How many slams in an old screen door Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day Depends how good you live em. How much love inside a friend Depends how much you give em.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

I think if Ive learned anything about friendship its to hang in stay connected fight for them and let them fight for you. Dont walk away dont be distracted dont be too busy or tired dont take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves it is not my nature.

Promise me youll always remember Youre braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Lord behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell for the love accorded us this day for the hope with which we expect the morrow for the health the work the food and the bright skies that make our lives delightful for our friends in all parts of the earth. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends soften us to our enemies. Bless us if it may be in all our innocent endeavors if it may not give us strength to endure that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another. We beseech of you this help and mercy for Christs sake.

Today is a new day Let today be the day you free your mind from the prison of self doubt. Your thoughts can either hinder you or propel you to the next level. Precautions are necessary to maintain your safety and well-being. But fear and precautions are two different things. When you are afraid your doubt is increased. Do what makes you happy in order to satisfy the core of your existence. Fear to be afraid of something or someone whether the threat is real or imaginedPrecaution a measure taken in advance to prevent something from happening prudent foresightDoubta feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction

When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.

Write about patriotism about victory and defeat. Write about revolutions and rebels and prisoners and wars. About emotions of love and hatred and disappointment and regret. Intangible love and uncolored hatred and heartbreaking disappointments and abysmal regrets. Write about the seven deadly sins about stealth and murder and gluttony and greed. Dont forget to write about saints and sinners all the same. Write the poor and the rich using the same words make them equal for once. Write about mothers who lost their children about those who never had to lose I challenge you to tell me which hurts more. Write about darkness and light about light in the dark and darkness in the light. Remember to write about lost friendships about those who never found a shoulder when life shut its lights dim or those who kept the secret to their sadness within. Be fair to them too. Remind the world of those who always had someone to love but not someone to love them back craft their nights and dreams carefully. Dont forget the writers who keep promises with words and silence. Be subtle. Be warm. Remember heartbeats and heartbreaks. Remember everything remember all equally.And then let the world remind you Words will never be fair to whatever you write.