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"This instant is the only time there is."

Gerald Jampolsky

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"It takes as much effort to criticize life's ugliness as it does to celebrate its beauty."

Barry O'Shea

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance."
Orville Wright

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"Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair."

Anne Sexton

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“Guilt is anger directed at ourselves–at what we did or did not do.”
Peter McWilliams

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"Make awkward sexual advances, not war."

unknown

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"We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns."
Orison S. Marden

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"The heart is forever making the head its fool."
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

Shakespeare

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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Mozart

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"All who would win joy, must share it. Happiness was born a twin."

Lord Byron

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"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein

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“If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas because that's what He's getting.”
Jack Handy

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"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

Carl W. Buechner

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"I’m me because everyone else was taken."

Kai H.

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"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes."
Victor Frank

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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength."
Frances de Sales

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"To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child."

Cicero

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"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Ghandi

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller

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"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

Leo Buscaglia

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"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing."
Blaise Pascel

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"Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. "

Roy R. Gilson

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“When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.”
Jack Handy

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"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage."
Sydney Smith

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"Never waste a chance to light a fire in the heart of another. It may be the light they need to help guide them through their darkest hours. "

Barry O’Shea

"I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again. "
Etienne de Grellet

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"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. "


Tom Stoppard

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. "


Albert Einstein

"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
Jimmy Johnson

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"A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary."


Seneca

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"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartbreak carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

Napoleon Hill

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"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Ferris Bueller

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"We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change."

unknown

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"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions."

Charles F. Kettering

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"Life expects something of you, and it is up to every individual
to discover what it should be."
unknown

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"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

unknown

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."
Elbert Hubbard

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"Everyone's life is a song that needs to be heard."
Barry O'Shea

Hi everybody. One year ago today I had my car accident. I feel very fortunate to still be here enjoying all the things life has to offer. I appreciate and love you all.

Barry

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

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"Through the photographer we see not what catches their eye, but what captures their heart."

Barry O'Shea

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"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper"


Eden Phillpotts

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"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."
Ernest Holmes

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"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be

what you desire to appear."

Socrates

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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."

Benjamin Disreali

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"My dog is worried about the economy
because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can.
That's almost $21.00 in dog money."
Joe Weinstein

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“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”

Mary Anne Radmacher

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"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

Albert Schweitzer

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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

Dalai Lama

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"No amount of soul-searching will allow us to fully understand who we are. Only through looking for the wonder in others will we truly find ourselves."
Barry

'The Dash'- by Linda Ellis

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The Dash by Linda Ellis

There was a man who stood to speak
At the funeral of a friend
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
From the beginning to the end.

He noted that first came her date of her birth
And spoke the following date with tears
But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years.

For that dash stands for all the time
That she spent alive on earth.
And now only those who loved her
Know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not how much we own;
The cars the house the cash
What matters is how we live and love
And how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard.
Are there things you'd like to change?
For you never know how much time is left
That can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough
To consider what's true and real
And always try to understand
The way other people feel

We'd be less quick to anger
And show appreciation more
And love the people in our lives
Like we've never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect
And more often wear a smile
Remembering that this special dash
Might only last a little while.

So when your eulogy is being read
With your life's actions to rehash
Would you be proud of the things they say
About how you spent your dash?

'Cos that dash stands for all the time
That you spent alive on earth
And only those who loved you
Know what that little line is worth.

It matters not how much you own
The cars the house the cash
What matters is how you live and love
And how you spend your dash.

What matters is how you live and love
And how you spend your dash.

"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."

Danny Thomas

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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have of trying to change others."
Jacob M. Braude

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"The best relation-ship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other."

unknown


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