The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
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This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers.
Now, remember this moment and cherish it...
because this will be the last time you ever have the upper hand.
- Anonymous
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Walk Today's March With Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Today is my day to paint in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with my heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as my celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
New Year's eve is like every other night;
there is no pause in the march of the universe,
no breathless moment of silence among created things
that the passage of another twelve months may be noted;
and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening
that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
When power leads man toward arrogance,
poetry reminds him of his limitations.
When power narrows the area of man's concern,
poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence.
When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
- John F. Kennedy
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
I am a miracle, and that's why I'm ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
I serve others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the eternity of all creation,
I am the only ME that ever will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I open myself for the word of Spirit to flow through me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am Honored that Spirit has chosen to create ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Bless EVERYTHING That Has Occurred To Bring Me To This Instant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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