TCODS - Tillamook County Outdoor School
Moses' Collection of Quotations
Relationships, Friends, Friendship, It's Not About Me, Others First, Teamwork
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook
"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." Donna Roberts
"A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a rod to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world." Lois Wyse
A true friend is one who'll tell you what you should know even if it offends you."A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." William Penn
" . . . and the song from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Thank you Luna for sharing this! '06)
Build bridges, not walls.
"Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of true friendship." Dorothy Parker
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too! I th ought I was the only one!" C.S. Lewis (Shared by Supergirl)
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. George Elliot
FRIENDSHIP isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
God decides who walks into our lives. You decide who stays or goes. (Shared by Bug)
Good friends are like angels. You don't have to see them to know they are there.
If you're alone,
I'll be your shadow.
If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.
If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.
If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile.
But anytime you need a FRIEND,
I'll just be me.
"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay." Dave Matthews Band
"In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other." Linda Ellerbee
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." Oprah Winfrey
Make new friends, but keep the old. The new are silver, and the old are gold. (Words to a round sung at ODS)
"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self." Millicent Fenwick
"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved." Barbara Johnson, The Joy Journal
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person: having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them out. Just as they are - chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away." George Eliot, 1819 - 1880
"Only a life lived for others is worth living." Albert Einstein
Our lives are filed with simple joys and blessings without end. But one of the greatest joys in life is to have you as a friend.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.
Snowflakes are some of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together!
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
"That's what you do in a herd. You look out for each other." Manny in the movie Ice Age
"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." Mark Twain
The greatest gift I could ever give you would be to see yourself through my eyes.
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." Benjamin Disraeli
"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway." Henry Boye
"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one." JK Chesterton
There is no "They," only "Us!"
"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own." Abraham Lincoln
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere." Tim McGraw
"We could learn a lot from crayons, some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names and all are different colors . . . but they all have to learn to live in the same box." (Shared by PollyWog in 2001)
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. (The Lockhorms)
When looking at others makes you resent the unfairness of life, change your focus.
"You are a piece to the puzzle of someone else's life. You may never know where you fit, but others will fill the holes in their lives with pieces of you." Paris, ODS Counselor