"At one glance I love you with a thousand hearts." - Mihri Hatun

"Baby dear, your sails are set for the joyous trip called life. May you always find brisk winds, a guiding star and safe harbor." - Barbara J. Holt

"Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars." - Henry van Dyke

"Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here and hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of love." - Maureen Hawkins

"Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh - tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister." - Katherine Mansfield

"Family faces are magin mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future." - Gail Buckley

"Here's to tall ships. Here's to small ships. Heres to all the ships on the sea. But the best ships are friendships. . . Here's to you and me." Old Maritime Blessing

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson

"i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear.)" - e.e. cummings

"I have found the one whom my soul loves." - Song of Solomon 3:4

"I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old." - William Shakespeare

"I'll love you , dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street." - W.H. Auden

"If the sky could bring me the heavens, they would bring me you. If the ocean could wash ashore a beautiful pearl, for it would be you. . ." - Charles E. Bailey

"If there's anything half so much fun as being alive, I'd like to know what it is." - Frederick Buechner

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I would never have to live a day without you." - Winnie the Pooh

"May soft be the grass you walk on, May fair be the skies above you, May true be the joys that surround you, May dear be the hearts that love you." - Old Irish Blessing

"May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm on your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again. . ." - Old Irish Blessing

"Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold." - Zelda Fitzgerald

"Remember when you go into the world to keep your eyes and ears wide open. And be kind. Love one another. Take care of each other. . ." - Rebecca Puig

"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"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

"There are soulds in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go." - Jean Paul Richter

"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do thatn by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other." - Luciano De Creschenzo

"We must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"What are you doing the rest of your life? North and South and East and West of your life. I have only one request of your life. That you spend it all with me." - Bergman

"Whatever our souls are made of yours and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte

"Within your heart keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go, and sheltered so, may thrive and grow - where doubt and fear are not, Oh, keep a place within your heart, for little dreams to go." - Louise Driscoll

"Yes'm old friends is always best, 'less you can catch you a new one that's fit to make an old one out of." - Sarah Orne Jewett

"You are the poem I dreamed of writing, the masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. You are my child. Now with all things i am blessed." - Unknown

"You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily or have sharp edges or who have to be carefully kept. . ." - The Velveteen Rabbit

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln

"And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon. . ." - Edward Lear

"Angels are watching over you. . . their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed."

"To the outside world we all grow old. But not to rothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hears. . . we live outside the touch of time." - Clara Ortega

"Lord, look down from heaven above and touch this special child with love. Protect and guide this little one until each and every day is done. Remind us often that it's true; This little life is a gift from you. A miracle You've sent our way. Lord, bless this little child today."

"Someday when I'm awfully low. When the world is cold. I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight." - Fields and Kern

"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be a part." - Hermann Broch

"I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine" - Song of Soloman 6:3