No one knows the heartache 
That hides behind my smile
No one knows how many times 
I've broken down and cried.
~Unknown~

No smile is more beautiful
than the one that struggles 
through tears.
~Unknown~

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

Nothing is going to change so much
that you're not going to be my best 
friend.
~Unknown~

Miracles happen to those 
who believe in them.
~Bernard Berenson, Art Historian~

Nothing is more painful than 
realizing he meant everything 
to you and you meant nothing 
to him.
~Unknown~

Nothing opens the heart like a true 
friend to whom you may impart grief's, 
joys, fears, hopes and whatever lies 
upon the heart.
~Unknown~

Now seems like forever but 
you're only young once.
~Unknown~

Once in a while, right in the middle 
of an ordinary life love gives us a 
fairy tale.
~Unknown~

Once you start worrying about what 
other people think of you you stop 
being yourself.
~Unknown~

One loses many laughs by not 
laughing at oneself.
~Sara Jeanette Duncan~

One of the greatest things about
being a teenager is the sharing
the closeness and the great times
you have with your friends.
~Unknown~

Only someone who has cried a great 
deal understands why someone else 
wants to stop the tears.
~V. C. Andrews~

Other people may be there to help us, 
teach us guide us along our path but 
the lesson to be learned is always ours.
~Unknown~ 

Our eyes are placed in front 
because it is more important 
to look ahead than to look back.
~Unknown~

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional
~Unknown~

People always say to follow your heart
but what they don't tell you is that 
just because you follow your heart
it doesn't mean there'll be a happy 
ending.
~Unknown~

People ask me what makes me love you 
so much but I won't tell them cause 
if I did they would love you too.
~Nikki~

People feel like they have to live 
up to being perfect or have a perfect 
life or be perfectly happy and it just 
makes them more unhappy.
~Unknown~

People may forget what you say to them,
people may forget what you do to them,
but people never forget how you make 
them feel.
~Unknown~

Real friendship is a rare and precious 
gift strong, stable, yet fragile
and never to be taken for granted.
~Unknown~

Real loss is only possible
when you love something
more than you love yourself.
~Good will hunting~

Remember to be kind,
remember to be loving,
remember to feel all your feelings
and to take care of yourself,
but most of all, remember to be happy.
~Unknown~

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss
you'll be among the stars.
~Unknown~

Smile, it's the second best thing 
to do with your lips.
~Unknown~

Some of us learn from other peoples 
mistakes. The rest of us are the other 
people.
~Unknown~

Some people can't believe in themselves
until someone else believes in them first.
~Good Will Hunting~

Some things are true even if you 
don't believe in them.
~City of Angels~

Some things you see with your eyes,
Others you see with your heart.
~The Land Before Time~

Someday your story will end with:
"And they lived happily ever after"
~Unknown~

Sometimes all a person needs 
is a hand to hold and a heart 
to understand.
~Unknown~

Sometimes I wish I could go back 
to the days when I was six and my 
biggest problem was "What kind of 
dress to put on my Barbie"
~Unknown~

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was 
always there.
~Reality Bites~

Sometimes someone says something 
really small. And it just fits 
right into this empty place in 
your heart.
~My So Called Life~

Sometimes the best things in life 
don't make any sense.
~Whatever It Takes~

Sometimes the people we meet 
change us forever.
~Forces of Nature~

Sometimes the truth is just what 
you don't want to hear.
~Unknown~

As soon as man does not take his existence 
for granted, but beholds it as something 
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. 
~Albert Schweitzer~

There are two means of refuge from the 
misery of life - music and cats. 
~Albert Schweitzer~

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. 
Never try to correct them. On the contrary: 
rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. 
After that, it will be possible for you to 
sublimate them.
~Salvador Dali~

I assure you I had rather excel others 
in the knowledge of what is excellent, 
than in the extent of my power and 
dominion.
~Alexander the Great~

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. 
All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
~Werner Erhard~

Expecting something for nothing 
is the most popular form of hope. 
~Arnold H. Glasow~

The fewer the facts, the 
stronger the opinion. 
~Arnold H. Glasow~ 

Whoever controls the media - the 
images - controls the culture. 
~Allen Ginsberg~

Flowers are words which even a 
baby can understand. 
~Arthur C. Coxe~

Love is an irresistible desire to 
be irresistibly desired.
~Frost, Robert~

When your heart responds instinctively 
to other people's joys and sorrows,you 
will know you have lost your self and 
attained the experience of your "one-
body-ness" with the human race - and 
love has finally arrived.
~Tony de Mello~

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

The main thing is to keep the main 
thing the main thing.
~Stephen Covey~

Many can do loving deeds. Rare is 
the person who can think loving 
thoughts.
~Tony de Mello~

Time is too slow for those who wait, 
too swift for those who fear, too long
for those who grieve, too short for 
those who rejoice, but for those who
love, time is eternity.
~Henry Van Dyke~

Dreams are a place where the
impossible becomes alive.
~Lisa Borgioli~

You are what you think you are, what you
feel you are, and most importantly who you
tell yourself you are. So think positive.
Life is too short for negative thinking.
~Barbara Perry~

The value of friendly is beyond measure -
it costs nothing, yet it's worth a fortune.
And it's the most contagious disease known
to man - catch it.
~Jeffrey Gitomer~ 

One of the most essential things you need
to do for yourself is to choose a goal that
is important to you. Perfection does not
exist - you can always do better and you
can always grow.
~Unknown~

Don't spend your precious time asking: "Why 
isn't the world a better place?" The question 
to ask is: "How can I make it better?" To that 
question there is an answer.
~Leo Buscaglia~
     
You don't have to be great to start, 
but you have to start to be great.
~Joe Sabah~
     
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, 
but the only cure for loneliness, despair, 
and hopelessness is love. There are many in 
the world who are dying for a piece of bread, 
but there are many more dying for a little love.
~Mother Theresa~
     
Cherish your visions and your dreams as 
they are the children of your soul; the 
blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments.
~Napoleon Hill~

All men of action are dreamers.
~James G. Huneker~

If one advances confidently in the directions of 
his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which 
he has imagined, he will meet with a success 
unexpected in common hours.
~Henry David Thoreau~

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, 
it covers the natural want of it, and ends by 
rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent 
to the real virtue.
~Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)~

Associate with well-mannered persons and
your manners will improve. Run around with
decent folk and your own decent instincts
will be strengthened.
~Stanley Walker~

Life is a test, so make the best of it
while you're here... because before you
know it, you're at the end... But, life's
end is only the beginning of a great
adventure...
~Scott Chapman~

The method of the enterprising is to plan 
with audacity and execute with vigor.
~Christian Bovee~

Make no little plans, they have no magic to 
stir men's blood. make big plans, aim high 
in hope and work and let your watchword be 
order and your beacon beauty.
~David Burnham~

The man who is prepared has 
his battle half fought.
~Miguel de Cervantes~


Plan ahead: It wasn't raining 
when Noah built the ark.
~Richard Cushing~

By failing to prepare you 
are preparing to fail.
~Benjamin Franklin~

The best preparation for tomorrow is to 
do today's work superbly well.
~Sir William Osler~

I thatched my roof when the sun was 
shining, and now I am not afraid of 
the storm.
~George F. Stivers~

No matter how dark things seem to be or
actually are, raise your sights and see
the possibilities - always see them, for
they're always there.
~Norman Vincent Peale~

Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world.
~Joel Barker~

There is no remedy for love but 
to love more.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Loving is not just looking at each other, 
it's looking in the same direction.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery~

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

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
~Beverly Sills~

Let us realize that the privilege to
work is a gift, that power to work is
a blessing, that love of work is success.
~David O. McKay~

In true love the smallest distance is too 
great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
~Hans Nouwens~

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, 
how much the heart can hold.
~Zelda Fitzgerald~

A kiss makes the heart young again and 
wipes out the years.
~Brooke, Rupert~

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned 
while young to hope, to love - and to put 
its trust in life.
~Joseph Conrad~

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~

I am enough of an artist to draw freely
upon my imagination. Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world.
~Albert Einstein~

Love bears a burden and feels no burden.
~Tony de Mello~

The heart is forever inexperienced.
~Henry David Thoreau~

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

Who would give a law to lovers? 
Love is unto itself a higher law.
~Boethius~

Where there is love, there is disorder.
Perfect order would make the work a
graveyard.
~Tony de Mello~

There is no sincerer love than the 
love of food.
~George Bernard Shaw~

You must not lose faith in humanity. 
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops 
of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does 
not become dirty.
~Mahatma Gandhi~

No power on earth can impede your progress
as surely and implacably as you can.
~Colin Turner~

Opportunities are like "Kodak Moments."
They are only captured when one is prepared
to take the shot."
~Lonnie Barker Jr.~

The minute you settle for less than 
you deserve, you get even less than 
you settled for.
~Maureen Dowd~
     
No fortune or fame the world offers or 
desires satisfies the soul. So, set your 
sites higher.
~Joyce C. Lock~
     
Happiness is not getting what you want, 
it's wanting what you've got.
~Author Unknown~
    
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. 
Criticize me, and I may not like you. 
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. 
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
~William Arthur Ward~

The only thing that stands between a man 
and what he wants from life is often merely 
the will to try it and the faith to believe
that it is possible.
~Richard M. DeVos~