If someone wants to be a part of your life
If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll make an effort to be in it. So don’t bother reserving a space in your heart for someone who doesn’t make an effort to stay.
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Fear Quotes
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. ~ Marcus Aurelius
A chicken doesn’t stop scratching just because worms are scarce. ~ Grandma Axiom
Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn’t like jam if it didn’t, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn’t like truth if it wasn’t sticky, if, from time to time, it didn’t ooze blood. ~ Jean Baudrillard
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. ~ James F. Bell
Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile… initially scared me to death. ~ Betty Bender
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~ Christian Nevell Bovee
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation — it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. ~ Les Brown
The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process. ~ Jean Bryant
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. ~ Buddha
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. ~ Dale Carnegie
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. ~ Roger Craig
A fighter has to know fear. ~ Cus D’Amato
It all changed when I realized I’m not the only one on the planet who’s scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, “Are you scared, too?” “You bet your sweet life I am.” “Aha, so that’s the way it is for you, too.” We were all in the same boat. That’s probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, “Who else feels like this?” the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way. ~ Stan Dale
The first and great commandment is, “Don’t let them scare you.” ~ Elmer Davis
Fear is the biggest motivator. ~ Bill Dixon
Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ~ Donald Downes
My worst fear is that I’ll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath. ~ Richard Dreyfuss
He without fear is king of the world. ~ E. E. Eddison
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing. ~ Ed Foreman
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. ~ Viktor E. Frankl
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one’s sins, one must assuredly limit one’s fear, thereby bringing more peace to one’s spirit. ~ Marvin Gaye
Friendship Quotes and Sayings
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.” ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“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
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ~Henry Ford
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen
“With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.” ~ Helen Keller
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” ~ Euripides, Greek playwrite
“There are many types of ships. There are wooden ships ,plastic ships, and metal ships. But the best and most important types of ships are friendships.” ~Robert J. Badar JR.
“My best friend was born in a manger” ~Kimberly Dawn
“A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world has walked away.” ~Kimberly Dawn
“A friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” ~ Len Wein
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus
“A true friend is one who knows all about you, and still likes you.” ~Kimberly Dawn
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own.” ~Benjamin Disraeli
“Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; Scatter bits of courtesy….watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship; Keep them till full-blown; You will find more happiness than you have ever known. ~ Amy R Raabe
“The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” ~Elizabeth Foley
I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.– E.E. Cummings
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ~G. B. Shaw
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and the one which we take the least thought to aquire.” –Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living.” –Amanda Bradley
A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Weller
“If I had one gift that I could give you, my friend, it would be the ability to see yourself as others see you, because only then would you know how extremely special you are.” ~B.A. Billingsly
We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. ~Margaret Guenther
Life and Death Quotes
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. – Epictetus
Those we love don’t go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear. – Anonymous
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller
What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset. – Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator 1830 – 1890
Today is the first and last day of forever. – Stephenie Meyer
A man’s dying is more his survivor’s affair than his own. – Thomas Mann
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. – George S. Patton
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. – From a headstone in Irelan
Love Quotes
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. – Khalil Gibran
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. – Maurice Maeterlinck
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
I’ve learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them. – Anonymous
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you. – Margaret Atwood
Parting is such sweet sorrow. – William Shakespeare
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Anonymous
If I hadn’t met you, I wouldn’t like you.
If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you.
If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will. – Anonymous
You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it. – Anonymous
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is never good dwelling on good-byes … it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting. – Elizabeth Bibesco
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington
Motivational Career Change Quotes
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. – Marian Wright Edelman
The best work never was and never will be done for money. – John Ruskin
My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. – Jim Fox
For many people a job is more than an income – it’s an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life. – Paul Clitheroe
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Kahlil Gibran
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. – Orison Swett Marden
A sobering thought: What if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? – Jane Wagner
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. – James Matthew Barrie
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. – Napoleon Hill
It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. – Annie Gottlier
Choose your love, love your choice. – Thomas S. Monson
What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. – Lee Iacocca
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all – Mahatma Ghandi
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns
I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. – Robert H. Schuller