“We let our hearts get broken to see who will come and fix them.” – Unknown
- “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” – Stacia Tauscher
- “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones
- “In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."” – Robert Braul
- “I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring.” – Liz Armbruster
- “A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often.” – Unknown
- “We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.” – Christopher Morley
- “A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.” - Unknown
- “Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” – Harold Hulbert
- “Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.” – William Stafford
- “The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.” – Robert Brault
- “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982
- “Children are one third of our population and all of our future.” – Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
“If what you see by the eye doesn’t please you, then close your eyes and see from the heart. Because the heart can see beauty and love more than the eyes can ever wonder.” – Unknown
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – Unknown
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Unknown
“We are not human beings on a Spiritual journey. We are Spiritual Beings on a human journey.” – Unknown
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” – Samuel Butler
“All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for…There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.” -George MacDonald
“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau
“He not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan
“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, that is when you command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vince Lombardi
“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King
“I fear becoming an adult without dreams.” – Unknown
1. “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen, from To Love and Be Loved
2.”Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?” – Unknown
3.”The spaces between your fingers were created so that another’s could fill them in.” – Unknown
4.”Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.” – Unknown
5.”Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep… wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you’ re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU… The one who turns to his friends and says, «thats her»….” – Unknown
6.”If I could be any part of you, I’d be your tears. To be conceived in your heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.” – Unknown
7.”Today I caught myself smiling for no reason… then I realized I was thinking about you” – Unknown
8.”Don’t say you love me unless you really mean it, because I might do something crazy like believe it.” – Unknown
9.”Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” – Bananna
10.”Should I smile because we are friends? Or cry because we’ll never be anything more?” – Ian
Bonus
“10th grade
As I sat there in English class, I stared at the girl next to me. She was my so called “best friend”. I stared at her long, silky hair, and wished she was mine. But she didn’t notice me like that, and I knew it. After class, she walked up to me and asked me for the notes she had missed the day before and handed them to her. She said “thanks” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I wanted to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.
11th grade
The phone rang. On the other end, it was her. She was in tears, mumbling on and on about how her love had broke her heart. She asked me to come over because she didn’t want to be alone, so I did. As I sat next to her on the sofa, I stared at her soft eyes, wishing she was mine. After 2 hours, one Drew Barrymore movie, and three bags of chips, she decided to go to sleep. She looked at me, said “thanks” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.
Senior year
The day before prom she walked to my locker. My date is sick” she said; he’s not going to go well, I didn’t have a date, and in 7th grade, we made a promise that if neither of us had dates, we would go together just as “best friends”. So we did. Prom night, after everything was over, I was standing at her front door step. I stared at her as she smiled at me and stared at me with her crystal eyes. I want her to be mine, but she isn’t think of me like that, and I know it. Then she said “I had the best time, thanks!” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.
Graduation Day
A day passed, then a week, then a month. Before I could blink, it was graduation day. I watched as her perfect body floated like an angel up on stage to get her diploma. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn’t notice me like that, and I knew it. Before everyone went home, she came to me in her smock and hat, and cried as I hugged her. Then she lifted her head from my shoulder and said, “you’re my best friend, thanks” and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.
A Few Years Later
Now I sit in the pews of the church. That girl is getting married now. I watched her say “I do” and drive off to her new life, married to another man. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn’t see me like that, and I knew it. But before she drove away, she came to me and said “you came!”. She said “thanks” and kissed me on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love her but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why.
Funeral
Years passed, I looked down at the coffin of a girl who used to be my “best friend”. At the service, they read a diary entry she had wrote in her high school years. This is what it read: I stare at him wishing he was mine, but he doesn’t notice me like that, and I know it. I want to tell him, I want him to know that I don’t want to be just friends, I love him but I’m just too shy, and I don’t know why. I wish he would tell me he loved me! `I wish I did too…` I thought to my self, and I cried.”
1. "Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much. Then again, don’t drink too little.” – Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen
2. "Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” – Ernest Hemingway
3. "A hangover is the wrath of grapes.” – Unknown
4. "I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.” – John Marcellus Huston
5. "If you must drink and drive, drink Pepsi. ” – Unknown
6. "Draft beer, not people.” – Unknown
7. "The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.” – Unknown
8. "Wine is bottled poetry.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
9. "When the wine goes in, strange things come out.” – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799
10. "If drinking is interfering with your work, you’re probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you’re probably an alcoholic.” – Unknown
“How could someone read your heart if you don’t open your pages and just let them say what you cannot?” – Unknown
“Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep… wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you’re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have you… The one who turns to his friends and says, ‘that’s her.” - Unknown