For a friend in need...

Hey guys, I haven't done this before, but my friend is going through some stuff and so I thought this could help. I asked him to give me some quotes that expressed the way he felt, and this is what I got. Some, I may have shared before, but this is how he feels, and as I've said before, quotes can always be heard more than one time. Hope things get better for you soon, just hang in there for now. This one's for you, Andrew.

"Beginnings are scary, endings are sad, but the middle is what counts." -Anonymous

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time." -Jean de la Fontaine

"I'd rather have a fool make me happy than experience make me sad." -Anonymous

"However long the night, the dawn will break." -African Proverb

"Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop." -Anonymous

"When I see your smile, and I know it's not for me, that's when I'll miss you." -Anonymous

Friends with a quote :)

My friends are amazing! I asked some of my friends to make up a quote, and this is what I got from them...plus two of my own. These are just amazing!!! I will admit, when I asked them to make one up, I wasn't sure how well it would turn out, but these are probably some of the best quotes and needed to be heard. Thanks guys for the quotes,  you all are soooo amazing! Love y'all!

"Christmas doesn't necessarily mean lots of presents - it means lots of hearts." -April Haney

"I'm as free as my hair." -Andrew West

"Every moment you move, every beat in your heart, every level of change in your soul...should have a purpose...find that inside you, hold it close and dance for that reason. Without this reason, why would one dance?" -Samantha Stout

"You can't smell the roses if the daisy is in your nose." -Gabby Bersie


"I'm a girl just like any other. One who cries when she's upset, and wishes to be held when she cries. A girl that laughs at stupid things, and wants others to laugh with her. Just a girl who tells you she loves you when she does, and want to hear you say it back when you mean it. A girl who is  too shy to express her feelings, but wishes you feel the same way too. One who just wants you to know...'I love you.'" -Alissa Lopez


"When life gives you lemons, throw them at people." -Kaiden

"We're too blessed to be depressed." -Andrew West

"Don't dream, achieve!" -Mckenna Woodward

"It's not that I've been dishonest, it's just that I loathe reality." -Andrew West

"Love is like a rose, beautiful at first....but soon dies." -Gabby Bersie


"It takes courage to be who you really are." -Shaina Shumway

"A friend is someone who is there to give you light when your life seems full of darkness." -Alissa Lopez

"Smile, cause you never know who is falling in love with it." -Shaina Shumway (changed a bit)

"Love is like a puzzle, you have to have all the pieces to make it work." -Gabby Bersie

A quote from a friend!

I swear Samantha knows just how to write cute quotes! She's AMAZING! Here's a quote she wrote! I love it!
"When we are together time flies by too rapidly. When we are apart my heart aches for you. The time drags and nights are never ending darkness. All I can do is think of you. No matter how hard I try you are the one thing always on my mind. Last time was different, this time is better. Please don't break my heart again, please don't leave me. You are all I need now. I miss you every second of life. Every breath without you feels empty. I'll just keep dreamin and hoping that everything will turn out right, everything will unfold in time." -Samantha Stout

Quoting Time!

Hey everyone! I just got these AMAZING quotes from a friend (who got them from a friend).  I really like them and I hope y'all do too! :D Thanks April for these great quotes!

"Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear."

"I have always found that if I move with 75% or more of the facts, I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy." -- Lee Iacocca, executive

"The voice of the Spirit is described in the scriptures as being neither loud nor harsh, not a voice of thunder, neither a voice of great tumultuous noise, but rather as still and small, of perfect mildness, as if it had been a whisper, and it can pierce even the very soul and cause the heart to burn. The Spirit does not get our attention by shouting." Boyd K. Packer

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” -George Levinger

"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have." -- John D. Rockefeller, industrialist

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence." -- Richard DeVos

"As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about you. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of them." -- Michael le Boeuf

The more one is in the Light the harder it is for darkness to have place in ones soul, however conversely when one is in darkness the harder it is to see the Light. The remedy to this is AGENCY! Josh. 24: 15

To increase your value, you will need more knowledge, to gain more knowledge you will need to have an open mind....the mind is like a parachute, it'll only work if it is opens!

“Ask not for a lighter load, but ask for a stronger back.” –Anonymous

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." -- David Brinkley, newscaster

"THE SECRET TO CONFIDENCE IS PREPARATION: With practice you'll come to a point of competence. You'll find yourself accomplishing your goals gracefully and confidently.
It's then that you'll do things that you never dreamed you could do.
You'll discover powers you never knew existed. Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's the result of constant work and dedication."

Wherefore, I say unto you, that ye ought to forgive one another; for he that forgiveth not his brother (sister) his trespasses standeth condemned before the Lord; for there remaineth in him the greater sin. I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men. D&C 64:9-10

"We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity." -- Walter E. Cole, Korean War Hero

Communication is the key to building healthy relationship...it's impossible to agree on all things so it is healthy to AGREE to Disagree, respectfully! –Pati Kulesa Falo

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved." -- Helen Keller, lecturer

"Your ENVIRONMENT will almost always be stronger than your WILL power, for example, just ask any drug attic to stop taking drugs but still hang around same 'friends' The solution: hang around God fearing people that obey God and Laws of the land" –Pati Kulesa Falo

“The grateful man sees so much in the world to be thankful for, and with him the good outweighs the evil. How much happier we are in the presence of a grateful and loving soul, and how careful we should be to cultivate, through the medium of a prayerful life, a thankful attitude toward God and man!” President Joseph F. Smith

Too often in a course of communication or miscommunication, one would blame the other saying it's his fault, he's wrong or he’s right, it's not so much Who is wrong and Who is right than WHAT is right and WHAT is wrong! –Pati Kulesa Falo

“The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat." Napoleon Hill

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
-- John Wooden, basketball coach

"That which ye persist in doing becomes easier not that the nature of the thing has changed BUT your ability to do it has increased!" --Unknown

Home, Sweet, Home

Hey! I'm back. I don't know if that's a good thing, or a bad thing...but I'm back and it's good for me! :D So, camp was amazing! I loved it so much! Probably the worst thing up there was the bugs! They were so annoying! You would think flies would not stick on you! My leader had a fly on her finger and was shaking it and blowing it, but that thing wouldn't get off her finger! It was insane! Oh, with all the girls that we're up there (at least this happened in my ward), with all the bugs, there was a TON of screaming going on! Myself included...mostly me and this other girl. :D Haha! I was washing my hair in the spigot up there, just minding my own business, when a HUGE something flew on to my shoulder. I only saw it from the corner of my eye and its antennas were HUGE! I freaked out! I ran screaming, with shampoo in my hair (or conditioner...not sure). :D
The saddest thing that happened there was poor Chester! Chester was a innocent little chipmunk (or squirrel to some). Gabby and I discovered him our 2nd day up there. It had rained the night before, so we had no fire that night. Well, the buckets of water that we use to put out the fire was left out there unused, since there was no fire. Poor Chester fell into the bucket, and he froze to death! How sad is that?!?! :( We had a little ceremony for him, and we buried him, even with a tombstone. So, if you ever go to Camp Shalom in the Wilderness area. Check out the area around cabins 19 and 20 (mostly 20). Look to see if the tombstone for Chester is still there. Poor little Chester. We will miss you! :( R.I.P.
 Well, let's get to some of the fun things! We had waterfront with the bishopric which was so fun. All the wards raced with each other trying to canoe as fast as possible to get little noodles (water noodles) from the water. The noodles were colored to fit the value colors for the Young Women program. (Faith[White], Divine Nature[Blue], Individual Worth[Red], Knowledge[Green], Choice and Accountability[Orange], Good Works[Yellow], Integrity[Purple], and Virtue[Gold].) Then you had to put them in the right order of the values (like the way I just put it). Well, our bishopric didn't make it up there in time, so we had to use our leaders. We were doing really good, in our own way. ;) My ward got.....3rd....TO LAST! Hahaha! :D  It was so fun though! I loved it!
Our last night up there was AMAZING! We had testimony night and man! Wow, there was a lot of feelings! I cried so hard! I have NEVER felt the spirit that strong before! It was crazy! One of the girls who said her testimony before me, really made me cry. Well, I was in the middle of my testimony and I found out that I had made her cry. All of us were crying that night. I couldn't believe it! It was so crazy! After we were all done, we all got up and started hugging. We've never done that before, but we just felt like we had to I guess. My friend, April and I hugged, and the whole time we were hugging we were both bawling our eyes out! The spirit was so strong, I was blown away.
After our testimony meeting was all done, and we all finished hugging, we got glow sticks. Huge glow sticks. When we went to bed, 3 (out of 5) of the girls upstairs wanted to cut the glow sticks and fling them around up there. While I was hiding under my sleeping bag (I'm deathly afraid of glow sticks, well when they're cut...there's a background story to why), the other girls (mainly Gabby) were flinging the glow sticks glowyness all around the upstairs loft in the cabin. It looked so cool after it was finished. It was amazing! I loved it. Parts of the floor looked like glass. It was so pretty, it was like having stars inside the cabin. The downside to it, was the smell. Uh, that horrid smell! It was so hard to fall asleep to it, so I fell asleep inside my sleeping bag. During the night, I needed some air, so I lifted my head out of the sleeping bag and wanted to gag when I did. The smell was still lingering on! It stunk so bad, but looked so pretty.
All in all, I LOVED GIRLS CAMP! There was so much that happened and it was so much fun. I loved getting to know all the new girls and it was amazing. :) So, here are some weird quotes said up there. :)
"You can have peanut butter and jelly [for dinner]." -One of the leaders
"We are happy, happy campers. And we always get along!" -Julie
"We love our flushies. We're grateful for our flushies (then swirl downwards while making a flushing noise)." -
-Zoe
"It goes on for an eternity....and a half!" -Ari
"Aw! There's your cute dimples!" -Alissa (There were many variations of this...and it's an inside joke.)
*burp* "I guess I'll have to take that medallion back!" -Bishop Sperry
Sis. Harris: "What's that your working on?" Alissa: "Schoolwork." Sis. Harris: "Oh, schoolwork...SCHOOLWORK?!?!"
"What would Taylor do if he was lost? Because HE IS!!!" YCL's (It was a cutout board of Taylor Lautner for our evening news. He was stolen.)
There were tons more I could have quoted...but looking at the time...and how I feel (tired). I decided to leave ya with what I've done. Once again, it was loads of fun, but I'm glad to be back! :D