"The chains of love are never binding as when the links are made of gold."

Love the One You're With

By Royall Tyler

"Within you, I lose myself;

Without you, I find myself,

searching to be lost again."

By Unknown

"You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how. "

By Gone With the Wind

"young lovers seek perfection...old lovers learn the art of sewing shreads together" and seeing beauty in a multitude of patches...

By How to make an american quilt

"Love is the most fun you can have without laughing."

By Unknown

"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart."

By Josiah G. Holland

"Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important."

By Lisa Hoffman

"I know they say love is blind, but does it also have to be deaf, dumb, and stupid?"

Unknown

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

By Bertrand Russell  

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"There are those who pass like ships in the night

Who meet for a moment, then sail out of sight

With never a backwards glance of regret

Folks we know briefly then quickly forget

Then there are those friends who sail together

through quiet waters and stormy weather

Helping each other through joy and through strife

And they are the kind that give meaning to life."

By Unknown

"We need the whole world as a friend."

By Herbert Hoover

OLD FRIENDSHIP

"Beautiful and rich is an old friendship,

Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory,

Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry

Where light has lingered, intimate and long.

Full of tears and warm is an old friendship

That asks no longer deeds of gallantry,

Or any deed at all - save that the friend shall be

Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song."

By Eunice Tietjens

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

By Cicero (B.C. 106-43)

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

By Albert Camus

"How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way."

By Unknown

"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness. That is the friend who cares."

By Henri Nouwen

"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

By Ludwig van Beethoven

"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

By Eleanor Roosevelt

"A friend hath the skill and observation of the best physician; the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse; and the tenderness and patience of the best mother."

By Clarendon

"A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've forgotten it."

Unknown

"Piglet sidled up behind Pooh.

'Pooh,' he whispered.

'Yes, piglet?'

'Nothing,' said Piglet,

taking Pooh's paw.

'I just wanted to be sure of you.' "

By AA Milne

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"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."

By Bruce Barton

"If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in."

By Rachel Carson

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings."

By Hodding Carter Jr.

"Children need models rather than critics."

By Joseph Joubert

"You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return."

By Arthur Miller

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

By Carl Sandburg

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."

By George Bernard Shaw

"The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation."

By Ray L. Wilbur

"Invest in the future; have a child and teach her well."

Unknown

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."

Unknown

"When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years."

By Mark Twain

.Rights of the Child - United Nation's Pledge

"We accept responsibility for children

who put chocolate fingers everywhere,

who like to be tickled,

who stomp in puddles and ruin their new pants,

who sneak popsickles before supper,

who erase holes in math workbooks,

who can never find their shoes.

And we accept responsibility for those

who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire,

who can't bound down the street in a new pair of sneakers,

who never "counted potatoes,"

who are born in places we wouldn't be caught dead,

who never go to the circus,

who live in an X-rated world.

We accept responsibility for children

who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions,

who sleep with the dog and bury goldfish,

who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money,

who cover themselves with Band-aids and sing off-key,

who squeeze toothpaste all over the sink,

who slurp their soup.

And we accept responsibility for those

who never get dessert,

who have no safe blanket to drag behind them,

who watch their parents watch them die,

who can't find any bread to steal,

who don't have any rooms to clean up,

whose pictures aren't on anybody's dresser,

whose monsters are real.

We accept responsibility for children

who spend all their allowance before Tuesday,

who throw tantrums in the grocery store and pick at their food,

who like ghost stories,

who shove dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse out the tub,

who get visits from the tooth fairy,

who don't like to be kissed in front of the car pool,

who squirm in church or temple and scream in the phone,

whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles can make us cry.

And we accept responsibility for those

whose nightmares come in the daytime,

who will eat anything,

who never have seen a dentist,

who aren't spoiled by anybody,

who go to bed and cry themselves to sleep,

who live and move but have no being.

We accept responsibility for children who want to be carried

and for those who must,

for those we never give up on and for those

who don't get a second chance."

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."

By Thomas B. Macaulay

"Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered."

By Merikare

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

By Martin Luther King Jr.

"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper... the more it is spent,

the more it remains."

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you can't be with the one you love, than love the one you're with."

By Stephen Stills

"Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles."

By J.C. Powys

"The first duty of love - is to listen."

By Paul Tillich

"There are three things that can never be hidden - love, a mountain, and one riding on a camel."

By Arab proverb

"He who finds not love finds nothing."

By Spanish Proverb

"The mind has a thousand eyes and the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done."

By F. W. Bourdillon

"Character is the sum and total of a person's choices."

By P. B. Fitzwater

"A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is."

By Jack Miner

"It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses."

By Charles Peguy

"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at."

By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying."

By Colin Hay

"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."

By Faith Baldwin

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small" ones.

By Phillip Brooks

"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."

By Thomas Carlyle

"Character must be kept bright as well as clean."

By Lord Chesterfield

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

By Albert Einstein

"Perfections of mean and confusion of goals seem -in my opinion- to characterize our age."

By Albert Einstein

"what good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?"

Matthew 16:26

"Everything should be as simple as possible -- but not simpler."

By Albert Einstein

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

By Oscar Wilde

"Reality and life are not the same."

By PM Dawn

"some days are made for rain."

By Aaron Neville

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing..."

By Oscar Wilde

"It all begins where it ends."

By Roxette

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

By Abraham Lincoln

"Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do."

By David Wilkerson

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."

By Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness."

By John Howe

"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

By Abraham Lincoln

"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."

By Mark Twain

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."

By Mark Twain

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a

life."

By Arthur Ashe

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."

By Jules de Gaultier

"What we call human nature, is actually human habit."

By Jewel

"Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand."

Unknown

"Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened."

Unknown

"We the unwilling

working for the ungrateful

are doing the impossible.

We have done so much,

for so long,

with so little,

we are now qualified to

do anything with nothing."

Unknown

"If you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room."

Unknown

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."

By Eleanor Roosevelt

"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe."

By Orison Sweet Marden

"I would rather have 15 minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special."

By Steel Magnolias

"Commitment in the face of conflict produces character."

Unknown

"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

By Samuel Johnson

"Life's a journey not a destination."

By Aerosmith

"but tomorrow may rain, so i'll follow the sun."

By the beatles

"One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life."

By L. Estrange

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

By John Wooden

"That which does not kill us will only make us stronger."

Unknown

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."

By Henry David Thoreau

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

By James A. Michener

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

By Helen Keller

"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character."

By Grenville Kleiser

"If tears could build a stairway,

and memories were a lane,

I would walk right up to heaven

to bring you home again.

No farewell words were spoken

no time to say goodbye

you were gone before I knew it,

and only God knows why.

My heart still aches in sadness

and secret tears still flow,

what it meant to lose you,

no one will ever know."

Unknown

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

By Anne Frank

"Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man."

By Felix Frankfurter

"Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions."

By Roger Babson

"Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty."

By Woodrow T. Wilson

"It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character."

By Arthur Schopenhauer

"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades."

By Jacqueline Bisset

"Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character."

By George D. Boardman

"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do."

By William Ellery Channing

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

By Henry Clay

"Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have."

By Marva Collins

"Do what you know and perception is converted into character."

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men!"

By Willy Wonka

"I decided long ago

Never to walk in anyone's shadow

If I fail, If I succeed

At least I did as I believe"

By Whitney Houston

"When the truth gets far too deep,

Past the thousand years asleep,

Time demands I turn around,

And once again the truth is found."

By George Harrison

"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head."

By Mark Twain

"Everybody's searching for a hero

People need someone to look up to.

I never found anyone who fulfilled my needs..

A lonely place to be,

And so I learned to depend on me."

Greatest Love Of All

By Whitney Houston

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has been set like plaster, and will never soften again."

By William James

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."

By Dr. Who

"Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character."

By Walter Lippmann

"Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character."

By Ralph B. Perry

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"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night."

By Marie Corelli

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

By Erma Bombeck

"I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog."

By Wendy Liebman

"A bird in hand can make an awful mess."

By Mistic bottle cap

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you are still a rat!"

By Lily Tomlin

"Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not."

Unknown

"You must have crossed the river before you tell the crocodile he has bad breath."

-Unknown

"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount."

Unknown

"One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him."

Unknown

"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much

fraternizing with the enemy."

By Henry Kissinger

"Marriage is a three ring circus:

engagement ring

wedding ring

and

suffer-ring."

By Unknown

"When I was born they threw away the mold. Well, some of it grew back."

By Emo Phillips

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."

By Erma Bombeck

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."

By Redd Fox