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Inspirational
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before
meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person,
we will know how to be grateful for that gift.
When the door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often times we look so long at the closed door that
we don't see the one which has been opened for us.
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on
a porch and swing with, never say a word,
and then walk away feeling like it was
the best conversation you've ever had.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it,
but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back.
Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't,
be content it grew in yours.
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone,
an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone,
but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Don't go for looks; they can deceive.
Don't go for wealth; even that fades away.
Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only
a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
Find the one that makes your heart smile.
There are moments in life when you miss someone so
much that you just want to pick them from your
dreams and hug them for real.
Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go;
be what you want to be, because you have only one
life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to
keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past,
you can't go on well in life until you let go of your
past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so that when you die,
you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
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Mother Teresa's Sayings
Said at different events.
The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the
unloved they are Jesus in disguise.
Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a
great thing.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the
doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put
in the giving.
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives
- the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it.
The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.
Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes,
in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile.
Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.
But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom.
It is not a mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here,
no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace,
because you know what you are.
Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as
long as you have done your best.
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
It is a poverty to decide that an unborn child must die so that you may live as you like.
If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love If we love, we will serve.
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for
helping us to love God better because of them.
When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened
because God did not take care of him or her.
It has happened because neither you nor
I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
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Eleanor Roosevelt wrote:
Many people will walk in and out of your life, But
only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; If he
betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses much; He, who loses a friend,
loses much more;He, who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But
beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others; You can't live long
enough to make them all yourself.
Friends, you and me....You brought another friend....And
then there were 3.
We started our group....Our circle of friends.... And
like that circle....There is no beginning or end.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a
gift. (That's why they call it the Present)
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Isaiah~40:31
They shall mount up with wings as eagles,
they shall run, and not be weary,
and they shall walk, and not faint.
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An American
You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was
actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper
an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.
So an Australian dentist wrote the following to let everyone know
what an American is, so they would know when they found one:
An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German,
Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian,
Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian,
Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan. An American may also be a
Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many
other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or
Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan.
The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of
them chooses.
An American is also free to believe in no religion. For
that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs
claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the
world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of
Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person the
pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every
other nation in the world in their time of need. When Afghanistan was
overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and
supplies to enable the people to win back their country. As of the morning
of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the
poor in Afghanistan.
Americans welcome the best, the best products, the best books, the
best music, the best food, the best athletes. But they also welcome the least.
The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your
tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the
homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.
Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11,
2002 earning a better life for their families. I've been told that the
World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 other countries,
cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did
General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant
in the history of the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing
yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular
place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone
who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
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