Love

• When you have someone special in your life - never wait to love them ~ SB
• Intimacy occurs when the boundaries between you and someone else melt, and your hearts touch ~ Barbara DeAngelis, PhD.

Friendship

• Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~ Sicilian proverb?

Achievement

• On Discouragement -- It takes time to grow an idea, just as it takes time to grow a garden ~ SB
• Opportunities always look bigger going than coming
• The secret of joy is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it ~ Pearl S. Buck
• You're going out into the world now to live your dreams. We wish you success and courage, on this special day and every day ~ SB
• Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. ~ Oprah Winfrey?
• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Courage

• You are not alone. Even when it seems like you are the only person in the world who has been abandoned, or who feels thrashed by adversity, or who has been dealt an impossible situation. You are not alone. Not now. Not ever.
• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~ Oscar Wilde

Marriage

• May you look to the future together, and look at each other with warmth and kindness. May you listen to each other, love each other, and feel as lucky to have found each other as you do today. ~ SB

Contemplation & Mindfulness

• May God give us grateful hearts, and keep us mindful of the needs of others. ~ Anonymous
• Love's Greatest Gift Is its Ability To make everything It touches Sacred. ~ Barbara deAngelis, Ph.D.
• There is no sound quite so peaceful as the quiet that comes with freshly fallen snow. ~ SB
• No creature masters the art of contemplation quite so thoroughly as the cat. ~ SB
• Our life is frittered away by detail, simplify, simplify. ~ Henry David Thoreau
• A well-spent day brings happy sleep. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
• The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. ~ John Milton
• The best things in life aren't things.
• Slow me down -- Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. ~ Wilfred A Peterson
• We all have intuition. The question is - do we listen to it? Or do we ignore it?
• What lies behind us And What lies before us Are Tiny matters Compared to What lies within us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The discovery of Simplicity brings Delight in Practice. ~ Osel Tendzin
• My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in Nature. ~ Henry D. Thoreau
• We have lived Not in proportion to the number of Years That we have spent on the earth, But in proportion As we have enjoyed. ~ Henry D. Thoreau

Condolence

• I'm so sorry for your loss
• Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ~ St. Thomas More

Hope

• Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end. ~ George W. Bush

Special Days

• May you live your dreams on this special day... and every day.
• Wishing you a season filled with the laughter and warmth of family and friends.
• On this special day, we wish for you ... good cheer, good friends, and the joy that comes from a loving family.
• A wish for you that every day may be as special and as beautiful as this day.

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