Here are some sample texts and quotations you may find useful:
Expressing Love:
To the one who makes all my dreams come true.
You are the love of my life.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
You complete me. - Jerry McGuire
Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons. - Kahlil Gibran
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
The bond that holds
Love is not losing freedom, it is sharing freedom with another.
Many things in life will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart.
Love is a feeling that can be given without regrets.
You've got to dance like nobody's looking, and love like it's never going to hurt.
It is a luxury to be understood.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.
- Lord Byron, Stanzas for Music
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Robert Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese
But to see her was to love her,
- Robert Burns, A Fond Kiss
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. - Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. - The Bible, The Song of Solomon
We loved with a love that was more than love. - Edgar Allan Poe, Annabelle Lee
Expressing Sympathy:
Praying for friends to comfort you, faith to uphold you and loving memories to help you smile again.
With our thoughts and prayers in your time of sorrow.
Sharing your sorrow with love and friendship.
Please know our loving thoughts embrace you.
I hope these flowers express the words we are not able to speak.
Our heartfelt condolences.
Remembering the good times.
Joy shared is twice the joy; sorrow shared is half the sorrow.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.-Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519)
Expressing Birthday Wishes:
Like a fine wine, you improve each year.
Enjoy your birthday – you’ll never be this young again. But be careful – you’ve never been this old before!
Roses are red, violets are blue – I’m so glad that I’m younger than you!
‘Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. – John Sheffield
Pray you now, forget and forgive. – William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4 Scene 7
Expressing Friendship
I am your true friend. If you fall I will not pick you up, I will catch you on the way down.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe that I deserved my friends. - Walt Whitman, American poet
Get Well Soon Hoping you are back to good health soon!
Wishing you a quick recovery.
He who has health has hope, but he who has hope has everything. - Arab proverb
What counts is not the size of the dog in a fight - It's the size of the fight in the dog.- Dwight D. Eisenhower, American president (1958)
Mothers:
To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict, For Mother with Love
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face - George Eliot, English novelist
My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it. - Marc Chagall
No influence is so powerful as that of the mother. - Sarah Josepha Hale
The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.- Barbara Kingsolver
Mothers are instinctive philosophers. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. - George Herbert
A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved.- Kate Samperi, "Mothers"
When it comes to love, Mom's the word.
For all the ways you've helped me grow, I want to say I love you so.
Who ran to help me when I fell,
A mother understands what a child does not say. - Jewish proverb
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash
Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean. - Erich Fromm, psychologist
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. - Dorothy C. Fisher (1879-1958)
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. - Margaret Mead
Her voice was ever soft,
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. - Henry Ward Beecher
New Baby:
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. - Arthur C. Coxe, English writer (1900-)
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. - Peter Ustinov, British actor
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. - Peter De Vries, American novelist
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. - Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
When you were born, you cried
Expressing Encouragement:
Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine
If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.- Erma Bombeck
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. - Japanese proverb
When you're sad, learn something. - Merton
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.- Anonymous
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. - Duke Snider
When the world says, "Give up", Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows. - Helen Keller
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
- Charles Schultz, American cartoonist/humorist
When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
- Psalms 30:5
After all these years of toil and strife, I'm so glad there is an angel in my life.
Two souls with but a single thought,
If ever two were one, then surely we.
- Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Expressing Thanks:
With sincere gratitude for your kindness.
I will always be grateful.
You make the world a better place. Thank you!
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. - Dr. Seuss' "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"
Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!- Dr. Seuss' "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere – Chinese Proverb
For Fathers:
A father is a banker provided by nature. - French proverb
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash, American humorist
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. - Bertrand Russell
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.- Margaret Mead
A man should have a child, plant a tree and write a book.- Chinese proverb
It's what you listen to as a child that you always come back to.- Al Cohn, New York Times
It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Grandparents:
Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.- Anonymous
You don't choose your family, they are God's gift to you, as you are to them. - Bishop Desmond Tutu
Her children rise up, and call her blessed. – Proverbs 31
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. - Welsh Proverbs
Plenty of love,
I ever will in you remain,
May every blessing be thy lot, I only ask "Forget Me Not."
Thy sparkling eyes of blackest jet
Your eyes are blue,
More closely bound than friend or brother,
Roses are red
Roses are red
Accept, Dear Girl, this loving heart of mine,
I bet you a cuddle, I bet you a kiss
