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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 2, 2012 1:09:33 GMT -5
"A good friend is a connection to life--a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."--Lois Wyse"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 think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”--Jon Katz"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."--Woodrow Wilson--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen."--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."--Bruce Barton Wynken, thank you for the great quote contributions. (And for the good book recommendation, too!)
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 3, 2012 14:30:31 GMT -5
"There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound."--Diana Cortes
“Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest--it’s about who came, and never left your side.”--Unknown
"Friends are relatives you make for yourself."--Eustache Deschamps
“There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will.”--Unknown
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"You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self."--Karen Salmansohn
"I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment."--Dawna Markova
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Post by Freedom on Dec 3, 2012 16:41:14 GMT -5
"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 Wow.
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Post by Freedom on Dec 3, 2012 16:42:22 GMT -5
"I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment."--Dawna Markova Double wow. Thank you.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 4, 2012 1:38:15 GMT -5
"A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers."--Pam Brown"A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should."--Unknown"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."--Ralph Waldo Emerson“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”--William Shakespeare ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Always do your best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret."--Don Miguel Ruiz "You are as amazing as you let yourself be. Let me repeat that. You are as amazing as you let yourself be."--Elizabeth Alraune Freedom, as always, you are most welcome. I am always happy whenever any of the quotes I post inspire someone, help them to feel better if they are down, or let someone see themselves in a more positive light.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 5, 2012 0:56:19 GMT -5
Zig Ziglar, one of America's most popular motivational speakers and a champion of positive thinking, passed away on November 28, 2012. His books, articles, speeches, and recordings have helped millions find a way to be more successful at work, at home, and at life in general. In his memory, here are a few of his most famous quotes:
"Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future."
"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."
"Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you."
"If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal."
"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."
"Every choice you make has an end result."
"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."
"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."
"The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs."
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 5, 2012 8:05:05 GMT -5
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”--Muhammad Ali
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."--Aristotle
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."--Henry David Thoreau
"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."--Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
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"It's wonderful when you can bring sparkle into people's lives without fading away from your own true color. Keep the hue in you."--Dodinsky
"Don't forget that your spirit-twinkle makes life's rainbow shine bright."--Terri Guillemets
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 6, 2012 10:43:30 GMT -5
"Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with."--Robert Brault
"But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort--the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person--having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are...certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away."--Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life
"A good friend is cheaper than therapy."--Unknown
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“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.”--Sonya Friedman
"Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence."--Gary Zukav
“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”--Unknown
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 7, 2012 12:41:54 GMT -5
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."--Robert Louis Stevenson
"[W]e all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us."--Margaret Guenther
"A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself."--Frances Ward Weller
"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty."--Sicilian proverb
"A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."--William Penn
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"It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things."--Jo Coudert
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."--Eleanor Roosevelt
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 8, 2012 2:07:59 GMT -5
"Friendship is a sheltering tree."--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world."--Leo Buscaglia
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”--Alfred Tennyson
"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness."--Lois Kaufman
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"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."--Anaïs Nin
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 9, 2012 9:30:31 GMT -5
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”--Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey
"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had."--Unknown
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“Some people say, save yourself and you save your life. I say, be yourself and you save your soul."--Alice Hoffman, Incantation
"It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts."--K.T. Jong
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 10, 2012 4:47:17 GMT -5
"Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends."--Robert Brault
"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The best mirror is an old friend."--George Herbert
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."--John Leonard
"We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young."--Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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"I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it."--Johnny Depp
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."--Sally Field
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 12, 2012 0:10:03 GMT -5
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”--John Churton Collins
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."--Oprah Winfrey
"We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse."--Dodinsky
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."--Thomas A. Edison
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“I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.”--C. JoyBell C.
"Don't you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are."--Jo Blackwell-Preston
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 12, 2012 17:57:13 GMT -5
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"--C.S. Lewis
"There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living."--Don Marquis
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"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you."--George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are."--Yogi Bhajan
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 13, 2012 23:55:53 GMT -5
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not 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
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”--Bob Marley
"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”--A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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"There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are."--Robert Brault
"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep."--Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
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