Everyone has a life lesson to learn. Some of us have already learned ours, and others will
in time.
You can’t have everything. Where would you put it? -Steven Wright
No one can go back and make a new start, but anyone can start from here and make a
brand new end.
People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never
forget how you made them feel.
Never say you’re sorry for what you meant to do.
There’s nothing like the deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a
sore stomach for the right reasons. -Perks of Being a Wallflower
Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow; we must fail in order to know. Sometimes
our vision becomes clear only after our eyes are washed away with tears.
You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
90% of the friction of daily life is caused by the wrong tone of voice.
After winning an argument with his wife, the wisest thing a man can do is apologize.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes. -Hugh Downs
Remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you
think.
Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what
people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say ‘no’
when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream, and we shout with the
others when we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around
once. There’s really no time to be afraid. Just do it.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in the person’s determination.
-Tommy Lasorda
We feat what we see in the distance. We’re shattered by life’s soft deceit, enslaved to our
thoughts by our reason, betrayed by the past’s desolation. We sleep listless nights by the
shore, seraching for signs of salvation, hoping to find something more. -The Tea Party,
Transmission
Remember that everybody you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost
something.
Sometimes there is no next time, no time outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or
never.
It always rains hardest on those that deserve the sun.
There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a
nap.’ -Carrie Fisher
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. -Lily Tomlin
You’re only young once and, if you work it right, once is enough. -Joe Lewis
People never grow up. They just learn how to act in public. -Barry White
Never give up on things that make you smile.
Take your life into your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Each person in born to one possession which out-values all the others: his last breath.”
-Mark Twain
Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars, of course, first
stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like
stars. Wish in tunnels holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday
candles. Baby teeth. -Dangerous Angels by Franesca Lia Block
If you want to see something done, just tell some human begins it can’t be done. Make it
known that it’s impossible to fly to the moon, or run a hundred meters in nine-point-nine
seconds, or solve Fermat’s Last Theorem. Remind the world that no one has ever hit
sixty-two home runs in a single season. Stuffed eighteen people into a Volkswagon Bug.
Set half the world free. Or cloned a sheep. Dangle the undoable in front of the world.
Then, consider it done. -A Merril Lynch advertisement (ooh, goosebumps)
All of life is coming home. Salesmen, secretaries, coal miners, beekeepers, sword
swallowers. All of us. All the restless hearts of the world. All trying to find a way home.
Never test the depths of a river with both feet.
Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down. -Kobi
Yamada
When one door of happiness closes another opens, but often we look so long on the
closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -Helen Keller
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
-Alfred Adler
This is my life. I’ve come to accept it, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to like it.
The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person. -Ira Progoff
To avoid old age, keep overdrinking, overeating, and overachieving.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched. They
must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
Let us go forward quietly, forever making for the light and lifting up our hearts in the
knowledge that we are as others are (and that others are as we are) and that it is right to
love one another in the best possible way--believing all things, hoping for all things and
enduring all things…And let us not be too troubled by our weaknesses, for even he who
has none, has one weakness, namely that he thinks he has none, and anyone who believes
himself to be so perfect or wise would do well to become foolish all over again. -Vincent
van Gogh
It’s okay to think about what you want to do, but there comes a time when you have to
think about what you were meant to do.
If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm.
You can always buy a new rope. -Max Gunther
It all comes down to one very simple choice: get busy livin’ or get buy dyin’. -The
Shawshank Redemption
Life is short, so kiss slowly, love deeply, and forgive quickly, forget the past, but
remember what it taught you.
Life is not a problem to be solved, nor a question to be answered. Life is a mystery to be
experienced. -Alan Watts
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned the hard way that some poems don’t rhyme
and some stories don’t a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing,
having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s
going to happen next.
Love makes the world go round but it’s laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
When you were born, you cried while those around you rejoiced. Live your life so that
when you die, those around you will cry while you rejoice.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. -Brendan Gill
Let the wind blow through your hair while you still have some. -Daev Weinbaum
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when
they gave up. -Thomas Edison
I still believe in paradies, but now I atleast know it’s not a place you can look for because
it’s not where you go, it’s how you feel for a moment in your life and if you find that
moment, it lasts forever. -The Beach
If a task is once begun,
The sun's gonna shine, and the rain's gonna fall, and in the end you might get burnt or wet... But, Hey, that's life. So, dance in the puddles and bathe in the sun, and at the end of the day..smile. Everything's gonna be alright.
When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire
Life is short: kiss slowly, love deeply, and forgive quickly-forget the past, but remember what it taught you...*
The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without loosing heart.
When you come to the edge of all the light that you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: there will be something to land on, or you will learn how to fly.
You don't always win your battles... but it's good to know you fought. -Marjorie Holmes
Our lives begin to end the day we are silent about the things that matter.
Pain is a good thing. It lets you know you're still alive.
Life is full of risks. You can't steal second with one foot on first. -Genisis Health
Let no man pull you so low as to make you hate him. -Booker T. Washington
Every day I'm going to get up and live. I am going to breath, even smile. And maybe, one day, I'll even have a reason to.
Live with one eye open to face reality and one eye closed to keep fantasizing.
When I die, I'd rather have someone ask why I don't have a monument than why I do have one.
If you reach for the stars, you may not get one. But you won't get a handful of mud either.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the staircase, just take the first step. -Dr. Martin Luther King
I like living. I have sometimes been widely, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow. But through it all, I still know quite certainly, that just to be alive is a grand thing. -Agatha Christie
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. -Marilyn Monroe
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. -Jewish Proverb
This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good.
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.
The young faces shown in these pictures represent times when our biggest worries were Barbie and Ken's wedding, GI Joe's missing arm and why we had to eat vegetables at dinner again. Looking at these pictures today, sometimes we, the seniors, wish we could go back to such carefree days. But at the same time moving on with our lives, making new memories, and gaining independence have become realities that were once ideas that seemed so far away.
Since 6th grade, we have counted won the days until graduation. Now as the day approaches, we are still anxious, but somewhat nervous. The faces in these pictures remind us of people we were, and still are, the friends we have grown up with and also with whom we will graduate. Surviving the past 12 years wasn't easy, but in what time we had some of the best experiences of our lives. Those times are what made it worthwhile.
Carpe Diem! Rejoice while you are alive;
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -Helen Keller
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins... not through strength, but through persistence.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can
“Come to the edge.”
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. -Chinese Proverb
Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them, he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?" God said, "I did do something. I made you. -Sufi Teaching
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. -Amiel, Henri Frederick
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. -William Shedd
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. -Peter Marshall
Too scared the live. Too scared to die.
Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone, tomorrow may never come.
Is there anything worth
Some things are meant to happen. Some things are bound to be. Love has a way of making doubting hearts believe. Sometimes in spite of difference, sometimes against all odds, some things are meant to happen. It's written in the stars.
You don't drown by falling in the water, you drown by staying there.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. -Kenny Rogers
Just when I thought my life was coming together,
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back - Charlie Brown
Screw happy endings, go for killer beginnings.
They say you need to pray if you want to go to heaven but they don't tell you what to say when your whole life has gone to hell. -Brand New
The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, So while you point your fingers someone else is judging you. -Bob Marley
When I'm old I'm never going to say, 'I didn't do this' or, 'I regret that.' I'm going to say, 'I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.
Take chances. Tell the truth. Spend all your cash. Fall in love. Get to know someone. Be random. Say I love you. Sing out loud. Laugh at stupid jokes. Cry. Apologize. Tell someone how much they mean to you. Laugh till ur stomach hurts. Live lives. Have no regrets.
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world -A Course In Miracles
Every day the opportunity exists to change your life. But most days, the idea of having to change the big things in life just seems like too much work. -Girls’ Poker Night by Jill Davis
Anyone who says that only sunshine can bring happiness has never danced in the rain.
Tears will bring you sympathy, sweat will bring you change
The heart may freeze or it can burn. The pain will ease if I can learn. There is no future. There is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us. There's only this. Forget regret. Or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today.
The hardest thing in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
We live for the nights we can't remember with the friends we will never forget
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. -Norm Papernick
It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. -Thornton Wilder
We were raised on television to believe that we'd all be millionaires, movie gods, rock stars, but we won't. And we're starting to figure that out...and we're really pissed off. -Finding Forrester
How did it get so late so soon?
If you're going to walk on thin ice, you may as well dance.
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. -Jack Handey
Life is a cement trampoline. -Howard Nordberg
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. -Moroccan Proverb
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. -Albert Einstein
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning. -Stacy
It's just life. Just live it. -Terri Guillemets
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. -Dennis Wholey
Life isnt fair. It's just fairer than death, thats all. -William Goldman
We chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go
Sometimes we have to turn our backs on the ones we love, so that we can LEAD them in the right direction. -Joy Stacey
Never leave it till it’s done.
Be thy labour great or small,
Do it well or not at all.
enjoy the day; live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think. -Horace
do something about its width and depth. -Shira Tehrani
“We can't. We're afraid.”
“Come to the edge.”
“We can't. We will fall!”
“Come to the edge.”
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
-Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918
looking for?
loving for?
lying for?
Is there anything worth
waiting for?
living for?
dying for?
I realized it was just starting to fall apart all over again.
Its night before its afternoon.
December is here before its June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?''
-Dr. Seuss
