Engagement/Wedding

• "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
  Dr. Seuss
• "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
  Friedrich Nietzsche
• "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
  Lao Tzu
• "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
  Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
• "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
  Zelda Fitzgerald
• "And, in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make."
  Paul McCartney
• "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
  Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
• "We loved with a love that was more than love."
  Edgar Allan Poe
• "You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."
  Oscar Wilde
• "He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
  Emily Brontë
• "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
  

Friendship

• "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
  Albert Camus
• "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
  C.S. Lewis
• "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
  Elbert Hubbard
• "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
  Maya Angelou
• "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
  Linda Grayson
• "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
• "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
  Marlene Dietrich
• "When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'."
  Groucho Marx
• "We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. 'Even longer,' Pooh answered."
  A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
• "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
  Helen Keller
• "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
  Aristotle
• "Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
  John Lennon
• "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
• "A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
  Euripides
• "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"
  Woodrow Wilson
• "Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
  Eleanor Roosevelt
• "What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
  Aristotle
• "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
  Henry Ford
• "... no man is useless while he has a friend."
  Robert Louis Stevenson
• "The best mirror is an old friend."
  George Herbert
• "The world would be so lonely, in sunny hours or gray. Without the gift of friendship, to help us every day."
  Hilda Brett Farr
• "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
  Helen Keller
• "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
  William Arthur Ward
• "Ah, how good it feels... the hand of an old friend"
  Mary Englebright
• "A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
  Walter Winchell
• "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."
  Albert Camus (also attributed to Maimonidies)
• "It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
  John Leonard
• "The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
  Abraham Lincoln
• "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
  Goethe
• "Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere."
  Anonymous
• "A friend is a gift you give yourself."
  Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
  Kahil Gibran
• "The best time to make friends is before you need them."
  Ethel Barrymore
• "When character of man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
  Japanese Proverb

Anniversary

• "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
  Marcel Proust
• "Who, being loved, is poor?"
  Oscar Wilde

Valentine's Day

• "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
• "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
  William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• "The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
  Marilyn Monroe
• "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
  Alfred Tennyson
• "We love the things we love for what they are."
  Robert Frost
• "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
  Mother Teresa
• "Where there is love there is life."
  Mahatma Gandhi
• "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
  Plato
• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
  Helen Keller
• "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach"
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
  Sophocles

Music

• "Without music, life would be a mistake."
  Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
• "The only thing better than singing is more singing."
  Ella Fitzgerald
• "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
  Victor Hugo
• "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
  Maya Angelou
• "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
  Aldous Huxley, Music At Night: And Other Essays

Books/Reading

• "A room without books is like a body without a soul."
  Marcus Tullius Cicero
• "So many books, so little time."
  Frank Zappa
• "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
  Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
• "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
  Mark Twain
• "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
  Jane Austen
• "We read to know that we are not alone."
  C.S. Lewis
• "There is no friend as loyal as a book."
  Ernest Hemingway
• "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
  Jorge Luis Borges
• "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
  Groucho Marx
• "Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
  Henry Ward Beecher
• "Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
  Voltaire
• "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
  Marcus Tullius Cicero
• "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
  Frederick Douglass
• "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books"
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "The world was hers for the reading."
  Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Encouragement

• "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
  Friedrich Nietzsche
• "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
  Thomas A. Edison
• "Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
  G.K. Chesterton
• "Everything you can imagine is real."
  Pablo Picasso
• "A day without laughter is a day wasted."
  Charles Chaplin
• "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
  Albert Einstein
• "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
  Winston S. Churchill
• "Always do what you are afraid to do."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Hope is the thing with feathers
  That perches in the soul
  And sings the tune without the words
  And never stops at all."
  Emily Dickinson
• "If you are going through hell, keep going."
  Winston S. Churchill
• "If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
  Martin Luther King Jr.
• "When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
  E.E. Cummings
• "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
  Robert Frost
• "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
  Martin Luther King Jr.