Quotes and Text Messages

Whenever I’m disappointed with my spot in life, I stop and think about little Jamie Scott. Jamie was trying out for a part in the school play. His mother told me that he’d set his heart on being in it, though she feared he would not be chosen. On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her to collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride and excitement. “Guess what, Mom,” he shouted, and then said those words that will remain a lesson to me…..”I’ve been chosen to clap and cheer.”

On my way home one day, I stopped to watch a Little League base ballgame that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was. “We’re behind 14 to nothing,” he answered with a smile. “Really,” I said. “I have to say you don’t look very discouraged.” “Discouraged?”, the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face… “Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet.”

Teacher Debbie Moon’s first graders were discussing a picture of a family. One little boy in the picture had a different hair color than the other members. One of her students suggested that he was adopted. A little girl said, “I know all about adoption, I was adopted.”

“What does it mean to be adopted?”, asked another child. “It means”, said the girl, “that you grew in your mommy’s heart instead of her tummy!”

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was: A four-year-old child, whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman, who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy just said, “Nothing, I just helped him cry.”

Girls are like cell phones, they like to be held and talked to, but press the wrong button and you’re disconnected. Guys are like buses. If you miss that one, another will be along soon.

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Relationships are like traffic signs 1-way, 2-way, do not enter, no U turn, no left turn, but the best so far is give way and keep right.

Being happy all the time is kind of boring.

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Words and hearts should be handled with care… for words when spoken and hearts when broken are the hardest things to repair.

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Words and hearts should be handled with care… for words when spoken and hearts when broken are the hardest things to repair.

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The best thing about an enemy is that he tells the truth about you.

Say good about yourself and you’ll be called arrogant; say bad about yourself and you’ll be believed.

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There is no absolute freedom. When your girlfriend says, “I love you”, that is her freedom. But then again, will you let her say, “I love you” to every man.

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Love is magic. The more we hide it, the more it shows; the more you suppress it, the more it grows.

It is always a pleasure to listen to persons bragging about their humility.

We forgive those who bore us but cannot forgive those whom we bore.

A couple went to an agricultural show way out in the country side one fine Sunday afternoon. They stayed around long enough to watch the auctioning of bulls. The guy selling the bulls announces the first bull to be auctioned off, “A fine specimen, this bull reproduced 60 times last year.”

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