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  • #1
    Gloria Naylor
    “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
    Gloria Naylor

  • #2
    Steve Maraboli
    “We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #3
    “If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!”
    Clark Adams

  • #4
    Fred Rogers
    “The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted”
    Fred Rogers

  • #5
    Fred Rogers
    “It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
    A beautiful day for a neighbor.
    Would you be mine?
    Could you be mine?...

    It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,
    A neighborly day for a beauty.
    Would you be mine?
    Could you be mine?...

    I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.
    I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

    So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.
    Since we're together we might as well say:
    Would you be mine?
    Could you be mine?
    Won't you be my neighbor?

    Won't you please,
    Won't you please?
    Please won't you be my neighbor?”
    Fred Rogers

  • #6
    Fred Rogers
    “There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.”
    Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

  • #7
    Fred Rogers
    “How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements... and into dreams that we can make come true.”
    Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

  • #8
    Steve Maraboli
    “How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #9
    William Nicholson
    “I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #10
    “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?”
    Mary Manin Morrissey

  • #11
    Meg Cabot
    “Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can't climb out of by yourself. That's what friends and family are for-to help. They can't help, however, unless you let them know you're down there.”
    Meg Cabot

  • #12
    Thomas Merton
    “Most of the world is either asleep or dead. The religious people are, for the most part, asleep. The irreligious are dead. Those who are asleep are divided into two classes, like the Virgins in the parable, waiting for the Bridegroom's coming. The wise have oil in their lamps. That is to say they are detached from themselves and from the cares of the world, and they are full of charity. They are indeed waiting for the Bridegroom, and they desire nothing else but His coming, even though they may fall asleep while waiting for Him to appear. But the others are not only asleep: they are full of other dreams and other desires. Their lamps are empty because they have burned themselves out in the wisdom of the flesh and in their own vanity. When He comes, it is too late for them to buy oil. They light their lamps only after He has gone. So they fall asleep again, with useless lamps, and when they wake up they trim them to investigate, once again, the matters of a dying world.”
    Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

  • #13
    “The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
    Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An
    important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative
    thinking and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates will
    change. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you
    to stay where they are. Friends that don't help you climb will want you to
    crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that
    don't increase you will eventually decrease you.

    Consider this:
    Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problems
    with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who
    never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone has
    a right to speak into your life. You are certain to get the worst of the
    bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person. Don't follow anyone
    who's not going anywhere.

    With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it. Be careful
    where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life. Wise is the
    person who fortifies his life with the right friendships. If you run with
    wolves, you will learn how to howl. But, if you associate with eagles, you
    will learn how to soar to great heights.
    "A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the
    kind of friends he chooses."

    The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you
    closely associate - for the good and the bad.

    Note: Be not mistaken. This is applicable to family as well as friends.
    Yes...do love, appreciate and be thankful for your family, for they will
    always be your family no matter what. Just know that they are human first
    and though they are family to you, they may be a friend to someone else and
    will fit somewhere in the criteria above.

    "In Prosperity Our Friends Know Us. In Adversity We Know Our friends."

    "Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them."
    "If you are going to achieve excellence in big things,you develop the habit in little matters.
    Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.."..”
    Colin Powell

  • #14
    Steve Maraboli
    “Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #15
    We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you
    “We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

  • #16
    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #17
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #18
    Janet Fitch
    “
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”
    Janet Fitch, White Oleander

  • #19
    Steve Maraboli
    “If your salvation was dependent on your ability to read and understand scripture, Jesus would have been an author.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience



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