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Courage Quotes Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca  Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. - Anais Nin Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear; Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings. — Amelia Earhart  Courage - fear that has said its prayers. -Dorothy Bernard One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. - Katherine Anne Porter With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. - Kesgavan Nair Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. - Vittorio Alfieri Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. - Jean Anouilh Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. - G.K. Chesterton. Cowards dies many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. -Shakespeare. (Julius Caesar, II, ii) But screw your courage to the sticking place. And we’ll not fail. - Shakespeare (Macbeth, I, vii) Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain Courageous risks are life giving, they help you grow, make you brave and better than you think you are. - Joan L. Curcio Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong. Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. - Alice Walker Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded. - Anita Roddick And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. - Anna Freud Perfect courage is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing before all the world. -La Rochefoucauld Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Anonymous Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway  All glory comes from daring to begin. — Eugene F. Ware  Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other. - Oliver J. Hart Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage. - Ralph Waldo Emerson  No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. - Channing Pollock  The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Green Ingersoll  It takes vision and courage to create-it takes faith and courage to prove. - Owen D. Young  Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca  Leap, and the net will appear. - Julie Cameron, The Artist’s Way To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard The definition of courage is grace under fire. -Ernest Hemingway Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. — Jerry Gillies Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. — Gertrude Stein Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared. —David Ben-Gurion Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. — Eddie Rickenbacker  Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. — Ambrose Redmoon Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. — Alice M. Swaim  Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. —Aristotle  Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. — Ruth Gordon  Do what you fear and fear disappears. — David Joseph Schwartz  If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.—John Irving  Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.—Andre Gide  Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.—Anonymous  We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. — Maxwell Malz  Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. - Leo Rosten Dreams/Follow Your Bliss Quotes Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world. - Heraclitus Dreams are necessary to life. - Anais Nin Follow your bliss. - Joseph Campbell Life shrinks or expands in proportion to your courage. - Anais Nin It's not only what we do but also what we do not do for which we are accountable. - Moliere. Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus Dreams are necessary to life. - Anais Nin Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown Imagine. - John Lennon Careful what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -William Blake Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.- Louise Driscoll The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.-Paul Valery Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.-Belva Davis Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. -James Allen There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?--Robert F. Kennedy When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go. - Carol Burnett Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. - Gladys Taber Dreams are what get you started. Discipline is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryan When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. - Jiminy Cricket What do you pack to pursue a dream? And what do you leave behind? - Sandra Sharp If somebody believes in you, and you believe in your dreams, it can happen. - Tiffany Bangs We must teach our children to dream with open eyes. - Harry Edwards Longing performs all things. - Mary Renault We know not where our dreams will take us, but we can probably see quite clearly where we’ll go without them. - Marilyn Grey Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them. - Josie Bisset If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt If you don’t have a dream, how can you have a dream come true? – Faye LaPointe Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -John Updike Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Eliot We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams. - Arthur O’Shaughnessy Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allen Poe We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde Between our dreams and our actions, there’s this world. - Bruce Springsteen  All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.—Brian Tracy  Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.—William Faulkner  Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.—Anais Nin Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.—Dale E. Turner  Dreams are the touchstones of our character.—Henry David Thoreau  Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, Sir James M. Barrie  I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.—Henry David Thoreau  If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.—William Arthur Ward  In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.—Henry David Thoreau  It may be those who do most, dream most.—Stephen Leacock  Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.—Charles Lindbergh Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood ... Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. - Daniel Hudson Burnham The more you can dream, the more you can do.—Michael Korda  There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, “Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams.” Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they’re still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, “How good or how bad am I?” That’s where courage comes in.—Erma Bombeck  You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?--Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific)  I’ll toss my coins in the fountain Look for clovers in grassy lawns Search for shooting stars in the night Cross my fingers and dream on. -Tracy Chapman Dare to be wrong and to dream. - Frederick von Schiller Family Quotes Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. - Anthony Brandt Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. - Gail Lumet Buckley One’s family is the most important thing in life. - Robert C. Byrd Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. - Chinese proverb The family is the nucleus of civilization. - Will and Ariel Durant When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. - Dr. Joyce Brothers The family (is) is the first essential cell of human society. - Pope John XXIII Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whomever you are, you need one. - Jane Howard What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way. - Jean Illsley Clarke Heirlooms we don’t have in our family. But stories we’ve got. - Rose Chernin Let us make one point…that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile…Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. - Mother Teresa To the family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. - Dodie Smith I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie. - Zona Gale You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.- Desmond Tutu Family is just accident…They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are. - Marsha Norman Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes My family didn’t have much, but we sure had plenty. - Sherry Thomas To understand a parent’s love - have a child. - Chinese proverb The family is one of nature’s masterpieces. -George Santayana  I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S. Truman The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson A brother is a friend provided by nature. - Legouve Pere You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. – Anita Baker Friendship Quotes A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. - La Rochefoucauld Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. - Shakespeare. One friend in a life is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. - Henry Brooks Adams. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson And we find at the end of a perfect day, the soul of a friend we’ve made. - Carrie Jacobs Bond The truth is, friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. - Katherine Mansfield You meet your friend, your face brightens - you have struck gold. - Kassia (c. 840) The depth of friendship - how much it means to us…depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates. -Lillian Rubin But every road is tough to me, That has no friend to cheer it. - Elizabeth Stone Friendship is essentially a partnership… a friend is a second self. - Aristotle It’s friendship, friendship. Just a perfect blendship. - Cole Porter Life is a chronicle of friendship. Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep hearts strong for life. - Helen Keller The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson What a thing friendship is - World without end! -Robert Browning Friendship is the shadow of the evening which strengthens with the setting sun of life. - La Fontaine Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief. -Joseph Addison What is friendship? One soul in two bodies. - Aristotle A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson My friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thoughts. - Henry David Thoreau What wealth it is to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation. - Henry David Thoreau The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. - Mark Twain There’s nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends. - Hilaire Belloc It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. - Euripides In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - John Churton Collins When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sake rather than for our own. - Charlotte Bronte The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Friends are the end and the reward of life. They keep us worthy of ourselves. - Robert Louis Stevenson All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad. - Thomas Jefferson A friend is a present you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson Friendship is better than wealth, to possess the love of a true heart, the sympathy of a noble soul, is better than to be a desolate millionaire. - George MacDonald The things which our friends do with and for us, form a portion of our lives, for they strengthen and advance our personality. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels in an honest friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson When I count my blessings, I count you twice. -Martin Chiles I think we’re here for each other. - Carol Burnett One does not make friends. One recognizes them. -Irene Dunn People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do. - Michelle Ventor Some friendships are created by nature, some by interest, and some by souls. - Jeremy Taylor Who shall explain the extraordinary instinct that tells us, perhaps after a single meeting, that this or that particular person in some mysterious way matters to us? - A.C. Benson Love is blind. Friendship is clairvoyant. -Philippe Sonpault A friend is someone who reaches for your hand…and touches your heart. - Kathleen Grove Friendship blossoms when two people say to each other, in effect: “What? You too? I thought I was the only one!” - C.S. Lewis When you’re with a friend, your heart has come home. - Emily Farrar A friend is what your heart needs all the time. -Henry Van Dyke One good heart attracts another. Each true friend deserves the other. - Shaker saying It is the friendship of good people that is friendship most of all. - Aristotle Each person represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. -Anais Nin Whatever our souls are made of - yours and mine are the same. - Emily Bronte In my heart are all the treasures that I shall ever own: they are the memories of all the old friends I have known. - Kimberly Knutsen We set off for school side by side, our feet in step, not touching but feeling as if we were joined at the should, hip, ankle, not to mention heart. - Jamaica Kincaid Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. - Ed Cunningham There is a definite process by which one makes people into friends, and it involves talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time. -Rebecca West A soul friend is someone with whom we can share our greatest joys and deepest fears, confess our worst sins and most persistent faults, clarify our highest hopes and perhaps most unarticulated dreams. - Edward C. Sellner The silver friend knows your present, and the gold friend knows all your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there’s someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who’s there for life. -Jill McCorkle Eventually, it’s the silences which make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say. - Margaret Lee Runbeck There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. - Rusty Berkus My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford Anything, everything, little or big becomes an adventure when the right person shares it. -Kathleen Norris While the right friends are near us, we feel that all is well. Our everyday life blossoms suddenly into bright possibilities. - Helen Keller Perhaps friendship is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. - Antoine Saint- Exupery “Pooh, promise you won’t forget about me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.” Pooh thought for a little. “How old shall I be then?” “Ninety-nine.” Pooh nodded. “I promise,” he said. (A.A. Milne) Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. — Ludwig van Beethoven Hold a true friend in both your hands. – Nigerian proverb Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other! - Alex Noble Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same. -Unknown My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, you’ve had a great life. - Lee Iacocca A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. - Virginia Woolf Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend or a meaningful day. - The Dalai Lama Friendship’s the wine of life. - Young Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. -La Fontaine Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. - (Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca) The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. -Henry David Thoreau A friend is, as it were, a second self. - Cicero Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. - G. Randolf Friends are treasures. - Horace Bruns When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy. - Anon. Friends are born, not made. - Henry Adams Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. - Octavia Butler Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. - James Byrnes Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. -Albert Camus. You can make more friends in two weeks by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages - first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend. - Anton Chekhov Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. - Jennie Jerome Churchill True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. - Charles Caleb Colton If you have one true friend you have more than your share. - Thomas Fuller Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. - Elbert Hubard My father used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life. - Lee Iacocca But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. -Thomas Jefferson Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of. - Sarah Orne Jewett In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr. I get by with a little help from my friends. - John Lennon It takes a long time to grow an old friend. - John Leonard The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. - Abraham Lincoln Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival. - C. S. Lewis If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. - George Macdonald Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with its binding love. We stand close to each other, hand in hand, showing each other we understand. Some friends may come and go, but you are the truest friend I know. -Elsa Maxwell Sooner or later you’ve heard about all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. -Ned Rorem Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children. - J.D. Salinger Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots. - George Santayana When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces, or to intrude into each other’s hearts. - Albert Schweitzer After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend. - Page Smith Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. - Henry David Thoreau The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. – Elisabeth Foley It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter. - Marlene Dietrich The best mirror is an old friend. - George Herbert I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends. - William Shakespeare Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak. - John Donne Friends have all things in common. - Plato There is no hope of joy except in human relations. - Antoine de Sainte-Exupery It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden. - Goethe Home Quotes Home is where one starts from. - T. S. Eliot Home is the place where when you have to go there they have to take you in. - Robert Frost A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. - George Moore Home is where the heart is. Home is where the art is. Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. - J.H. Payne There’s no place like home. Home is not where you live but where they understand you. - Christian Morgenstern There is still a little world of love at home. - Washington Irving He has taken a very good road to bring himself home again. - A. Burney I remember, I remember, the house where I was born. The little window where the sun Came creeping in at morn. - Thomas Hood I must call you home by and by. - W. Clarke There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. - James Montgomery Every bird thinks its own nest charming. - French proverb Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look when hearts are of each other sure. - John Keble (Rev. 1792-1866 Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o’er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o’er sea or land we roam? - Thomas Moore Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humber, there’s no place like home. - John Howard Payne , ( Song, Home Sweet Home) Propria domus omnium optima. Your own house is the best of all houses. - Latin Proverb Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home-sweet-home: For there the heart can rest. - Henry van Dyke Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look, Where hearts are of each other sure. - John Keble Home is where there’s one to love! Home is where there’s one to love us! - Charles Swain Home is where I want to be but I guess I’m already there. - David Byrne A house is made to be lived in not to be lived for. - Ralph W. Sockman Where thou art, that is home. - Emily Dickinson No matter what, no matter where, it’s always home, if love is there. Love Quotes Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. - Maria Lovell Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods. - Plato All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love And its familiar voice wearies not ever. - Percy Bysshe Shelley The best thing to hold on to in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn We are so much less without each other. - Leo Buscaglia Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. - Shakespeare The best is yet to be. - Robert Browning Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. - Euripides It’s love that makes the world go ‘round! - W. S. Gilbert Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones The heart that loves is always young. All, everything I understand, I understand only because I love. - Leo Tolstoy No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life As love’s young dream. - Thomas Moore We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other. - Luciano de Creschenzo Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side and marveled that we had found each other. - Erik Dillard And in the end, the love we take will be equal to the love we make. - The Beatles Love is the only passion that cares not about the past or the future. - Balzac To love and be loved will be the greatest event in our lives. - Rosseau True love is like a sigh from the heart; it teaches in a moment everything one ought to say. -Corneille. There are never enough “I love you”s. - Lenny Bruce Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. - Marge Piercy Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. - Robert Browning To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott, M.D. The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross We remember love in our hearts, as the thing which in life, made our hearts glad; we long for love in our souls, as the things that will carry us home. - Daphne Rose Kingma The most precious people in our lives are those we have shared love with. - Kobi Yamada When I count my blessings, I count you twice. - Martin Chiles I think we’re here for each other. - Carol Burnett Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. - James Thurber Be glad of life because it give us the chance to love and to work and to look up at the stars. -Henry Van Dyke. Love has a way of making places sacred and moments meaningful. - Janet Hobson Being deeply loved by someone give you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond In your presence, I fell more in love with the best of myself. That was your gift. - William Cummings Where love is, you are given a glimpse of the sacred. - Barbara De Angelis People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you will know exactly what to do. - Michelle Ventor Anything, everything, little or big becomes an adventure when the right person shares it. - Kathleen Norris Everywhere, we learn from those whom we love. - Goethe To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten. - Thomas Chandler Love keeps a child dancing. - Carol Lee Rainey The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. - Nadia Boulanger Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. — Rumi The miracle of love is that love is given to us to give to one another. Our spirits, too, are merged by love. When we are separated physically by time and distance, they remain entwined, joining the past we have shared with the hope and promise of all that is yet to be. — Robert Sexton When our lives have truly been graced by the presence of another, we know how necessary they are to our happiness. — Robert Sexton There is a special quality to the hours we pass with those we care for. Like the light of dusk, it lingers long after the moment itself is gone. Those who have become dear to us should never be denied the knowledge of how deeply they have touched our lives. — Robert Sexton Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. – Michael Leunig We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way. – Marlin Finch Lupus We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. – Agnes Repplier For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation. – Rainer Maria Rilke This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love, the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. – Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts. -Shakespeare, Henry VI Honor the ocean of love. – George de Benneville Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint Exupery More than kisses, letters mingle souls. – John Donne Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. – Rose Franken The love we give away is the only love we keep. – Elbert Hubbard What the world needs now is love, sweet love; It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. - Bacharach/David Love is everything. - Jane Siberry Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. - William Shakespeare I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you. I love you, Not only for what You have made of yourself, But for what You are making of me. | I love you For the part of me That you bring out; I love you For putting your hand Into my heaped-up heart And passing over All the foolish, weak things That you can’t help Dimly seeing there, And for drawing out Into the light All the beautiful belongings That no one else had looked Quite far enough to find. I love you because you Are helping me to make Of the lumber of my life Not a tavern But a temple; Out of the works Of my every day Not a reproach But a song. . . - Author unknown You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. - Barbara De Angelis Love is the only gold. - Lord Alfred Tennyson Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world. - Ralph Waldo Trine For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. — Ivan Panin Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost The eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love! - Margaret Atwood If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you’ve made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. – Unknown Love’s a thing that’s never out of season. - Barry Cornwall Will you still love me when I’m sixty-four? - Paul McCartney In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. - Janos Arany We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. - Benjamin Disraeli There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. — George Sand Love is not finding someone to live with, It's finding someone you can't live without. - Rafael Ortiz Where there is great love , there are always miracles - Willa Cather Where there is love, there is life - Mahatma Gandhi The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. - Jeraluddin Rumi And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. - Edward Lear Mother Quotes All mothers are quintessential: In pain and joy they are always with us, encouraging, instructing, loving. - Peter Megargee Brown For the mother is and must be whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have. - Hannah Whitall Smith Mother’s love grows by giving. - Charles Lamb Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. - Harriet Beecher Stowe Who ran to help me when I fell and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place and make it well? My mother. - Jane Taylor I feel that in the Heavens above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of “Mother” - Edgar Allan Poe A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. - Victor Hugo Being a mother, as far as I can tell, is a constantly evolving process of adapting to the needs to your child while also changing and growing as a person in your own right. - Deborah Israel When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level. - Jane Fonda In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle. The miraculous sense of two people existing for each other. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children. - William Makepeace Thackeray Happy He with such a mother, faith in womankind Beats in his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson In virtue alone is happiness…never was an existence upon earth more blessed than my mother’s. - John Quincy Adams All-gracious! Grant to those who bear A mother’s charge, the strength and light To guide the feet that own their care In ways of Love and Truth and Right. - William Cullen Bryant The word “ Mother” conjures up cozy vision of homespun life; mother baking cookies, mother sympathetically listening to your tragedies, mother as your champion. - Victoria Secunda My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw…All I owe to my mother…I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. - George Washington No commitment in this whole world demands quite as much as bringing up children. - Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful joys. - Maurice Meterlinck Mothers always know. - Oprah Winfrey Grace was all in her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. - John Milton A mother is an epiphany. - Peter Megargee Brown My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. - Mark Twain Father Quotes You remain my father, philosopher, counselor and friend. – A Son’s Prayer When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished how much he had learned in seven years.” Mark Twain It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare It is a wise child that knows his own father. - Homer Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. – James Baldwin The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. -Henry Ward Beecher I just owe almost everything to my father. – Margaret Thatcher I only realized it much later, but my father gave me a wonderful gift: a love of and joy in learning. – Dr. Ruth Westheimer My best training came from my father. – Woodrow Wilson My father always told me: You have the rest of your life to figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life. – John Beilenson My prescription for success is based on something my father always used to tell me: you should never try to be better than someone else, but you should never cease trying to be the best that you can be. – John Wooden Life father, like son. Qualis pater talis filius. – Latin proverb He is his father’s son. – Anonymous He’s given me the greatest treasure a father can give – a piece of himself. – Suzanne Chazin Directly after God in heaven comes Papa. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word – father. – Lydia M. Child Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. – Gloria Naylor It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home – it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. – Margaret Truman, on her father, Harry S. Truman Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life. – Euripides What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity. – Jean Paul Richter One father is more than a hundred teachers. – English proverb To become a father is not hard, to be a father is, however. – Wilhelm Busch I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week. – Mario Cuomo I learned from my father how to work. I learned from him that work is life and life is work... – Philip Roth Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth. – Theodor Reik To nourish children and to raise them against odds is in any time any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. – Marilyn French Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back. – John Ruskin Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee. – Margaret Courtney I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. – Sigmund Freud It is much easier to become a father than to be one. – Kent Nerburn The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. -Mencius A father's goodness is higher than the mountain, A mother's goodness, deeper than the sea. -Japanese Proverb Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. -Muriel Spark My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. - Clarence B. Kelland   Sisters Quotes For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands. - Christina Rossetti To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or confidante - it is to have a soul mate for life. - Victoria Secunda …One’s sister is a part of one’s essential self, an eternal presence of one’s heart and soul and memory. - Susan Cahill …our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become. -Elizabeth Fishel Sisters examine each other so they can have a map for how they should behave. - Michael D. Kahn A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite. - Elizabeth Fishel We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song. - Nancy Kelton Your sister is your other self. She is you alter ego, your reflection, your foil, your shadow. -Barbara Mathias Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk. - Susan Scarf Merrell In thee my soul shall own combined The sister and the friend. - Catherine Kelligrew I am not afraid to trust my sisters - not I. -Angelina Grimke Sisters stand between one and life’s cruel circumstances. - Nancy Mitford All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous. (inscription on tomb of Duchess of Newcastle in Westminister Abbey) Sisters, whatever their stories, instinctively know how fortunate they are. - Susan Ripps I recognize how crucial my relationship with my sisters is in the definition of myself. - Barbara Mathias I sought my soul But my soul I could not see. I sought my God, But my God eluded me. I sought my sisters, And I found all three. -(anonymous) My sister! With that thrilling word Let thoughts unnumbered wildly spring! What echoes in my heart are stirred, While thus I touch the trembling string. -Margaret Davidson We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air. - Charlotte Bronte A ministering angel shall my sister be. - William Shakespeare (Hamlet) I never tempted her with word too large: But, as a brother to his sister, show’d Bashful sincerity and comely love. - William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing) Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will. - Olga Bronmas Sometimes, sisters have the same journey in their hearts. - Louise Bernikow The pull between sisters is the realization of similarity versus the need for difference. -Elizabeth Fishel There is a space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment - and surprise. - Christine Downing You can’t give up a sister. You were born with them and you die with them. - Elizabeth Mead Steig All living things evolve and are involved in a pattern of struggle and release. This includes sisterhood. - Joy Harjo If you tell you sister to go to hell in twelve different languages and you need a quarter, you can say “I need a quarter” and she’ll give it go you. - Elizabeth Mead Steig Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. - Charles Schulz A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double. - Toni Morrison (My sister is) a bowl of golden water which brims but never over flows. - Virginia Woolf One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. - Betsy Cohen If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater. - Pam Brown My sister! My sweet sister! If a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine. - Byron There is something so physical about sisterhood; some body-memory, too deep for words. - Kennedy Fraser The sister bond is often greater that that with a friend or a brother… - Dr. Harriette McAdoo Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it’s like to have been brought up the way you were. - Betsy Cohen We set off for school side by side, our feet in step, not touching but feeling as if we were joined at the should, hip, ankle, not to mention heart. - Jamaica Kincaid Our pattern of sisterhood makes an ongoing spiral, and within that spiral are our families, our communities, the earth, stars, all time. The spiral resembles two women carrying water through a battlefield in a rain of arrows. It resembles a long snake of relatives who walk through history from the eastern hills of time immemorial. The light balances the dark. Wildness walks next to her steady sister. They make it to the other side together. – Joy Harjo Daughter Quotes We are together, my child and I. Mother and child, yes, but sisters really, against whatever denies us all that we are. – Alice Walker I find you a fascinating person. So there is much more than mother-daughter love. You really do enrich my life and teach me. – Nan Hunt When I held you – my first baby – in my arms, I had the greatest thrill I have ever experienced. – Mrs. Colbert If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton …You and I, Child of my body, bone of my bone, Apple of my eye. – Rosalie Sorrels There be none of beauty’s daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to be. – Lord Byron Before you were conceived I wanted you Before you were born I love you Before you were here an hour I would die for you This is the miracle of life.  - Maureen Hawkins When she comes and looks in my face and calls me “mother,” indeed I then truly am a mother… - Emma Hamilton A daughter is a companion, the friend, and confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like love between the angels to her father. – Richard Steele Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other. – Erica Jong She discovered with great delight that one does not love on’es children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. – Gabriel Barcia Marquez A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. – Victoria Secunda Oh my son’s my son till he gets him a wife, But my daughter’s my daughter all her life. – Dinah Mulock Craik The thoughts of a daughter are a kind of memorial. – Enid Bagnold Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. – William Shakespeare. A daughter is to her father a treasure of sleeplessness. – Ben Siva I looked at my daughters…and appreciated the gift of parenthood, at that moment, more than any other gift I have ever been given… - Gerald Early What I would like to give to my daughter is freedom. And this is given by example, not by exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, a license to be different from your mother and still be love…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love. – Erica Jong. So I want to tell you now, for you to remember then ( in case I don’t get another moment like this in the next twenty years) that I love you devotedly…that I admire you for your struggles to mature and liberate yourself; that I respect your intellect; that I am proud to have had a hand in your upbringing; that I hope we shall be friends as long as I live. – Joan Scott, to her daughter Ann. “Flowers o’ the home, “ says he, “ Are daughters.” – Marceline Desbordes- Valmore Families are the most beautiful things in all the world. – Louisa May Alcott We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger My daughter, as we walk together now. All my life I'll feel a ring invisibly Circle this bone with shining: when she is grown Far from today as her eyes are far already. - Stephen Spender "To My Daughter".  A daughter is that bundle of joy  you stare at when God gives her to you  A daughter is that tiny person  you promise your life to  A daughter is that child  you help with her first walk  The one you couch  When she starts to talk  A daughter is the one you stay up to  when she feels really dad  The child you comfort when  when her heart is broken  and she is so sad.  A daughter is that special friend  Who'll argue and love you until the very end - Josie Murphy