Quotes by Toni Sorenson

Friends don’t come ready-made or one-size-fits-all. True friends are always custom fit and one-of-a-kind…just for you.

The Bible says that to have a friend we must show ourselves friendly. To that, I say, “Amen.

I just want a friend who “gets” me and then wants to keep me—flaws and all.

Want to be a good friend? Here’s what a friend does well: they listen, they stand by you, they tell you the brutal truth, they cause your tears from time to time, but then help you wipe them dry, they laugh with you…a lot, they don’t bring up your bad memories, they try to love the people you love, they go places with you at the most inconvenient times, they laugh some more, they create experiences and a string of memories held together by love, mostly that’s what they do…they love you even when you don’t love you.

Friendship, neglected, is like a flower deprived of water and sunlight.

You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself.

Friendship develops over tears, times, laughs and lunch.

A true friend will never stand in your allotted beam of light. They will get out of the way so you can grow, but they’ll stay nearby in case you need what they can offer.

Friends might share clothes and chocolate, but they must share books. Just like you share the same stars, share the same books and youll never be apart.

If you’re truly friends, then you don’t just offer a little whisp of your love. You unzip your chest, reach in and pull your heart out and says, “It’s all yours—please keep it beating.

Friendship is never measured it words…it’s measured in memories.

Just because our friendship has changed and now we grow in different directions, does not mean that we have to grow apart.

If you leave your dreams on your pillow, you might as well just stay in bed. To make dreams come true you’ve got to get up and take action.

No one else will ever see your dream until YOU envision it. See it and they’ll see it too.

We all want to be happier, more financially secure and to experience more rewarding relationships. We all dream of making something more of our lives. A mountain trail is a terrific place to make our biggest, boldest, brightest dreams come true.

My mother smoked two packs of cigarettes a day. Before she smoked her first cigarette, she was free to choose whether or not she would smoke. After awhile, her freedom reverted to Satan—so it would seem. The choice was no longer hers—so it would seem. Her mind and body were attacked with nicotine cravings that got so bad she would sometimes sacavage through garbage cans for butts when she’d run short on full cigarettes. I watched, baffled at how something so small and so disgusting to me could have such power over my mother. That’s the thing about addiction—it binds us one choice at a time. That’s also the good news about addition—you can unravel the hold it has on you—one choice at a time.

Just because there is change around us does not mean there has to be change within us.

There’s still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then.

Every woman has beauty. Every woman has worth. Every woman deserves a chance at happiness.

If you could see into a woman’s heart you’d be shocked at the cracks and chasms of self-doubt, fear, and pain it holds. It’s a wreck and yet it manages to love like it’s never been broken.