It’s okay to send flowers

It’s okay to send flowers,

but don’t let the flowers do all the talking.

Flowers have a limited vocabulary.

About the best flowers can say is that you remembered.

- Jim Rohn -

When you struggle with your partner

When you struggle with your partner,

you are struggling with yourself.

Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

- Deepak Chopra -

A relationship is like a rose

A relationship is like a rose.

How long it lasts, no one knows.

Love can erase an awful past, love can be yours, you’ll see at last.

To feel that love, it makes you sigh.

To have it leave, you’d rather die.

You hope you’ve found that special rose,

cause you love and care for the one you choose.

- Rob Cella -

Once the realization

Once the realization

is accepted that even between

the closest human beings infinite distances continue,

a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in

loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each

to see the other whole against the sky.

- Rainer Maria Rilke -

If fame were based

If fame were based on

kindness instead of popularity,

on understanding and not on worldwide attention,

you would be the biggest celebrity on earth.

And to my heart, you already are.

- Anonymous -

Present your family and friends

Present your family and friends

with their eulogies now – they won’t be able

to hear how much you love them and appreciate them

from inside the coffin.

- Anonymous -

You can kiss your family

You can kiss your family and friends

good-bye and put miles between you,

but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart,

your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world

but a world lives in you.

- Frederick Buechner -

Sticks and stones are hard

Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
- Phyllis McGinley -

Oh the comfort

Oh,

the comfort – the inexpressible

comfort of feeling safe with a person – having

neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,

but pouring them all right out, just as they are,

chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand

will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and

then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Craik -

There’s one sad truth in life

There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -