Quotes for Your Jewelry Box

Our most requested engraving quotes, organized by category. Copy one you love and paste it into the engraving box on any product page — or see how personalization works.

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• The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
• Be the change you want to see in the world. -Gandhi
• Be who you are and may you be blessed in all that you are. -Torah
• Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live today. -Richard Bach
• Life isn’t about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together.
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Thoreau
• A good sister is worth more than a thousand friends.
• Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
• How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? -Satchel Paige
• Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air… -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Loved you then, love you still; always have, always will.
• Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
• Whatever you are, be a good one. -Abe Lincoln
• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -Helen Keller
• Dwell in possibility. -Emily Dickinson
• Believe there are no limits but the sky. -Cervantes
• Be humble, for you are made of earth; be noble, for you are made of stars. -Serbian proverb
• A father holds his children’s hands for awhile, their hearts forever.
• Family is where your story begins.
• Follow your heart.
• The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward.
• Let nothing dim the light that shines from within. -Maya Angelou
• Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.
• Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.
• Love always, laugh often, dream together, share joy, forgive quickly
• A mother’s love does not measure, it just gives.
• May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life. -Apache blessing
• Ride your dreams with courage.
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you will land among the stars.
• A sister is a forever friend.
• Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
• A teacher affects eternity; they can never know where their influence stops. -Henry Brooks Adams
• The time is always right to do what is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
• To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
• Together is a wonderful place to be.
• We love because it’s the only true adventure. -Nikki Giovanni
• When I count my blessings, I count you twice!
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
• It’s not the years of life, it’s the life in the years. -Abe Lincoln
• You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss

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Art

• Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad. -Ann Geddes
• Anyone can be cool. Awesome
• A work of art that did not begin in emotion is not art. -Paul Cezanne
• Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. -Rene Magritte
• Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. -Edgar Degas
• Choose only one master…nature. -Rembrandt
• Creativity takes Courage. -Henry Matisse
• Every good painter paints what he is. -Jackson Pollock
• Feet. What do I need them for if I have wings to fly? -Frida Kahlo
• Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist. -Edward Hopper
• Great art picks up where nature ends. -Marc Chagall
• I can only draw what I see. -Claude Monet
• If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. -Edward Hopper
• In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. -Marc Chagall
• I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. -Joan Miro
• My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. -Claude Monet
• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. -Leonardo da Vinci
• Those who wonder discover that this is, in itself, a wonder. -M.C. Escher
• The golden opportunity you seek is within yourself. -Mary Engelbreit
• The more I think, the more I feel there is nothing truly more artistic than to love people. -Vincent Van Gogh
• The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting. -Vincent Van Gogh
• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. -Michelangelo
• We live in a fractured world. I have always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. -Anish Kapoor
• Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. -Leonardo da Vinci

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Faith & Religion

• Be who you are and may you be blessed in all that you are. -Torah
• Blessings on your First Communion
• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. -St. Francis De Sales
• Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.” -the Talmud
• Everyone has a heaven inside. -Kate Bush
• Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
• For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. -Jeremiah 29:11
• For it is in giving that we receive. -St. Francis of Assisi
• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. -Reinhold Niebuhr
• God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees; and flowers; and clouds; and stars. -Martin Luther
• Greater love has no one than this; to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. -John 15:13
• I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. -The Baal Shem Tov
• If any differences arise amongst you, behold Me standing before your face, and overlook the faults of one another for My name’s sake and as a token of your love for My manifest and resplendent Cause. – Bahá′u′lláh
• If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love. -Mother Teresa
• In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love, and from the nightingale of affection and desire loosen not thy hold. – Bahá′u′lláh
• It is a tree of life for those who grasp it, and all who uphold it are blessed. Its ways are pleasant, and all paths are peace.
• Levitating on the power of God’s love, I soar above the pain and heartache now; Flying ever upward on the wings of faith, I see the world, and many worlds, and a new world. -Robert L. Meier
• Live your beliefs and you can turn your world around. -Thoreau
• My sheep, listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. -John 10:27
• Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love. -Mother Teresa
• One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -Hasidic saying
• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. -Helen Keller
• Smile, breathe, and go slowly. -Thich Nhat Hanh
• Speed is irrelevant if you are traveling in the wrong direction. -Mahatma Gandhi
• Teach us…that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes. -Jane Austen
• The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean. -Mohandas Gandhi
• The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. -Buddha
• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Teresa
• When the solution is simple, God is answering. -Albert Einstein
• The winds of grace are always blowing and it is up to us to raise the sails.

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General

• Always keep family and friends close.
• Family is where your story begins.
• Family…life’s most precious gift!
• I love you always!
• Like branches on a tree, we grow in different directions. Yet our roots remain as one.
• May you be blessed with a generation of children on the children of your children.
• The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
• When I count my blessings, I count you twice!

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Mother

• A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.
• A mother holds her children’s hands for awhile, their hearts forever.
• A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
• A mother’s arm are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. -Victor Hugo
• A mother’s love does not measure, it just gives.
• A mother understands what a child does not say.
• Give your children two things: one is roots, the other wings.
• God could not be everywhere, so He created mothers. -Jewish proverb
• Life is better because you’re my mom.
• My friend, my inspiration, my mother.

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Father

• A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where money used to be.
• A father’s love does not measure, it just gives.
• Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. -Ann Geddes
• A father holds his children’s hands for awhile, their hearts forever.
• A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
• Give your children two things: one is roots, the other wings.
• Life is better because you’re my dad.
• My father didn’t teach me how to live, he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Kelland
• My friend, my inspiration, my dad.
• One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. -George Herbert

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Sister

• A good sister is worth more than a thousand friends.
• A sister is a forever friend.
• God made us sisters; Pharmacology made us friends.
• Life is better because you’re my sister.
• My friend, my inspiration, my sister.
• Sisters by birth, friends by choice.
• Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.

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Brother

• Life is better because you’re my brother.

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Daughter

• A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.
• Life is better because you’re my daughter.
• There could never be a father that loved his daughter more than I love you. -Paul Simon

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Son

• Life is better because you’re our son.

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Friendship

• A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
• A friend is what the heart needs all the time. -Henry Van Dyke
• A friend is someone who reaches for your hand…and touches your heart.
• A good companion shortens the longest road. -Turkish proverb
• A good friend is a connection to life – a key to sanity in a totally insane world.
• A joy shared is a joy doubled. -Goethe
• Always keep family and friends close.
• And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even when you are half cracked.
• How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.
• Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together.
• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
• Friends stay close no matter how far away they are.
• Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
• Greater love has no one than this; to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. -John 15:13
• Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
• It is in the shelter of each other that people live. -Irish proverb
• It’s the friends you call at 4 AM that matter.
• It’s not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life that counts.
• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge
• Life is better with you.
• Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. -Beethoven
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -Aesop
• One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -Hasidic saying
• Plant a seed of friendship. Reap a bouquet of happiness. -Louis Kaufman
• Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain
• The better part of one’s life consists of friendship.
• The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. -Thoreau
• The most beautiful discovery two friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. -Elizabeth Foley
• To all the days here and after, may they be filled with fond memories, happiness and laughter!
• Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. -Helen Keller
• When I count my blessings, I count you twice!
• When our friends are near, we feel that all is well and our life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities. -Helen Keller
• Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world. -William James
• You are a beautiful friend.
• You are one of my nicest thoughts. -Georgia O’Keeffe

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Graduation

• 80% of success is showing up. -Woody Allen
• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James
• All glory comes from daring to begin. -Eugene Ware
• All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.
• Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
• As you move through life, leave a wake of kindness. -Margaret Hale
• Be courageous, have faith, go forward! -Thomas Edison
• Be humble, for you are made of earth; be noble, for you are made of stars. -Serbian proverb
• Be the change you want to see in the world. -Gandhi
• Be who you are and may you be blessed in all that you are. -Torah
• Be who you really are and go the whole way. -Lao Tzu
• BELIEVE
• Behold this day. It is yours to make. -Black Elk
• Believe there are no limits but the sky. -Cervantes
• The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
• Blessed is the life that finds joy in the journey.
• Challenge yourself.
• Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live today. -Richard Bach
• Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides. -Garth Brooks
• Class of 20XX
• Creativity takes Courage. -Henry Matisse
• Life isn’t about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
• Dare to be extraordinary.
• Dare to be remarkable. -Jane Gentry
• Dare to Dream.
• Life is a daring adventure, or it is nothing.
• Do good. Be kind. Tell the truth.
• Do not be wise in words, be wise in deeds. -Jewish proverb
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. -St. Francis de Sales
• Do Something. (Something will happen.)
• Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman.
• Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss
• Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach. -Michelle Held
• Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
• Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
• DREAM
• Dwell in possibility. -Emily Dickinson
• Eat good food. Be kind. Tell the truth.
• Follow your heart.
• Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
• For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. -Jeremiah 29:11
• Forever is composed of nows. -Emily Dickinson
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Thoreau
• Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good. -Minor Myers, Jr.
• Go on with a spirit that fears nothing. -Homer
• I believe in you!
• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward.
• If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. -Jonathan Winters
• In a gentle way, you can shake the world. -Mohandas Gandhi
• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein
• It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks. -Helen Keller
• It isn’t where you come from, it’s where you’re going that counts. -Ella Fitzgerald
• It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. -Walt Disney
• It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. -Thoreau
• Just when you get used to yesterday, along comes today!
• Know yourself, do not let the world know you. -Nellie Bly
• Knowledge is love and light and vision. -Helen Keller
• Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens. -Jimi Hendrix
• Leap and the net will appear.
• Let nothing dim the light that shines from within. -Maya Angelou
• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. -Rumi
• Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. -Eileen Caddy
• Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. -John Adams
• Life is a challenge, meet it. -Sai Baba
• Life is a succession of lessons that must be lived to be understood. -Helen Keller
• Life is like riding a bicycle: to keep your balance, you have to keep moving. -Albert Einstein
• Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.
• Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me…Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. -Shel Silverstein
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mohandas Gandhi
• Look for what you want to see.
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Lord Chesterfield
• Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. -Helen Keller
• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. -Theodore Roosevelt
• Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find. -Walt Whitman
• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. -Sam Snead
• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. -Leonardo da Vinci
• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. -Victor Hugo
• Pursue a path, however narrow or crooked, on which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry David Thoreau
• Remember always that you not only have a right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• Remember what is important to you.
• Ride your dreams with courage.
• Set your goals believing.
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you will land among the stars.
• Speed is irrelevant if you are traveling in the wrong direction. -Mahatma Gandhi
• The golden opportunity you seek is within yourself. -Mary Engelbreit
• The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.
• The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. -Maya Angelou
• The most beautiful discovery two friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. -Elizabeth Foley
• The only people who can change the world are the ones who want to.
• The powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. -Walt Whitman
• There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those!
• There are no rules here. We are trying to accomplish something.
• There are two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is. -Albert Einstein
• There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone. -Jerry Garcia
• There is no set path. Follow your heart.
• The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -Emerson
• The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
• The time for thinkers has come. -Mary Baker Eddy
• The time is always right to do what is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
• This is our moment. This is our time. -Barack Obama
• Those who wish to sing will always find a song. -Swedish proverb
• Those who wonder discover that this is, in itself, a wonder. -M.C. Escher
• To imagine is everything. To know is nothing at all. -Anatole France
• To thine own self be true. -Shakespeare
• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -Albert Einstein
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the things you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, explore, dream, discover. -Mark Twain
• Very little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. -Marcus Aurelius
• Voyage upon life’s sea, to yourself be true, and whatever your lot in life may be, paddle your own canoe. -Sarah Bolton
• Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, keep the warmth of the sun in your heart.
• Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. -Roald Dahl
• We are the change we seek. -Barack Obama
• We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
• We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -Sir Winston Churchill
• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Teresa
• Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is. -Will Rogers
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. -Joseph Addison
• What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
• Whatever you are, be a good one. -Abe Lincoln
• Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. -Goethe
• What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. -Ralph Marston
• When you come to a fork in the road…take it. -Yogi Berra
• Wisdom begins in wonder.
• Wisdom Courage Strength Love
• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• Yes We Can!
• You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. -Michael Phelps
• You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
• You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -Wayne Gretzky

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Humor

• A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where money used to be.
• A meowing cat catches no mice! -Yiddish proverb
• The best way to forget your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
• If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers, 1879-1935
• God made us sisters; Pharmacology made us friends.
• Golf is a good walk spoiled. -Mark Twain
• Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. -AA Milne
• I feel a sin coming on!
• If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we’d have a pretty good time. -Edith Wharton
• If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. -Paul Gallico
• If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called Research. -Einstein
• If you’re going through hell, keep going! -Winston Churchill
• If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katherine Hepburn
• If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. -Mark Twain
• Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge
• Less is more…more or less.
• Life is just a tire swing. -Jimmy Buffet
• Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. -John Lennon
• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. -Erich Fromm
• Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
• Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. -Beethoven
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison
• Perhaps in my next life I’ll return as a seal and be forced to use all of me. Unless, of course, it’s not too late for this life!
• Well-behaved women seldom make history.
• When you come to a fork in the road…take it. -Yogi Berra
• When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on! -Thomas Jefferson
• You’ve gotta have balls…to change.

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Leadership

• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James
• A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, they will say, “We did it ourselves.” -Lao Tzu
• Carpe Diem
• Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman.
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I may walk slowly, but I do not walk backwards. -Abe Lincoln
• In a gentle way, you can shake the world. -Mohandas Gandhi
• It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
• It isn’t where you come from, it’s where you’re going that counts. -Ella Fitzgerald
• Know yourself, do not let the world know you. -Nellie Bly
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Lord Chesterfield
• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. -Theodore Roosevelt
• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. -Sam Snead
• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. -Leonardo da Vinci
• Remember always that you not only have a right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• You’ve gotta have balls…to change.

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Love & Marriage

• A good companion shortens the longest road. -Turkish proverb
• A joy shared is a joy doubled. -Goethe
• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
• All you need is love.
• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -Helen Keller
• And just when I thought love had passed me by, we met.
• And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.
• At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. -Plato
• The best way to hold a man is in your arms. -Mae West
• We have bikes to ride and people to love…now is the time!
• Can’t help falling in love with you!
• Follow your heart.
• Forever is composed of nows. -Emily Dickinson
• Go forth in life with love.
• The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
• Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. -Robert Browning
• Happiness is being married to your best friend.
• …Here’s to life, here’s to love, and here’s to you.
• I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. -The Baal Shem Tov
• I love you always!
• I love you madly!
• I love you to the moon and back.
• I love you.
• If I know what love is, it is because of you. -Hesse
• If music be the food of love, play on.
• If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love. -Mother Teresa
• In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. -Marc Chagall
• It’s not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life that counts.
• Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
• It is in the shelter of each other that people live. -Irish proverb
• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge
• Let your love be like the misty rains: coming softly, but flooding the river. -Malagasy proverb
• Life is better with you.
• Live Laugh Love
• Love always, laugh often, dream together, share joy, forgive quickly
• Loved you then, love you still; always have, always will.
• Love is a choice–a willingness to to be present to others, without pretense.
• Love’s a game that two can play and both can win.
• Love is all you need! -Lennon/McCartney
• Love is friendship on fire.
• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. -Erich Fromm
• Love is the poetry of the senses.
• Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
• Memories are the sweetest things there are.
• The minute I read my first love story, I started looking for you.
• The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
• That love is all there is, is all we know of love. -Emily Dickinson
• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. -Audrey Hepburn
• The greatest of these is love. -I Corinthians 13:1
• The heart that gives, gathers.
• The moment two hearts became one.
• The more I think, the more I feel there is nothing truly more artistic than to love people. -Vincent Van Gogh
• There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those!
• There is no remedy for love but to love more. -Thoreau
• There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. -George Sand
• There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love. -Bob Dylan
• The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. -Buddha
• They will see us waving from such great heights.
• Though we are two, we have one heart.
• To all the days here and after, may they be filled with fond memories, happiness and laughter!
• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
• To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
• Together is a wonderful place to be.
• Truly Madly Deeply!
• Two human loves make one divine. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• We love because it’s the only adventure. -Nikki Giovanni
• We will walk until my blood runs out. Until my heart is burnt, you are not alone. -Matisyahu
• Who, being loved, is poor? -Oscar Wilde
• Would it be alright to say that I hope as companions you exalt yourselves into two pieces of dust whirling around one another in the sunbeam that enters the last hidden place?
• You are my sunshine.
• You are the music. T.S. Eliot
• You are one of my nicest thoughts. -Georgia O’Keeffe
• You may light another’s candle from your own, without loss.
• You will find when you look back on your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. -Henry Drummond

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Music/Musicians

• Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides. -Garth Brooks
• Everyone has a heaven inside. -Kate Bush
• It isn’t where you come from, it’s where you’re going that counts. -Ella Fitzgerald
• Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens. -Jimi Hendrix
• Life is just a tire swing. -Jimmy Buffet
• Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. -John Lennon
• Love is all you need! -Lennon/McCartney
• May God bless and keep you always, may your wishes all come true. May you always do for others and let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung, may you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
• May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
• May your hands always be busy, may your feet always be swift. May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes swift. May your heart always be joyful, may your songs always be sung. May you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
• May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung. -Bob Dylan
• Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent. -Dr. Cornel West
• Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. -Beethoven
• One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall. -White Rabbit ~ Jefferson Airplane
• Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. -Beethoven
• Optimism is my best defense. -Rod Stewart
• Plant a seed of friendship. Reap a bouquet of happiness. -Louis Kaufman
• Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul.
• There could never be a father that loved his daughter more than I love you. -Paul Simon
• There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone. -Jerry Garcia
• There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to make you feel my love. -Bob Dylan
• You are the music. -T.S. Eliot

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Nature & Environment

• All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.
• Be gentle with the earth.
• The best fertilizer is the shadow of the gardener. -Spanish proverb
• Choose only one master…nature. -Rembrandt
• Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides. -Garth Brooks
• …Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves… -John Muir
• Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
• Don’t let anyone or anything block your sunshine!
• Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.” -the Talmud
• Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran
• For me, a timber frame is poetry made manifest in wood. -Lou Ureneck
• God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees; and flowers; and clouds; and stars. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Great art picks up where nature ends. -Marc Chagall
• I have always loved the beach; the smell of the salty water, the wind in my face, the gentle roar of the waves, all combine to create a sense of peace and calm.
• I hope you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your shoes.
• If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. -Chinese proverb
• Keep close to nature’s heart…climb a mountain…spend a week in the woods, wash your spirit clean. -John Muir
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
• Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air… -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Make waves.
• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. -Lao Tzu
• Our memories of the ocean will linger on long after our footprints in the sand are gone.
• Pursue a path, however narrow or crooked, on which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry David Thoreau
• The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir
• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dinesen
• The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.
• The sea, once it cast its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. -Jacques Cousteau
• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. -Kate Chopin
• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. -Henry Ward Beecher
• Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Buddha
• Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, keep the warmth of the sun in your heart.
• Where flowers bloom so does hope and love.
• Yeah, we all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun. -John Lennon
• You are my sunshine!
• You are my sun, my moon, and my stars. -e.e. Cummings

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Poets & Authors

• A friend is what the heart needs all the time. -Henry Van Dyke
• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. -Mark Twain
• A joy shared is a joy doubled. -Goethe
• And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• A teacher affects eternity; they can never know where their influence stops. -Henry Brooks Adams
• At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. -Plato
• All glory comes from daring to begin. -Eugene Ware
• Believe there are no limits but the sky. -Cervantes
• Brevity is the soul of wit. -Shakespeare
• But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. -Robert Frost
• Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live today. -Richard Bach
• Dare to be remarkable. -Jane Gentry
• Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Do not wish to be anything other than what you are, and try to be that perfectly. -St. Francis de Sales
• Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman
• Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss
• Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
• Dwell in possibility. -Emily Dickinson
• Forever is composed of now. -Emily Dickinson
• Forget not that the earth delights to feel our bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran
• For me, a timber frame is poetry made manifest in wood. -Lou Ureneck
• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Thoreau
• Golf is a good walk spoiled. -Mark Twain
• Go on with a spirit that fears nothing. -Homer
• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all. -Emily Dickinson
• I am here to live aloud. -Emile Zola
• If I know what love is, it is because of you. -Hesse
• If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we’d have a pretty good time. -Edith Wharton
• If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. -Paul Gallico
• If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. -Mark Twain
• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward.
• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint Exupery
• It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. -Thoreau
• Know yourself, do not let the world know you. -Nellie Bly
• Let nothing dim the light that shines from within. -Maya Angelou
• Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. -Eileen Caddy
• Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -Rumi
• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. -Rumi
• Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. -Rumi
• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -Soren Kierkegaard
• Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me…Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. -Shel Silverstein
• As you move through life, leave a wake of kindness. -Margaret Hale
• Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink in the wild air… -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Live your beliefs and you can turn your world around. -Thoreau
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Lord Chesterfield
• Never a ship sails out of the bay, but carries my heart as a stowaway. -Roselle Mercier Montgomery
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -Aesop
• One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. -George Herbert
• Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. -Rumi
• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. -Victor Hugo
• Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain
• That love is all there is, is all we know of love. -Emily Dickinson
• The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. -George Santayana
• The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. -Maya Angelou
• The powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. -Walt Whitman
• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton
• The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -Emerson
• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. -Kate Chopin
• To imagine is everything. To know is nothing at all. -Anatole France
• To thine own self be true. -Shakespeare
• True happiness lies within you. -Og Mandino
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the things you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, explore, dream, discover. -Mark Twain
• Two human loves make one divine. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Voyage upon life’s sea, to yourself be true, and whatever your lot in life may be, paddle your own canoe. -Sarah Bolton
• We love because it’s the only true adventure. -Nikki Giovanni
• We must admit there will be music, despite everything. -Jack Gilbert
• We turn not older with years, but new every day. -Emily Dickinson
• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Rousseau
• Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. -Goethe
• Who, being loved, is poor? -Oscar Wilde
• You are the music. -T.S. Eliot
• You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss

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Sports

• Always a gator…
• We have bikes to ride and people to love…now is the time!

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Baseball

• How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? -Satchel Paige
• Pitchers, like poets, are born, not made. -Cy Young
• Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. -Frederick Wilcox
• The trick is growing up without growing old. -Casey Stengel
• When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -Yogi Berra

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Golf

• Forget about your opponents, play against par. -Sam Snead
• Golf gives you insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponents. -Grantland Rice
• Golf is a good walk spoiled. -Mark Twain
• Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. -AA Milne
• If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. -Paul Gallico
• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. -Sam Snead
• The older you get, the stronger the wind gets, and it is always in your face. -Jack Nicklaus

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Hockey

• You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -Wayne Gretzky

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Swimming

• You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. -Michael Phelps

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Food/Cooking

• Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
• Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. -Beethoven

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Gardening

• All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.
• The best fertilizer is the shadow of the gardener. -Spanish proverb
• The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.
• If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. -Chinese proverb
• Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
• My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. -Claude Monet

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Military

• Duty-Honor-Country; Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. -General Douglas MacArthur
• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. -Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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Cats

• The dog may be wonderful prose, but the cat is poetry. -French proverb
• How we behave towards cats here below, determines our status in heaven. -Robert A. Heinlein

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Dogs

• If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers, 1879-1935
• Life is short. Play with your dog. -Pamela Haik

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Animals

• Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. -Anatole France

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Police Officer

• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. -Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• As you teach, you learn. -Jewish Proverb
• A teacher affects eternity; they can never know where their influence stops. -Henry Brooks Adams
• Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. -Japanese proverb
• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. -Joseph Addison

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Birthday

• Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live today. -Richard Bach
• Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach. -Michelle Held
• How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? -Satchel Paige
• It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
• It’s not how old you are, but how you are old. -Marie Dressler
• It’s not the years in the life, it’s the life in the years. -Abe Lincoln
• Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.
• The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. -Frank Lloyd Wright
• May every sunrise hold more promise, and every sunset hold more peace.
• May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life. -Apache proverb
• May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. -Irish blessing
• Memories are the sweetest things there are.
• Perhaps in my next life I’ll return as a seal and be forced to use all of me. Unless, of course, it’s not too late for this life!
• Same time next year.
• The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. -Frank Lloyd Wright
• The older you get, the stronger the wind gets, and it is always in your face. -Jack Nicklaus
• The powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. -Walt Whitman
• The trick is growing up without growing old. -Casey Stengel
• We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
• We turn not older with years, but new everyday. -Emily Dickinson
• The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. -Frank Lloyd Wright

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Wisdom & Inspiration

• 80% of success is showing up. -Woody Allen
• Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. -Mark Twain
• Agere Sequiture Esse Action Follows Being
• All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within. -Horace Friess
• A man’s integrity is his greatest asset. Without it, he is nothing.
• A meowing cat catches no mice! -Yiddish proverb
• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -William James
• All glory comes from daring to begin. -Eugene Ware
• All of us get lost in the darkness; dreamers learn to steer by the stars. -Rush
• All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.
• Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -Helen Keller
• As I walk, I walk with beauty. -Navajo prayer
• As you move through life, leave a wake of kindness. -Margaret Hale
• A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. -Henrik Ibsen
• Attitude: a little thing that makes a big difference. -Winston Churchill
• Be courageous, have faith, go forward! -Thomas Edison
• Be gentle with the earth.
• Be kind to everyone you meet, each one carries a great burden.
• Be humble, for you are made of earth; be noble, for you are made of stars. -Serbian proverb
• Be the change you want to see in the world. -Gandhi
• Be who you are and may you be blessed in all that you are. -Torah
• Be who you really are and go the whole way. -Lao Tzu
• How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.
• Behold this day. It is yours to make. -Black Elk
• Believe there are no limits but the sky. -Cervantes
• BELIEVE
• The best fertilizer is the shadow of the gardener. -Spanish proverb
• The best way out is always through. -Helen Keller
• The best way to forget your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
• The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
• We have bikes to ride and people to love…now is the time!
• Blessed is the life that finds joy in the journey.
• Brevity is the soul of wit. -Shakespeare
• Carpe Diem
• Challenge yourself.
• Cherish yesterday. Dream tomorrow. Live today. -Richard Bach
• Choose only one master…nature. -Rembrandt
• Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides. -Garth Brooks
• …Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves… -John Muir
• Creativity takes Courage. -Henry Matisse
• Life isn’t about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. -Oscar Wilde
• Dare to be extraordinary.
• Dare to be remarkable. -Jane Gentry
• Dare to Dream.
• Life is a daring adventure, or it is nothing.
• Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day!
• Do good. Be kind. Tell the truth.
• Do not be wise in words, be wise in deeds. -Jewish proverb
• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. -St. Francis De Sales
• Do Something. (Something will happen.)
• Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman.
• Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss
• Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach. -Michelle Held.
• Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
• Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
• DREAM
• Dwell in possibility. -Emily Dickinson
• Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. -Robert F. Kennedy
• Eat good food. Be kind. Tell the truth.
• Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.” -the Talmud
• Every man is the architect of his fortune.
• Everyone has a heaven inside. -Kate Bush
• Everything is within walking distance if you have the time. -Steven Wright
• Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Feet. What do I need them for if I have wings to fly? -Frida Kahlo
• Follow your heart.
• For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. -Jeremiah 29:11
• For it is in giving that we receive. -St. Francis of Assisi
• Forever is composed of nows. -Emily Dickinson
• Forget about your opponents, play against par. -Sam Snead
• Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. -Native American proverb
• Give your children two things: one is roots, the other wings.
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Thoreau
• Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good. -Minor Myers, Jr.
• Go on with a spirit that fears nothing. -Homer
• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. -Reinhold Niebuhr
• The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
• Happiness is a way to travel, not a destination.
• Happiness is excitement that has found a settling-down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping about!
• Happiness is the best thing in the world. -the Tin Woodman
• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. -Thomas Jefferson
• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all. -Emily Dickinson
• How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? -Satchel Paige
• I am here to live aloud. -Emile Zola
• I believe in you!
• I do not want peace which passes understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. -Helen Keller
• I may walk slowly, but I do not walk backwards. -Abe Lincoln
• If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we’d have a pretty good time. -Edith Wharton
• If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called Research. -Einstein
• If you’re going through hell, keep going! -Winston Churchill
• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward.
• If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love. -Mother Teresa
• If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katherine Hepburn
• If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. -Mark Twain
• If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. -Jonathan Winters
• Illegitumus non carborundum
• Imagine all the people living life in peace. -John Lennon
• In a gentle way, you can shake the world. -Mohandas Gandhi
• In the end, it’s character.
• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein
• In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. -Albert Camus
• I can only draw what I see. -Claude Monet
• Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
• If you’re looking for a sign, this is it.
• It’s not how old you are, but how you are old. -Marie Dressler
• It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
• It is a tree of life for those who grasp it, and all who uphold it are blessed. Its ways are pleasant, and all paths are peace.
• It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
• It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks. -Helen Keller
• It is in the shelter of each other that people live. -Irish proverb
• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• It isn’t where you come from, it’s where you’re going that counts. -Ella Fitzgerald
• It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. -Walt Disney
• While they were saying among themselves, “It cannot be done,” it was done. -Helen Keller
• It’s not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life that counts.
• It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. -Thoreau
• Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
• Just when you get used to yesterday, along comes today!
• Keep close to nature’s heart…climb a mountain…spend a week in the woods, wash your spirit clean. -John Muir
• Know yourself, do not let the world know you. -Nellie Bly
• Knowledge is love and light and vision. -Helen Keller
• Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens. -Jimi Hendrix
• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge
• Leap and the net will appear.
• Less is more…more or less.
• Let nothing dim the light that shines from within. -Maya Angelou
• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. -Rumi
• Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -Rumi
• Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. -Eileen Caddy
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
• Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. -John Adams
• Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. -Rumi
• Levitating on the power of God’s love, I soar above the pain and heartache now; Flying ever upward on the wings of faith, I see the world, and many worlds, and a new world. -Robert L. Meier
• Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -Soren Kierkegaard
• It’s not the years of life, it’s the life in the years. -Abe Lincoln
• Life is a challenge, meet it. -Sai Baba
• Life is a succession of lessons that must be lived to be understood. -Helen Keller
• Life is just a tire swing. -Jimmy Buffet
• Life is like a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back, if you smile, it returns the greeting.
• Life is like riding a bicycle: to keep your balance, you have to keep moving. -Albert Einstein
• Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.
• Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. -John Lennon
• Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.
• Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me…Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. -Shel Silverstein
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mohandas Gandhi
• Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air… -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Live Laugh Love
• Live well, laugh often
• Live your beliefs and you can turn your world around. -Thoreau
• The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. -Frank Lloyd Wright
• Look for what you want to see.
• Lost time is never found again. -Benjamin Franklin
• Make waves.
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Lord Chesterfield
• May God bless and keep you always, may your wishes all come true. May you always do for others and let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung, may you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
• May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
• May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. -Irish blessing
• May your hands always be busy, may your feet always be swift. May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes swift. May your heart always be joyful, may your songs always be sung. May you stay forever young. -Bob Dylan
• May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung. -Bob Dylan
• May your life be like a wildflower…growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day. – Native American proverb
• May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life. -Apache blessing
• Memories are the sweetest things there are.
• Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent. -Dr. Cornel West
• Never give up and never give in. -Hubert Humphrey
• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. -Theodore Roosevelt
• Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love. -Mother Teresa
• Not all who wander are lost.
• Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find. -Walt Whitman
• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. -Sam Snead
• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. -Leonardo da Vinci
• One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay “in kind” somewhere else in life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -Hasidic saying
• Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. -Beethoven
• Optimism is my best defense. -Rod Stewart
• Our life is what our thoughts make it. -Marcus Aurelius
• Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. -Rumi
• Perhaps in my next life I’ll return as a seal and be forced to use all of me. Unless, of course, it’s not too late for this life!
• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. -Victor Hugo
• Pitchers, like poets, are born, not made. -Cy Young
• Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. -Frederick Wilcox
• Pursue a path, however narrow or crooked, on which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry David Thoreau
• Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain
• Remember always that you not only have a right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• Remember what is important to you.
• Ride your dreams with courage.
• Set your goals believing.
• Smile, breathe, and go slowly. -Thich Nhat Hanh
• Speed is irrelevant if you are traveling in the wrong direction. -Mahatma Gandhi
• Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul.
• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dinesen
• The golden opportunity you seek is within yourself. -Mary Engelbreit
• The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.
• The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. -Maya Angelou
• The more I think, the more I feel there is nothing truly more artistic than to love people. -Vincent Van Gogh
• The most beautiful discovery two friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. -Elizabeth Foley
• The most beautiful stones have been washed by the waters and polished to brilliance by life’s strongest storms.
• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -Albert Einstein
• The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
• The only constant in life is change.
• The only people who can change the world are the ones who want to.
• The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails…but rather the one who moves on in spite of failure. -Theodore Roosevelt
• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• There are no rules here. We are trying to accomplish something.
• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton
• There is no set path. Follow your heart.
• The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -Emerson
• The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
• Those who wish to sing will always find a song. -Swedish proverb
• Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. -Mae West
• True happiness lies within you. -Og Mandino
• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -Albert Einstein
• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. -Lao Tzu
• Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. -Helen Keller
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -Aesop
• Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -Albert Einstein
• Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -Albert Einstein
• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. -Helen Keller
• Out of many we are one. That while we breathe, we hope. Yes We Can! -Barack Obama
• Very little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. -Marcus Aurelius
• Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, keep the warmth of the sun in your heart.
• Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. -Roald Dahl
• We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Well-behaved women seldom make history.
• We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -Sir Winston Churchill
• We must admit there will be music, despite everything. -Jack Gilbert
• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Teresa
• Whatever it is, throw it out. -Muth
• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. -Joseph Addison
• What’s life without a few bumps along the way?
• What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. -Ralph Marston
• When you come to a fork in the road…take it. -Yogi Berra
• When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on! -Thomas Jefferson
• Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is. -Will Rogers
• With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too. -Jewish proverb.
• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• Plant a seed of friendship. Reap a bouquet of happiness. -Louis Kaufman
• Presence is more than just being there. -Malcolm S. Forbes
• The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. -Native American proverb
• Remember what is important to you.
• Ride your dreams with courage.
• Set your goals believing.
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you will land among the stars.
• The best journey always takes us home.
• The heart that gives, gathers.
• The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
• The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
• The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it is always in your face. -Jack Nicklaus
• The powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. -Walt Whitman
• There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those!
• There are two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is. -Albert Einstein
• The reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen all at once. -Albert Einstein
• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. Henry Ward Beecher
• The time is always right to do what is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The time for thinkers has come. -Mary Baker Eddy
• The trick is growing up without growing old. -Casey Stengel
• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. -Michelangelo
• The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. -Buddha
• This is our moment. This is our time. -Barack Obama
• Those who wish to sing will always find a song. -Swedish proverb
• Those who wonder discover that this is, in itself, a wonder. -M.C. Escher
• To imagine is everything. To know is nothing at all. -Anatole France
• To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. -Isaac Newton
• To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
• To thine own self be true. -Shakespeare
• True happiness lies within you. -Og Mandino
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the things you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, explore, dream, discover. -Mark Twain
• We are the change we seek. -Barack Obama
• What binds us together is greater than what drives us apart. -Barack Obama
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? -Rousseau
• What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
• Whatever you are, be a good one. -Abe Lincoln
• Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. -Goethe
• Where flowers bloom so does hope and love.
• Wherever you go, go with all your heart. -Confucius
• Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -Carl Jung
• Who, being loved, is poor? -Oscar Wilde
• The winds of grace are always blowing and it is up to us to raise the sails.
• Wisdom begins in wonder.
• Wisdom Courage Strength Love
• Yes We Can!
• You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. -Michael Phelps
• You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
• You know of course that courage is always inside one. -The Cowardly Lion
• You may light another’s candle from your own, without loss.
• You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -Wayne Gretzky

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