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Post by wynken on Dec 14, 2012 4:39:22 GMT -5
(((((((((((disorganizeddragon))))))))))))))))) thank you so for continuing to post these wonderful quotes. It really is food for my soul.
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Dec 14, 2012 10:10:07 GMT -5
Dragoness ... This thread is like a life-raft in my ocean of chaos. Thank you! ... Lioness
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 15, 2012 0:05:02 GMT -5
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 15, 2012 12:14:05 GMT -5
"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."--Arthur Ashe
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"--Abraham Lincoln
"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."--Aristotle
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“You have a unique gift to offer this world. Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you and keep away from people who bring you down. When you treat yourself kindly and respect the uniqueness of those around you, you will be giving this world an amazing gift--you!”--Steve Maraboli
"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."--Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 16, 2012 15:43:59 GMT -5
"I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far."--Robert Brault
“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
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“About all you can do in life is be who you are.”--Rita Mae Brown
"There is just one life for each of us: our own."--Euripides
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 17, 2012 13:17:03 GMT -5
"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."--Rod McKuen, Looking for a Friend
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."--Aristotle
“No friendship is an accident."--O. Henry, Heart of the West
"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."--Samuel Johnson
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"If you're wearing a disguise for too long, it will be difficult for the mirror to recognize you. At the end of the day I hope you become the person they didn't expect you to be. Be proud to wear you."--Dodinsky
“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”--Leo Buscaglia
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Post by Freedom on Dec 17, 2012 17:04:53 GMT -5
"There is just one life for each of us: our own."--Euripides Thank you thank you DDragon
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 18, 2012 16:08:31 GMT -5
"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."--Donna Roberts"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."--Walter Winchell"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."--Arnold Glasow"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."--Unknown----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in."--Jane Roberts"The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity."--Tony Robbins Freedom13, you are very welcome.
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Post by wynken on Dec 19, 2012 1:17:21 GMT -5
" "The willingness to do creates the ability to do." Be willing to live your life fully. The ability, methods and opportunties to do this will appear." John-Roger and Peter McWilliams
ddragon. Reading here gives me a little space and something to meditate upon.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 19, 2012 15:21:56 GMT -5
“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”--Unknown"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."--Barbara Kingsolver"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."--Ed Cunningham"I like her because she smiles at me and means it."--Unknown----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."--Maxwell Maltz"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."--Robert Collier Wynken, thank you so much for the quote contribution. I really like it a lot. And I'm so glad this thread gives you a bit of needed space and meditation time--that is such an important part in living a balanced life.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 20, 2012 11:40:31 GMT -5
"Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie."--Robert Brault
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."--Laurence J. Peter
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."--Elisabeth Foley
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."--Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook
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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”--Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching
"The value of identity, of course, is that so often with it comes purpose."--Richard Grant
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."--William James
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 21, 2012 19:21:54 GMT -5
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”--Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."--Francois Mauriac
"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.”--A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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"Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required."--Robert Brault
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."--Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.”--Steve Maraboli
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Post by Freedom on Dec 22, 2012 0:23:37 GMT -5
"Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required."--Robert Brault Love it!
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 22, 2012 12:56:43 GMT -5
"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."--Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. . .It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."--C.S. Lewis"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."--Samuel Johnson----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."--Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."--Eleanor Roosevelt Freedom, isn't that a great quote? How many times do we all find ourselves in situations where we feel as if we're pretending to be someone or something else?
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Dec 23, 2012 10:46:43 GMT -5
"The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil."--Robert Brault
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."--Virginia Woolf
"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."--George Santayana
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"Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya."--Walter Kaufmann
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."--François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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