Quotes for anniversaries and events

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“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Not by Shakespeare, but from Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations, a 1993 self-help book by David S. Viscott.
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/16/purpose-gift/

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Sonnets (1609), CXVI

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Source: Love Poems and Sonnets

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Orsino, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Variant: Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist