"Two arms around me, Heaven to ground me
And a family that always calls me home
Four wheels to get there, enough love to share
And a sweet, sweet, sweet song
At the end of the day, Lord, I pray
I have a life that's good..."
Thank you @conniebritton @CharlesEsten
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"The secret, Alice, is to surround yourself with people who make your heart smile. It is then, only then, that you will find Wonderland."
- Mad Hatter, Lewis Carroll
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"there is something decidedly beautiful about a tender remnant of who you always were. and the beauty is in the realization that life's inherent abrasion and erosion could never wear that away."
-JmStorm
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"Happy New Year, my friend.
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...
Watch now, as I start the day in happiness, in kindness."
- Mary Oliver
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"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final."
- Dame Maggie Smith
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"The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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"Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it."
- Unknown
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at least one which makes the heart run over."
- Ray Bradbury
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
-James Baldwin
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"You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae."
- Paul Walker
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"Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them ... your smile, your hope, and your courage."
- Doe Zantamata
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"The good news is that joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen."
- Brene Brown
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"Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all just be a little more gentle with each other."
- Judy Garland
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"Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you do not have to fight."
- Traci Lea Larusso, writer and illustrator
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"My legacy is that I stayed on course ... from the beginning to the end because I believed in something inside of me."
- Tina Turner
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