"I'm sorry for that person I became.
I'm sorry it took so long for me to change.
I'm ready to be sure I never become that way again
'cause who I am hates who I've been."
Relient K -- Who I Am Hates How I’ve Been
"there is no place to try and live my life"
Relient K
"I flew too high and like Icarus I collide, with a world I try so hard to leave behind"
Jars of Clay
" More and more I need you now, I owe you more each passing hour"
Jars of Clay ~ Worlds Apart
"The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair"
Relient K~Be my Escape
"I'm afraid that this complacency if something I can't shake"
"Cause I've been housing all this doubt and insecurity and
I've been locked inside that house all the while you hold the key
And I've been trying to get out and that might be the death of me
And even though, there's no way in knowing where to go, promise I'm going because
I've gotta get outta here"
“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.”
Fr. Jerome Cummings
"Those who walk in darkness, have seen a great light. While those who walk in light have seen a great darkness."
Isaiah 9:1
"Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end."
Corinthians
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think"
The Grand Adventure of Winnie the Pooh
"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."
Saint Theresa of Jesus
“There is no greater love than this
There is no greater gift that can ever be given
To be willing to die so another might live
There is no greater love than this”
*No Greater Love Than This
“A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; anyone who finds one possesses a treasure.”
Sir 6:14
"Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. Everyday you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God."
* Meredith’s Quotes
"God enters by a private door into every individual."
Ralph Waldo
I didn't know, ‘til I was at odds with the world, how much my friends
who believe in me . . . mean to me.
D.H. Lawrence
"May there always be work for your hands to do, may your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine on your windowpane, may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you."
Irish Blessing
"Friends are the siblings God forgot to give us."
"A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope."
"Some friendships do not last, but some friends are more loyal than brothers."
Proverbs 18:24
Unless you try beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
Bill Cosby
"The kindness you show others will come back to you-if not today or tomorrow, then someday."
Unknown
[ F R I E N D S ]
as you grow up; you realize that its less
important to have more friends and more
important to have real ones | xo*
A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
Elbert Hubbard
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta
"A friend is a friend at all times."
Proverbs 17:17
"People come into your life for 1) a reason, 2) a season, or 3) a lifetime"
Kathy Reda-- 3/30/06
"A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go"
"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but the number of moments that take our breath away"
"Part of learning the art of living is having the courage to be weak, weak enough to let others in so you can receive their love."
Fr. Klamut
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it."
Mother Teresa
* Meredith’s Quotes
"No one really knows why they're alive until they know what they'd die for."
"Do not walk behind me; I may not lead.
Do not walk in front of me; I may not follow.
All I ask is that you walk beside me; that way we may make our journey together."
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
“I'm everything I am
Because you loved me”
Celine Dion
BETTE MIDLER LYRICS
"Wind Beneath My Wings"
Ohhhh, oh, oh, oh, ohhh.
It must have been cold there in my shadow,
to never have sunlight on your face.
You were content to let me shine, that's your way.
You always walked a step behind.
So I was the one with all the glory,
while you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name for so long.
A beautiful smile to hide the pain.
Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the wind beneath my wings.
It might have appeared to go unnoticed,
but I've got it all here in my heart.
I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it.
I would be nothing without you.
Did you ever know that you're my hero?
You're everything I wish I could be.
I could fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the wind beneath my wings.
Did I ever tell you you're my hero?
You're everything, everything I wish I could be.
Oh, and I, I could fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the wind beneath my wings,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.
Oh, the wind beneath my wings.
You, you, you, you are the wind beneath my wings.
Fly, fly, fly away. You let me fly so high.
Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings.
Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings.
Fly, fly, fly high against the sky,
so high I almost touch the sky.
Thank you, thank you,
thank God for you, the wind beneath my wings.
“ A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out”
Walter Winchell
“A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails
Anonymous
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he fallett; for he hath not another to help him up”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
“A friend loves at all times”
Proverbs 17:17
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last one drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over”
Samuel Jackson
“No man is useless while he has a friend”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“It is never too late to be what you might have been”
George Eliot
“Dream as if you live for ever;
live as if you die today”
James Dean
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”
Colleen Wilcox
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly”
G. K. Chesterton
“For he shall give us his angels to charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways”
Psalms 91:11
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures”
Kahlil Gibran
“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven”
Karen Sunde
“Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself”
Romans 13:9
“With ever deed you sow a seed, though the harvest you may not see”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity”
Edward Weeks
“Love is the only thing you get more of by giving away”
James M. Barrie
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
I like to see a man live so his place will be proud of him”
Abraham Lincoln
“The person who had taught me so much about life and laughter, the person who had helped me to grow to be myself, was just going away for a while, to do some growing and learning of her own”
Bethany Trombley - Going Away; Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IV
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In family life, love id the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony”
Eva Burrows
“Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.”
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."
Joan Baez
“Best friends are the sibling God forgot to give us”
Anonymous
Grant me joy when I am in pain,
grant me peace when I'm distraught.
Give me laughter when I am happy,
and love when I am not.
Grant me light when I'm in darkness,
grant me hope when I'm in doubt.
Grant me a spark of strength when I'm weary,
and the will not to blow it out.
Grant me the patience to forgive,
grant me the courage to let go.
Grant me the strength to overcome,
and the willingness to let it show.
Grant me wisdom through my failure,
grant me understanding through my mistakes.
Give me guidance and endurance,
in whatever path I take.
Give me faith when I struggle,
grant me safety when I fall.
Give me the strength to keep on living,
and love through it all.
Amen.
“Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.”
John 3:18
“I’d once had a romantic view of suicide. I thought that it would be nice to have everyone miss me, to have my name forever bound with the tragedy of depth no one could fathom. I imagined the kind of silence in classrooms, the people sobbing in the halls. I imagined how people who I didn’t know or barely knew would try to remember every detail—what I had said to them, what I had worn the last day”
Simone Would; Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IV -- Don’t Stop the Dance
“When I want it all to stop, I remember that you can’t dance without a body, and you can’t cry without eyes and you can’t have to luxury of feeling when you aren’t here.”
Don’t Stop the Dance
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce
“In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.”
Mark Twain
“Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures”
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“Love each other or die”
Morrie Schwartz
“Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back”
Morrie Schwartz
“In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, and at the end of life, when you’re dying, you need others to survive. The secret is, in between, we need others as well”
Morrie Schwartz
“Stand up for what is right, even if it means standing alone”
“The soul would have not rainbow if the eyes had no tears”
“The most important things are the hardest to day because words diminish them”
“People will forget what you said; people will forget what you did; but people will never forget how you made them feel”
“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.”
“Friendship is as delicate as glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks”
“I love you but, God loves you more”
“I am complete sitting with you so praise the Lord Jesus for giving me you”
“Be not afraid”
“You can’t scare me, I teach!”
“Fear is temporary… regret is forever”
“No one can do great things, only small things with great love”
Mother Theresa
“Live on the edge, but know where the edge ends”
"Cast all your cares upon Him because He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
Dr. Seuss
”You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss
“He will always forgive you”
“He Died for your Sins BEFORE you were sorry... If he's that committed then he'll never give up on you now that you are sorry.”
“All your love is all he'll ever ask of you. Everything else is just ways of expressing it.”
“Life without God is... well it isn't really life at all.”
“Don't give up on living for Jesus because Jesus is simply beautiful. He is amazing. He's real with us and doesn't hold back anything. He loves us so much Saint Faustina calls Him the "Divine Madman - in that He forgets Himself and thinks only of us". It's hard to be a Christian and I don't always get why Jesus loves me so much... but it's true. Don’t give up on living for Him because there's nothing else worth living for”
“And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
And you bleed just to know you're alive”
Goo Goo Dols ~ Iris
“Try to figure out what all this is for.
Try to see the world beyond your front door”
Barenaked Ladies ~ Pinch Me
“These words are razors to my wounded heart”
William Shakespeare
“All who hate me whisper about me, imagining the worst for me”
Psalm 41:7
“I didn’t know just what was wrong with me, till your helped me name it.”
Aretha Franklin
“"Complain to one who can help you."
Yugoslav Proverb
“If there is a real woman—even the trace of one—still there inside the grumbling, it can be brought to life again. If there’s one wee spark under all those ashes, we’ll brow till the whole pile it till whole pile is red and clear”
C. S. Lewis
“Jesus is ‘the stone you masons threw out, which is now the cornerstone’.”
ACT 4:11
“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
Acts 4:12
“Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. ”-
“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities”
Froude ~ Short Stories on Great Subjects
“Absence makes the heart grow stronger”
Thomas Hynes Bayly
“We judge ourselves but what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done”
Longfellow
“Nothing with God can be accidental”
Longfellow
“Let us do or die”
Burns—Address to the Unco Guid
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might”
Ecclesiastes 9:10
“Whatever turns up, grab it and do it. And heartily!
This is your last and only chance at it,
For there's neither work to do nor thoughts to think
In the company of the dead, where you're most certainly headed”
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ~ (The Message)
“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.”
William Stafford
“There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.”
Edwin Denby
“We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.”
Japanese Proverb
“Sometimes I feel there is a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. If you lifted my heart to your ear you could probably hear the ocean. I have this dream of being whole. I’m not going to sleep each night wanting, but sometimes when the wind is warm or the crickets sing, I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen.”
Anonymous
*meredith's
“Everything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
Mahtama Ghandi
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely.”
Anonymous
“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance”.
Dave Barry
“People don’t commit suicide because they don’t want to live. They commit suicide because they don’t want to live the way they are.”
William Purkey
“Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.”
Anonymous
“You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.”
Author Unknown
“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.”
Author Unknown
“There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.”
Vicki Baum
“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.”
Agnes De Mille
“Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.”
Author Unknown
“It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.”
Shanna LaFleur
“I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.”
George Balanchine
“You have to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you've got and remember what you had. Always forgive, but never forget, learn from your mistakes, but never regret. PEOPLE CHANGE, THINGS GO WRONG, but just remember life goes on.”
“Change is a shark in the ocean. Change never stops, never sleeps: it must always keep moving. The good news is if you hate the way things are, they will change. The bad news is if you love the way things are, they are certain to change as well. The only thing inevitable about life is change, not death. Change is here to stay!”
“Courage is the fuel that gives us strength to make our journey through life. If you feel you are lacking in courage, know that coming to Earth to have a spiritual experience was in and of itself a great act of bravery. Aristotle said that "courage is the first among human qualities because it guarantees the others". So it is: courage is the golden thread that draws us ever higher into the inner realms of God.”
"Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost
"May today there be peace within.
May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received.
May you pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content knowing you are a child of God.
Let this presence settle into your bones,
Allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, and to bask in the sun....
...It is there for each and every one of you...."
Theresa of God
We are all little pencils in the hand of God, writing His love letters to the world."
Mother Theresa of Calcutta
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but I do know one thing: the only ones among you who will be happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
Albert Schweitzer
"Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve."
Sivananda
"A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face"
"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."
“It's the times we're so crazy,
that people think we're high.
It's the times we laugh so hard,
we can't help but cry.
It's all the inside jokes
and "remember whens".
those are all the reasons
that we're best friends!”
“There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will.”
“The words that escape a friend's mouth are "I'll be there when you say you need me" but the words that are unheard from a true friend's heart are "I'll be there... whether you say you need me or not."”
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
Randolf
“Friendship is like standing on wet cement. The longer you stay, the harder it's to leave, and you can never go without leaving your footprints behind.”
“Sometimes in life, you find a special friend. Someone who changes your life just by being part of it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop. Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it. This is forever friendship. When you're down and the world seems dark and empty, your forever friend lifts you up in spirit and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full. Your forever friend gets you through the hard times, the sad times and the confused times. If you turn and walk away, your forever friend follows. If you lose your way, your forever friend guides you and cheers you on. Your forever friend hold your hand and tells you that everything is going to be okay. And if you find such a friend, you feel happy and complete because you need not worry. You have a forever friend, and forever has no end.”
“Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest... It's about who came, and never left your side...”
“Our inside jokes-too many to name.
When we're apart it's never the same.
When we're together it's nothing but fun.
Replacing my girls just can't be done.
As the years pass,
and we grow apart.
I want you to know,
that you guys are in my heart.
You helped me through problems,
through things good and bad.
You helped me keep smiling :-),
when I was sad.
You helped me with guys,
you made me stay strong.
How will I live,
when you guys are gone?
And where the years take us,
no place is too far.
We will think of each other,
wherever we are.
You're wonderful people,
with good hearts to lend.
And I want you to know,
that ya'll will always be my Best Friends”
“I find it hard to look at pictures that are of you and me
It's hard to think that someday the two of us may not be
When those thoughts go through my mind, I stop and realize
All the things we have done and how you opened up my eyes
When I feel like I'm alone, you're the first person that I call
The only one who knows how to fix everything and all
You came into my life and I knew it from the start
No matter what may happen, you would always be in my heart
I know that I can go to you with anything I need
You'll help me through my toughest times telling me I will succeed
You have the two best shoulders for me to lean and cry on
Wiping away all of my tears until they are gone
You know all of my wishes and you know my dreams
Reminding me they're not as far away as they may seem
You are loyal, kind, and caring, and I know that this is true
My world wouldn't be as bright if I knew there were no you
If ever you need a friend to tell everything and all
I'm just a few numbers away, so don't be afraid to call
If there were one thing to want from life, this is what it would be
To be as good a friend to you as you have been to me
I hope I made you smile when you were about to cry
I hope I comforted you when you wanted to just die
Our smiles and our laughter, our tears and all our sorrow
They mean just as much as knowing that we still have tomorrow
It is a gift knowing someone is gonna by your side
With this person, you will never have to hide
Looking at you makes me realize you're more than a friend,
And that you will be there with me until the very end
To you I want to say thanks for touching my life and leaving your mark
With you I know I will shine, even when in the dark
You are always there to help me, guiding me through the bends
That is why you will forever be my true best friend
Finding a friend like you is like finding a pot of gold
Something that can never be bought, something that can never be sold”
"Your friends are your release. They're who you have the most fun with, and yet when the going gets tough, those people turn around and suddenly they're not just making you laugh, they're being this rock and giving you all their advice. Even though you're so much your own person, if you dissect yourself, I guarantee you, your friends are in there. Their influence is incredible. Best friends are what you need most."
Drew Barrymore
“If one day you want to cry, just call me. I can't promise I'll make you laugh, but I can cry with you.
If one day you want to run away, don't be afraid, just call me. I can't promise I'll make you stop, but I can run with you.
If one day you are bored, just call me. I can't promise I will entertain you, but I can tell you I am bored too.
But if one day you tell me you are in love with me, I promise I will tell you I am love with you, too.”
A Simple Friend has never seen you cry.
A Real Friend has shoulders soggy from your tears.
A Simple Friend doesn't know your parent's first names.
A Real Friend has their phone numbers in the address book.
A Simple Friend brings a bottle of wine to your party.
A Real Friend comes early to help you cook and stays late to help you clean.
A Simple Friend hates it when you call after he/she has gone to bed.
A Real Friend asks you why you took so long to call.
A Simple Friend seeks to talk with you about your problems.
A Real Friend seeks to help you with your problems.
A Simple Friend wonders about your romantic history.
A Real Friend could blackmail you with it.
A Simple Friend, when visiting, acts like a guest.
A Real Friend opens your refrigerator and helps herself.
A Simple Friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument.
A Real Friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight.
A Simple Friend expects you to always be there for them.
A Real Friend expects to always be there for you.
“Your best friend is the one who's laughed with you, cried with you, and despaired with you. Your best friend is the one who loves and accepts all the strange or quirky things about you. Your best friend is the one who's shirts are stained with mascara from your tears. Your best friend is the one who can look at you and have a whole conversation without moving their mouth once. Your best friend is the one who's seen you at your worst, and said you were the best. Your best friend is the one who fought for and defended you-even when they knew you were wrong. Your best friend is the one who can honestly say "I love you." and not think twice about how it was taken. Your best friend is the one who crashes on your couch at four in the morning. Your best friend is the one who kicked you in the ass and straightened you out when you were about to make a big mistake. Your best friend is the one who knows you inside out. Your best friend is the one who never has to ask- they already know the answer. Your best friend is the one with whom you can't play twenty questions because they already know the answer to every question. Your best friend is the one who fought with you, missed you, and made up with you after many bitter exchanges were made. Your best friend is the one who stood by your side when you were having a hard time, and always forgave you for being a b*tch. Your best friend is the one who doesn't expect an apology but deserves one. Your best friend is the one who covered for you to keep you out of serious trouble. Your best friend is the one who never judged you for what you had done, never called you a dirty name because you had been less than good. Your best friend is the one who is your main partner in crime. Your best friend is the one who will always need you and miss you in times of need when you can't be there, but knows you would be if it was possible. Your best friend is the one whom you may need most, who will always seek your company, but will push you away to avoid pulling you down with them when they know they can't win.”
"Where'd You Go?"
Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
She said "Some days I feel like shit,
Some days I wanna quit, and just be normal for a bit,"
I don't understand why you have to always be gone,
I get along but the trips always feel so long,
And, I find myself trying to stay by the phone,
'Cause your voice always helps me to not feel so alone,
But I feel like an idiot, workin' my day around the call,
But when I pick up I don't have much to say,
So, I want you to know it's a little fucked up,
That I'm stuck here waitin', at times debatin',
Tellin' you that I've had it with you and your career,
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where'd you go?"
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone,
Please come back home...
You know the place where you used to live,
Used to barbecue up burgers and ribs,
Used to have a little party every Halloween with candy by the pile,
But now, you only stop by every once and a while,
Shit, I find myself just fillin' my time,
With anything to keep the thought of you from my mind,
I'm doin' fine, I plan to keep it that way,
You can call me if you find that you have something to say,
And I'll tell you, I want you to know it's a little fucked up,
That I'm stuck here waitin', at times debatin',
Tellin' you that I've had it with you and your career,
Me and the rest of the family here singing "Where'd you go?"
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone,
Please come back home...
I want you to know it's a little fucked up,
That I'm stuck here waitin', no longer debatin',
Tired of sittin' and hatin' and makin' these excuses,
For why you're not around, and feeling so useless,
It seems one thing has been true all along,
You don't really know what you've got 'til it's gone,
I guess I've had it with you and your career,
When you come back I won't be here and you can sing it...
Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone.
Where'd you go?
I miss you so,
Seems like it's been forever,
That you've been gone,
Please come back home...
Please come back home...
Please come back home...
Please come back home...
Please come back home...
"If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring, and a sunrise every morning.
Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen.
He could live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.
What about the Christmas gift He sent you in Bethlehem ;
Not to mention that Friday at Calvary .
Face it, He's crazy about you."
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
George Washington Carver
"The best helping hand you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm."
"All kids are gifted. Some just open their packages earlier than other"
Micheal Carr
"We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how."
"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the
people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't
and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a
"Nothing is worse than active ignorance."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"there has always been heartache and pain
And when it's over you'll breathe again"
"As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't
supposed to ever let you down probably will.
You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time.
You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best
friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry
because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you
love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've
never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back."
"Darling, forever is a long, long time, and time has a way of changing things."
Big Mama, The Fox And The Hound
"I'll be back in a few"
Benjamin Franklin
"Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion."
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life."
David M. Burns
"The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach."
Meladee McCarty
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
"We are afflicted in ever way possible but we are never crushed, full of doubts we never despair. We are persecuted but never abandoned; we are struck down but never destroyed"
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
"Heaven has got to be beautiful with you there"
Jennifer Lohrfink
"When i first got here I felt very much alone. I was overwhelmed with grief and expected to find sympathy"
John Berrio
"Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd of had to miss the dance"
"The Dance" Garth Brooks
"All I had were the voices in my head telling me I blew it, I was too needy, I was never going to be loved once someone really got to know me"
"My Story"-Lia Gay
"Life gets really hard sometimes and really painful. For me, I couldn't feel anyone else's love because I had forgotten how to love myself. I'm learning now-- I'm learning how to accept, forgive, and love myself. And I'm learning that things change. Pain does go away, and happiness is on the other side. Although the pain does come back, so does the happiness. It's like waves in the ocean coming and going... coming and going... breathing in and out."
"My Story"-Lia Gay
"The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place."
Barbara De Angelis
"You can gain strength, courage and experience by every experience which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along'"
Eleanor Roosevelt
"In their own words my problems were 'too much' for them. The intensity of my pain scared them, as it did me"
Lia Gay
"I need someone to talk to, someone to open open myself to. I need to be held. Yes me. even i am not made of brick. Although I am strong, even strong things break down at times"
"The Premonition"
"The essential sadness is to go through life without loving, but it would be almost equally as sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you loved them"
"Tell the World for Me"
"Though the world is full of suffering it is also full of over coming it"
Hellen Keller
"Everyone desires to be desired by the one they desire"
Fr. Matthew Williams
"The best leader isn't the strongest but the one who cares the most"
"Everything happens for a reason, even if the reason is hard for us to comprehend, something good will always come out of it in the long run. "
"and I thought I had it all figured out, but I guess I was wrong. you have to live day by day. you never know what could be thrown your way"
"the best laid plans of mice and men are apt to go a wry"
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
Mother Theresa
"Even when things are hard, when you feel like it will never get
better, keep in mind it's for the best and EVERYTHING happens
for a reason, and there's a bright side to everything."
"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people,
who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate."
-Sigmund Freud
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. "
"love does not make the world go round. But it makes the trip worthwhile"
"Love means nothing if someone only loves you because you are forcing them to love you"
Ms. Coy-Gonfa
"Your strength is not in numbers…you are the God of the lowly, the helper of the oppressed, the supporter of the weak, the protector of the forsaken, the savior of those without hope. "
"I pictured you in the sun wondering what went wrong and falling down on your knees asking for sympathy and being caught in
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely"
"Forgive, sounds good. Forget, I'm not sure I could."
"They say time heals everything, But I'm still waiting"
"If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I think He speaks to us largely through what happens to us……if we keep our hearts and minds open as well as our ears, if we listen with patience and hope, if we remember at all deeply and honestly, then I think we come to recognize, beyond all doubt, that, however faintly we may hear him, he is indeed speaking to us, and that, however little we may understand of it, his word to each of us is both recoverable and precious beyond telling."
"if you can't do something smart, do something right"
"When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. "
Edward Teller
"hope never abandons you; you abandon it"
"you can argue about politics all day long, and we can argue about different beliefs... but the truth is that God has changed my life, and there's no argument that you can ever say to change my mind about that."
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Silence is an escape, but rarely a refuge.”
“Sometimes, when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really loosing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.”
“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But, hatred is a curved blade. The harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
“There are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.”
“Death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”
“Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.”
“Fairness does not govern life or death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”
“One withers, the other grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.”
“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”
“Young men go to war. Sometimes because the have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which, over the centuries, have seen courage confused with picking up arms and cowardice confused with laying them down.”
“Better to be loyal to one another.”
“The world is full of stories, but all of the stories are all one.”
"The universe doesn't hear words, it senses our feelings and the intention behind the words."
"the truth don't need you to believe it for it to be true"
"The times you don't feel like prayer are probably the times you need prayer the most"
"Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly and leave the rest to God"
"Depression is something that makes you lose your sight."
Michael Schenker
"Every day is fresh and new without a mistake in it. My biggest
mistake today is to have dwelt on the ones made yesterday. Live and
learn and try our best. That's all we can do."
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
- Joseph Addison
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
-Tolstoy
Be kinder than necessary.
Everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
-Shunryu Suzuki
I remember when we used to laugh
About nothing at all
It was better than going mad
From trying to solve all the problems we're going through
Forget 'em all
Cause on those nights we would stand and never fall
Together we faced it all
All progress requires change..... but not all change is progress....
"You can't figure me out. I can't figure me out. It's life Sidda. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the breast and ride...."
-Divine Secrets of the YA-YA Sisterhood
"You cannot be alive very long without being wounded. The sun rises, the stars follow their courses, the waves roll ing crashing against the rocks, and we are wounded."
-Captivating
"Take a look inot the eyes of anyone and behind the smile or the fear, you will find pain. And most people are in more pain than they even realize. Sorrow is not a stranger to any of us, though only a feew have learned that it is not our enemy either"
-Captivating
"whenever you face trials of any kind
consider it nothing but joy, because you know that the
testing of your faith produces endurance and let
endurance have its full effect so that you maybe
mature and complete, lacking nothing."
James 1:2-4
"Every person that comes onto this earth, is born sweet and full of love. A little child loves everybody, friends, and its nature is sweetness- until something happens. Something happens, friends. As that little child gets bigger, its sweetness dont show so much, cares and troubles come to perplex it, and all its sweetness is driven inside it. Then it gets miserable and loneseome, friends. It says, 'Where is all my sweetness gone? Where are all the friends that loved me?' And all the time, that little beat-up rose of its sweetness is inside, not a petal dropped, and on the outside is just a mean lonesomeness. It may want to take its own life or yours or mine, or to depair completely, friends. But all the time I was sweet inside, like everybody else, and I only needed something to bring it out. I only needed a little help, friends."
-Wise Blood
"Life is difficult beyond explanation. We live in a world where so much is possible. Great beauty and terrible pain, sickness and health, grace and terror. Tomorrow is always uncertain. Love, in all it's different forms, seems to be the one true thing. May you know it now and always. "
-T.W.L.O.H.A
"It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be grounded down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal."
- Pope John Paul II
And as you put you're hand in mine
I slowly realize everything will be fine
My heart still beats and my mind is clear
The only thing holding me now is fear
" Sometimes the hardest thing to believe is the truth
Attempt to place our lives into Your hands
Confide in what You'll do
'Cause sometimes when you're trying to sleep
And all your doubts and your faith don't agree its cause
Sometimes the hardest thing to believe is the truth"
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
- Washington Irving
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.
"Guilt is when you think you made a mistake.
Shame is when you think you are a mistake"
How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,
Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
If you knew that you would die today,
saw the face of God and love,
would you change?
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." –Unknown
"Someone who has lost their parents is called an orphan.
Someone who has lost their spouse is called a widow,
but for someone who has lost a friend their is no word to describe such a tragedy"
"Friends are special people like family, no matter what they do, but what hurts worst of all is when they turn away from you."
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
~Einstein
"The only time a goodbye is painful is when you know you'll never say hello again"
"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
~Anon
"Anyone can tell you how fabulous you are. But it takes a friend to tell you that youre screwing up, and someone who really cares to help you make it right again."
~Erin Berger
"Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many people call you and it's not about who you've dated, are dating, or even have dated at all. It isn't about who you've kissed, what sport you play, or which guy/girl likes you. It's not about your shoes or your hair,the color of your skin or where you live or go to school. In fact, it's not about grades, money or clothes, or colleges that accept you or not. It's about how u feel about yourself. It's about trust, happiness and compassion. It's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building coinfidence. It's about what you say and what you mean. It's about seeing people for who they really are, and not what they have. Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone elses in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise."
"Change is never easy. You fight to hold on, you fight to let go."
"Now you're gone, I wonder why you left me here. I think about it on and on and on and on and on again. I know you're never coming back. But I hope that you can hear me. I'm waiting to hear from you, until I do, you're gone away. I'm left alone a part of me is gone and I'm not moving on. So wait for me I know the day will come...I wish I could have told you the things I've kept inside. But now I guess it's just too late. So many things remind me of you. I hope that you can hear me, I miss you. This is good-bye one last time, and wherever I go you'll be there with me, forever you'll be right here with. No matter where life takes me, I'll meet you there..."
~Simple Plan
“What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.”
Thinking back on how you changed me,
every time, you tried to put me down.
even though you really hurt me
underneath, myself is what i found.
He played football at Xaverian.
And did you know with Matt Hassleback?
Uses props in his homilies
And ends them all with questions.
He drove car in Assisi.
"You've got to be kidding me!"
He's the peanut butter to jelly
And the icing on your cupcake.
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Ive this creeping, suspicion that things here are not as they seem.
Reassure me, oh why do I feel as if Im in too deep.
Now Ive been praying, for some way to show them Im not what they see.
Yes I have done wrong, but i did what i thought needed to be done, I swear.
May the words I say and the things I do
Make my Lifeong sing bring a smile to You.
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I think I'm afraid to be happy, because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens.
--Charlie Brown
God doesn't give you
the people you want
He gives you the people you need
to help you, to hurt you
to have you, to love you
and to make you into the
person you were meant to be
Birth Certificate shows that we were born
A Death Certificate shows that we died
Pictures show that we lived! Have a seat . . .
Relax . And read this slowly.
I Believe...That just because two people argue,
it doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue,
it doesn't mean they do love each other.
I Believe...That we don't have to change friends if
we understand that friends change.
I Believe...That no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt
you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
I Believe...That true friendship continues to grow, even over
the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
I ! Believe... That you can do something in an instant
that will give you heartache for life.
I Believe...That it's taking me a long time
to become the person I want to be.
I Believe...That you should always leave loved ones with
loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
I Believe... That you can keep going long after you think you can't.
I Believe...That we are responsible for what
we do, no matter how we feel.
I Believe...That either you control your attitude or it controls you.
I Believe...That heroes are the people who do what has to be done
when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
I Believe...That money is a lousy way of keepin! g score.
I Believe...That my best friend and I can do anything or nothing
and have the best time.
I Believe...That sometimes the people you expect to kick you
when you're down, will be the ones to help you get back up.
I Believe...That sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to
be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
I Believe...That maturity has more to do with what types of
experiences you've had and what you've learned from them
and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
I Believe...That it isn't always enough, to be forgiven by others,
sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.
I Believe...That no matter how bad your heart is broken the
world doesn't stop for your grief.
I Believe...That our background and circumstances may have
influenced who we are, but, we are responsible for who we become.
I Believe...That you shouldn't be so eager to find
out a secret. It could change your life Forever.
I Believe...Two people can look at the exact same
thing and see something totally different.
I Believe...That your life can be changed in a matter of
hours by people who don't even know you.
I Believe...That even when you think you have no more to
give, when a friend cries out to you - you will find the
strength to help.
______________________________
you have to take the good with the bad
smile with the sad, love what you got
and remember what you had
always forgive, but never forget
learn from your mistakes, but never regret
people change, things go wrong,
just remember, life goes on...
Stay up late and we'd talk all night
In the dark room lit by the TV light
Through all the hard times in my life
Those nights kept me alive
We'd listen to the radio play all night
Didn't want to go home to another fight
Through all the hard times in my life
Those night kept me alive
Everybody needs to belong somewhere.
Life can feel so alone
without someone who cares.
And when life becomes something
just to get through.
That's when I'm glad that I belong to You.
God saw you getting tired.
And a cure was not to be.
So he put His arms around you
And whispered "come to me"
With tearful eyes we watched you,
and saw you pass away
We could not make you stay.
Although we loved you dearly,
We could not make you stay.
A golden heart stopped beating,
Hard working hands at rest.
God broke out hearts to prove to us,
He only takes the best.
She feels locked in her own life
Scared of what she might lose
If she moves away from who she was
And she's afraid of being free
There's a way she knows is right
And she can't feel the things she knows and so each step she's taking
Is a step of faith towards who she'll be
People so seldom say I love you
And then it's either too late or love goes.
So when I tell you I love you,
It doesn't mean I know you'll never go,
Only that I wish you didn't have to.
there's a little truth behind every jk
a little curiosity behind every jw
a little knowledge behind every idk
and a little emotion behind every idc
My biggest mistake today is to have dwelt on the ones made yesterday.
Live and learn and try our best. That's all we can do.
"i've learned that goodbyes will always hurt, pictures will never
replace having been there, memories good and bad will bring tears, and
words can never replace feelings"
You can feel people staring; it's like heat that rises from the pavement during summer, like a poker in the small of your back. You don't have to hear a whisper, either, to know that it's about you.
I used to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom to see what they were staring at. I wanted to know what made their heads turn, what it was about me that was so incredibly different. At first I couldn't tell. I mean, it was just me.
Then one day, when I looked in the mirror, I understood. I looked into my own eyes and I hated myself, maybe as much as all of them did.
That was the day I started to believe they might be right.
I don't want a thing from you
bet you're tired of me waiting
for the scraps to fall off of your table to the .g.r.o.u.n.d.
Made my mistakes, let you down
And I can't, I can't hold on for too long
Ran my whole life in the ground
And I can't, I can't get up when you're gone
And something's breaking up
I feel like giving up
I won't walk out until you know
Because im fighting like hell for you and all i want is for you and me to be the way we use to be
When your sad, I'll be your tear..When your scared I'll be your fear..When your hurt I'll be your frown..When you smile I'll be sure not to let you down.. When your mad I'll be your anger..When your lonley don't think I'm a stranger..When your heart gets broken you know I'll be standing there with my arms wide open..When you laugh I'll be there too..I want you to know I'll always love you"
"It was a basic human desire to long for the people you loved to love each other"
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
"There is nothing like returning to a Place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered"
Nelson Mandela
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
"A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope."
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