Journaling  Poems and Quotes

Joy

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. 

Richard Bach

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. 

Japanese Proverb

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
                   
The Dalai Lama

Courage

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.   

T. S. Eliot

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. 

Henry Ford

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. 

Ambrose Redmoon

Friendship

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Readers Digest

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

I didn't find my friends; God gave them to me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Family

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

Anthony Brandt

Families are like fudge...Sweet with a few nuts.

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We may not have it all together...But together we have it all.

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Children

Children are the living message we send to a time we will not see.

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A baby is cuddles and tickles on toes, the sweet scent of powder, a kiss on the nose.

Be kind to your children...they pick your nursing home.

Love

Love isn't eternal; it's day to day. It brings home the bacon and fries it. It wipes noses. It makes the bed. Sometimes it even yells.

Joseph Sobran

Love is two people made from the same piece of life.

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A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it.  A song's not a song 'til you sing it.  Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay.  Love isn't love 'til you give it away.

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Home

Although our house is quite a mess, come in, relax, converse. It doesn't always look like this, sometimes it's even worse.

Everybody brings joy to this house...
Some when they enter! Some when they leave !

Having someplace to go is home.  Having someone to love is family.   Having both is a blessing.

Marriage

Love is not a feeling.  Love is a commitment.