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Over time i've come accross quite a few good quotes and sayings...some said by my friends others just in e-mail or otherwise.  I thought i'd share them... and remember never give up on the things that make you SMILE! :-D

*Dream like you'll live forever, live like you'll die tomorrow!
 
*Somewhere inbetween the bad days and the worse days, theres the great days--i guess thats all that really matters, eh?
 
*Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. Henry David Thoreau
 
*You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ZIGGY
 
*Its that smile that won me over, lucky as a fourleaf clover. It shuns away the pain and brings sunshine to my rain. - Dre
*no dream is too big.  no dreamer too small.
 
*believe in the possibility of the impossible.
 
*a smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. - English proverb
 
*a ship in the harbor is safe.  but that's not what ships were built for. 
 
*...but when danger threatens and others slink away I am and will be at my post."~General William T. Sherman
 
a soldier trains for war, but prays for peace.
 
*do or do not.  there is no try.
 
*When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hold on.~Thomas Jefferson
 
*Going against the grain is tough, but walking the raod less traveled gives you plenty of time
to pick the splinters out of your butt.~Meghan
 
*Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.*
 
*A wise man thinks before he speaks, such that the only occasion upon
which he will eat his words is when he dines upon Alphabits cereal.
 
*You asked me what i loved more, you or my life. when i answered my life you walked away, you didnt give me the chance to explain you are my life.

*I climbed up the door and opened the stairs, Said my pajamas and put on my prayers, Then I turned off the bed and crawled into the light, All becuz you kissed me goodnight! Next morning I woke up and scrambled my shoes,
Picked up my eggs and toasted the news, I couldn't tell my left from right,
All becuz you kissed me goodnight! That evening at last I felt normal again,
So I picked up my mother and called the phone, I spoke to the puppy and threw Dad a bone, Even at midnight the sun was still bright, All becuz you kissed me goodnight!

*I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank
 
*To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded.*-Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
*Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ~H. L. Mencken
 
*The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton