I believe ---

We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

1. No matter how good friends are, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

2. True friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

3. You can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

4. It is taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

5. You can keep going long after you can't.

6. We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

7. Either you control your attitude or it controls you.

8. Regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.

9. Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

10. Money is a lousy way of keeping score.

11. My best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

12. Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down, will be the ones to help you get back up.

13. Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

14. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

15. Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had, and what you've learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.

16. It isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

17. No matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.

18. Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

19. Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.

20. You shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.

21. Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

22. Your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.

23. Even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.

24. Credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.

25. The people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon. You should tell people you love that you love them, as often as possible, because you never know when your last chance will be.

26.The past can be very punishing, and some memories can creep up at the slightest of provocations, that doesnt mean we cannot bury, forget or overcome it.

MY FAVOURITE SPEECH


The best speech i have read/heard so far.......

Lilies Of The Field-- By Anna Quindlen

I'm a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work.You will walk out of here this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has.
There will be hundreds of people out there with your same degree; there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you will be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

Your particular life.
Your entire life.
Not just your life at a desk, or your life on a bus, or in a car, or at the computer. Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account but your soul.People don't talk about the soul very much anymore.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

But a resume is a cold comfort on a winter night, or when you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you've gotten back the test results and they're not so good.Here is my resume: I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows mean what they say.I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me.

Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today, because I would be a cardboard cutout. But I call them on the phone, and I meet them for lunch. I would be rotten, or at best mediocre at my job, if those other things were not true. You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you are.

So here's what I wanted to tell you today:
Get a life.
A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast?

Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in which you stop and watch how a red tailed hawk circles over the water or the way a baby scowlswith concentration when she tries to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you.

And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter.Get a life in which you are generous. And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted.
Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around.

Take money you would have spent on beers and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big brother or sister.All of you want to do well. But if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the color of our kids' eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again.It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.


By telling them this:
Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face.
Learn to be happy.
And think of life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.