Friendship
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. ~Robert Brault
To: Amanda
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
To: HweiYeen , Minghui , Jasmine Ow , Kaili & rest of my friends(;
This a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ~Benjamin Franklin
To: My friends
The best time to make friends is before you need them. ~Ethel Barrymore
To: Shara
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn
To: Hweiyeen , Minghui & Jasmine Ow
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor
To: Hweiyeen , Minghui & Jasmine Ow
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Broken Hearts
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
To: Amanda & Hwei Yeen
You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless. ~Stelle Atwater
To: Amanda
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown
To: My Friends
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks
To: Amanda
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell
[You're right]
I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.
To: Hwei Yeen & Amanda
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ~Samuel Johnson
To: Shara
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde
[I super agree]
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper
To: Hwei yeen & Ivy
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks
To: Besties ♥
I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown
To: Amanda
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Forgiveness
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi
[I love this man!]
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson
To: My Friends
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin
To: Me
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde
To: Minghui , Shara & Me
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Gratitude
Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~George Colman
[Agreed]
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen
To: Mr Eugene Lim
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Jealousy
Envy is a waste of time. ~Author Unknown
To: Everyone
Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has. ~Elizabeth O'Connor
To: Everyone
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Fear
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie
To: Minghui , Hweiyeen, Jasmine Ow & Kaili
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
To: Me
Fear is faith that it won't work out. ~Sister Mary Tricky
To: Me & Jasmine
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Time
Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada
To: Me
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ~Carl Sandburg
To: Minghui
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb Colton
To: Amanda & HweiYeen
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. ~Denis Waitely
[LOL!]
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Louis Hector Berlioz
To: Me
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Perseverance
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. ~Antonio Porchia
To: Hweiyeen & Me
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault
To: Hweiyeen
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller
To: Me
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
To: Everyone
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking
To: Ling Ah Ling
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ~Author Unknown
To: Me , Hweiyeen , Minghui & Kaili
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw
[I love this!]
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein
To: Me
You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something. ~From the television show Family Matters
To: Amanda
He conquers who endures. ~Persius
To: Jasmine & Me
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. ~Robert Brault
To: Amanda
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
To: HweiYeen , Minghui , Jasmine Ow , Kaili & rest of my friends(;
This a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ~Benjamin Franklin
To: My friends
The best time to make friends is before you need them. ~Ethel Barrymore
To: Shara
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn
To: Hweiyeen , Minghui & Jasmine Ow
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heather Pryor
To: Hweiyeen , Minghui & Jasmine Ow
____________________________________________________
Broken Hearts
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
To: Amanda & Hwei Yeen
You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless. ~Stelle Atwater
To: Amanda
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown
To: My Friends
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks
To: Amanda
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell
[You're right]
I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.
To: Hwei Yeen & Amanda
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ~Samuel Johnson
To: Shara
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde
[I super agree]
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper
To: Hwei yeen & Ivy
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks
To: Besties ♥
I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown
To: Amanda
____________________________________________________
Forgiveness
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi
[I love this man!]
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson
To: My Friends
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin
To: Me
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde
To: Minghui , Shara & Me
____________________________________________________
Gratitude
Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~George Colman
[Agreed]
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen
To: Mr Eugene Lim
____________________________________________________
Jealousy
Envy is a waste of time. ~Author Unknown
To: Everyone
Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has. ~Elizabeth O'Connor
To: Everyone
____________________________________________________
Fear
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie
To: Minghui , Hweiyeen, Jasmine Ow & Kaili
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
To: Me
Fear is faith that it won't work out. ~Sister Mary Tricky
To: Me & Jasmine
____________________________________________________
Time
Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada
To: Me
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ~Carl Sandburg
To: Minghui
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb Colton
To: Amanda & HweiYeen
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. ~Denis Waitely
[LOL!]
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~Louis Hector Berlioz
To: Me
____________________________________________________
Perseverance
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. ~Antonio Porchia
To: Hweiyeen & Me
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault
To: Hweiyeen
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller
To: Me
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
To: Everyone
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking
To: Ling Ah Ling
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ~Author Unknown
To: Me , Hweiyeen , Minghui & Kaili
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw
[I love this!]
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein
To: Me
You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something. ~From the television show Family Matters
To: Amanda
He conquers who endures. ~Persius
To: Jasmine & Me
