Rita Clifton:  

CLASS OF 1990
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Taft High SchoolClass of 1990
Cincinnati, OH

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Rita is from Cincinnati, Ohio. Rita's schools include Taft High School. Music Rita likes includes Great Laughs For The Soul, Simply Good For You, Heart Touching images. Books Rita likes include Coolest Quotes, Knowledge and Wisdom, I Love The Way U Smile It Heals My Heart. Movies Rita likes include Dirty Dancing, The Twilight Saga, The Sound Of Music. TV shows Rita likes include Sex and the City, Seinfeld, Bones. One of Rita's favorite quotes is:"*Forgiveness is the aroma released by the flower that has been stepped all over. -Unknown *When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. –Alexander Graham Bell *No matter how steep the mountain -the Lord is going to climb it with you. -Helen Steiner Rice *Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller *A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face. -Anna Lynch *I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning *Learning.. as you continue to grow, you won't have to try and find God's will; God's will-will find YOU. Eph.2:10 *You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -Dr. Seuss *My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite. -William Shakespeare *Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up!! -Original Christian Thoughts *"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is the finger of God on a man's shoulder." -Charles Morgan *We all know that the moment Peter began to focus more on the elements that surrounded him, rather than the God in front of him, he began to sink. Don’t be distracted by the elements nor let the naysayers divert your attention — stay focused on the task at hand and watch as God prevails! -T.D. Jakes Ministries/The Potter's House *Happiness needs sadness. Success needs failure. Benevolence needs evil. Love needs hatred. Victory needs defeat. Pleasure needs pain. You must experience and accept the extremes. Because if the contrast is lost, you lose appreciation; and when you lose appreciation, you lose the value of everything.-Unknown Daily Inspirational Quotes *No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. -Helen Keller *How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -Anne Frank *Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. -Jamie Paolinetti *A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. -Grace Pulpit *“Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.”-Unknown *Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. -Plautus *The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. -Unknown *As you seek to discern how to strike balance between good and better choices, don’t overlook the power of prayer to keep you focused and attuned to God’s voice in your life. If we but listen, He often speaks to our hearts and instructs us on our journey down His path.-T.D. Jakes Ministries/The Potter's House *The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. -Mother Teresa *There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. -Charles Morgan *Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. -Malagasy Proverb *"The soul is healed by being with children."-English proverb *Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. -Kahlil Gibran *Even when it looks like a dream is dead, know this: God can renew that dream and breathe new life into it.-Joel Osteen Ministries *This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson *To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. -William Shakespeare *You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. -Eleanor Roosevelt *When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. -Henri Nouwen *Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A Edison *Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco *I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.-Thomas A. Edison *But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. -Thomas Jefferson *When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. -Natalie Clifford Barney *Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. -Henry Van Dyke *"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." -H.S. TRUMAN *It was the schoolboy who said, ''Faith is believing what you know ain't so.''-Mark Twain *Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. -Erik H. Erikson *The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -G. Chesterton *Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. -John Vanbrugh *If you knew me yesterday, please don’t think that I’m the same person that you’re meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered + prayed, + I’m different. -Daily Inspirational Quotes *Lies lead to nothing but trouble!! And after you've told so many it's hard to remember who you told what!! -Daily Inspirational Quotes *Having the strength to admit your weakness is what makes you strong!-Daily Inspirational Quotes *The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of d...Expand for more
istress. -Confucius *There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept responsibility for changing them. -Denis Waitley *If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. -Michael Jordan *You cannot control what other people say about you but you can control how you react toward them and that measures who you are and not what they think you are.-Unknown *The rest of your life is a long time and whether you know it or not it's being shaped right now. You can choose to blame your circumstances on fate, or bad luck, or bad choices. Or you can fight back. Things aren't always going to be fair in the real world. That's just the way it is. But for the most part, you get what you give. The rest of your life is being shaped right now. With the dreams you chase....The choices you make....and the person you decide to be. The rest of your life is a long time. And the rest of your life starts right now. -Daily Inspirational Quotes *We regret the past and look forward to the future We miss the things we had and hope for the best for the future. Yet, shouldn't we be enjoying the present instead? -Unknown *The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. -Unknown *There will come a time when you are circled with guilt, anger, sorrow, and sadness. You will feel like the world is out to get you. You may feel like you have no friends,or even no family to support you. You may think that you have hit rock bottom. But if you say to yourself over and over again, "everything happens for a reason", and you ask God for help, you will make it through your hard times. After all, he who has nothing to lose, has everything to gain. -Daily Inspirational Quotes *To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. -G. Chesterton *The quieter you become, the more you can hear. -Daily Inspirational Quotes *Games will be played, hearts will be broken, tears will fall, people will change and rumors will be spread.. But life will always go on. -Daily Inspirational Quotes *Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others. -Buddha *By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy. -Jane Roberts *The truth may sometimes hurt for a moment, but the pain u experience from a lie can last forever. -Daily Inspirational Quotes *Don't lose hope. When you are down to nothing, God is up to something. -Daily Inspirational Quotes *Sometimes you have to let go to see if there's anything worth holding on to. -Daily Inspirational Quotes *Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. -Og Mandingo *Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.-St. Augustine *It's never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot *Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. -Benjamin Franklin 1706 *We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us. -Margaret Guenther *Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -Robert Heinlein *Even when you're down feeling lower than low most peoples lives are not as great as they show so just remember when you don't think it's worth it just live life happy because nobody's perfect. -Daily Inspirational Quotes *I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have. -Steve Pavlina *If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. -Michael Jackson *Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. -Zora Neale Hurston *Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. -Carl Sandburg *We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. -Martin Luther King, Jr. *Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. -Daily Inspirational Quotes *Don't lie to me to protect my feelings or because your worried I will get mad at you, I can handle the truth. -Unknown *It takes courage to stand up and speak out for your own beliefs. It requires wisdom to sit down and listen to someone else’s. -Unknown *To love without condition, to talk without intention, listen without judging, to give without reason and to care without expectation. Art of true relationship *Our first and last love is - self-love.-Bovee *Tough times never last, but tough people do.-Dr. Robert Schuller *Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. -Abraham Lincoln *Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.-Penelope Sweet *Growing is when your Higher Power uses the same things that hurt you, as a tool to also heal you. Let the healing begin!-Rita Clifton *This world is just a hotel room. enjoy it, but don't unpack.. because this ain't home. -Official Kirk Franklin *Whatever u run to just to get through the day is your god. if u smoke it, drink it, take it or sleep with it, u worship it...or u can make ONE stop. and the peace GOD gives will last all day. -Official Kirk Franklin *Everybody is going to want you to do what is convenient for them. learn how to say the most anointed word ever created: "NO!" -Official Kirk Franklin *If chasing your dreams is robbing you of your peace, start giving more thanks for where u are..until u get where you're going. -Official Kirk Franklin *Mantra: Saved By Grace and Blessed Beyond Belief. SBGBBB -Mikey Cribbs *Patience is the companion of wisdom. -Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD) *Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. - Joel Osteen *Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just got to find the ones worth suffering for. -Bob Marley *I've learned so much from my mistakes; the problem is when I repeat them. -Official Kirk Franklin *When we're in our car we flip radio stations if we don't like what we hear. life doesn't work like that...we have to learn how to stick through bad situations until our favorite "song" comes on. don't give up. better days are coming right after this. Hello Fear. -Official Kirk Franklin *Good morning and welcome to the UNIVERSITY of ADVERSITY. where every test prepares you for the next level in life...and every lesson not learned will be repeated. school motto: SMILE. you look so much better when you do. -Official Kirk Franklin".
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