Quotes for All of Life’s Special Occasions
Monday, April 3, 2023
At Robert Frost’s 80th birthday celebration in 1954, a journalist asked the poet the most important thing he had learned about life. Frost replied, “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”
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The span of our lives, from the celebration of our arrival to the mourning of our departure, is a distance marked by countless personal milestones. The biggest moments, the ones that herald a significant beginning or ending, call for us to pause and acknowledge their importance.
Finding the right words for a special occasion can be a challenge even for the most eloquent speaker. Whether the occasion is celebratory or somber, these memorable quotes will help you set just the right tone.
Baptism
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
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Every child begins the world again.
Graduation
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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Wedding
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love!
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times.
Anniversary
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Birthday
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Retirement
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
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Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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Celebration of Life
When life comes, it cannot be refused, and when it departs, it cannot be detained.
They that love beyond the World cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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