what started as a game

I knew I could win

beyond my shallow reality

you let me in

I might have denied the lies

I might have cried away the truth

so busy, with myself

but I couldn’t stop thinking about your voice

so confused in my head

I spend my days just rolling in around in my bed

I couldn’t move last night

no strength was in my heart

no strength in sight

the thought of you not there

left my heart feeling so lonely, and bare

I wish we never touched

I wish we never hugged

I wish we never loved

why did you have to show me these emotions?

I’m dying slowly inside, in slow motion.

what use to be funny

now all I can think about is my honey

My love walking through this world unsolemn

yet, I still can’t figure out why I feel so alone?

written by: Sheila Haukaas

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“Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher.”

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it is a comfort to go hand in hand.” ~Emily Kimbrough~

“People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross~

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share. ~Thomas Fuller~

“Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.”
- Anon

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
- Mencius

“If you should die before me, ask if you can bring a friend.”
- Stone Temple Pilots

“When it hurts to look back, and you’re scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.”

“Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance, but never in heart.”

“Promise you won’t forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”
~Winnie the Pooh~

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

“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.” ~Unknown~

“It is by chance we met . . .
By choice we became friends.”

“Tears may come and go,
But there’s one thing I know.
All my life you’re a friend of mine.
You can depend on me.
I’ll be fine…
‘Cause you’re a friend of mine.”
-Clarence Clemens

“One can’t complain. I have my friends. Why, someone spoke to me only yesterday.” ~Eeyore~

“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer”

“How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to” ~Unknown~

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
~Helen Keller~

“A circle is round it has no end, that’s how long I want to be your friend!”
~Anonymous~

“It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it.” ~Source Unknown~

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“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one”

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.
-Oliver North

“No one knows how truely bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good”
-CS Lewis

“For thirty years people have been asking me how I reconcile X with Y! The truthful answer is that I don’t. Everything about me is a contradiction and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.”
-Orson Welles

I do not love “good” more than I love “bad.” Hitler went to heaven. When you understand this, you will understand God.
-Neale Donald Walsch

If I say you are a bad person I can almost see you worsen.
Funny how my words for you have a way of becoming true in my mind.
-Kare Anderson

“Looking for the good in everything is equally as misguided as looking for the bad in everything.”
-Joseph Curiale

If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.
-Philip Jason

Anything bad you say or do today can be used against you, anything good will be forgotten
-D

If we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
-Howard Zinn

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
-Honore de Balzac

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“I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.”

Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Failure is a word unknown to me.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

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1. Abraham Lincoln Sayings

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to away, it’s best to let him run.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I shall try to correct errors where shown to be errors, and I shall adopy new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Things may come to those who wait…but only the things left by those who hustle.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of democracy.

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1. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Quotes

Muhammad, Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha. All the world’s religious saints and prophets hold love as a central value, the glue that anchors the universe.

We hear, “Love makes the world go round,” and “Love heals all wounds.” These are familiar themes: love of friends, ideas, and self. Love of God and of country. Even love of life itself. If I could only have one word for all eternity, love would be my choice.

2. Know thyself. —Socrates

In college I studied philosophy under Professor Don Crosby, and met Socrates early. In career development, self-knowledge is everything. In a career, you can be two or three degrees off course and walk into a wall, instead of through a doorway. You don’t have to be far off to have it fail.

Career unhappiness often results from lack of focus, and lack of focus stems from limited self-knowledge. But self-knowledge takes time, introspection, and effort. So it’s easy to avoid.

3. Inches make champions. —Vince Lombardi

Under Vincent Thomas Lombardi’s direction, the Green Bay Packers collected six division titles, five NFL championships, two Super Bowls, and record of 98-30-4. Lombardi knew a lot about winning. If football is a game of inches, so is career success. In the competitive world, you seldom win by a landslide.

Buzz Sullivan, my high school diving coach, told me, “A champion is someone who goes so far they can’t go another inch—and then they go that inch.” I wondered why that was important. Now I know. Winning in business or in personal life is all about inches: going small distances successfully, then going farther still.

4. Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost

We are swamped in change. And we had better get used to it, or at least figure out how to deal with it. In our parents’ day, career change was uncommon. The norm was lifetime employment. Now CAREER = CHANGE. You’ll have five careers in a lifetime, maybe six. Perhaps you’ll do part-time, project, interim, or consulting work. And even if you’re in your ideal dream job today, that might change tomorrow. Nothing gold can stay.

Martin Bucco taught English literature at Colorado State University, and first brought my attention to what words could mean. Bucco spoke of what he called “the great dead minds,” those who have come before us and written their thoughts. He also said, “Time in life is short. You can only read so many books, so choose wisely.” We spent many classes unwrapping Robert Frost’s genius, and this is one of the poems that hit home:

NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY — by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

5. Work is love made visible. —Kahlil Gibran

About 80% of people are unhappy at work, and 20% are happy. Our culture has separated work from passion, and taught us to prefer a higher paycheck to higher happiness. That mistake costs us our souls. The goal of career development is to uncover one’s gifts and passions, and to link them to the practical needs of the world. We call that “being in the right place,” “finding a good fit,” or “making the best use of one’s talents.”
In What Color Is Your Parachute? my mentor, Dick Bolles, quotes Fred Buechner, who writes, “There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work . . . (and) the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” [2001 Edition, page 57.]
High compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It’s not that we shouldn’t seek money, and lots of it; many of our clients do. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we’re doing. That’s the realization of our highest calling.

6. No great thing is created suddenly. —Epictetus (A.D.200)

We live in a McDonald’s culture. We want everything instantly and without effort. And we bristle when others around us appear to be getting more, sooner. Waiting for rewards or results is out of favor. It is so uncool.
Many things are created suddenly: the two-day house makeovers on HOME & GARDEN TELEVISION, for example, but they aren’t great. They are adequate, functional, or practical improvements. Greatness requires thought and time, effort and sacrifice. Especially sacrifice.
Stellar careers aren’t built overnight. Take the orthopedic surgeon, whose education extends 15 years past high school. Take the country western star on Grand Ole’ Opry. Take the NFL quarterback or wide receiver, the CEOs, CFOs, and Vice Presidents of brand-name companies. Think about Edison, Einstein, or Galileo, or anyone else you might admire. None of them got there overnight.

Great careers are built upon hundreds of thousands of small efforts, undertaken daily, that eventually grow into a series of satisfying wins. An ad for Paul Masson Vineyards picturing a bottle of wine said, “Nothing good happens fast.” I framed it, and hung it in my office.

7. Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin

This is a variation on “Actions speak louder than words” and on Shakespeare’s superb quote, “Talkers are no good doers.” An executive search consultant who recruited 500 bank presidents told me, “There are two kinds of candidates: tap dancers and superstars. Tap dancers go through the motions and superstars get the work done. I recruit the superstars.”

8. No wind favors he who has no destined port. —Montaigne

The cliche, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there,” is valid. And many careers are broken by lack of direction. Corporations define this concept as having a mission or vision, and organizations lacking vision usually flounder. “Career Planning” speaks to the idea of creating a blueprint for your future. That is, having a goal, a destined port—fulfilling your destiny. Stephen R. Covey said it well in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People when he advised us to “Begin with the end in mind.”

9. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. —Seneca

I’ve been there. You’ve been there. Sometimes life is hard. You hit a career roadblock or dead end. Nothing seems to be working. You’re fired or laid off. Or worse yet, you and your spouse are both unemployed. It happens. And it happens more frequently than you might imagine, to good people, qualified candidates, because of circumstances beyond their control. I like Churchill’s words, “Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.” And I especially like the quote by Edmund Burke, who said: “Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”

10. Do first things first, and second things not at all.—Peter Drucker.

It’s so easy to do what’s familiar, comfortable, or fun. It’s so difficult, sometimes, to tackle the highest priority. And sometimes it’s difficult to even know your top priorities; hence, the phrase, “I can’t see the forest for the trees.”

We suffer from over-choice: 67 varieties of toothpaste, 487 styles of shoes, 186 brands of cell phones with 137 telephone companies. We demand more variety than we could possibly need or want; and as a result, we get lost in options, opportunities, and choices. There are 87 varieties of lawyers, and 75 specialties inside medicine. The world of work can be a confusing landscape.

When you’re flooded with career possibilities, or “swimming up Niagara Falls,” it’s good to spend time answering questions like, “What is the best and highest use of my talents?” and, “How can I make a bigger impact?”

If you can’t establish clear career priorities by yourself, use friends and business acquaintances as a sounding board. They will want to help. Ask them to help you determine your “first things” and “second things.” Or seek an outside coach or advisor to help you focus. Because if you don’t know what your “first things” are, you simply can’t do them FIRST.

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