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A "Words to live by" thread.........again.

A "Words to live by" thread.........again.

I'll start this off again....

"You may be only one person in the entire world, but if you're really lucky you might be the entire world to one person."


.....now, follow this example, and please keep it nice.
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Life is like a sewer.....what you get out of it depends on what you put into it...
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. - W. Somerset Maugham
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"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve
two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in
the image of what you desire." Thomas Merton
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"Life is mostly froth and bubbles. Two things stand like stone: Kindness in
another's trouble, Courage in your own." Adam Lindsay Gordon
("Ye Weary Wayfarer")
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A month ago I lost my father to cancer. It was a long hard battle for him. My own sadness cannot be expressed properly in this forum.

I will quote the one line that I have always like, originally said by Heywood Brown.

"The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins."

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Lost my Dad to cancer too, feel your pain! It might take years to be able to express all you feel! So very sorry for your loss!
I was very close to my Dad even though I was grown, he was a great friend too! Nobody can take your memories and nobody will ever take his place.




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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy
of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato


"We cannot put off living until we are ready." Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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I used to believe that anything was better than nothing.
Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. - Glenda Jackson
Reply #1013 Top
Those that can - do....those that cannot - criticize.
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If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. Paul "Bear" Bryant
Reply #1016 Top
You can do absolutely anything you want to in this life,

...but then you have to pay the consequences
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson


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You've got to make a conscious choice every day
to shed the old-whatever 'the old' means for you.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles' the character of an honest man.

-George Washington
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When you take, you fill your hand.... When you give, you fill your heart

a phrase from a friend Nick D.
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em,'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. - Theodore Roosevelt

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The best place to find a good helping hand is at the end of your arm

-Martin Vanbee
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That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth
Reply #1024 Top
Nice one, blindbatt. Bats are not blind you know, they see well and they navigate using echolocatio... nevermind. Sorry.

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him"

-Booker T Washington
Reply #1025 Top
This is a fav or my Moms!

"Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life."
George Burns