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"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet, when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." "A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil--but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often--just to save it from drying out completely". ~Pam Brown~ "Do not keep the alabaster box of your love & friendship sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go". ~George William Childs~ "Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other." ~Mother Teresa, Catholic Missionary~ For my fellow-vegetarians: "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." ~Dennis Wholey~ "We really need only five things on this earth. Some food, some sun, some work, some fun, and someone." "I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses." ~Katherine Mansfield~ "Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead." ~Anna Cummins~ "If friends called to your house and you first made them appreciate the rose garden for twenty minutes before allowing them to enter the front door ……. They may not call again." "False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. ~Christian Nevell Bovee~ "Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are--chaff and grain together--certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away... ~Dinah Mulock~ "The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity." ~George Bernard Shaw~ "No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks." ~Unknown~ For David for helping me understand HTML: "Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal." ~Jerome P. Fleishman~ "Never Underestimate the Little Things" "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around". ~Leo Buscaglia~ "You can buy people's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you cannot buy enthusiasm ... you cannot buy loyalty ... you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these." ~Clarence Francis~ |