A Chocolate Bouquet
Warm & Wintery Quotes

Quotes to keep you warm in the cool months of Winter!

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Quotes on that wonderful thing called Love:

If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.-- Author Unknown

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.-- Hans Nouwens

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.-- Maya Angelou

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.-- Elbert Hubbard

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

I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.-- Basia

I am so glad that you are here... It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.-- Goethe

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.-- Erica Jong

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Christmas Quotes:

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. - Phillips Brooks

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. - Janice Maeditere

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. - W.J. Cameron

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. - Peg Bracken

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. - Harlan Miller (Better Homes and Gardens)

Peace on earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day.
- Helen Steiner Rice

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility
-- Mary Anne Radmacher

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Family Quotes:

The family is a haven in a heartless world.  ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch

Family:  A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.  ~Evan Esar

In some families, please is described as the magic word.  In our house, however, it was sorry.  ~Margaret Laurence

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.  ~Jane Howard

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.  Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.  ~Paul Pearshall

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.  ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
-- George Moore

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.-- Milton R. Saperstein

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.-- Brad Henry

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.-- Eva Burrows

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?-- Elbert Hubbard