“ I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” Dr Seuss
When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart. Frederick Buechner
Maybe if I share the path I walk then a little more of your pain will vanish. I want you to heal, whoever you are. I don’t care what pain you’ve brought the world, I just want yours to subside. No matter what, your path is yours. Don’t follow misery or worry. Devote every moment of your life to improving your dreams. Love your world. Cherish the good you do. Let go of hatred. Dream of love. -Author unknown
Fall seven times and get up eight. - Japenese Proverb
We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow.’ His name is ‘Today.’ – Gabriela Mistra
Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children. ~ Doreen Dickson
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. – Author Unknown
Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. – Author Unknown.
I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I miss you when something is troubling me, because you
are the one who understands me so well. I miss you when I laugh and cry because I know that you are the one that makes my laughter grow and my tears disappear. I miss you all the time … Author unknown
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
~Michael Jordan~
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. – Robert Frost
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. – author unknown
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,“You promised me Lord, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?” The Lord replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.” – Mary Stevenson, 1936
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou
We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you. Author unknown
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. ~Soren Kierkegaard
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ~Mark Twain
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. – Spencer Johnson
A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well. – Ashley Young
You and I will meet again, when we’re least expecting it, one day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again. – Tom Petty
Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions. – Author unknown
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. – Dr Seuss
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end. – Richard Bach
God determines who walks into your life. It’s up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go” Anonymous
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. ~Malcolm Muggeridge
Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength. – Author Unknown
Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong sometimes it’s letting go. author unknown
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~J.M. Barrie
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.” – Stanley Lindquist
Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend. ~Robert Brault
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm … As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.-Richard L. Evans
Rom 8:18………… “…consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
It takes years to build up trust , and only seconds to destroy it. – Author Unknown
Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’re thankful for the things we’ll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate. Meredith Grey
Psalm 27:10 “Even if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will hold me close
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert
Thank you God for making me wonderfully complex. Psalm 139 : 14-24
You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest. Author unknown
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath. ~Eckhart Tolle
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. ~Ellen Glasgow
Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what’s to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn’t have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves… for growing up. – Wonder Years
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ~St. Augustine
Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in it’s own way and time. – Sara Paddison
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself. – Chinese Proverb
The fishermen know the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.- Vincent van Gogh
Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest…- Author Unknown
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.-Author Unknown
Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~Oscar Wilde
You have to know the past to understand the present. - Dr Carl Sagan
There’s a world of wisdom in our personal stories. Your life is a legacy, a gift that only you can give. Why waste something so precious? Dolly Berthelot
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts
I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~ Chinese Proverb
Even a fool, when he holds his peace, is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips is esteemed a man of understanding” Proverbs 17:28
Silence is the most powerful scream ….. Author unknown
I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. ~Missy Altijd
When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Author Unknown
People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him. ~Pearl Bailey
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale
Our road will be smooth and untroubled, no matter what care
life may send, if we travel the pathway together and walk
side by side with a friend. – Author unknown
A Friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of
one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the
gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth
keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
- Arabian Proverb
[A] genuine tattoo…. tells a story. I like stories and tattoos, no matter how well done, and if they don’t tell a story that involves you emotionally, then they’re just there for decoration, then they’re not a valid tattoo. There has to be some emotional appeal or they’re not, to my way of thinking, a real tattoo. It tells people what you are and what you believe in, so there’s no mistakes. ~Leo, tattooist
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. ~Jon Anderson
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars -Robert Brault
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. – Marjorie Holmes
A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. -Grace Hopper
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney Smith
Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine
It is possible for the Lord to look at us without seeing our sins because when he forgave us, he removed our sins as far as the east is from the west” (Psalm 103:12)
I must learn to give those I love the right to make their own mistakes and recognize them as theirs alone. – Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. ~Laurence J. Peter
Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world. – Sidney Lovett
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran
It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses. ~Colette
Grow old with me the best is yet to be. – Robert Browning
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter. – Jean Paul Richter
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Dogen
You want to think and say that you have everything you need, but then you realize that something is missing, someone is missing… and once you think you’ve found it, it goes and disappears on you and you don’t understand what to do or even where to start looking for that missing piece of the puzzle. You sit at home in lonely frustration and you just wait…wait…and wait. No where to look, no one to look for…- author unknown
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. - Ovid
“Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one’s existence.” – Author Unknown
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed- door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered: Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.” – Mother Teresa
“I don’t pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything.” author unknown
Tears have a wisdom all their own. They come when a person has relaxed enough to let go and to work through his sorrow. They are the natural bleeding of an emotional wound, carrying the poison out of the system. Here lies the road to recovery. – F. Alexander Magoun
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle 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 Nouwen
Vodka spoils everything but the glasses. — Russian proverb
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. ~Author Unknown
“I’d like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I’d like to be the help that you’ve been always glad to be; I’d like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way” Edgar Albert
As I look back on all that’s happened–growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me…there were times when we dreamed together, when we laughed and cried together. As I look back on those days, I realize how much I truly miss you and how much I truly love you. The past may be gone forever…and whatever the future holds, our todays make the memories of tomorrow. So, my lifetime friend, it is with all my heart that I send you my love, hoping that you’ll always carry my smile with you, for all we have meant to each other and for whatever the future may hold.” Author unknown
You’ll get over it…’ It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because ‘it’ is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not erased by anyone… This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit. Why would I want them to?” ”—Jeanette Winterson
Ah, “All things come to those who wait,” (I say these words to make me glad), But something answers, soft and sad, “They come, but often come too late” – author unknown
“Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.” Leo Aikman
Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.” — Donald Miller
“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things” — Donald Miller
Most people, though, manage to make their way through the painful stages of grief and eventually regain their emotional balance. What they need desperately are caring friends and relatives who allow them to grieve in their own way, at their own pace and who, above all, will not insist that they act like their “old selves.” For no one who has suffered a terrible loss will ever be her old self again. She may be a different self or even a better self, but she will never regain the identity that was untouched by grief. — Susan Jacoby
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Oliver Goldsmith
“Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us. ” Sir Thomas Brown
As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can. -John Muir
“There are no facts, only interpretations. ” ~Friedrich Nietzsche
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. ” Sigmund Freud
“God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.” – author unknown
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.” ~Samuel Johnson
To achieve the strength we need in living, an inner life must be lived apart from the world.
To wear the whole world as a loose garment is the key to serenity.
Loosen your hold on earth, its cares and its worries.
Unclasp your hold on other people and material things.
Let go of resentments, they hurt only you, not the person, persons or institutions you resent.
Relax your grip, and the tide of peace will flow in.
Live in today, not in regrets over what happened yesterday, not in the fear and apprehension of what tomorrow may bring.
The past is gone as a cloud of dust.
Tomorrow may never come.
We are faced with living just one day…today.
Try to relax, rejoice, and be glad in it!” – Author Unknown
Sometimes it’s harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can’t pretend you’re not at home. ~Linda Solegato
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” Helen Keller
“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.” – Harry Crews
And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. ~Dave Barry
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” Buddha
But an accurate definition of the self is impossible. You are more than you realize, more than you can define. And the more time you spend trying to nail down the definition, the less time you spend living right now. … Your past is not your identity… You, living now, is your identity.–George Lawrence
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller
Regret is insight that comes a day too late” author unknown.
“Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story.” Ashleigh Brilliant
