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All of our cards are based on the "Quote" or thought. When ordering, start by choosing the quote first.
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Bab 01  "Children learn what they live…."

Bab 02  "The moment of birth is only a moment of continuation. You can be perceived as a baby the day of your so-called birth and everyone thinks of you as now existing. But you already existed before that day."   -Thich Nhat Hahn

Bab 03  "Welcome Baby!"

Bab 04  "Parent's hold their children's hands for a short while and their hearts for ever."  -proverb

Bab 05  "Congratulations on your new baby!"

Bab 06  "Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."   -Henry Ward Beecher

Bab 07  "While we try to teach our children about life, our children teach us what life is all about" 
-Author unknown

Bab 08  "Babies don't come with instruction manuals. Listen to your heart, you will know just what to do."  -Katheryn Shaw

Bab 09  "The first joy of a child, is the knowledge that it is loved."   -Don Bosco
Bir 01  "Bless the days that saw us young, and the years that made us wise."  -Julia Ward Howe

Bir 02  "Aging is not ""lost youth"" but a new stage of opportunity and strength."  -Betty Friedan

Bir 03  "Some people no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty--they merely move it from their faces into their hearts."  -Martin Buxbaum

Bir 04  "Youth has no age."  -Pablo Picasso

Bir 05  "Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."  -Frank Lloyd Wright

Bir 06  "May you be touched with beauty and grace.  -Santana

Bir 07   "There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you."  -Carol Matthau

Bir 08   "It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows, and the beauty of a woman with passing years----only grows."  -Audrey Hepburn

Bir 09   "The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart."   -Mensius

Bir 10   "May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live."

Bir 11   "Wishing a blissful birthday."

Bir 12   "Wishes for you: Joy and laughter on your Birthday."

Bir 13   "Happy Birthday."

Bir 14   "Happy Birthday to a divine being."

Bir 15   "Happy Belated Birthday."

Bir 16   "I consider as true--That maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated."

Bir 17   "She relaxed comfortably into the age she'd reached. Delighted in it's possibilities knowing it was perfect."   -Grandma Moses

Bir 18   "So long as your heart receives beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long you are young" -Douglas MacArthur

Bir 19   "Heaven blessed the earth the day you were born. Happy Birthday."

Bir 20   "A friend is a gift you give yourself."  -Robert Lewis Stevenson

Bir 21   "In sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures…..Happy Birthday my dear friend."   -Kahlil Gibran
Fat 01  "Happy Father's Day"

Fat 02 "That best portion of a good man's life; His little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."  -William Wordsworth

Fat 03   "The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart Mencius."

Fat 04   "I thank you for your sweet warm care, for tender love, for being there."

Fat 05   "Where we love is home. Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." -Oliver Wendell Homes

Fat 06   "All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others. Thank you for your patience and foresight."  -Michael Carr

Fat 07   "It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Thank you Dad." -Mother Teresa

Fat 08   "I'm so grateful…You continue to show up for me! Thank You Dad."
Frn 01  "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."  -anonymous

Frn 02  "A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."  -Arabian Proverb

Frn 03  "At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has caused to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."  -Albert Schweitzer

Frn 04  "Real friends are those who when you've made a fool of yourself don't feel you've done a permanent." -Jo Petty

Frn 05  "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood but of respect and joy in each other's life."  -Richard Bach

Frn 06  "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are then wait to hear the answer."  -Ed Cunningham

Frn 07 "Can miles truly separate you from friends…if you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"  -Richard Bach

Frn 08  "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."  -Anais Nin
Gen 01  "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." Robert Brault

Gen 02  "Sometimes I think I understand everything…..then I regain consciousness."

Gen 03  "Toy with the flowers and their fragrance scents your garments."  -Hana O Ro Sureba, Ka E Ni Mitsu

Gen 04  "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."  -Anais Nin

Gen 05  "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;"  -Emerson

Gen 06  "You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."  -Doug Floyd

Gen 07  "To err is human, to forgive, divine."   -Alexander Pope


Gen 08  "To know you have enough is to be rich."  -Tao

Gen 09 "There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us the merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."  -Friedrich Schiller

Gen 10  "The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the morning and evening." -Henry David Thoreau

Gen 11  "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."  -Albert Einstein

Gen 12  "No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it."  -Albert Einstein

Gen 13  "Music is the shorthand of emotion."  -Leo Tolstoy

Gen 14  "It seems that the only ordinary thing in life is that we overlook the little wonders around us." -Marcel Wanders

Gen 15  "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is most important is invisible to the eye."  -The Little Prince

Gen 16  "I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."  -Vincent Van Gogh

Gen 17  "It's never to late to play the piano."

Gen 18 "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself, what a man can be, he must be."  -Abraham Maslow

Gen 19  "Thinking of you."

Gen 20  "…and summer's lease hath all too short a date…"  -William Shakespeare

Gen 21  "Congratulations!"

Gen 22  "Breath Deeply."

Gen 23  "Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment." -Gandhi

Gen 24  "When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and lookout upon the beautiful world, I thank God I'm alive."  -Emerson

Gen 25  "Live each moment!"

Gen 26  "Bon Voyage."

Gen 27  "It just takes practice."

Gen 28  "Behold simple beauty."
Grd 01  "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."  -Lao Tzu

Grd 02  "Whatever you can do or dream, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."  -Goethe

Grd 03  "Where so ever you go, go with all your heart."  -Confucius

Grd 04  "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."  -Joseph Campbell

Grd 05  "When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as they are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. Yo find that your are inherently connected to your own being. That is magic."  -Chogyam Trungpa

Grd 06  "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."  -Henry David Thoreau

Grd 07  "To be free, to be able to stand up and leave everything behind---without looking back, to say yes--."  -Dag Hammarskjold

Grd 08  "The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams."  -Teillard de Chardin

Grd 09   "The waves echoes behind me.--patience--faith--openness, is what the sea has to teach. Simplicity--solitude--intermittancy--But there are other beaches to explore. There are more shells to find. This is only a beginning. "  -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Grd 10  "The world is but a canvas to the imagination."  -Henry David Thoreau

Grd 11  "The artist is but an instrument through which the universe unveils itself.

Grd 12  "To see things in the seed, that is the genius."  -Lao Tzu

Grd 13  "Never trade what you want at the moment----for what you want most."

Grd 14  "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly."  -anonymous

Grd 15  "Genius is eternal patience."  -Michaelangelo

Grd 16  "Beyond the last furrow of my fenced and tilled world lies a thicket of questions--impenetrable yet unutterably beautiful."  -Richard Caniell

Grd 17  "How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar….CONGRATULATIONS!"  -Trina Paulus

Lov 01  "To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."  -Kahlil Gibran

Lov 02  "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear."  -I John 4:18

Lov 03  "Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings, infinite distances continue, a wonder living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each other to see the other whole against the sky."  -Rainer Maria Rilke

Lov 04  "I love you."

Lov 05  "….and we walk hand in hand as long as we can."  -J.W. Taff

Lov 06  "To love, to laughter, to happiness ever after."

Lov 07  "And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips."  -Kahlil Gibran

Lov 08 "As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."  -William Shakespeare

Lov 09  "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."  -Lao Tzu

Lov 10  "Best wishes for you life together."

Lov 11  "Give all to love; obey the heart."  -Emerson

Lov 12  "It's possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."  -Rainer Maria Rilke

Lov 13  "Love demands all, and has a right to it."  -Beethoven

Lov 14  "Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself."  -Kahlil Gibran

Lov 15  "Love has nothing to do with somebody else, it is your state of being. Love is not a relationship."  -Osho

Lov 16  "  "Love is a fruit in season at all times, and with in reach of every hand."  -Mother Teresa

Lov 18  "Where there is love there is life."  -Mahatma Gandhi

Lov 19  "Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter."  -T.S. Elliot

Lov 20  "Love is life. All, everything that understand, I understand only because I love."  -Leo Tolstoy

Lov 21  "Marriage is not only the expression of love between two people, it is also a profound evocation of one of life's greatest mysteries, the weaving of many different strands of soul."  -Thomas Moore

Lov 22  "The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you, the world is transformed." -Krishnamurti

Lov 23  "The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase."  -Sir Hugh
Walpole


Lov 24  "Rich is not how much you have….or where you are going…or even where you are…Rich is who you have beside you."  -JLK II

Lov 25  "The only thing that you can never have too much of is love."  -Brian Tracy

Lov 26  "Without warning, as a world wind swoops upon an oak, love shakes my heart."  -Sappho

Lov 27  "There is no such thing as chance; what seems to us the merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. Blessings on your love and union."  -Friedrich Schiller

Lov 28  "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."  -David Viscott

Lov 29  "To love oneself is the beginning is a life-long romance."  -Oscar Wilde

Lov 30  "We loved with a love that was more than love."  -Edgar Allan Poe

Lov 31  "Love does not dominate; it cultivates."  -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lov 32  "What is life without the radiance of love?"  -Friedrich Schiller

Lov 33  "….we have all been created for the soul purpose to love and be loved."  -Mother Teresa

Lov 34  "Happy Anniversary."

Lov 35  "Happy Valentine's Day."

Lov 36   "All my heart."

Lov 37   "Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. " -Comte Debussy-Rabutin

Gra 01  "I thank you for your sweet warm care, for tender love, for being there."

Gra 02  "The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious."  -Luther

Gra 03  "Gratitude is the heart's memory."  -French Proverb

Gra 04  "Thank You"

Gra 05  "Gratitude is heaven itself."  -William Blake

Gra 06  "Merci Beaucoup"

Gra 07  "I'm so grateful..you continue to show up for me! Thank you."

Gra 08  "What would we do without you?"

Gra 09  "What would I do without you? "

Gra 10  "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."  -Buddha

Gra 11  "Kindness in giving creates love."  -Buddha

Gra 12  "The greatest gift is a portion of thyself."  -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hom 01  "A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation of your life."  -Dalai Lama

Hom 02  "An open home, an open heart, here grows a bountiful harvest."  -Judy Hand

Hom 03  "Bless this home."

Hom 04  "May your new home be filled with love and joy."

Hom 05  "Fill this house with music, laughter and joy, and a home it will be!"
Mot 01  "Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your beloved child."  -Jack Kornfield

Mot 02  "It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving."  -Mother Teresa

Mot 03  "All kids are gifted; Some just open their packages earlier than others."  -Michael Carr

Mot 04  "Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave but not our hearts."  -Oliver Wendell Homes

Mot 05  "Happy Mothers Day."

Mot 06  "I thank you for your sweet warm care, for tender love, for being there. Happy Mothers Day"

Mot 07  "The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes. Because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides."  -Audrey Hepburn

Mot 08  "Be not ashamed, woman you are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul."  -Walt Whitman

Mot 09  "It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman with passing years..only grows."  -Audrey Hepburn
Nat 01  "A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song."  -Chinese Proverb

Nat 02   "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees."  -Revelations 7:3

Nat 03   "The goal in life is living in agreement with nature."  -Zeno 335-263 BC

Nat 04   "Nature always wears the color of the spirit."  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nat 05   "It is time for us to kiss the earth, it is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, let the rich life run to the roots again."  -Robison Jeffers

Nat 06  "This we know. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to earth."  -Chief Seattle

Nat 07  "Use what talent you possess: The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."  -Henry Van Dyke

Nat 08  "We are a landscape of all we have seen."   -Isamu Noguchi

Nat 09  "And what is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered."  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nat 10  "No occupation is so delightful to me as the cultivation of the earth."  -Thomas Jefferson

Nat 11  "Blessed Be."

Nat 12  "To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves."   -Gandhi

Rum 01  "After the certainties, the vision--this final loneliness you flower in."  -Rumi

Rum 02  "You are gift.  -Rumi

Rum 03  "There is some kiss we want with our whole lives. The touch of spirit on the body. At night I open the window and ask the moon to come and press it's face into mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window the moon won't use the door only the window."  -Rumi

Rum 04 "This human being is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and attend them all."  -Rumi

Rum 05  "Out beyond any ideas of wrong doing or right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."  -Rumi

Rum 06  "No the true nature of you beloved. In his loving eyes your every thought. Word and movement is always--always beautiful."  -Hafiz

Rum 07  "….forgiveness is part of the treasure you need to craft your falcon wings and return to your true realm of divine freedom."  -Hafiz

Rum 08  "Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love."  -Rumi

Rum 09  "But all I ever want to do is keep emptying out my emerald filled pockets upon this tear stained world."  -Hafiz

Rum 10  "Love is that flame that, when it is kindled, burns everything away; only God remains."  -Rumi

Rum 11  "There is no companion but love, no starting or finishing, yet; a road"  -Rumi

Spi 01  "Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves."  -Rainer Maria Rilke

Spi 02 "There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."  -Dalai Lama

Spi 03  "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."  -Albert Einstein

Spi 04 "There is nothing without that was not at the same time within us, if the divine spark were not native to us, how could it move us to rapture?"  -J.W. Goethe

Spi 05  "Namaste'"

Spi 06  "Namaste' I honor the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light and peace."

Spi 07   "The real miracle is not to walk either on water or thin air, but to walk on earth."  Thich Nhat Hanh

Spi 08  "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."  -Lao Tzu

Spi 09  "Just remain in the center watching and then forget that you were there."  -Lao Tzu

Spi 10  "Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."  -Buddha

Spi 11  "Peace, like love, is just there, the field of Rumi's poem, the ocean of which we are a drop. We do not find peace, or create it. We simply become present to it, there the whole time, a poem, a birdsong, a breath."  -Nancy Slocum

Spi 12  "The key to the doorway of Peace is acceptance of what is, right here, right now."  -Nancy Slocum
Sym 01  "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."  -Kahlil Gibran

Sym 02  "Thoughts for you, for a fast recovery."

Sym 03  "Thinking of you at this difficult time."

Sym 04  "My deepest sympathy for your loss."

Sym 05  "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."

Sym 06  "I'm sorry."

Sym 07  "I am thinking of you."

Sym 08  "I've been thinking of you."

Sym 09  "Life is but a journey, a death is returning home."  -Chinese proverb

Sym 10  "I have past the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace."  -Kahlil Gibran

Sym 11  "The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears."   -Native American Wisdom

Sym 12  "In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given the strength to continue and endure."  -Heart Warrior Chosa
Win 01  """….and the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech…"""   -The Bible, Genesis II:I
Win 02  "The respect for the rights of others is peace."  -Benito Juarez

Win 03  "Live in peace and peace will live in you."

Win 04  "Snowflakes are one of natures most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."  -Vista M. Kelly

Win 05  "Illuminate Peace."

Win 06  "Joy to the World."

Win 07  "All is calm."

Win 08  "Peace on earth."

Win 09  "We find joy in winter by celebrating light."

Win 10  "Happy Solstice."

Win 11  "Merry Christmas."

Win 12  "Peace."

Win 13  "Wishing your holidays be filled with love."

Win 14  "Celebrate the New Year."

Win 15  "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me their lay an invincible."  -Albert Camus

Win 16  "Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year."

Win 17  "Happy New Year."

Win 18  "Happy Chanukah."