People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world. -- Kim Culbertson
The most beautiful people we have known are those that have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough -- Oprah Winfrey
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. -- Stephen R. Covey
Giving is so often thought of in terms of the things we give, but our greatest giving is of our time, and kindness, and even comfort for those who need it. We look on these gifts as unimportant - until we need them. -- Joyce Sequichie Hifler
In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. -- Flora Edwards
-- Edited by Renegade Time Lord on Sunday 26th of July 2015 11:16:03 PM
When you see another sniff something and make a face and they ask you to smell it too, remember, you don't have to.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." -- George Washington Carver
"If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out." --The 14th Dalai Lama
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." -- George Bernard Shaw
"Falling down is part of life. Getting back up is living." -- Anonymous
"Learn to love without condition. Talk without bad intention. Give without any reason. And most of all, care for people without any expectation." -- Unknown
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." -- Confucius
