A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership,
tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
---Paul Sweeney
Sometimes I wonder if life is really worth it,
then I look at your smile and I know it is.
---Unknown
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is
understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~
That can make life a garden.
---Goethe
When you build the relationship out of true friendship, you
put a solid ramp under the whole thing. The ramp doesn't take
the adventure out of the ride -- it makes it more secure and fun.
---Doc Childre
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly,
disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship,
explore your thoughts about one another candidly,
work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.
No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
---Bill Bradley
Whoever said that there are plenty of fishes in the sea was lying,
sometimes there's only one fish, trust me.
---Ally McBeal
Too many of us stay walled because we are afraid to care too much,
for fear the other person does not care as much or not at all.
The greatest example of manhood in this generation
is staying with one woman for a lifetime.
---Dexter Yager
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end
of your arm...As you grow older you will discover that you have two
hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
---Audrey Hepburn
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always
agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some
kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the
habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others,
you will be neither successful nor happy.
---Napoleon Hill
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your
money, unless you have done something for someone
who will never be able to repay you.
--Ruth Smeltzer
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery
of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing
depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner
progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous
thing. It cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately
wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
---Sir Hugh Walpoe
Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held
loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute
you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles
through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be
spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and
freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold
too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
---Kaleel Jamison
A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like,
What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you,
they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally
irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.
---A.M. Homes
That was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the
hardest I've ever learned about anything- that she is her own, and
what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of
it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if
you close your hand, one way or another, it, and its choice to be there,
are gone.
---Barbara Hambly
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to shape and share the life
we choose. Someone to help us through the never ending attempt to
understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us
along the way.
---Lois and Clark
There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive or good
company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you
happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's okay.
You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can
announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking
risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you.
But you can like who you like.
---Andrew Matthews
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then
burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should
all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
---Albert Schweitzer
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a
while and leave footprints on our hearts.
And we are never, ever the same.
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
I don't wish to be everything to everyone
but I do wish to be something to someone.
It's like you think you're safe or something, 'cause you can just walk
away, anytime, because you don't like, need her. You don't need anyone.
But the thing you didn't realize is, you're wrong.
---Claire Danes in "My So-Called Life"
Have you ever just like completely given up on someone and something
happens and you go Oh my God, there's so much more to this person
thanI ever dreamed.
---Claire Danes in "My So-Called Life"
See there's thinking about him-right? Which is what I do all the time.
Like this obsession. It keeps me going or something. I need it just
to get through the day. If you make it real it's not the same. It's
not yours anymore. I don't know maybe I'd rather have the fantasy
than even him.
---Claire Danes in "My So-Called Life"
To own anything is to be owned by it. I never wanted to own you,
it's impossible. And I never wanted to be owned. But I guess I always
wanted you to pretend that you thought I was worth owning.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our
souls to dance. They awaken us to the understanding with the passing
whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful just
to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leaving footprints
on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
Once in awhile, you find that perfect someone, and after awhile-
surprise! -They aren't perfect.
What's meant to be will always find a way.
He doesn't make sense�I don't make sense. Together we make sense.
---From the movie "Untamed Heart"
I need you. I don't know why but every now and then in my life,
for no reason at all, I need you.
Perhaps you'd be a bit surprised how often, if you knew,
a joke, a song, a memory will make me think of you.
The sound of a kiss is not nearly so loud as a cannon,
but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
---Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Well I've been afraid of changing cause I've built my life around you-
but time makes you bolder even children get older
and I'm getting older too.
---Stevie Nicks
There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate,
of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a
game, and turn away in tears.
---Sylvia Plath
All our young lives we search for someone who makes us complete.
We choose partners and change partners. We dance to the song of
heartbreak and hope all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow
there is someone searching for us.
---From "The Wonder Years"
I would rather have had one breath of his hair, one kiss from his
mouth, one touch of his hand, than eternity without it. One.
---From "City of Angels"
As time progresses I weary of ever finding the right person... Could
we ever be sure whether we're doing the right thing? Hold on or let go?
An endless struggle which really isn't a decision for me to make...
It makes me want to hurl....I think of you every day
in every possible way.
He was reminded of Marta, who often said she would find a male
companion just as soon as she figured out what she needed one for.
You should know that everywhere I go, you're always on my mind.
It is okay to need each other. That's what makes us strong.
That's what makes us human.
Somewhere, someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.
Always have hope for the guy who cares enough to look back when he's
walking away.
Some things you see with your eyes; others you see with your heart.
---From "The Land Before Time"
A person can still have feelings for someone,
even if they're not like THE person anymore.
---Claire Danes in "My So-Called Life
I'm sitting here with my best friend in the whole world,
and my palms are sweating.
---Katie Holmes in "Dawson's Creek"
Today if a happy smile comes to you, a happy smile that perhaps you
can't explain... it is because at that moment, I am thinking of you
and smiling too.
Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time
she's 24, she may be lucky.
---Deborah Kerr
Let me be angry...please. It is the only way I can keep you
from seeing how much I need you.
Relationships are hard. It`s a full time job,and we should treat it
like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they
should give you two week`s notice. There should be severance pay,and
before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp.
---Bob Ettinger
We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because
there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it,
those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of
friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good
is to have a healthy love for him.
---Montaigne
There are times I have to be here and you have to be there.
And the space between us is much too much.
You are the one person in this world who is necessary to me.
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