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If you find yourself at a loss for words to express your emotions, try the listing of quotations below. You may find just the right words.

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