“Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out the innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.”

–Jean Giraudoux

“One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.”
– George Herbert

“A mother understands what a child does not say“

–Jewish Proverb

“From the withered tree,
A flower blooms.
–Zen Proverb

“Dance as if no one’s watching,
sing as if no one’s listening,
and live everyday as if it were your last.”
–Irish Saying

“The footprints you leave behind will influence others.
There is no person who at some time, somewhere, somehow,
does not lead another.”

“Some think that love is all flowers and good times, but I think that love is more than just that.
Love is the bad, as well as the better, not lived alone, but a journey together.”
–D.H. Lawrence

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”

-Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”

–W. T. Ellis

“A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.” -American Proverb