Birthday

"May all your future years be free from disappointment, care or strife, that every birthday you will be a little more in love with life."
-----------Anonymous

"A light heart lives long."
-----------Shakespeare

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing."
-----------Michael Pritchard

"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
-----------James Taylor

"Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives."
-----------Maurice Chevalier

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
-----------Garson Kanin

"It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen."
-----------Brigitte Bardot

"He who laughs, lasts."
-----------Leo Rosten

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age."
-----------Lucille Ball

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."
-----------Sigmund Z. Engel

"There is still no cure for the common birthday.""
-----------John Glenn

"At 20, the will reigns; at 30, the wit; and at 40, the judgement."
-----------Ben Franklin

Congratulations & Business

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
-----------Booker T. Washington

"Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage."
-----------Charles Luckman

"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."
-----------Joan L. Curcio

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-----------Eleanor Roosevelt

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."
-----------Les Brown

"He was a how thinker, not an if thinker.
-----------Anonymous

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
-----------Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"When you've got it, flaunt it!"
-----------Zero Mostel

"Winning is not everything. It's the only thing."
-----------Vince Lombardi

Children

"The soul is healed by being with children."
-----------Fyodor Dostoyevski

"Children are God's angels, sent by Him to brighten our world."
-----------Ladies Home Journal, 1893

"We never know the love of our parents for us til we have become parents."
-----------Henry Ward Beecher

"Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
-----------Ann Taylor

"I think of my children's births-carry them around with me every day of my life."
-----------Joyce Maynard

"The first handshake in life is the greatest of all: the clasp of an infant's fist around a parent's finger."
-----------Anonymous

"The art of being a parent is to sleep when the baby isn't looking."
-----------Henry Ward Beecher

"Flowers and children-emblems meet, of all things innocent and sweet."
-----------Marguerite Blessington

Death & Bereavement

"In my end is my beginning."
-----------T.S. Eliot

"And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes and death will be no more."
-----------Revelations 21:4

"Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal."
-----------Thomas Moore

"Death is not the last sleep. It is the final awakening."
-----------Walter Scott

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
-----------Thomas Mann

"Brief is life but love is long."
-----------Alfred Lord Tennyson

"It is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."
-----------Charles Dickens

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."
-----------Sophocles

"May God hold you in the palm of His hand."
-----------Irish blessing


Get Well

"Of cheerfulness, or a good temper-the more it is spent, the more it remains."
-----------Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Were all the year one constant sunshine, we should have no flowers."
-----------Henry Vaughan

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
-----------Helen Keller

"What does not destroy me, makes me strong."
-----------Friedrich Nietzsche

"Hope! Of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure."
-----------Abraham Cowley

"Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!"
-----------I Samuel 25:6

"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows."
-----------Helen Keller

"Sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
-----------Isaiah 35:10

"I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining. I believe in love, even when I do not feel it. I believe in God, even when he is silent.
-----------Anonymous

Love

"It is at the edge of a petal that love awaits."
-----------William Carlos Williams

"The rose speaks silently of love, in a language known only to the heart."
-----------Unknown

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
-----------Victor Hugo

"The love we give away is the only one we keep."
-----------Elbert Hubbard

"A heart that loves is always young."
-----------Greek proverb

"Real love stories never have endings."
-----------Richard Bach

"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another."
-----------Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

"Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons."
-----------Kahlil Gibran

"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
-----------1 Corinthians 13:4-8

"Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love."
-----------Virgil

"Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine."
-----------Christina G. Rossetti

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-----------George Sand

"Love is the bridge between two hearts."
-----------Unknown

New Baby

"Flowers are words which even a baby can understand."
-----------Arthur C. Coxe

"Every child is born a genius."
-----------R. Buckminster Fuller

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced."
-----------Native American

Friendship

"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."
-----------Anonymous

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."
-----------Hubert Humphrey

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
-----------James M. Barrie

"Kind hearts are the garden,
kind thoughts are the roots,
kind words are the blossoms,
kind deeds are the fruit."
-----------John Ruskin

"The older you get, the more you need to know those who knew you when you were young."
-----------Unknown

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving, human soul on another."
-----------George Eliot

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
-----------Aristotle

"Friendship is when people know all about you, but like you anyway."
-----------Anonymous

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
-----------Walter Winchell

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
-----------Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness."
-----------Lois L. Kaufman

"The only rose without thorns is friendship."
-----------Unknown

"You're good enough,
you're smart enough,
and doggone it
people really like you!"
--------- -Stewart Smalley