Your words,
sealed in glass
& dried flowers

I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. — J.R.R. Tolkien To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. — Elizabeth Gilbert Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. — Plato Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to give–which is everything. — Katharine Hepburn It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. — Agatha Christie Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Brontë The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo In love there are two things– bodies and words. — Joyce Carol Oates Where there is love there is life. — Mahatma Gandhi Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. — Zora Neale Hurston Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. — Maya Angelou Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. — Joan Crawford I love her and it is the beginning of everything. — F. Scott Fitzgerald When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. — Nora Ephron Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. — Oscar Wilde Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you. — Dolly Parton There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. — Jane Austen Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. — Robert Frost Life is the flower for which love is the honey. — Victor Hugo We are most alive when we are in love. — John Updike The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. — Henry Miller There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. — George Sand To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. — David Viscott Love does not dominate; it cultivates. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces. — Rumi There is no charm equal to tenderness of the heart. — Jane Austen True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach Love recognizes no barriers. — Maya Angelou Love yourself first and everything falls into line. — Lucille Ball Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Where there is great love, there are always miracles. — Willa Cather Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. — Helen Keller To love is to recognize yourself in another. — Eckhart Tolle Love is friendship that has caught fire. — Ann Landers You always gain by giving love. — Reese Witherspoon If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. — A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day. — Jodi Picoult Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. — Loretta Young There is no remedy for love but to love more. — Henry David Thoreau I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. — Audrey Hepburn

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood. — Lance Conrad Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy. — Tina Fey Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong. — Donna Ball Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. — Howard W. Hunter Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie This is motherhood for you, said my own mother. Going through life with your heart outside your body. — Jennifer Weiner A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me. — Kristin Hannah (24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. — Jodi Picoult Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on. — Maria Shriver Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. — Robert Browning I'm blessed and I couldn't be more grateful. Because I'm a mother, but that's only half of it. I'm blessed because, when I need to, I can still just be a daughter. There is nothing more precious than to have both of these roles, simultaneously. — Adrianna Stepiano The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that — a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest. — Debra Ginsberg Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. — Barbara Kingsolver The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. — Jessica Lange There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. — James E. Faust Motherhood was the great equalizer for me; I started to identify with everybody. — Annie Lennox Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary — it's an act of infinite optimism. — Gilda Radner When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. — Sophia Loren Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do. — Jane Seymour Becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered. — Kelly Clarkson There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood. — Elder M. Russell Ballard Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story. — Sarah Addison Allen There is eternal influence and power in motherhood. — Julie B. Beck If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional love. — Revathi Sankaran You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience. — Jennie Finch Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy. — Barbara Walters Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. — Ricki Lake Motherhood changes everything. — Adriana Trigiani Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. — David O. McKay Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done. — Rebecca Woolf Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different. — Betty Friedan I think motherhood is the noblest task of all, because you cannot do it at your convenience, or tailor it to suit your preferences. — Johann Christoph Arnold It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you. — Julia Quinn Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it. — M.L. Stedman Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. — Jodi Picoult Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired. — Marguerite Kelly Burnt toast is actually fairly symbolic of Motherhood. If you are the one who burned the toast, you scrape it off and eat it yourself. — Emily Watts Real motherhood is different. It's better and it's messier and it's more complicated. It will break your heart and make you laugh harder than you ever imagined. — Melanie Shankle You have suffered enough. That became my mantra for motherhood. If you can make it easier, make it easier, and don't feel guilty about it. — Ali Wong Motherhood seems to be a no-win battle: however you decide to do it, someone's going to be criticizing you. — Celeste Ng

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. — Anaïs Nin Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced — true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. — Charlotte Brontë Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. — Dorothy Parker One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion. — Simone de Beauvoir There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. — Edith Wharton Women understand. We may share experiences, make jokes, paint pictures, and describe humiliations that mean nothing to men, but women understand. — Gloria Steinem Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. — Anne Carson Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees. — Miranda July The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. — Mary Shelley I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much. — L.M. Montgomery Nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small it takes time — we haven't time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. — Georgia O'Keeffe We are friends for life. When we're together the years fall away. Isn't that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? — Judy Blume This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea. — Margaret Atwood My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges. — Helen Keller Friendship is the most important thing — not career or housework, or one's fatigue — and it needs to be tended and nurtured. — Julia Child You send a girl to school in order to make friends – the right sort. — Virginia Woolf And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her. — Emily Giffin Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. — Amy Poehler Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. — Maya Angelou 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 Women's friendships are like a renewable source of power. — Jane Fonda Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again. — Michelle Obama There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. — Jane Austen Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another, 'What! You too?' — C.S. Lewis Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies. — Richelle Mead