Pain and Sadness Can Also Become a Path

by Lee Chul Hwan

I realized this after a long time of pain

That pain can also become a path.

There is no life where no wind blows.

The wind must blow, so that the tree will root deep inside the earth

So that it won’t fall over.

That is why the wind shakes the trees

That is why the wind shakes all of us

Pain can also become a path.

Sadness can also become a path.

Flowers That Bloom When Shaken

By Do Jong-hwan

Where have flowers bloomed but never trembled?

Even those most beautiful

all trembled as they blossomed,

and as they shook, stalks grew firm.

Where is there a love which is never shaken?

Where have flowers bloomed though never been made wet?

Even those most brightly sparkling

were soaked and soaked again as they blossomed.

Battered by wind and rain, their petals opened warmly.

Where is there a life which is never been drenched?

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters. Audrey Hepburn


Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Ludwig Jacobowski


We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh. William James


Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard


Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire


Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. Frank Tyger


There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi


When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. Helen Keller


Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. Lou Holtz


True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self. Joseph Addison


Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. Abraham Lincoln


Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson


It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness. Richard Branson


Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison


My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou


I am very happy because I have conquered myself and not the world. I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself. Sri Chinmoy


People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton Chekhov


What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. Colette


Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Marthe Troly-Curtin


Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie


Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. Albert Schweitzer


Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time…serenity, that nothing is. Thomas Szasz


One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown


If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. Roy T. Bennett


For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson


Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius


The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. Mark Twain


Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. Ayn Rand


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama


The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. Oprah Winfrey


Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway


Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi


Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama


In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom. Buddha


Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha


You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus


The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Friedrich Nietzsche


Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. St. Augustine


My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. William Shakespeare


Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle


Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein


If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy


Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. Colette


Being happy is not the only happiness. Alice Walker


No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Gabriel García Márquez


It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. Seneca


Happiness is acceptance. Unknown


All happiness depends on courage and work. Honoré de Balzac


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama


It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon


The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim


There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand


Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. Winnie the Pooh


Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam


To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus


Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt


Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi


Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa


Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. Abraham Lincoln


I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. Jane Austen


Whoever is happy will make others happy. Anne Frank


We forge the chains we wear in life. Charles Dickens


I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy. David Henry Hwang


He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. Marcus Aurelius


So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? Hunter S. Thompson


It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life. Henrik Ibsen


The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk


People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know. Dany Laferrière


If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie


I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. Abraham Lincoln


Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. Paulo Coelho


Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. Dale Carnegie


What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer


There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela


If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn


Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey


Today is life–the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. Dale Carnegie


Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. Samuel Johnson


On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. William R. Inge


Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. William Feather


I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. Allen J. Lefferdink


In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln


Be a Fruitloop in a world of Cheerios.


Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.


The hardest thing to find in life is happiness – money is only hard to find because it gets wasted trying to find happiness.


To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert


Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. Mark Twain


Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. Shari R. Barr


Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. Janet Lane


There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. Lady Blessington


You can’t buy happiness but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing.


When someone told me I lived in a fantasy land I nearly fell of my unicorn.


Some days I amaze myself. Other days I put my keys in the fridge.


The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.


Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.


Happiness does not have a price tag so smile.


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It’s the little things in life.


One day, or day one, you decide.


Happiness is not out there, it’s in you.


People wait all week for friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness.


Difficult roads often leads to beautiful destinations.


The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.


Don’t let the silly little things steal your happiness.


There is no cosmetic for beauty life happiness.


The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of everyday.


There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.


Life only comes around once, so do whatever makes you happy, and be with whoever makes you smile.


Happiness is not a goal: it is a by-product.


Someday you’ll look back and understand why it all happened the way it did.


Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.


One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you sad.


We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.


Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. Steve Maraboli


Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. Bernard Meltzer


Happiness: A butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp; but if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Daily Crescent


Happy girls are the prettiest. Audrey Hepburn


Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.


Be you. Do you. For you.


There a so many beautiful reasons to be happy.


One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows. Chinese Proverb


You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair. Chinese Proverb


Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are. Chinese Proverb


If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. Chinese proverb


Happiness is a place between too much and too little. Finnish proverb


Seeking happiness is a straight way to misery. English proverb


There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.


Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.


You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it. Henepola Gunaratana


It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. L.M. Montgomery


Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections. Bob Marley


God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr


Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life. Naval Ravikant


Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. Germaine Greer


There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. C. JoyBell C.


Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. Nathaniel Branden


A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Unknown


Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? Yevgeny Zamyatin


If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell


Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. John Stuart Mill


There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way. Thich Nhat Hanh


Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh


When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. Niccolo Machiavelli


Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Nathaniel Hawthorne


There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark


Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. Robert Brault


Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. Henry Ward Beecher


Usefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental. Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife


Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. Robert S. Lynd


To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. Robert Brault


The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle


Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost


To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell


The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton


All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson


Ups and downs. Victories and defeats. Sadness and happiness. That’s the best kind of life. Maxime Lagacé


The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge


There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith


If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. W. Beran Wolfe


You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus


I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. Diego Val


Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. H.W. Byles


Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. Steve Maraboli


The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus


But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus


Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell


Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. Benjamin Franklin


Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. George Bernard Shaw


In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost


Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa


Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. Sri Chinmoy


The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo


Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein


Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell


Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever. Peter Hagerty


One must become mad with love in order to realize God. But that love is not possible if the mind dwells on ‘woman and gold’. Sex-life with a woman! What happiness is there in that? The realization of God gives ten million times more happiness. Ramakrishna


Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer


All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza


There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. Charlotte Bronte


True happiness comes not from a limited concern for one’s own well-being, or that of those one feels close to, but from developing love and compassion for all sentient beings. Dalai Lama


I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you’re watching something you do make somebody happy – that’s when happiness happens. Eve Ensler


Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. John Ruskin


But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. Lafcadio Hearn


In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love. Marla Gibbs


Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own…Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein


Living our life deeply and with happiness, having time to care for our loved ones, this is another kind of success, another kind of power, and it is much more important. Thich Nhat Hanh


People happy in love have an air of intensity. Stendhal


Once you do something you love, you never have to work again. Willie Hill


Happiness is only real when shared. Jon Krakauer, Into The Wild


Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. John Lennon


Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust


Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. Steve Maraboli


Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. Charlotte Bronte


You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy. Alan Cohen


We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill


The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust


Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus


Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. Alan Cohen


I don’t plan. I’m not a planner. I prefer to live in the moment and be free and to flow and to be happy. Naval Ravikant


I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek


The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count. Jennifer Niven


Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. Greg Anderson


If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton


Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self? Ralph Waldo Emerson


Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. Christian Nestell Bovee


We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Frederick Keonig


A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. Bernard de Fontenelle


As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. Andrew Delbanco


The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer


The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. Doug Larson


How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. Gerald Jampolsky


My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. Thornton Wilder


Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault


Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. Maxim Gorky


Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. Carl Sandburg


Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. Douglas Jerrold


Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness. Friedrich Nietzsche


We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Walter Savage Landor


Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns


It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. Philip Green


The most important thing in the world is family and love. John Wooden


Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. Michael J. Fox


If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw


Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. Divyanka Tripathi


It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.


All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy


People should find happiness in the little things, like family. Amanda Bynes


Family, friends, a good laugh and beautiful weather are the best cures. Bar Refaeli


Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale


To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha


If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. Taisen Deshimaru


It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. Dale Carnegie


The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Marcus Aurelius


The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life. Roy T. Bennett


Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Roy T. Bennett


A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. Seneca


Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln


Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. William Adams


Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them. Marcus Aurelius


The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. John Milton


To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek. Alan Cohen


The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. James Openheim


Misery is almost always the result of thinking. Joseph Joubert


Joy is not in things; it is in us. Richard Wagner


Laughter is poison to fear. George R.R. Martin


Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. Norm Papernick


We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. Jean de La Bruyere


With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. William Shakespeare


Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. Alan Alda


I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat. Allen Klein


Laughing brains are more absorbent. Alton Brown


Determine to live life with flair and laughter. Benjamin Franklin


Laughter is eternity if joy is real. Bono


Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, ‘I can’t tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let’s walk faster.’ Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling. Ellen Degeneres


Never give up. Laugh a lot. Be good to others. James Dashner


If you can laugh together, you can work together. Robert Orben


You laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at you because you’re all the same. Jonathan Davis


If you can laugh, you can get through it. In our house, we laugh a lot. Jami Gertz


Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit. Rachael Ray


I live to laugh, and I laugh to live. Milton Berle


Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle


You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes. Lauren Oliver


I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy. Neil Gaiman

1. I smiled to many people for more than a billion times; but when I first saw you, my heart took over and smiled for the first time
2. I never need to see the sun again, there's enough light in your eyes to light up all the world.
3. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
4. If kisses were stars, I'd give you the sky. If touches were tears, I would cry. If love was water, I'd give you the sea. And be with you for all eternity.
5. If I count how many times you've crossed my mind in my entire life, I'd be lying if I say it was too many. Cause you only crossed my mind once. Why? Cause you never left it.
6. If lightning strikes, I'd cover my heart so when it hits me, I'd fall happily knowing I protected you. Cause I spared the place where you have always been.
7. If someone would ask me what a beautiful life means, I would lean my head on your shoulder and hold you close to me and answer with a smile: "Like this!"
8. A person you love is an extension of yourself. Without it, you're not complete so better take care of yourself because I don't want to lose a part of me.
9. Last night I looked up and matched each star with a reason why I love you; I was doing great, until I ran out of stars.
10. I'm so shy to tell you this, that I'm so in love with you. I'll not ask for anything else but for this one thing. Remember, this is not just a quote.

A CHARM TO WIN LOVE

O Christ, by your five wounds, by the nine orders of angels, if this woman is ordained for me, let me hold her hand now, and breathe her breath.

O my love (name), I set a charm to the top of your head, to the sole of your foot, to each side of your breast, that you may not leave me or forsake me. As a foal after the mare, as a child after the mother, may you follow, and stay with me till death comes to part us asunder.

Amen.

A CHARM TO WIN LOVE

A charm of most desperate love, to be written with a raven,s quill in the blood of the ring finger of the left hand.

"By the power that Christ brought from heaven, mayest thou love me, woman 1 As the sun follows its course, mayest thou follow me. As light to the eye, as bread to the hungry, as joy to the heart, may thy presence be with me, O woman that I love, till death comes to part us asunder."

Amen.

A CHARM FOR LOVE

This is a charm I set for love; a woman,s charm of love and desire; a charm of God that none can break:

"You for me, and I for thee, and for none else; your face to mine, and your head turned away from all others."

This is to be repeated three times secretly, over a drink given to the one beloved.

A CHARM TO CAUSE LOVE

Golden butter on a new-made dish, such as Mary set before Christ. This to be given in the presence of a mill, of a stream, and the presence of a tree; the lover saying softly:

"O woman, loved by me, mayest thou give me thy heart, thy soul and body. Amen."

A CHARM AGAINST SORROW

A charm set by Mary for her Son, before the fair man and the turbulent woman laid Him in the grave.

The charm of Michael with the shield; Of the palm-branch of Christ; Of Bridget with her veil. The charm which God set for Himself when the divinity within Him was darkened.

A charm to be said by the cross when the night is black, and the soul is heavy with sorrow.

A charm to be said at sunrise, with the hands on the breast, when the eyes are red with weeping, and the madness of grief is strong.

A charm that has no words, only the silent prayer.

A CHARM TO CAUSE HATRED BETWEEN LOVERS

Take a handful of clay from a new-made grave, and shake it between them, saying:

"Hate ye one another ! May ye be as hateful to each other as sin to Christ, as bread eaten without blessing is to God."

A friend is a gift; God-given. And I'm ever thankful He gave me you.

Even if there is no occasion, we can send a friendship note or card to friends to let them know we are thinking about them. Here are some friendship messages we can send them to show that we appreciate them:

• The flowers of friendship and kindness never fade. Thank you for being my friend.
• Like happy memories, good friends grow more and more precious with the passing of time. So glad we are friends.
• Keeping in touch with you is so important to me. I am blessed to call you a friend.
• To my friend, let's get together real soon, I miss you!
• Best friends forever and always, you and me! I love you, friend.
• Sending a hug and a smile your way, to you let you know that I am thinking of you my friend, today.
• To my friend, sending a note to brighten your day, as you have brightened so many of mine.
• Thinking of you and what a special friend you are today.
• For all the special things you do, I thank God for a friend like you. Thank you for being a friend.
• Some thoughts of people are welcome no matter when, like the thoughts of the joys you bring as a true friend.
• Sending wishes to cheer you up today, my friend. Have a great day!
• I'm so happy that you are my friend, the world is a much better place with you here!
• Thank you for your friendship, a true gift.
• When I think of you and the special friendship we share, I am so happy and thankful!
• You are a treasured friend.
• It is the good friends along life's pathways that help us to appreciate the journey.
• Your friendship is a treasure.
• For you, my friend, thank you for all you do, and all you are!
• Your friendship makes me smile.
• Friends like you are rare indeed. I am so lucky to have you as a friend.
• You are a blessing in my life, thank you friend.
• Being your friend is one of the happiest things in life.
• A wonderful friend like you gives me a warm feeling in my heart.
• This card is sent with lots and lots of love to a friend who means so very much to me.
• You're the greatest…and I'm better because of you. Best friends forever, you and me!
• I'm thinking of you and realizing-- once again-- what a special friend you are, and how incredibly lucky I am to have you in my life!
• I thank you for your friendship, which is a truly precious gift indeed.
• Looking forward to many, many more years of laughter, fun, and friendship-- together!
• I am genuinely blessed to have you as my friend. To many more years ahead!
• Even though we don't see each other often, when we talk it's as if no time has passed at all, and I love that.
• You listen with an open heart and are always there for me with support and a kind word.
• I truly treasure our friendship and can't imagine life without you in it.
• You always manage to see the best in me even when I can't see it for myself.
• Thanks so much for being my lifeline during the difficult times-- I couldn't ask for a better friend than you!
• Sending a note to you, my friend, to brighten your day as you have done for me so many times before.

A friendship survival kit is a collection of small items and a list of what they are used for. Friendship survival kits can be a perfect gift for any friend or loved one.

You can make one for your friend as a birthday or holiday gift, or a surprise to cheer them up and a reminder that they have a friend in you.

Here’s what we need:

Bandage - To heal hurt feelings.

Candle - Your friendship lights up my life and remember to share the light with others.

Cotton Ball - To soften the rough times and cushion the bumpy roads ahead.

Eraser - A reminder that we all make mistakes, but we can always start every day with a clean slate.

Gum - A reminder that friends stick together

Happy Face - Smiling is contagious.

Jewel - Your friendship is precious to me.

Life Savers - A reminder that sometimes our friends need our help.

Match - We’re a perfect “match.”

Paper Clip - To keep everything together.

Pencil & Notebook - “Write” (right) your wrongs and list all your blessings every day.

Rock - To remind you of the stability of your friendship.

Rubber Band - So you can be flexible when dealing with friends.

Safety Pin - To bind us together and to keep you safe.

Sticky Tape - To tape your lips when you have nothing good to say.

Tissue - For drying tears of joy and sadness.

Toothpick - Pick out the good qualities in everyone, including yourself.

Word of God - To help and guide you. “For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword.” Hebrews 4:12

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. -- Michael Jackson


You know, let’s put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn’t be a person left in town. -- Michael Jackson


I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. -- Michael Jackson


I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am. -- Michael Jackson


Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I’d hide my face in the dark, I wouldn’t want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday. -- Michael Jackson


Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I’m crazy about her. -- Michael Jackson


But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to. -- Michael Jackson


It’s a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It’s not the truth I’m here to say. You know, don’t judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don’t care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie. -- Michael Jackson


Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There’s a movie theater. -- Michael Jackson


My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection. -- Michael Jackson


Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It’s not nice. -- Michael Jackson


I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it’s something that I cannot help, OK? But when people make up stories that I don’t want to be what I am it hurts me. -- Michael Jackson


If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt. -- Michael Jackson


Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you’re not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever. -- Michael Jackson


I’d slit my wrists rather than hurt a child. I could never do that. No-one will ever know how much these wicked rumors have hurt me. -- Michael Jackson


They used to call me a 45-year-old midget wherever I went. -- Michael Jackson


I wrote a song called Dirty Diana. It was not about Lady Diana. It was about a certain kind of girls that hang around concerts or clubs, you know, they call them groupies. -- Michael Jackson


“She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene,
I said, ‘Don’t mind, but what do you mean I am the one, Who will dance on the floor in the round?'” -- Michael Jackson


Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And – and we have bus loads of kids, who don’t get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. -- Michael Jackson


Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child. -- Michael Jackson


I was a veteran, before I was a teenager. -- Michael Jackson


Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court. -- Michael Jackson


I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me. -- Michael Jackson


I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we’re a show business family and we all work. -- Michael Jackson


I’ve helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids. -- Michael Jackson


I’m never pleased with anything, I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of who I am. -- Michael Jackson


When I see children, I see the face of God. That’s why I love them so much. That’s what I see -- Michael Jackson


“I’m not going to spend
My life being a color
Don’t tell me you agree with me
When I saw you kicking dirt in my eye
But, if you’re thinkin’ about my baby
It don’t matter if you’re black or white.'” -- Michael Jackson


My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance. -- Michael Jackson


People think they know me, but they don’t. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me. -- Michael Jackson


I’ll always be Peter Pan in my heart -- Michael Jackson


They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I – I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting. -- Michael Jackson


Just because it’s in print doesn’t mean it’s the gospel. -- Michael Jackson


The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music. -- Michael Jackson


If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. -- Michael Jackson


Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn’t him. This is not him. -- Michael Jackson


There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness. -- Michael Jackson


I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarrass easily. -- Michael Jackson

"If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace." -- Elvis Presley


"A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart." -- Elvis Presley


"Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair." -- Elvis Presley


"Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place." -- Elvis Presley


"I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine” – Elvis Presley


"I would beg and steal just to feel your heart beating close to mine." -- Elvis Presley


"Little sister, don't you do what your big sister done." -- Elvis Presley


"Money honey, if you want to get along with me." -- Elvis Presley


"Take my hand, take my whole life too, but I can't help falling in love with you." -- Elvis Presley


"There's no job too immense, when you got confidence." -- Elvis Presley


"When things go wrong, don't go with them." -- Elvis Presley


"All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. Let us make this night of magic, and make it a night of love." -- Elvis Presley


"For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels." -- Elvis Presley


"I forgot to remember to forget." -- Elvis Presley


"I'm in town on a harem holiday." -- Elvis Presley


"If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love affair." -- Elvis Presley


"Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will." -- Elvis Presley


"Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?” – Elvis Presley


"The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day." -- Elvis Presley


"When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too." -- Elvis Presley


"Animals don't hate and we're supposed to be better than them." -- Elvis Presley


"He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun." -- Elvis Presley


"I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind." -- Elvis Presley


"I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone." -- Elvis Presley


"In my beach shack, we'll be alone. In my beach shack, I'll make you feel at home." -- Elvis Presley


"Now and then, there's a fool such as I." -- Elvis Presley


"The road to love is full of danger signs." -- Elvis Presley


"We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds." -- Elvis Presley


"When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name." -- Elvis Presley


"Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand." -- Elvis Presley


"How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad." -- Elvis Presley


"I love only one girl, one in every town." -- Elvis Presley


"I'm with a crowd but oh so alone." -- Elvis Presley


"It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you." -- Elvis Presley


"Make this fire in my soul dear, forever burn” – Elvis Presley


"One night of sin is what I'm now paying for." -- Elvis Presley


“The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.” – Elvis Presley


"What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?” – Elvis Presley


"You're so square, baby, I don't care." -- Elvis Presley


"Do what's right for you, as long as I don't hurt no one." -- Elvis Presley


"I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up." -- Elvis Presley


"I was almost always true to you." -- Elvis Presley


"I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last." -- Elvis Presley


"Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing." -- Elvis Presley


"Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine." -- Elvis Presley


"Some guys fall in love with one girl, I gotta fall for two." -- Elvis Presley


"The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp." -- Elvis Presley


"When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered." -- Elvis Presley


"You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead." -- Elvis Presley