proud, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil,
but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, trusts, hopes, and perseveres…
Love Never Fails.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly,
without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.” – Pablo Neruda

“Love is just a word until you find someone to give it definition” Unknown Author

I want a man that when I come running up to him with tears running down my face,
the first thing he say is “Baby, whose ass do I have to kick!”

“They didn’t agree on much, in fact, the rarely agreed at all,
they fought all the time and challenged each other everyday, but in spite of their differences,
they had one thing in common, they were crazy about each other” – Emogal

Here’s to the guys that love me,
the losers that lost me and the lucky bastards who get to meet me. Live Laugh Love.

“That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying “As you wish”, what he meant was,
“I love you.” And even more amazing was the day she realized she truly loved him back.” – The Princess Bride movie

I will stand by you, support you, and love you no matter what distance lies between us…

Life is too short, so…
Party harder. Laugh louder. Smile bigger. Love longer and don’t regret anything.

My voice is so soft for you to hear, my actions are too weak for you…
But if you would listen carefully, you will hear the sound of my heart that say
“from now till forever… I’ll always be there”

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“Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours.”

“Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life.” – “Pizza Place Sign”

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” – Mencius

“Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.”

“True friendship is never serene.” – Mariede Svign

“Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears.”

“Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.”

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Friend – a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.” – Collins English Dictionary

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

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

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln

“A friend is like an Oreo, it’s not always that great, but it always gets better!” – Erin Westbrook

“Friends are born, not made.” – Henry Adams

“Hold a true friend with both your hands.” – Nigerian Proverb

“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.” – Apocrypha

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

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

“Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.” – Samuel Paterson

“Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.” – Claude Mermet

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian (1647)

“Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.” – John Donne

“Friendship needs no words…” – Dag Hammarskjold.

“In a friend you find a second self.” – Isabelle Norton

“Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay (1871)

“To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.” – Valerie Lombardo

“The friendship that can cease has never been real.” – Saint Jerome

“The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert

“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness…” – Richard Bach

“Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren’t we already there?” – Richard Bach

“Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.” – Ludwig van Beethoven

“Love is temporary…but friends are forever.” – Kelly Wheeler

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“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” – Fr. Jerome Cummings

“Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.” – Cindy Lew

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for
that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy.
Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” – Charles R. Swindoll

“Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.” – Jewish Saying

“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.” – Jewish saying

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Bill Watterson

“It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm, a happy and auspicious bird of calm…” – Shelly

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Kahil Gibran

“There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.” – Bejamin Disraeli

“My father always used to say that when you die,
if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.” – Lee Iacocca

“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.” – Albert Schweitzer

“A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.” – Proverb

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.”

“Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend un judged, accepted, trusted to the end.” – John Boyle O’Reilly

“Friends have all things in common.” – Plato

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Artistotle

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” – Abraham Lincoln

“Remember friends as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I.
As low as I you once must be,
Prepare yourself and follow me.”
- Gravestone from the 1800s

“Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

“What is a friend? I will tell you…it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.” – Frank Crane

“Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach

“To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy…” – Guido

“I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.” -Cher

“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.”

“Sometimes you pick your friends, sometimes they pick you.”

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“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 healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen

“true friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient; it’s about being there when it’s not.”

“true friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient; it’s about being there when it’s not.”

“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.” – Gloria Naylor

“We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed;
as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses,
there is at last one that makes the heart run over.”

“Friends are like bras close to your heart and there for support.”

“True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value.” – Ben Jonson

“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.” – David Hume

“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

“”Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.” – Louisa May Alcott

“The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.” – Mark Twain

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family;
but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.” – Warren G. Harding

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

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams

“I have no trouble with my enemies. But my good friends,
they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.” – Oscar Levant

“Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.” -  Rabindranath Tagore

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it,
rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.” – Rachel Carson

“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.
Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.” – Rachel Naomi Remen

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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 you discover that someone else
believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” -  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I’m getting richer and richer”

“Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families.”

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

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.” -  Clifton Fadiman

“Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don’t worry…
I’m here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end,
the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. -Charlie Brown to Snoopy” Ashley27 Snoopy

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson

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Charles Plumb, a US Naval Academy graduate, was a jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience.

One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, “You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!”

“How in the world did you know that?” asked Plumb.

“I packed your parachute,” the man replied.

Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man grabbed his hand and said, “I guess it worked!”

Plumb assured him, “It sure did. If your chute hadn’t worked, I wouldn’t be here today.”

Plumb couldn’t sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb kept wondering what the man might have looked like in a Navy uniform. He wondered how many times he might have seen him and not even said good morning, how are you or anything, because you see, he was a fighter pilot and the man was just a sailor.
Plumb thought of the many hours that sailor had spent in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he did not know.

Now Plumb asks his audience, “Who is packing your parachute?” Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day.

Plumb also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down. As you go through your week, month, and year, recognize the people who have packed your parachute and enabled you to get where you are today!

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“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.” – Mike Singletary

“Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.” – Lou Holtz

“When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating.
I forget it is a competition.” – Katarina Witt

“To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential,
you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.” – Seve Ballesteros

“The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.” – Jean Claude Killy

“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep,
rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.” – Gordie Howe

“I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me.
I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.” – Arnold Palmer

“Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.” – Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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“There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.
There’s no such thing as life in-between.” – Pat Riley

“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation.
Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden

“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does -
that makes you a winner right there.” – Venus Williams

“I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.” – Richard M. Nixon

“I am the toughest golfer mentally.” – Tiger Woods

“The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch,
get started, take action, move.” – John Wooden

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude.
I can assure them it is much more serious than that.” – Bill Shankly

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory.” – Vince Lombardi

“It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.” – Evander Holyfield

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“Don’t give up trying to find your way. But do remember that sometimes it takes bending to avoid breaking.” – Katinka Hesselink

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.” – Ruth Gordon

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing,
the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.” – Anne Lamott

Fall seven times, stand up eight! – Japanese Proverbs

“It matters if you just don’t give up.” – Stephen Hawking

“The man who wins may have been counted out several times,
but he didn’t hear the referee.
Never quit or give up… never… never give up.” – H.E. Janson

“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty -
never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense” – Winston Churchill

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Don’t give up at half-time. Concentrate on winning the second half.” – Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

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“Don’t give up trying to find your way. But do remember that sometimes it takes bending to avoid breaking.” – Katinka Hesselink

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.” – Ruth Gordon

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing,
the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.” – Anne Lamott

Fall seven times, stand up eight! – Japanese Proverbs

“It matters if you just don’t give up.” – Stephen Hawking

“The man who wins may have been counted out several times,
but he didn’t hear the referee.
Never quit or give up… never… never give up.” – H.E. Janson

“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty -
never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense” – Winston Churchill

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Don’t give up at half-time. Concentrate on winning the second half.” – Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant

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