The Value of a Smile It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash, and the memory if it sometimes lasts for ever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends. It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and Nature's best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly good to anybody till it is given away!
So you're at a funny and awkward age - but relax, enjoy yourself, sit back and laugh at life... after all, it laughs at you often enough! Happy birthday! Full of fun and zest... Many happy returns An extra loving wish HAPPY BIRTHDAY When we wish you Happy Birthday, Mum Our prayer is that God will
A very special greeting Because you're always thought of Mothers are special people
For Christmas, for always, For a very special person This card brings love I'm so lucky to have a son
When our two souls stand up Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams - that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety.... For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: "Because it was he; because it was me." Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self-respect and it's these things I'd believe in even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be.... I love her and that's the beginning of everything. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) ... I love you. I cannot live without you. I would like to give you everything that is mine.... telling you more and more until we grew to be one being together until the hour should come for us to die. Even now the tears rush to my eyes and sobs choke my throat as a I write this.... bear with me a little even if I am inconsiderate and unmanageable and believe me we will be happy together. Let me love you in my own way. Let me have your heart always close to mine to hear every throb of my life, every sorrow, every joy. James Joyce (1882-1941) Thou art my life, my love, my heart, Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain (1835-1910) There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else. Unknown Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a person's own breast. Trust thyself. Aristotle (384-322 BC) Talk happiness. The world is sad enough. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton, b.1946 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius (551-479 BC) Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James (1842-1910) Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is the present, that's why it's a gift Do you know what it is to be damned? It has nothing to do with fire. To be damned is only not to love. It's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong -- R. Feynman Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent -- Marilyn vos Savant While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die -- Leonardo Da Vinci Truth above all, even when it upsets or overwhelms us -- Henri Frederic Amiel Masturbation is nothing to be ashamed of. It's nothing to be particularly proud of, either Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable -- John F. Kennedy Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove -- Ashleigh Brilliant Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again -- F. P. Jones
Beautiful butterfly, joyfully free, The image of the butterfly The old me is gone, It didn't take long, an instant or so; The story's not over, the work incomplete; `I tell you most solemnly, unless a man is John 3:3 I said to the man who stood at the gate of the Year, `Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' And he replied, `Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!' One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the LORD. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonged to him, and the other to the LORD. When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life. This really bothered him and he questioned the LORD about it. "LORD, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me." The LORD replied, "My precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you." Angels are the guardians of hope and wonder, the keepers of magic and dreams · Angels watch over you wherever you go, keeping each day perfect and promising a bright new tomorrow · The motto of all angels is "it's a wonderful life" · Wherever there is love; an angel is flying by · Angels help you carry the ball, carry a tune, carry your weight and carry on! · Your guardian angel knows you inside and out and loves you just the way you are · Angels keep the world safe for hummingbirds and butterflies and rainbows in spring · Angels keep it simple and always travel light · Angels love whispering secrets and whistling in the dark · Whenever you hear music, an angel is speaking to you · Remember to leave space in your relationships so the angels have room to play · Your guardian angel helps you find a place when you feel there's no place to go · Keep a spare angel in your pocket · Angels carry high-beam lights to help you through the darkest hours · Whenever you feel lonely, a special angel drops in for tea · Angels know that love is the only four letter word · We are "always angels on call" for a friend · Everytime you hear a bell, another angel has earned its wings · Angels are with you every step of the way and help you soar with amazing grace · After all, we are angels in training; all we have to do is spread our wings and fly.
Indeed it is well said, in every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing -- Carlyle Scab and Matter Custard, Snot and Bogey Pie, Dead Dog's Giblets, Green Cat's Eye, Spread it in Bread, Spread it on thick, Wash it all down, With a Cup of Cold Sick -- Children's rhyme, oral tradition Eternal Mists their dropping Curse distill, And drizly vapours all the ditches fill: The swampy Land's a bog, the fields are seas, And too much moisture is the grand disease, Here every eye with brackish rheum o'reflows, And a fresh drop still hangs at every nose -- Diaper
Taniwha wrote the poems in this spot and contributed the Maori sayings. Visit her homepage or write to her at Taniwha2@bigfoot.com.
It isn't always easy Written exclusively for Wicked Moon Cards by Lynda Finn Some people put their feelings into little, fancy boxes Written exclusively for Wicked Moon Cards by Lynda Finn
Every now and again a person comes along whose beauty owes nothing to the outer form. That person shines with a loveliness which comes from the inside. You know instinctively that you can rely upon them; they are a friend in the true sense of that word. They would defend you to the last; help you at any time and never count the cost; continue to love you, whatever you did; give you their last possession if you were in need. Not everyone is privileged to meet such a person in their lifetime but I have found that special person in you. Written exclusively for Wicked Moon Cards by Lynda Finn You are the sun's rising and the day's ending Written exclusively for Wicked Moon Cards by Lynda Finn Some guys find it easy Written exclusively for Wicked Moon Cards by Lynda Finn When you were small I could hug you, Written exclusively for Wicked Moon Cards by Lynda Finn When no one else seems to have the time Written exclusively for Wicked Moon Cards by Lynda Finn People don't write love poems to Grannies.... do they? Well I don't care what people do Written exclusively for Wicked Moon Cards by Lynda Finn People don't write love poems to Grandad's.... do they? Well I don't care what people do Written exclusively for Wicked Moon Cards by Lynda Finn Kia hora te marino, kia whakapapa pounamu te moana, May calm be spread around you, may the sea glisten like greenstone and the shimmer of summer dance across your path. Famous Maori saying
God bless your birthday Ma te Atua to huritau e manaaki mana, May God bless your birthday and give you happiness throughout the whole year. Kia rite ta taua aroha May the love that is between us remain as constant as the tide,
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