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Christy: "There's some things you should wish for and some things you shouldn't. That's what my little brother Frankie told me. He told me I only had three wishes, and I looked into his eyes, and I don't know why I believed him."

~ From the movie "In America"







"Act as if what you do makes a difference.

It does."

~ William James







"There are two ways of exerting one’s strength:

pushing down or pulling up."

~ Booker T. Washington







"The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson







"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there."

~ L. P. Hartley, British novelist (1895-1972)







"Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson







"You cannot let go of someone you never really had,

and if you had them you wouldn’t have to let go."  

~ Dr. Gary Funk







"Anyone can be ethical when there is no pressure to be unethical."

~ Unknown







"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is

to love with the mind."  

~ Théophile Gautier







"A teddy bear teaches a child that love means being there when you’re needed."  

~ Ubby







"Whoever really loves his partner loves not only for what he receives, but loves that partner for the partner’s own sake, content to be able to enrich the other with the gift of himself."

~ Pope Paul VI (1897—1978)







"Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."

~ Ralph Blum  







"All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact."

~ Stewart O'Nan







"Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey."

~ Charles Millhuff







"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation.

Wholeheartedness is contagious.

Give yourself, if you wish to get others."

~ David Seabury







"And if you say that i am young and tender,

and the time for seeking is not come,

you ought to know that

to seek true religion there is never a time not fit ..."

~ Prince Siddhartha (via Jack Kerouac)







"Pain is inevitable.

Suffering is optional"

~ Anonymous







"Did is a word of achievement

Won't is a word of defeat

Might is a word of bereavement

Can't is a word of defeat

Ought is a word of duty

Try is a word each hour

Will is a word of beauty

Can is a word of power."

~ Gerard Hargraves







"The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you’ve got the real thing, you don’t have to flaunt a loud imitation."

~ Dr. Denis Waitley







"Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place  to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip."

~ "The Station" by Robert J. Hastings







"For that which does not come

from the heart will surely not reach the heart."

~ J.J. Quantz







"No obstacle will ever leave you

the way it found you."

~ Anonymous







"No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road,

turn back."

~ Turkish proverb







"When I hear somebody sigh 'Life is hard',

I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' "  

~ Sydney Harris







Johnny: "Are you in love with her?"

Mateo: "No... I'm in love with you. And I'm in love with your beautiful woman. And I'm in love with your kids. And I'm even in love with your unborn child. I'm even in love with your anger! I'm in love with anything that lives!"

~ From the movie "In America"







"Hitch your wagon

...to a star."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson







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(Picture Above by David Sanger)