• 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's Sonnet 116

• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveller, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth; then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, for it was grassy and wanted wear; though as for that the travelling there had worn them really about the same, and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black. oh, I kept the first for another day! yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever be back. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less travelled by, and that made all the difference.'

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert frost

• "We all grow up someday. You may as well know what you want."

Amy March, "Little Women"

• "And remember the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God."

Fantine, Eponine, and Valjean, "Les Miserables"

• "The Person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

Jane Austen

• "The most difficult thing - but an essential one - is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all. Life is God, and to love Life means to love God."

Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace"

• "It was that wonderful old-fashioned idea, that others came first and you came second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'Don't fuss, dear - just get on with it.'"

Audrey Hepburn

• "Do not read as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert

• "I'd like to teach ya all a little sayin', and learn these words by heart the way ya should: 'I don't say I'm no better than anybody else, but I'll be damned if I ain't jest as good!' "

Aunt Eller, "Oklahoma!"

• "To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years meet with somebody more generally unexceptionable than anyone you have yet known, who will love you as warmly as possible, and who will so completely attach you that you will feel you never really loved before."

Jane Austen to her niece, 1817

• "Let brotherly love continue."

Hebrews 13:1

• "Have I not told you? Be strong and courageous, do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."

Joshua 1:9

• "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are Mine."

Isaiah 43:1

• " 'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord. 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.' "

Jeremiah 29:11

• "The prayer of a righteous [woman] is powerful and effective."

James 5:17

• "My dad used to tell me a story about a woman who was looking for her perfect man. Trouble was, when she found him, she wasn't his perfect woman."

Louise Flood

• "You have to be careful with the pink ones!"

The Krause Family PLEASE NOTE: There are a few poems in here, unfortunately listography couldn't format these properly for me. If you have trouble reading them, i have included the names so look them up on the net. XOXO Laurey