1/2- "Ya Muqiit!" Sekiranya kita berada di dalam kelaparan seperti ketika sesat di dalam hutan atau di mana sahaja sehingga sukar untuk mendapatkan bekalan makanan, maka perbanyakkan zikir ini. InsyaAllah badan kita akan menjadi kuat & segar kerana rasa lapar akan hilang.
2/2 - "Ya Hasiib!" Untuk memperteguhkan kedudukan yang telah kita jawat, amalkan zikir ini sebanyak 777 x sebelum matahari terbit & selepas solat Maghrib, InsyaAllah akan meneguhkan kedudukan kita tanpa sebarang gangguan.
3/2 - "Ya Jaliil!" Barangsiapa mengamalkan zikir ini pada sepertiga malam yang terakhir, InsyaAllah kita akan mendapati perubahaan yang mengkagumkan - perniagaan akan bertambah maju. Andai seorang pegawai, maka tanpadisedari kedudukan kita akan lebih tinggi dan terhormat & begitulah seterusnya dengan izin Allah.
4/2 - "Ya Kariim!" Untuk mencapai darjat yang tinggi & mulia di dunia mahupun di akhirat kelak, maka amalkan zikir ini sebanyak 280 x ketika hendak masuk tidur. Nescaya Allah akan mengangkat darjat mereka yang mengamalkan zikir ini.
5/2 "Ya Raqiib!" Bagi meminta pertolongan kepada Allah terhadap penjagaan barang yang dikhuatirkan, maka zikirkan sebanyak 50 x setiap hari dengan niat agar barang-barang yang dikhuatirkan yang berada di tempat yang jauh & sukar dijaga terhindar dari sebarang kecurian mahupun gangguan lainnya. Bertawakkal & yakinlah kepada Allah. InsyaAllah....
6/2 "Ya Mujiib!" Sesungguhnya Allah adalah Zat yang menerima doa hambaNya & agar doa kita mustajab & selalu diterima Allah, hendaklah mengamalkan zikir ini sebanyak 55 x sesudah solat subuh. Insyaallah Tuhan akan mengabulkan doa kita.
7/2 "Ya Waasi!" Apabila di dalam kesulitan maka amalkan zikir ini sebanyak 128 x setiap pagi & petang, InsyaAllah segala kesulitan akan hilang berkat pertolongan Allah. Andai zikir ini sentiasa diamalkan, InsyaAllah Tuhan akan menjaga kita dari hasad dengki sesama makhluk.
8/2 "Ya Hakiim!" Bagi pelajar atau sesiapa sahaja yang memperbanyakkan zikir ini setiap hari, InsyaAllah akalnya akan menjadi cerdas & lancar didalam menghafal & mengikuti pelajaran. Amalkanlah sekurang-kurangnya 300x setiap hari.
9/2 "Ya Waduud!" Amalkan zikir ini sebanyak 11,000 x pada setiap malam. InsyaAllah kita akan menjadi insan yang sentiasa bernasib baik, disayangi & rumahtangga kita akan sentiasa berada didalam keadaan harmoni.
10/2 "Ya Majiid!" Untuk ketenteraman keluarga di mana setiap anggota keluarga sentiasa menyayangi & menghormati & khasnya kita sebagai ketua keluarga, maka amalkan zikir ini sebanyak 99 x, sesudah itu hembuskan kedua belah tapak tangan & usap ke seluruh muka. InsyaAllah semua anggota keluarga kita akan menyayangi & menghormati kita sebagai ketua keluarga.
11/2 "Ya Baa'its!" Zikirkan sebanyak 100 x dengan meletakkan kedua tangan ke dada, InsyaAllah akan memberi kelapangan dada dengan ilmu & hikmah.
12/2 "Ya Syahiid!" Apabila ada di kalangan anggota keluarga kita yang suka membangkang dan sebagainya, maka zikirkan sebanyak 319 x secara berterusan setiap malam sehingga si pembangkang akan sedar & berubah perangainya.
"Ya Haq"! Perbanyakkan zikir ini, InsyaAllah ianya sangat berfaedah sekali untuk menebalkan iman & taat di dalam menjalankan perintah Allah.
"Ya Wakiil" Sekiranya terjadi hujan yang disertai ribut yang kuat, atau terjadi gempa, maka ketika itu perbanyakkan zikir ini, InsyaAllah bencana tersebut akan menjadi reda & kembali seperti sediakala.
"Ya Qawiy!" Amalkan zikir ini sebanyak mungkin agar kita tidak gentar apabila berdepan dengan sebarang keadaan mahupun berdepan dengan si zalim.
"Ya Matiin!" Amalkanlah zikir ini sebanyak mungkin kerana ianya mempunyai fadhilat yang besar sekali, antaranya untuk mengembalikan kekuatan sehingga musuh merasa gentar untuk mengganggu.
"Ya Waliy!" Barangsiapa yang menjawat sebarang jawatan atau kedudukan, maka amatlah elok sekali mengamalkan zikir ini sebanyak mungkin kerana dengan izinNya,kedudukan kita akan kukuh & terhindar dari sebarang gangguan oleh orang-orang yang bersifat dengki.
"Ya Hamiid!" Perbanyakkan zikir ini sebagai pengakuan bahawa hanya Allah sahaja yang paling berhak menerima segala pujian.
"Ya Muhshiy!" Sekiranya kita inginkan diri kita digolongkan didalam pertolongan yang selalu dekat dengan Allah (muraqabah), maka amalkan zikir ini sebanyak mungkin sesudah solat 5 waktu.
"Ya Mubdiu!" Agar segala apa yang kita rancangkan akan berhasil, maka zikirkan sebanyak 470 x setiap hari. InsyaAllah....
"Ya Mu'id!" Andai ada anggota keluarga yang menghilangkan diri dan sebagainya, amalkan zikir ini sebanyak 124 x setiap hari sesudah solat. InsyaAllah dipertunjukkan akan hasilnya.
61. "Ya Muhyiy!" amalkan zikir ini sebanyak 58 x setiap hari, InsyaAllah kita akan diberikan kemuliaan darjat dunia & akhirat kelak.62. "Ya Mumiit!" Barangsiapa memperbanyakkan zikir ini, InsyaAllah akan dipermudahkan didalam perniagaan, berpolitik dan sebagainya.63. "Ya Hayyu!" Untuk mencapai kekuatan mental/batiniah didalam menjalani kehidupan, perbanyakkanlah zikir ini.64. "Ya Qayyuum!" Telah berkata Imam Ghazali bahawa barangsiapa yang ingin memperolehi harta yang banyak lagi berkat, ingin dikasihi oleh setiap manusia, ingin berwibawa, ditakuti musuh & ingin menjadi insan yang terhormat, maka berzikirlah dgn "Ya Hayyu Ya Qayyuum..." sebanyak 1,000 x setiap malam atau siang hari. Hendaklah melakukannya secara berterusan, Insya Allah akan tercapai segala hajat.65. "Ya Waajid!" Andai berkeinginan keperibadian yang kukuh, tidak mudah terpengaruh & teguh pendirian, maka perbanyakkan zikir ini.66. "Ya Maajid!" Demi kecerdasan otak dan agar dipermudahkan hati untuk menerima pelajaran, maka hendaklah pelajar tersebut memperbanyakkan zikir ini setiap hari.67. "Ya Waahid!" Bagi pasangan yang belum mempunyai cahayamata & tersangat ingin untuk menimangnya, amalkanlah zikir ini sebanyak 190 x setiap kali selesai menunaikan solat 5 waktu selama satu bulan & selama itu juga hendaklah berpuasa sunat Isnin & Khamis, Insya Allah...68. "Ya Somad! Ketika dalam kelaparan akibat sesat atau kesempitan hidup, maka pohonlah kepada Allah dengan zikir ini sebanyak mungkin. InsyaAllah, diri akan berasa segar & sentiasa.69. "Ya Qaadir!" Apabila kita berhajatkan sesuatu namun ianya selalu gagal, maka amalkan zikir ini sebanyak 305 x setiap hari, Insya Allah segala hajat akan berhasil.70. "Ya Muqtadir!" Agar tercapai tujuan yang dikehendaki, selain dari berikhtiar secara lahariah, maka berzikirlah dengan zikir ini seberapa mampu sehingga ikhtiar kita itu berhasil kerana zikir ini akan mempercepatkan keberhasilan hajat kita.71. "Ya Muqaddim!" Menurut Imam Ahmad bin Ali Al-Buuniy, beliau berkata "Barangsiapa yang berzikir dengan zikir ini sebanyak 184 x setiap hari, InsyaAllah, nescaya segala usahanya akan berhasil".72. "Ya Muahkhir"! Bagi meninggikan lagi ketaatan kita kepada Allah, perbanyakkanlah zikir ini.73. "Ya Awwal!!" Barangsiapa yang mengamalkan zikir ini sebanyak 37 x setiap hari, InsyaAllah segala apa yang dihajati akan diperkenankan Allah.74. "Ya Aakhir!" Amalkan berzikir sebanyak 200 x sesudah solat 5 waktu selama satu bulan, InsyaAllah Tuhan akan membuka pintu rezeki yang halal.75. "Ya Dhaahir!" Amalkanlah zikir ini sebanyak 1,106 x selesai solat waktu di tempat yang sunyi (khalwat), nescaya Allah akan membuka hijab padanya dari segala rahsia yang pelik & sukar serta diberi kefahaman ilmu.76. "Ya Baathinu!" Seperti no. 75 jugak, tetapi amalkan sebanyak 30 x sesudah solat fardhu.77. "Ya Waaliy!" Memperbanyakkan zikir ini setiap pagi & petang boleh menyebabkan seseorang itu menjadi orang yang ma'rifat, iaitu hatinya dibuka oleh Allah. Difahamkan para wali Allah selalu memperbanyakkan zikir ini78. "Ya Muta'aAliy!" Sekiranya kita akan berjumpa dengan mereka yang berkedudukan tinggi atau mereka yang sukar untuk ditemui, maka bacalah zikir ini sebanyak mungkin sewaktu mengadap. InsyaAllah dengan mudah kita akan berjumpa dengannya & segala hajat yang penting-penting akan berhasil.79. "Ya Bar!" Amalkanlah zikir ini sebanyak mungkin setiap hari, InsyaAllah segala apa yang kita hajati akan terlaksana dengan mudah.80. "Ya Tawwaab!" Bagi orang yang selalu membuat dosa & ingin bertaubat maka hendaklah memperbanyakkan zikir ini supaya dengan mudah diberikan petunjuk kembali ke jalan yang lurus.81. "Ya Muntaqim!" Jika kita berhadapan dengan orang yang zalim, supaya dia tidak melakukan kezalimannya terhadap kita, maka hendaklah kita memperbanyakkan zikir ini setiap kali sesudah solat fardhu. Insyaallah, kita akan mendpt pertolongan Allah.82. "Ya 'Afuww!" Barangsiapa memperbanyakkan zikir ini, nescaya dia akan diampuni segala dosanya oleh Allah.83. "Ya Rauuf!" Bagi sesiapa yang inginkan dirinya disenangi oleh teman atau sesiapa sahaja yang memandangnya, amalkan zikir ini seberapa mampu samada pada waktu siang mahupun malam.84. "Ya Maalikul Mulki!" Seseorang pengarah atau ketua yang ingin kedudukan yang kekal & tetap tanpa diganggu gugat, hendaklah selalu mengamalkan zikir ini sebanyak 212 x sesudah solat fardhu & 212 pada setiap malam selama sebulan. InsyaAllah akan mendapat pertolongan Allah.85. "Ya Zul Jalaali wal Ikraam!" Amalkanlah zikir ini sebanyak 65 x setiap hari selama sebulan, InsyaAllah segala hajat kita akan tercapai dengan pertolongan Allah.86. "Ya Muqsith!" Berzikirlah dengan zikir ini mengikut kemampuan, InsyaAllah Tuhan akan menganugerahkan sifat adil kepada mereka yang mengamalkannya.
Monday, February 2, 2009
ON MOT - Feb2009
1/2 "All things change but truth, and that truth alone lives on forever." ---The Lone Ranger
2/2 "To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life." ---Pablo Neruda
2/2 "There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." ---Louis L'Amour
3/2 "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all." ---Emily Dickenson
3/2 "Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end." ---George Bush
4/2 "Dreams are what makes life tolerable." ---"Rudy"
4/2 "If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day." ---Unknown
5/2 "Once I dropped a tear in the ocean. When I find it is when I'll stop loving you." ---Unknown
5/2 "Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream." ---Roger Rosenblatt6/2 "Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." ---Sarah Williams
6/2 "The less we look with our eyes, the more we will see with our hearts." ---Lyndsey Albrecht
7/2 "I have never regretted falling in love with anyone. I have lived and learned from everyone I know, and loved. I would not change a thing." ---Nancy Williams7/2 "To dream, big beautiful dreams, is to realize the dawn of our limitless horizons beaming within the depths of our eternal souls to the heights of our infinite spirit." ---Song Park06/29/01"Though our memories of today will soon be yesterdays, they will forever live in our tomorrows." ---Isabel Urbano06/29/01"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow stong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become." ---Brooke Foss Westcott06/29/01"Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile, who finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So when you are lonely, remember it's true, that somebody somewhere is thinking of you." ---Unknown05/31/01"Look at everything as if you were seeing it either for the first or the last time. Then your time on Earth will be filled with glory." ---Unknown05/31/01"Each day I wake up not having a respirator breathing for me I feel very lucky. Someone is always worse off than you." ---Brenda Good05/31/01"On the road to life there are many paths... some twist, some turn, some dip, some curve. As long as you keep your focus, your destination is obtainable." ---Brenda Good
7/30/01"If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good." ---Bob Greene04/30/01"There is always more knowledge to learn, always more experiences to experience, always more tears to shed, and more coughs to cough. There is always more life to live." ---Erin Leigh Walder03/30/01"I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far." ---Neil Simon03/30/01"The most intense joy lies not in the having but in the desire. The delight that never fades, the bliss that is eternal, is only yours when what you most desire is just out of reach." ---Shadowlands03/30/01"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." ---Doug Larson02/28/01"I'm scared today, but when comes tomorrow, my heart will not know sorrow. I will not know fear, and cry no tears, tomorrow I am stronger." ---Jennifer Hiykel02/28/01"There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined." ---"The Hours" by Michael Cunningham02/28/01"Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle." ---Marilyn Monroe01/30/01"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it." ---Lucy Maud Montgomery01/30/01"Faith sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." ---Unknown01/30/01"I'm not beautiful like you. I'm beautiful like me." ---Joy Drop, "Beautiful"01/30/01"To dream anything you want to--That is the beauty of the human mind.To do anything you want to--That is the strength of the human will.To trust yourself, to test the limits--That is the courage to succeed." ---Lindsey Smith"No matter how dark the clouds seem, they are only clouds. The sun is always shining, the sky is always light blue. The clouds are just droplets of water, gathered together to tease people who don't remember the truth." ---Chris Collins"What amazes me most about you is the fact that no matter what, your determination pushes all your fears away. You never let fear stand in the way of accomplishing your goals." ---Amanda Johnson"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." ---Henry David Thoreau"All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother." ---Abraham Lincoln"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." ---Helen Keller"Everyone suffers disappointments and setbacks. But it's what you learn from the experience that counts." ---Life's Playbook for Success by GTE Academic All-America Hall of Famers"Angels show themselves to you when you least expect it--often when all hope is lost." ---Unknown"Do not fear life, as you do not fear the stars or the evening breeze. We are all here for a purpose and everything happens for a reason." ---Lori Hard"Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures." ---No Time to Cry By Lurlene McDaniel"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." ---Robert Frost"When you run the risk of loving, you get a lot back." ---Eric by Doris Lund"Dark clouds are things that pass; the blue heavens abide always." ---Unknown"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above." ---Julia A. Fletcher Carney"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." ---Unknown"Love isn't something that will carry you through life, but something that will change your life forever." ---AMB"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." ---Louisa May Alcott"Don't be afraid to close your eyes and dream. Then wake up and see where you are." ---Sean "Puffy" Combs"We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us." ---Yoko Ono"Initiative is key. Anybody who wants to be somebody is going to work as hard as they can to fulfill that dream." ---Sean "Puffy" Combs (Puff Daddy)"Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave." ---Winnie the Pooh"Death is not to be feared, but to be challenged." ---B.B."You can't put a Band-Aid on every boo-boo you've made; some just need time to heal..." ---Christina Montano"Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be." ---Karen Ravn"I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail." ---Woodrow Wilson"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them." ---Lady Bird Johnson"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future." ---Graham Green"Forget the past and live the present hour." ---Sarah Knowles Bolton"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're going to live now." ---Joan Baez"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love." ---Nelson Rockefeller"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." ---George Bernard Shaw"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." ---Eleanor Roosevelt"Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles." ---Joan Lunden"For sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed, they must first be interrupted." ---Jean Paul Richter"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." ---Helen Keller"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby." ---Ruth E. Renkel"Paradise is open to all kinds of hearts." ---Pierre Jean de Beranger"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about." ---Angela Schwindt"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." ---Maureen Dowd"You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh." ---Jay Leno"Twilight has always seemed like God's indrawn breath, a pause in the progression of time." ---Emilie Richards"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved." ---Unknown"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." ---Martha Grimes"Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow." ---Swedish Proverb"Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong." ---James Leo Herlihy"The man who has no imagination has no wings." ---Muhammad Ali"The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary." ---Ashleigh Brilliant"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." ---Sally Koch"Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead." ---Unknown"It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later." ---Lucimar Santos de Lima"Success is never final and failure is never total. It's courage that counts." ---Success Unlimited"Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." ---Alice Mackenzie Swaim"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." ---Karen Sunde"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" ---Robert H. Schuller"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times." ---Saint Augustine"To the world you may be just one person. To the person you may be the world." ---Unknown"He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good." ---Yiddish Proverb"Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles." ---Arnold H. Glasow"The darkest hour has only 60 minutes." ---Morris Mandel"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." ---Eleanor Roosevelt"My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me." ---Jennifer Tyler"Listen to your heart, because in the end, it is your heart that counts." ---Jennifer Tyler"One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents." ---Sara Shandler"For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge." ---Roma Downey, "Touched by an Angel""For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with tears. And the smile that is worth the praises of earth, is the smile that shines thorugh the tears." ---Unknown"The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it." ---Unknown"You know that place between awake and asleep? The place where you remember dreaming? That is where I will always think of you." ---Tinkerbell"One of the most beautiful entities in life is letting the truth be known, for it reaches this intangible height of freedom that a lie can never touch." ---Khalil Murrell"Ain't it kinda funny, at the dark end of the road, that someone lights the way with just a single ray of hope." ---Alabama, "Angels Among Us""There is a special place in life, that needs my humble skill.A certain job I'm meant to do, which no one else can fulfill.There is a special place in life, a goal I must attain.A dream that I must follow, because I won't be back again." ---Unknown"Your personality is not a fashion, it's who you are, and it never goes out of style." ---Unknown"Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses." ---Proverbs 10:12"So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead." ---The Girl Death Left Behind by Lurlene McDaniel"No happy time is really gone if it leaves a special memory." ---Unknown"Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness." ---Deborah Norville"No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!" ---Thomas Edison on "failed attempts" to create the lightbulb"The only person you need to prove anything to is yourself." ---Unknown"The loss of a loved one is by far the worst thing most people ever go through. Does anyone ever get over the death of someone close? Doubtful. The best anyone can do is come to terms with the loss, find peace and comfort, and maybe eventually inspiration in having known the loved one." ---Randi Reisfeld and Marie Morreale"Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far." ---Joey McIntyre, "Stay the Same""Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world will hurt you, but it's the one percent that loves you that makes your life worthwhile." ---Lindsey Nyman"Every day people are born and people die. Human beings come into this world and leave it--most without their names being immortalized in any history books. Millions of people have lived and worked and loved and died without making any great claims to fame or fortune. But they aren't forgotten--not by their friends, not by their families. And some of these people, some very special people, are not forgotten even by those who hardly knew them." ---Kim Lacina"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." ---Isak Dinesen"The people we're related to are the ones we go to for comfort, support. We connect with kin when the rest of the world seems hostile. Within our family, we are free to be ourselves, to have bad mood days, say hurtful stuff, get it off our chests. We know we'll always be forgiven." ---Randi Reisfeld and Marie Morreale"No matter how bad things get, remembers 'This too will pass!' Believe it!" ---Chinese horoscope"Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened." ---Unknown"Pain is just weakness leaving the body." ---Unknown"I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be if you could realize all the dreams you have inside." ---Joey McIntyre, "Stay the Same""In the end, only kindness matters." ---Jewel, "Hands""I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." ---Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee"The best prayer is what's in your heart. Take what's there and offer it. It doesn't matter if you are desperate or angry. The Lord will hear you." ---Marcella"Remember that people come and go, and of all the people in your life, you are the one who is there to stay. You are the one who can choose to love yourself, choose to respect yourself, and promise with all your heart and soul that you will never leave you." ---Kimberly Kirberger"Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life.Within each of us is a hidden store of courage, courage to give us the strength to face any challenge.Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost." ---Roger Dawson"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." ---Mother Teresa"If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all okay. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these." ---Jewel, "Hands""Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal 'hell on earth.' It is important to keep searching for the small joys, although they are often the most elusive. Trust that these joys will appear, sometimes unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments." ---Katie Gill"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ---Ralph Waldo Emerson"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." ---Martin Luther King, Jr."It matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever..." ---Henry David Thoreau"I am strong because I believe in myself. I know who I am and what I can do. It doesn't matter what I look like, where I live, or who my friends are. What matters is the confidence that I carry within me." ---Reebok"A hero doesn't have to save a busload of kids from certain disaster. Or score the winning point in the big game. A hero can be anyone who inspires you, anyone you look up to, anyone who cheers you on, makes you better than you were before--just as they made themselves better than they were before." ---Nike"When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong. And you'll finally see the truth, that a hero lies in you." ---Mariah Carey, "Hero""Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." ---Semisonic, "Closing Time""Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me." ---Janet Jackson, "Together Again""There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are." ---Mariah Carey, "Hero""We know everything we need to know to end the needless emotional suffering that many people currently experience. High self-esteem and personal effectiveness is available to anyone willing to take the time to pursue it." ---Unknown"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting." ---Mother Teresa"The love we give and receive is all that matters and all that is remembered. Suffering disappears; love remains." ---Bobbie Probstein"Believe in yourself and always stand tallThose who have doubts are those that will fallEnjoy what you do and remember to smileIt's the hard work and effort that make it worthwhileRemain focused on what it is you wish to achieveRemember dedication, commitment and to always believe!" ---Kelly Broad"And if in everything I find I do not find success, at least I will know I have tried my best." ---Lauren Conway"The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it." ---Elvis Stojko"Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger." ---Marlon Brando"If you bring forth what is inside of you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside of you, what you don't bring forth will destroy you." ---Unknown"I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody." ---Louis L'Amour"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength." ---Touched By An Angel daily calender"Things are just things--they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us." ---Kerry Steward"Like changes in a Wonder Years episode, nothing's perfect, and nothing's permanent." ---Shashi Bhat"Everyone has problems. It's a part of life. Overcoming these problems and moving onto greater heights is what life is all about." ---Jill Maxbauer"One kind word can warm three winter months." ---Japanese Proverb"I don't even think you know how great you really are. I believe in you." ---Dick Vermeil"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." ---Joe Paterno"There's a reason why today is called the present. It is a gift you have been given to live another day and enjoy everything around you because no one is guaranteed a tomorrow." ---Jeff Laforteza"I don't believe make-up and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience." ---Unknown"Listening can heal wounds." ---Sean Covey"When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory." ---Richard Corman"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe." ---Gail Devers"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities." ---Vic Braden"Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them." ---Josie Bisset"For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school." ---Oprah Winfrey"Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that." ---From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg"All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them." ---Earvin "Magic" Johnson"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible--and achieve it." ---Pearl Buck"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry." ---E.B. White"Balance isn't about moderation, it's about admitting what's really important to you. Someone might reach 16 years of age with a terrible thirst to play music, or soccer, or earn money, and their idea of balance is to spend 90% of their time doing just that." ---Unknown"The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun." ---Napoleon Hill"Angels do find us in our hour of need." ---Amy Huffman"A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance." ---Paul Duffy"For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store." ---"A Tale of Three Wishes" by Isaac Bashevis Singer"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven." ---Tryon Edwards"A bird does not fear falling for it has never fallen before. So we must act as the bird and block out our fears. Then we will be able to soar higher than we ever imagined." ---Kevin Wassie"There is great significance and importance in all our day-to-day actions in both words and deeds."---Jennifer Leigh Youngs"We are all intertwined, each desperately loved and needed by others." ---S.O.L.O.S."True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone." ---Richard Edgely"Do not regret growing old. It is a privilege denied to many." ---Unknown"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose." ---Keven Arnold (Fred Savage),The Wonder Years"Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles." ---Sean Covey"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." ---Eleanor Roosevelt"A child is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark." ---Chinese proverb"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness." ---Hermann Broch"I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love." ---Alabama, "Angels Among Us""All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming." ---Helen Keller"We are troubled, but we have hope and tremendous promise." ---Sara Shandler"The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love." ---Brian Jett"There's something in a simple hug that always warms the heart. It welcomes us back home and makes it easier to part. A hug's a way to share the joy, and the sad times we go through, or just a way for friends to say they like you because you're you. Hugs are meant for anyone for whom we really care. From your Grandma to your neighbor, or a cuddly teddy bear. A hug is an amazing thing--it's just the perfect way to show the love we're feeling but can't find the words to say. It's funny how a little hug makes everyone feel good; in every place and language, it's always understood. And hugs don't need new equipment, special batteries or parts--just open up your arms and open up your heart." ---
2/2 "To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life." ---Pablo Neruda
2/2 "There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." ---Louis L'Amour
3/2 "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all." ---Emily Dickenson
3/2 "Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end." ---George Bush
4/2 "Dreams are what makes life tolerable." ---"Rudy"
4/2 "If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day." ---Unknown
5/2 "Once I dropped a tear in the ocean. When I find it is when I'll stop loving you." ---Unknown
5/2 "Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream." ---Roger Rosenblatt6/2 "Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." ---Sarah Williams
6/2 "The less we look with our eyes, the more we will see with our hearts." ---Lyndsey Albrecht
7/2 "I have never regretted falling in love with anyone. I have lived and learned from everyone I know, and loved. I would not change a thing." ---Nancy Williams7/2 "To dream, big beautiful dreams, is to realize the dawn of our limitless horizons beaming within the depths of our eternal souls to the heights of our infinite spirit." ---Song Park06/29/01"Though our memories of today will soon be yesterdays, they will forever live in our tomorrows." ---Isabel Urbano06/29/01"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow stong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become." ---Brooke Foss Westcott06/29/01"Somewhere there is someone who dreams of your smile, who finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So when you are lonely, remember it's true, that somebody somewhere is thinking of you." ---Unknown05/31/01"Look at everything as if you were seeing it either for the first or the last time. Then your time on Earth will be filled with glory." ---Unknown05/31/01"Each day I wake up not having a respirator breathing for me I feel very lucky. Someone is always worse off than you." ---Brenda Good05/31/01"On the road to life there are many paths... some twist, some turn, some dip, some curve. As long as you keep your focus, your destination is obtainable." ---Brenda Good
7/30/01"If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good." ---Bob Greene04/30/01"There is always more knowledge to learn, always more experiences to experience, always more tears to shed, and more coughs to cough. There is always more life to live." ---Erin Leigh Walder03/30/01"I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far." ---Neil Simon03/30/01"The most intense joy lies not in the having but in the desire. The delight that never fades, the bliss that is eternal, is only yours when what you most desire is just out of reach." ---Shadowlands03/30/01"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." ---Doug Larson02/28/01"I'm scared today, but when comes tomorrow, my heart will not know sorrow. I will not know fear, and cry no tears, tomorrow I am stronger." ---Jennifer Hiykel02/28/01"There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined." ---"The Hours" by Michael Cunningham02/28/01"Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle." ---Marilyn Monroe01/30/01"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it." ---Lucy Maud Montgomery01/30/01"Faith sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." ---Unknown01/30/01"I'm not beautiful like you. I'm beautiful like me." ---Joy Drop, "Beautiful"01/30/01"To dream anything you want to--That is the beauty of the human mind.To do anything you want to--That is the strength of the human will.To trust yourself, to test the limits--That is the courage to succeed." ---Lindsey Smith"No matter how dark the clouds seem, they are only clouds. The sun is always shining, the sky is always light blue. The clouds are just droplets of water, gathered together to tease people who don't remember the truth." ---Chris Collins"What amazes me most about you is the fact that no matter what, your determination pushes all your fears away. You never let fear stand in the way of accomplishing your goals." ---Amanda Johnson"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." ---Henry David Thoreau"All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother." ---Abraham Lincoln"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." ---Helen Keller"Everyone suffers disappointments and setbacks. But it's what you learn from the experience that counts." ---Life's Playbook for Success by GTE Academic All-America Hall of Famers"Angels show themselves to you when you least expect it--often when all hope is lost." ---Unknown"Do not fear life, as you do not fear the stars or the evening breeze. We are all here for a purpose and everything happens for a reason." ---Lori Hard"Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures." ---No Time to Cry By Lurlene McDaniel"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." ---Robert Frost"When you run the risk of loving, you get a lot back." ---Eric by Doris Lund"Dark clouds are things that pass; the blue heavens abide always." ---Unknown"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above." ---Julia A. Fletcher Carney"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." ---Unknown"Love isn't something that will carry you through life, but something that will change your life forever." ---AMB"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." ---Louisa May Alcott"Don't be afraid to close your eyes and dream. Then wake up and see where you are." ---Sean "Puffy" Combs"We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us." ---Yoko Ono"Initiative is key. Anybody who wants to be somebody is going to work as hard as they can to fulfill that dream." ---Sean "Puffy" Combs (Puff Daddy)"Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave." ---Winnie the Pooh"Death is not to be feared, but to be challenged." ---B.B."You can't put a Band-Aid on every boo-boo you've made; some just need time to heal..." ---Christina Montano"Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be." ---Karen Ravn"I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail." ---Woodrow Wilson"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them." ---Lady Bird Johnson"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future." ---Graham Green"Forget the past and live the present hour." ---Sarah Knowles Bolton"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're going to live now." ---Joan Baez"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love." ---Nelson Rockefeller"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." ---George Bernard Shaw"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." ---Eleanor Roosevelt"Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles." ---Joan Lunden"For sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed, they must first be interrupted." ---Jean Paul Richter"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." ---Helen Keller"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby." ---Ruth E. Renkel"Paradise is open to all kinds of hearts." ---Pierre Jean de Beranger"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about." ---Angela Schwindt"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." ---Maureen Dowd"You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh." ---Jay Leno"Twilight has always seemed like God's indrawn breath, a pause in the progression of time." ---Emilie Richards"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved." ---Unknown"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." ---Martha Grimes"Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow." ---Swedish Proverb"Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong." ---James Leo Herlihy"The man who has no imagination has no wings." ---Muhammad Ali"The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary." ---Ashleigh Brilliant"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." ---Sally Koch"Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead." ---Unknown"It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later." ---Lucimar Santos de Lima"Success is never final and failure is never total. It's courage that counts." ---Success Unlimited"Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." ---Alice Mackenzie Swaim"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." ---Karen Sunde"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" ---Robert H. Schuller"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times." ---Saint Augustine"To the world you may be just one person. To the person you may be the world." ---Unknown"He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good." ---Yiddish Proverb"Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles." ---Arnold H. Glasow"The darkest hour has only 60 minutes." ---Morris Mandel"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." ---Eleanor Roosevelt"My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me." ---Jennifer Tyler"Listen to your heart, because in the end, it is your heart that counts." ---Jennifer Tyler"One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents." ---Sara Shandler"For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge." ---Roma Downey, "Touched by an Angel""For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with tears. And the smile that is worth the praises of earth, is the smile that shines thorugh the tears." ---Unknown"The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it." ---Unknown"You know that place between awake and asleep? The place where you remember dreaming? That is where I will always think of you." ---Tinkerbell"One of the most beautiful entities in life is letting the truth be known, for it reaches this intangible height of freedom that a lie can never touch." ---Khalil Murrell"Ain't it kinda funny, at the dark end of the road, that someone lights the way with just a single ray of hope." ---Alabama, "Angels Among Us""There is a special place in life, that needs my humble skill.A certain job I'm meant to do, which no one else can fulfill.There is a special place in life, a goal I must attain.A dream that I must follow, because I won't be back again." ---Unknown"Your personality is not a fashion, it's who you are, and it never goes out of style." ---Unknown"Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses." ---Proverbs 10:12"So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead." ---The Girl Death Left Behind by Lurlene McDaniel"No happy time is really gone if it leaves a special memory." ---Unknown"Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness." ---Deborah Norville"No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!" ---Thomas Edison on "failed attempts" to create the lightbulb"The only person you need to prove anything to is yourself." ---Unknown"The loss of a loved one is by far the worst thing most people ever go through. Does anyone ever get over the death of someone close? Doubtful. The best anyone can do is come to terms with the loss, find peace and comfort, and maybe eventually inspiration in having known the loved one." ---Randi Reisfeld and Marie Morreale"Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far." ---Joey McIntyre, "Stay the Same""Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world will hurt you, but it's the one percent that loves you that makes your life worthwhile." ---Lindsey Nyman"Every day people are born and people die. Human beings come into this world and leave it--most without their names being immortalized in any history books. Millions of people have lived and worked and loved and died without making any great claims to fame or fortune. But they aren't forgotten--not by their friends, not by their families. And some of these people, some very special people, are not forgotten even by those who hardly knew them." ---Kim Lacina"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." ---Isak Dinesen"The people we're related to are the ones we go to for comfort, support. We connect with kin when the rest of the world seems hostile. Within our family, we are free to be ourselves, to have bad mood days, say hurtful stuff, get it off our chests. We know we'll always be forgiven." ---Randi Reisfeld and Marie Morreale"No matter how bad things get, remembers 'This too will pass!' Believe it!" ---Chinese horoscope"Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened." ---Unknown"Pain is just weakness leaving the body." ---Unknown"I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be if you could realize all the dreams you have inside." ---Joey McIntyre, "Stay the Same""In the end, only kindness matters." ---Jewel, "Hands""I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." ---Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee"The best prayer is what's in your heart. Take what's there and offer it. It doesn't matter if you are desperate or angry. The Lord will hear you." ---Marcella"Remember that people come and go, and of all the people in your life, you are the one who is there to stay. You are the one who can choose to love yourself, choose to respect yourself, and promise with all your heart and soul that you will never leave you." ---Kimberly Kirberger"Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life.Within each of us is a hidden store of courage, courage to give us the strength to face any challenge.Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost." ---Roger Dawson"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand." ---Mother Teresa"If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all okay. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these." ---Jewel, "Hands""Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal 'hell on earth.' It is important to keep searching for the small joys, although they are often the most elusive. Trust that these joys will appear, sometimes unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments." ---Katie Gill"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ---Ralph Waldo Emerson"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." ---Martin Luther King, Jr."It matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever..." ---Henry David Thoreau"I am strong because I believe in myself. I know who I am and what I can do. It doesn't matter what I look like, where I live, or who my friends are. What matters is the confidence that I carry within me." ---Reebok"A hero doesn't have to save a busload of kids from certain disaster. Or score the winning point in the big game. A hero can be anyone who inspires you, anyone you look up to, anyone who cheers you on, makes you better than you were before--just as they made themselves better than they were before." ---Nike"When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong. And you'll finally see the truth, that a hero lies in you." ---Mariah Carey, "Hero""Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." ---Semisonic, "Closing Time""Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me." ---Janet Jackson, "Together Again""There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are." ---Mariah Carey, "Hero""We know everything we need to know to end the needless emotional suffering that many people currently experience. High self-esteem and personal effectiveness is available to anyone willing to take the time to pursue it." ---Unknown"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting." ---Mother Teresa"The love we give and receive is all that matters and all that is remembered. Suffering disappears; love remains." ---Bobbie Probstein"Believe in yourself and always stand tallThose who have doubts are those that will fallEnjoy what you do and remember to smileIt's the hard work and effort that make it worthwhileRemain focused on what it is you wish to achieveRemember dedication, commitment and to always believe!" ---Kelly Broad"And if in everything I find I do not find success, at least I will know I have tried my best." ---Lauren Conway"The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it." ---Elvis Stojko"Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger." ---Marlon Brando"If you bring forth what is inside of you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside of you, what you don't bring forth will destroy you." ---Unknown"I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody." ---Louis L'Amour"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength." ---Touched By An Angel daily calender"Things are just things--they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us." ---Kerry Steward"Like changes in a Wonder Years episode, nothing's perfect, and nothing's permanent." ---Shashi Bhat"Everyone has problems. It's a part of life. Overcoming these problems and moving onto greater heights is what life is all about." ---Jill Maxbauer"One kind word can warm three winter months." ---Japanese Proverb"I don't even think you know how great you really are. I believe in you." ---Dick Vermeil"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." ---Joe Paterno"There's a reason why today is called the present. It is a gift you have been given to live another day and enjoy everything around you because no one is guaranteed a tomorrow." ---Jeff Laforteza"I don't believe make-up and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience." ---Unknown"Listening can heal wounds." ---Sean Covey"When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory." ---Richard Corman"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe." ---Gail Devers"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities." ---Vic Braden"Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them." ---Josie Bisset"For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school." ---Oprah Winfrey"Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that." ---From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg"All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them." ---Earvin "Magic" Johnson"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible--and achieve it." ---Pearl Buck"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry." ---E.B. White"Balance isn't about moderation, it's about admitting what's really important to you. Someone might reach 16 years of age with a terrible thirst to play music, or soccer, or earn money, and their idea of balance is to spend 90% of their time doing just that." ---Unknown"The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun." ---Napoleon Hill"Angels do find us in our hour of need." ---Amy Huffman"A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance." ---Paul Duffy"For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store." ---"A Tale of Three Wishes" by Isaac Bashevis Singer"We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven." ---Tryon Edwards"A bird does not fear falling for it has never fallen before. So we must act as the bird and block out our fears. Then we will be able to soar higher than we ever imagined." ---Kevin Wassie"There is great significance and importance in all our day-to-day actions in both words and deeds."---Jennifer Leigh Youngs"We are all intertwined, each desperately loved and needed by others." ---S.O.L.O.S."True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone." ---Richard Edgely"Do not regret growing old. It is a privilege denied to many." ---Unknown"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose." ---Keven Arnold (Fred Savage),The Wonder Years"Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles." ---Sean Covey"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." ---Eleanor Roosevelt"A child is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark." ---Chinese proverb"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness." ---Hermann Broch"I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love." ---Alabama, "Angels Among Us""All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming." ---Helen Keller"We are troubled, but we have hope and tremendous promise." ---Sara Shandler"The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love." ---Brian Jett"There's something in a simple hug that always warms the heart. It welcomes us back home and makes it easier to part. A hug's a way to share the joy, and the sad times we go through, or just a way for friends to say they like you because you're you. Hugs are meant for anyone for whom we really care. From your Grandma to your neighbor, or a cuddly teddy bear. A hug is an amazing thing--it's just the perfect way to show the love we're feeling but can't find the words to say. It's funny how a little hug makes everyone feel good; in every place and language, it's always understood. And hugs don't need new equipment, special batteries or parts--just open up your arms and open up your heart." ---
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