30 quotes and stories
- "It’s a Cherokee Rose. The story is that when American soldiers were moving Indians off their land on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee mothers were grieving and crying so much ‘cause they were losing their little ones along the way from exposure and disease and starvation. A lot of them just disappeared. So the elders, they said a prayer; asked for a sign to uplift the mothers’ spirits, give them strength and hope. The next day this rose started to grow where the mothers’ tears fell. "
- Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.
- I'm a first believer in the power of change. But there is one thing I've learned, and that's the hardest part of moving forward is not looking back.
- I looked in all the places you aren't. I just can't find the places you are. I only know that you are where I am not.
- Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.
- I'm glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it the times we had together were gone.
- Promise you will never forget me, because if I thought you would, I would never leave.
- In time, the hurt begin to fade and it was easier to just let go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you. I'd write you a letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't want to ever lose that.
- Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon everything's different.
- Don't want to leave, but we both know sometimes it's better to go. Somehow I know we'll meet again, not sure quite where and I don't know just when you're in my heart so until then, smile, don't want to cry saying goodbye
- If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever.
- There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
- All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
- When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
- So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning
- You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.
- Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
- When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
- You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely..
- You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.
- “No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.”
- Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
- There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
- “Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
- Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
- “Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another”
- " might be the one walkin' away, but you're the one that's leavin'..."
- You don't know what it's like out there. You may think you do but you don't.
- The pain doesn't go away. You just make room for it.
- And-and I look at you, and I... and I'm home
30 Things to Make you Smile
- Otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't float apart.
- Norway once knighted a penguin.
- Blind people smile despite having never seen someone smile before. It is just a natural human reaction.
- And the voice of Mickey Mouse and the voice of Minnie Mouse got married in real life.
- There’s a competition in Sweden called Kaninhoppning, or rabbit show jumping.
- The last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, promised his daughter he’d write her initials on the moon. He did, and her initials, “TDC,” will probably be on the moon for tens of thousands of years.
- Also, a group of pugs is called a grumble.
- Worms communicate with one another by snuggling.
- Some window washers at children’s hospitals surprise the kids by dressing up like superheroes.
- This happy animal exists…
- Male pups will sometimes let female pups “win” when they play-fight so they can get to know them better.
- Cows have best friends and get upset when they’re apart.
- Not only do penguins mate for life, but they also spend time finding a pebble to give their mate in order to “propose.”
- The man who does Winnie the Pooh's voice spends some of his spare time ringing up children in the cancer wards of hospitals putting on Winnie's voice and telling them how much he loves them and how brave they are.
- The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We’re all made of star dust.
- Cancer death rates are down 20% in past 20 years.
- At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
- Baby puffins are called pufflings.
- A 6-year-old applied for a job at a railroad museum and was hired as its director of fun. In his letter he wrote, "I have an electric train track. I am good on my train track. I can control two trains at once."
- For a brief moment in time, you were a moment in someone’s life. A mere extra, passing through their thoughts in milliseconds, but milliseconds of their story nonetheless. For every person you’ve exchanged eye contact with, you have made a contribution to their existence, be it significant or not.
- A group of bunnies is called a fluffle.
- Dolphins try to rescue humans who are drowning. It’s as if they realize we can’t hold breathing as long as they do and push you upwards and even try to reanimate bumping you in the stomach.
- The Roman Emperor Caligula tried to wage war on the god of the ocean, Neptune. He had his soldiers run up and stab the water.
- On the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. had a pillow fight in his motel room.
- For someone, somewhere in the world, today is the most amazing day of their life.
- Charlie Chaplin once entered a competition and won third prize. The competition was a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
- A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
- For years it has been known that six has been afraid of seven. No one knows why, but we suspect it is because seven eight nine.