• "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo Buscaglia
• "Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." ~Leo Buscaglia
• “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
• "The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person." ~Vi Putnam
• "Truth is everybody is going to hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." - Bob Marley
• "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." ~ George Washington
• "Everyone says that love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Everyone confuses these things with love, but in reality, LOVE is the only thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again!
• "Words can't say what love can do" ~ "I'll Be There for You" by Bon Jovi
• "Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." - Ray Stannard Baker
• "The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one." ~ Honore de Balzac
• "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." ~ Anonymous
• "The South the place where... Tea is sweet and accents are sweeter... Summer starts in April... Macaroni & Cheese is a vegetable... Front Porches are wide and Words are long... Pecan Pie is a staple... Y'all is the only proper noun... Chicken is fried and Biscuits ...come with gravy... Everything is Darlin' and Someone's Heart is always being Blessed"!
• "A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely." ~ Pam Brown
• "Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." ~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ~ Anon.
• "Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are." - Proverb
• Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. - Proverb
• It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them. - Proverb
• "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
• "Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions." - David Borenstein
• "It's not sissy to show your feeling." Diana, Princess of Wales
• "When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends." - Abraham Lincoln
• "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." - Abraham Lincoln
• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
• "Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow." -Proverb
• "Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee." - Proverb
• "Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it." - Woody Allen
• "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." - James Baldwin
• "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." - James Baldwin
• "If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile." - Lynda Barry
• "The best proof of love is trust." - Joyce Brothers
• "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• "Perfectionism is the highest form of abuse..." ~ Wynonna Judd
• "For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'." - Whittier
• "Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable." - "The Wizard of Oz"
• "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." - W.M. Lewis
• "Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure." - Rachel Naomi Remen
• “Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them.” - Richard L Evans
• "The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. " - Pau (Pablo) Casals
• "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
• "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." 1 Peter 4:8
• "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." -Elizabeth Stone
• "Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any

rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet."

• "You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing." - Orison Swett Marden
• “The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.” - Dr. Robert Anthony
• “The angry people are those people who are most afraid.” - Dr. Robert Anthony
• “Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” - Dr. Robert Anthony
• “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.” - Leo Buscaglia
• “The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.” - Emil Ludwig
• “We fear the thing we want the most.” - Dr. Robert Anthony