Phrases can help to brighten your day, help you in a fix, appreciate your surroundings or even to give you something to ponder for the day. Listed below are some of my favourite phrases and the ones that were sent in.
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Some people make the world a special place, just by
being in it. AM
It's better to have loved and lost than never to have
loved at all. AK
Happiness is being married to your best friend! ANDREA
Never cry in a garden. Flowers won't grow in salt water. MH
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. KAH
Life is like a hot bath, the longer you stay in it, the
more wrinkled you get. KB
Failed to prepare, prepare to fail. ET
Dance like nobody is watching, work like you don't need
the money, love like you've never been hurt. BC
We can't all be stars but we can all twinkle. VALZ
As a new day dawns, we forget about the worries we
encountered yesterday. Why did we worry? It's a new day. Yesterday is over. Live for the minute because today will only become yesterday. JOE
Life is something that happens while you're making plans. LF<
Everything's possible, just not probable. MM
Never promise a lover a rose garden, all roses come with
thorns. DE
My love is the tide, your soul is the shores, you have my
heart, do I have yours? MB
Today is the tommorrow you worried about yesterday. AMF
Follow what your heart is telling you, for you can't help
feeling that way. JH
I would rather walk with a friend in the Dark, than walk
alone in the light. Jazz
Life is like a flower, let it breathe in fresh air or it
will gradually wither. AK
I know that there have been some fine things that have
been laid upon your table, but you only want the ones that you can get. CB
You better let somebody love you before it's too late. CB
It may be raining, but there's a rainbow above you. CB
The best things you will ever find in life, most oft are
found down the road less traveled. LH
I can't live your life and you can't live mine, I am me
and you are you, but, if we find each other it's beautiful. BMc
The hardest thing in life is watching the ones you love
in love with someone else. LCL
It is better to keep your mouth shut, and be thought a
fool, than to open it and resolve all doubt. KJAH
Be kind for everyone faces their own private battles. KS
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off
the goal. KS
Live for today, because no one is promised for tomorrow. MD
If you break up with someone, don't think that you are
losing something, just think that you are making room for someone better. MVN
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. RC
Love is like a rollar coaster ride, those who fear the
exileration of the ride fear the pure exileration of love...don't be afraid of the unknown, don't be afriad to ride. R
If I could have a rose for every time I thought about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
If friends were flowers, I'd pick a bunch like you.
Never trust a love that doesn't trust you back. JL
Don't live in a lie, live in the truth. MP
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings
have trouble remembering how to fly. MP
If I could reach up and grab a star for every time you
made me smile... the whole night's sky would be in the palm of my hand. MP
You only realise how much you love someone after they have stopped loving you and started loving someone else. KM
A wise man is superior to any insult wich can be put upon
him, and the best reply to unseemly behaviour is patience and
moderation. DZ
Friends come and go. You'll know who your true friends
are when you really need them. If they aren't there, believe in
yourself because you have to be your own friend. Life goes on be happy. TT
As long as you enjoy every moment of you life, you have
nothing to worry about. RSB
Some things take longer than others: Waiting for something takes time - our lives take no time at all. RSB
If we sleep as much as we are awake. Maybe life is your
dream and a dream is your life. RSB
It is better to be a spiritual being having a Human
experience rather than a human being having a spiritual experience. NH
If you ever want to see a rainbow, you have to stand a
little rain. NH
When you feel like you're dying it's because you're just
starting to live. MV
Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it. Niki
Today is the day you feared yesterday, when you're scared
of the future. Get used to it. Niki
A "Friend" is the one who walks in when the whole world
walks out. JC
Love will come and love will go, but real love is love
that will last forever. TB
Don't just sit upon the shoreline and say you're
satisfied. Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides. KDE
Everyone is lying in the gutter, but only a few are
gazing up at the stars. rhoda
People walk in and out of your life, only those that matter leave footprints in your heart. T.O.
When respecting others it is important not to lose
respect for yourself. C.P.
Life is too serious to get too serious about it. N.C.
Let your heart blossom, in Peace, in Strength, in
Compassion and Care for others. C.L.
Whatever happens is supposed to happen, even if it's bad
and we don't know why it happens when it does, but later on you will look back and realise that the failure of that situation gave you a new opportunity, and a better chance. J.R.W.
Sometimes your heart sees what your eyes can't. M.T.
If you smile when no one else is around, then you really mean it. M.T.
It's true that you don't know what you had until you lose
it. It's also true that you don't know what you're missing until you find it!
Look down the road of life before you make the turn. If
you take the wrong turn, you will run into many potholes and
speedbumps. A.J.W.
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit. - Jewel
You never know how special something is, until you lose it. Angelica
Love changes everything. JC
The writings of great authors are like wine and mine are
like water... everyone drinks water. - Mark Twain, MCN
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. AEW
Live today as if there is no tomorrow, dance as if no one
is watching, love like you've never been hurt. NC
I want to be the kind of woman that a man wants beside his bed when he is sick and in it when he's not. Christina
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's
end. - SemiSonnic, Closing Time. Diana
If someone tells you, you are stupid, don't let them be right by answering back to them. CA
You can't see the sun if there's tears blocking it. Lara
Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life. TRN
Time is expensive, money isn't. AZ
I am not the man I use to be, nor the man I will be some
day, I am somewhere inbetween you see, but a least I am on my way. W.L.K.
It is better to regret something you have done, than
something you have NOT done. Colleen
There is no point in making a mistake if you are not going to learn from it. MEA
Cherish every moment of your life, for it will never come again. IC
Just when I lost all hope of finding someone you walked
into my life and became the only one. L.R.
Love is something we search for, not to inspect it at your
porch. Erica D. King
The happiest people don't always have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything. Tina
Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened. CC
To worry about one, is to worry about all. mlh
Love is like spinning in circles. If you lose focus, you'll fall down. AJ
Always look to the future for a fool will loose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday. P.M.
Life sucks at times but you'll get through it - trust me. HZ
You can only be a victim once, after that you're just a
volunteer. pm
He who cannot dance will say the drum is bad. ald
We teach people how to treat us. Natalie
If you want something, scream. If that doesn't work, scream louder. - Rugrats CB
If you can't run and you can't hide, ask the fairies to help you fly. CB
Life is for living. ECO
God sends trails not to impair us, but to repair us.
All you need is love. ASB
If at first you don't suceed... your about average. K.M.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. SEB
Love is like a butterfly if you never let it go you will never know if it truly loves you. HDW
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch swing with, never saying a word and then walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.
Silence speaks a thousand words. J.T.
To love another person is to see the face of God. - Les
Miserables, J.T.
Along the way we pick up the tools required of us to
build our future. You never, never stop learning. L.S.
When you are born into the world, you are crying and everyone around you is smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you are smiling and everyone around you is crying.
The morning knows what the afternoon never suspected.
The only way to love anything is to know it might be
lost... LB
Love: the power we give others to kill us with. LB
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. KRB
Everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it. KRB
Its not: to do what u like, its to like what you do. SEJ
No one can make you feel inferior unless you give them
your permission. AB
Actions speak louder than words. J.T.
Everybody is important, special and worthy. Except people
who you'd rather slap. - Kaz Cooke AB
Live life to its fullest for you never know when you will lose it. AG Helbig
Don't miss the forest for the trees. Christie
Love hurts and the pain becomes an addiction. N.Y.C.
...In this world, there are three things we cry for:
what is found, what is lost and what is magnificent... -Douglas Coupland
Life is like a fairy tale, believe in yourself and your dreams will come true. V.S.
Dont dream your life, live your dreams. Mica
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -Harvey Fierstein
With love comes sorrow, but the greatest sorrow is not to love.
Life is full of inspirations. Your job is to look for them. T.R.
The pain of self discipline is easier to bear than the pain of regret. A.P.
A mistake only turns into an error if you refuse to fix it. B.J.
There is a solution for every problem, yet many try to find a problem with the solution. M.W.
What's to come is still unknown...A lifetime of mysteries, plenty follow thy soul. J.T.
If you love something set it free. If it comes back to you it is yours, if it doesn't, it never was. J.C.
We are not separate from spirit, we are in it. -Plotinus
We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend
Get busy living, or get busy dying. M.D.
Smile, everyday above ground's a good one. Michelle
Les Petits ruisseaux font les grandes rivieres -French Proverb, 'Little streams make big rivers' KAM
Chi Trova un Amico, Trova un Tesoro -Italian Proverb, 'One who finds a friend finds a treasure' KAM
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved -D.H.Lawrence KAM
To do the best I can, the best I know how and I mean to keep on doing it until the end -Abraham Lincoln H.K.
I have spread my dreams under your feet, tread softly because
you tread on my dreams -William Butler Yeats KAM
Those who lose dreaming are lost -Aboriginal Proverb KAM
If it were not for hopes the heart would break J.L.
A good life is the best revenge W.P.
The past is history, the future a mystery and the present is a gift K.J.H.
Two human loves makes one divine - Elizabeth Browning J.L.
There is no definition of love and yet there is no better
feeling than to be loved. K.M.P.
If you know what life is, share your knowlege. Might not
be true but it might give others what they need to keep on going on. e.g. "life is pointless" K.R.
An oldie: This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. -Shakespeare
The only person you
have the power to change is yourself
Love is forgiving and love is for giving.
The best thing that happens is whatever does.
If you don't like change you don't like life.
Time heals all pain.
Be true to yourself.
The object of dating is not to see if you can become exactly what
the other person wants. It's to see how the other person reacts to you being yourself.
R.G.
Life is all about taking risks, if you don't take risks, you
don't have a life. K.B.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
If you get knocked down, you've got to pick yourself up and carry
on. K.B.
Dont walk behind me, I may not lead. Dont walk infront of me, I
may not follow. Walk beside me...and be my friend. J.T.
A Friend = a single soul in two bodies. J.T.
If you want to see how much you love yourself, see how much you are loved.
Although I may love you, I do not own you. You are simply part of my story as I am part of yours.
You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory... J.T.
We draw breath in the same century as Michael Jackson...that's entertainment!!...Be grateful. J.T.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful and strive to be happy!
Before you wonder: 'Am I doing things right', ask yourself: 'Am I doing the right things' B.M.
Give 100% and expect 0% J.L.
Carpe Diem B.M.
You live until you die. S.G.
Surround yourself with people who respect you and treat you
well :) Anonymous
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