Lerma Plata Penarand Wishes Collection - Page 7

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there''s the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

I''ve also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.

There''s been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Ask your children two questions this Christmas. First: What do you want to give to others for Christmas? Second: What do you want for Christmas? The first fosters generosity of heart and an outward focus. The second can breed selfishness if not tempered by the first.

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

And in despair I bow''d my head:
There is no peace on earth, I said,
For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.

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.

Who siad luvin u will ever be easy? I just luv u bcoz my heart tells me 2 do so, if it was not ffor my heart i was going to luv ui more n more. Enjoy ur night

Women admire a man because he is strong, but they love him for his weaknesses.

Loving you could take my life, but when I look into your eyes, I know you''re worth that sacrafice! Heaven is the place where I would be, the day you would stop loving me!

With the wink of her eye and the touch of her kiss, he found himself in sumliminal bliss.

If you kiss someone that you do not love it''s great. But just think of kissing someone that you truly and madly are in love with. There is no greater feeling than that.

Real love is when you go through the toughest storm and find yourself still holding hands when you come out.

You are my soul mate, my sweetheart, you are my dream come true, from now until the end of time I give my heart and soul to you.

All the world''s riches would never be enough to trade my love for him, because he is and always will be priceless.

I have learned not to worry about love; But to honor its coming with all my heart.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

When people are free to do what they want, they usually imitate one another.

A young person knows the rules, but the old person knows the exceptions.

One of the greatest pleasures of life is conversation.

Love is the history of a woman''s life; it is an episode in man''s.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Boys are like stars, there are millions of them out there, bbut only one can make your dreams come true

Ultimately love is everything.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.