Quotes for anniversaries and events

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“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”

Karl Menninger (1893–1990) American psychiatrist

“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.”

Nagarjuna (150–250) Indian philosopher

That frightens all the childish
And extinguishes fear in the wise.

§ 26
Major attributed works, Ratnāvalī (Precious Garland)

“Everything is beautiful if you love it.”

Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) German author

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ”

Миньон МакЛафлин (1913–1983)

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”

Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18

“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”

Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

"Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess'", Hello Magazine, Daily News (1 July 2015)

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage

“Because I loved myself, I was loved.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“Marriage is a wonderful institution… but who wants to live in an institution?”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on”

Maria Shriver (1955) journalist and author from the United States

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

"The Poet's Story," January 1, 1972 entry
A Small Journal (1974)

“To love is to will the good of the other.”

Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica

II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)

“If there is a good will, there is great way.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.”

Joni Eareckson Tada (1949) American artist

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

Umberto Eco book Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925)

“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”

Mario Cuomo (1932–2015) American politician, Governor of New York

Time Magazine (2 June 1986)

“I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there."”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.
As quoted in the New York Times Magazine (11 September 1994).