"I shall pass through this world but
once.
Therefore, if
there is any kindness I can show,
Any good deed I can do,
Let me not defer it nor neglect
it,
For I shall not
pass this way again"
This has been my all time favorite quote.
I first read it in the newspaper under "Quote of the Day" about 25 years ago,
and have loved it every since. I have yet to find out who it is
by.
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"Let no one ever come to you without
leaving better and happier"
Mother Theresa
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"Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain
submitted by my friend
Jack
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" I believe in growing
things
and in things
which have grown and died magnificently.
I believe in people
and in the simple aspects of human
life
and in the
relation of man to nature.
I believe man must be free, both in
spirit and society,
that he must build strength into himself,
affirming the enormous beauty of the
world
and acquiring
the confidence to see and express the vision."
--- Ansel Adams ---
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"If you maintain a feeling of
compassion, loving kindness, then something automatically opens your inner
door.
Through that, you can communicate more easily with other people. And that feeling of warmth creates a kind of openness. You'll find that all human beings are just like you, so you'll be able to relate to them more easily. That gives you a spirit of friendship. Then there's less need to hide things, and as a result, feeling of fear, self-doubt, and insecurity are automatically dispelled."
From the book Art of Happiness - the
Dalai Lama, and Howard C. Cutler.M.D.
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"Freedom is that instant between when
someone tells you to
do something and when decide how to respond."
Jeffery Borenstein
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"Enjoy the present and let the future
take care of itself"
Brad Horwitz (a good friend of
mine)
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"Live life now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow
never comes. It is always today"
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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"Fear less, hope
more;
Whine less,
breathe more;
Talk
less, say more;
Hate
less, love more;
And
all good things are yours."
Swedish Proverb
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"Shoot for the moon..
Even if you miss, you'll land amongst
the stars"
Les Brown
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‘A traveler has no fixed plans and is
not intent on arriving’
Lao Tzu (570-490 BC)
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‘Travelers don't know where the are
going,
Tourists don't
know where they've been.’
Paul Theroux
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‘A tourist is someone who goes with the
intention of returning home sometime soon, whereas
a traveler is someone who might travel
for years, and never return at all.’
"The Sheltering Sky" by Paul
Bowles
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"No good deed goes
unpunished"
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"Life is a beautiful miracle and it is
given only once.
The
choices you make can never be made a second time.
Enjoy what you have
chosen.
Never look
back.
Look forward
and live the miracle."
The Dragon Lady's
father
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"Since 1997, our Initiative on Race has
sought to bridge the divides between and among our people. In its report last
fall, the Initiative's Advisory Board found that Americans really do want to
bring our people together across racial lines. We know it's been a long journey.
For some it goes back to before the beginning of our republic, for others back
since the Civil War, for others throughout the 20th century. But for most of us
alive today, in a very real sense this journey began 43 years ago when a woman
named Rosa Parks sat down on a bus in Alabama and wouldn't get up. She's sitting
down with the first lady tonight, and she may get up or not, as she
chooses."
William Jefferson
Clinton
President of
the United States of America
State of the Union Address January 19, 1999
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"Chat can be pure garbage or it can be
life enriching,
depending on where and with whom you chat."
Bill Ehrreich
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"I read the debate on ignorant Americans
and I think that anyone who rules out talking to somebody based on their
nationality is a fool. Talk to as many people as you can and if they prove
themselves not worth talking to then don't but I'd hate to think I had missed
out on meeting what could potentially be a very cool person and a future friend
because I was too ignorant to give him/her a chance."
Ryan
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"Get over it. That was yesterday, this
is today"
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry,
and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it on these
accounts"
Mark Twain
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"There are no shortcuts to any place
worth going."
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"Somewhere, something incredible is
waiting to be known."
Carl Sagan
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"Just when you think that a person is
just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they
laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be
made."
Jeffery Borenstein
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"You get the best out of others when you
give the best of yourself."
Harry Firestone
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"Keep away from people who try to
belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make
you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but
rather the judgment that something else is more important than
fear."
Ambrose Redmoon
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King,
Jr.
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"You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it,
however."
Richard Bach
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The below quotes about friendship came
to me from my friend Peg. I think that they originated with our friends Anne and
Carol.
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"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."
Winnie the Pooh
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"True friendship is like sound
health; the value of it is seldom known
until it be lost."
Charles Caleb Colton
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"A real friend is one who walks in when
the rest of the world walks
out."
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not
follow.
Don't walk
behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
Albert Camus.
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"Strangers are just friends waiting to
happen."
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"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad
Bowl of Life."
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"Friendship is one mind in two
bodies."
Mencius
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"Friends are God's way of taking care of
us."
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"If you should die before me, ask if you
could bring a friend."
Stone Temple Pilots
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"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and
we'll be okay."
Dave Matthews Band
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"If all my friends were to jump off a
bridge, I wouldn't jump with
them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them"
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"Everyone hears what you
say.
Friends listen
to what you say.
Best
friends listen to what you don't say."
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"We all take different paths in
life, but no matter where we go, we
take a little of each other
everywhere"
Tim McGraw
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"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
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"Hold a true friend with both your
hands."
Nigerian Proverb
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"A friend is someone who knows the song
in your heart and can sing it
back to you when you have forgotten the words."
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