And sometimes things happen to you at the time that may seem horrible, painful and unfair, but in reflection you realize that without overcoming those obstacles you would never realize your potential, strength, will power or heart.

Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of luck. Illness, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test limits of your soul.

Without these small tests, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere safe and comfortable but dull and utterly pointless.

The people you meet affect your life. The successes and downfalls that you experience can create whom you are, and the bad experiences can be learned from. In fact they are probably the most poignant and important ones. If someone hurts you, betrays you or breaks your heart, forgive them because they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart.

If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but also because they are teaching you to love and open your heart and eyes to little things. Make every day count. Appreciate everything that you possibly can, for you may never experience it again.

Talk to people whom you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Let yourself fall in love, break free and set your sights high. Hold you head up because you have every right to.

Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you. Create your own life and then go out and live it.

- Unknown

You come to me like a shining star from the starry sky
Giving me guiding light and inspiration is my darkest night
Making me sing a new melody at lonesome days as it passes by
Taking away weariness, with your beautiful smiles

You’re the sunshine that sprouts seeds at twilight of my life
That brings new vision, new challenges to live without strife
As your nocturnal cries awaken the birds to fly high and be free
Unafraid of whatever strong winds that may come their way

You’re the rain that washes away the pain of my haunting past
Keeping me dry with your warm thoughts and lively eyes
Where colorful butterflies give beautiful thoughts for tomorrow
That paints enchanting, magnificent rainbow in my new heaven

Thy laughter and mimicry is a cool breeze that fans streams
To perk up waterfalls around me to strum sonorous rhythm
Sharing sonata to the valleys and hills that are dry and lifeless
Liken to my heart that needs love, sympathy, care and praises

Oh! How blessed am I to have you my beautiful wife
Abundant oasis of hope that waters henceforth life’s emptiness
Ushering in more blessings of love, peace and success in me
Had been elusive in years I lived in lifelessness and shame!

- Herofil Olarte

Every day is like the one before
I find I’m more hurt and lost
Than ever before

I can’t remember a time
Where I was happy and smiling
It feels like forever
That inside I’ve been dying

It’s strange
But I’ve got use to it
Being this way
It’s part of my life now
Depressed everyday

I thrive on the sadness
That tears at my heart
I find some sort of comfort in it
This pain that rips me apart

I was once smiling
Once warm
And so care free
Now I look at myself
And say
“What has happened to me?”

What made me this way?
So cold and lost
Were the memories so bad
That I forced them to be forgot

How I can brake free?
And leave this behind
I’m tired of being this way all the time

I just want to be held close
But I know I will push everyone away
I’m too scared to let anyone in
Because I know no one will stay

How do you fix a soul
Which has pieces long gone
How do you fix a life?
That has gone so badly wrong

How do you save a guy?
Who can’t save himself?
How can you hear him
When he silently cries for help?

How do you save me?
When I’ve fallen so far
How can you heal these wounds
Which have turned to scars?

This is who I am
Every day and every night
sad isn’t it?

- T T

Damn baby,
I wish there was a way for me
to show you how much you mean to me.
I wish I could show you
how much I love you
and how much your love means to me,
but thats kinda hard, because it is so much!
My love for you is so strong,
aint nothing in the world
ever going to change how I feel for you.
Everytime I close my eyes,
your face is what I see.
You’re on my mind all day and night,
even when Im asleep you’re running through my head.
You mean so much to me,
I cherish each and every minute we spend together.
I want time to freeze
and it just be you and me always and forever.
Each day going through
not being able to wait to talk to you.
Its a longing in my heart to hear your voice
because when I hear you I light up.
you lighten my whole world.
You make me smile and make me so happy,
when no one else could.
Your love means so much to me
and I promise Im not going to do anything
to threaten that, baby.
I dont make promises that I think might not happen
but baby Im so sure about this.
I promise you, my life, my happiness,
and my love, always and forever.
I love you so much baby
I just wish I could show you
how much you mean to me!

- Laci

- Brittany Tinkham

- Kristen A Szymanski

Maybe it’s true when you’re blue
You seem to exist in a world
Just within you
Unnoticed and unheard
In a place as careless
As me and of course
As you… isn’t it that true?
Cruel moments maybe realized
If only ego knew how far it would go
Before it learns to blend
In harmony of endless regrets
That plays a sound in the heart
Without its sweetest melody
Waiting to be set free
No matter how hopeless
And no longer with thee…

- Herofil Olarte

A smile is precious, a smile is free
what a wonderful sight a smile can be
I will tell you a secret, one that is true
the smile that Im wearing
was put there by….YOU

thanx so much James you changed my life

- Caroline Logan

Just to be with you once more
Is something my heart longs for
I can’t get you out of my head
Go haunt somebody else instead

I am so very confused
My heart has become bruised
I want you to be here
And take away all my fear

I wish I could see the future
And maybe get some closure
I miss you more than ever before
I want to be the one you adore

Why cant things just work out
You’re the one I don’t want to be without
If it is not supposed to be
Then get outta my head and let me be free

- Breanne Cope

- David