*Learned*

-In 3 words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On

-You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved.

-No matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.

-It takes years to build up trust and only seconds to destroy it.

-It's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts.

-You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that you'd better know something.

-You shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do, but to the best you can do.

-It's not what happens to people thats important, its what they do about it.

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

-No matter how thin you slice it there are always two sides.

-It takes a long time to be the person you want to be.

-Its a lot easier to react than it is to think.

-You should always leaved loved ones with loving words, it may be the last time you see them.

-You can keep going long after you think you cant.

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

-You either control your attitude or it controls you.

-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.

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

-Learning to forgive takes practice.

-There are people who love you dearly but just dont know who to show it.

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

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

-Sometimes when you are angry, you have the right to be angry, but that doesnt give you the right to be cruel.

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

-Money is a lousy way of keeping score.

-Just because someone doesnt love you the way you want them to doesnt mean they dont love you with all they have.

-Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.

-You should never tell a child that their dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more humiliating, and it would be a tragedy if they believed it.

-Your family wont always be there for you. People you arent related to can take care of you and love you. Families arent biological.

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

-It isnt always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

-No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesnt stop for your grief.

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

-Sometimes when my friends fight, I'm forced to choose sides even if I dont want to.

-Just because two people argue doesnt mean they dont love each other, and if they dont argue it doesnt mean they do.

-Sometimes you have to put the individual ahead of their actions.

-We dont have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

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

-There are many ways of falling and staying in love.

-No matter the consequences, those who are honest with themselves get farther in life.

-No matter how many friends you have, if you are the pillar you will feel lost and lonely at the times you need them most.

-Your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who dont even know you.

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

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

-The people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.

-Although the word "love" can have many different meanings, it loses value when overly used.

-Its hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting peoples feelings and standing up for what you believe.

-Maybe God wants us to meet a
few wrong people before meeting
the right one so that when we finally
meet the right person, we will know
how to be grateful for that gift.

-When the door of happiness closes,
another opens, but often times we look
so long at the closed door that we don't
see the one which has been opened for us.

-The best kind of friend is the kind you
can sit on a porch and swing with,
never say a word, and then walk away
feeling like it was the best
conversation you've ever had.

-It's true that we don't know what we've
got until we lose it, but it's also true
that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.

-Giving someone all your love is never an
assurance that they'll love you back.
Don't expect love in return; just wait
for it to grow in their heart.

-But if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.

-It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone,
an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone,
but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

-Don't go for looks; they can deceive.
Don't go for wealth; even that fades away.
Go for someone who makes you smile because it
takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
Find the one that makes your heart smile.

-There are moments in life when you miss someone
so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real.

-Dream what you want to dream; go where you
want to go; be what you want to be,
because you have only one life and one
chance to do all the things you want to do.

-May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow
to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

-Always put yourself in others' shoes.
If you feel that it hurts you,
it probably hurts the other person too.

-The happiest of people don't necessarily
have the best of everything;
they just make the most of everything that
comes along their way.

-The brightest future will always be based
on a forgotten past, you can't go on well
in life until you let go of your past
failures and heartaches.

-When you were born, you were crying and
everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so that when you die,
you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.