If you have tried to quit before, you know how easily a friend's attitude about you "kicking the habit" can make or break your quit attempt. Think about those friends who support your efforts with encouraging words.

 

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

~ Ernest Hemingway~

 

Don’t lose HOPE

Cling to it!

Don’t ever stop believing
Hold on when the days go wrong

Hold on, hold on tight ~

When I was a child we played a game in which we would each stand straight as a board and then try to fall backward into the strong arms of an adult who was waiting to catch us. It's strange, but no matter how many times I'd seen it done or tried to do it myself, it was still difficult to keep from bending my knees or doing something else at the last split second to try to break my fall. Not chickening out took a certain "letting go" that went contrary to my natural reasoning and reflexes. It took complete trust in the one who was catching me.

~ Maria Morrow ~

In the Spirit of Love

You will find,
As you look back upon
  your life
That the moments that stand out,
The moments when you have really lived,
Are the moments when you have done things
In the spirit of love.

~ Henry Drummond~

 Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing, and forgiving. It is loyalty through good times and bad. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
     Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in-and-day-out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and common goals.
     If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

~ Ann Landers ~

 

Be a spendthrift in love! Love is the one treasure that multiplies by division: It is the one gift that grows bigger the more you take from it. It is the one business in which it pays to be an absolute spendthrift; give it away, throw it away, splash it over, empty your pockets, shake the basket, turn the glass upside down, and tomorrow you will have more than ever.

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