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1. You are the sunshine in my life.

2. Happiness is a half-day.

3. Your smile lights up my life.

4. I do. (for a wedding)

5. This day I thee wed.

6. Our bundle of joy.

7. Stork delivery.

8. Puppy love.

9. Man's best friend.

10. Purrrrr-fect.

11. Home Sweet Home

12. Home Tweet Home.

13. Home is where you hang your heart.

14. You make my heart leap. (frog theme)

15. Cute as a button.

16. R and R (rest and relaxation)

17. Caught in the act! (child in the cookie jar?)

18. Sugar and spice and everything nice, that's what little girls are made of.

19. Phony as a three dollar bill.

20. Lions, and tigers, and bears -- oh my!

21. Splish Splash I was takin' a bath.

22. Snips and snails and puppy dog tails, that's what little boys are made of.

23. My Prince Charming.

24. You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince.

25. My knight in shining armor.

26. Mr. Fix-It (tools)

27. Wild Thing... you make my heart sing. (gorilla, Tarzan)

28. My Honey. (hive and bees)

29. A+ Husband, Grandmother, Kid (design a report card)

30. The key to my heart. (keys)

31. I believe there are angels among us.

32. I believe in angels.

33. Miracles happen.

34. Snow angel.

35. Recipe for love. (cooking pictures)

36. All tuckered out. (napping pictures)

37. Any Christmas carol, ex. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas; or ...visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

38. Bear hugs.

39. Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookies of life.

40. "Cheesy" Things (great with all those theme-less pictures of people)

41. My "GRAND" Father/Mother

42. A house is not a home without a cat.

43. I made a wish and God sent me you.

44. We love our puppy/kitty/pooch.

45. You've got the cutest little baby face.

46. M is for Magical. (A is for... B is for... etc.)

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These lists are suitable for baby and children's books.
For a baby book
For preschoolers learning their ABCs
For a baby...

A -- adorable

B -- beautiful, bald, Baptism

C -- cuddly, christening, crying

D -- delightful

E -- eyes, ears

F -- feet, food, feeding, flirt

G -- grin, gift from God

H -- happy, healthy, handsome, helpless, hug

I -- imitate, individual

J -- joy

K -- klink-klink (the sound of baby's toys), kiss

L -- love, lovely

M -- miracle, music, magical

N -- nice, new

O -- one day old, one month old, one year old

P -- pretty, precious, precocious, powder, preemie

Q -- quiet time

R -- rattle

S -- Stork's surprise, smile, soft, scent, sweet

T -- ticklish, tip-toe

U -- unconditional love

V -- very small

W -- wiggly

X -- eXtraordinary

Y -- yawn

Z -- zooy (to describe the house once the baby is brought home)

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These lists are suitable for
For a wife or influential woman
For a book dedicated to a husband or influential man.

A -- admirable

B -- brave, brother

C -- charming, charismatic, cuddly

D -- dad

E -- ever ready, Energizer-bunny-ish (he keeps going and going and going)

F -- friend, fun

G -- gentlemanly, grandfather

H -- hero, happy

I -- incorrigible

J -- jolly

K -- kingly

L -- loyal, loving

M -- manly, masculine

N -- neat

O -- outrageous

P -- passionate, protective

Q -- quiet

R -- rugged

S -- strong, silly

T -- ticklish, tacky (maybe that tie you hate?)

U -- understanding, uncle

V -- valiant, venerable, very special

W -- wonderful

X -- eXtra special, eXtraordinary

Y -- young at heart

Z -- zany

For a book dedicated to a wife or influential woman.

A -- admire, aunt

B -- brave, best friend

C -- captivating, creative, caring

D -- dedicated

E -- elegant

F -- friend, fun, ferocious

G -- grand, grandmother

H -- happy, helpful, hopeful

I -- irreverent, independent

J -- joyous

K -- 24 Karat

L -- loyal, loving

M -- motherly, musical

N -- nurturing

O -- omniscient, outrageous

P -- patient, passionate

Q -- quiet, queen

R -- ready for anything, regal

S -- saintly

T -- terrific

U -- understanding

V -- venerable, very special

W -- womanly, wonderful

X -- eXtra special, eXtraordinary

Y -- young at heart

Z -- zany

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These lists are suitable for themed books.
Animal/Zoo Book
For an animal or zoo book...

A -- alligator, ape, armadillo, anteater

B -- bear, buffalo, bison

C -- cat, crocodile, chimpanzee, cheetah

D -- dog, deer, donkey

E -- elephant, elk, eagle

F -- frog, fox, flamingo

G -- goat, gopher, giraffe, gazelle

H -- hippopotamus, horse, heron

I -- ibis, insects, Indian rhinoceros, ibex

J -- jackal, jaguar

K -- kangaroo, koala bear

L -- lion, leopard, llama

M -- mule, monkey, moose, macaw, manatee

N -- naked mole rat

O -- ostrich, owl, okapi ("forest giraffe"), orangutan

P -- peacock, pig, puma, platypus, penguin, porcupine, panther

Q -- quail

R -- rhinoceros, rabbit

S -- snake, seal, sheep, stingray, stork

T -- tiger, toucan, turtle, tortoise

U -- underwater mammals

V -- viper, vulture

W -- wolf, walrus, wart hog

X -- eXoskeleton, eXtraodinary animals

Y -- yak

Z -- zebra

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These lists are suitable for holiday and seasons books.
Christmas Book
For a Christmas book...

A -- Alvin and the Chipmunks (Me, I want a hoola hoop), angels, Advent (calendar or wreath)

B -- baking, bells, bows

C -- church, carols, children, cookies, cards, candy canes

D -- dinner, decorating

E -- eve

F -- family, Frosty the Snowman, friends

G -- gifts, the Grinch, green

H -- Holy Family, happy

I -- icicles

J -- jolly, Jesus, Jack Frost, joy

K -- kin

L -- lights, Letter to Santa

M -- mistletoe, manger, Mary, magi, the magic of Christmas

N -- St. Nicholaus

O -- O Tannenbaum, ornaments

P -- presents, packages, popcorn

Q -- quilt, quaint, quiet

R -- reindeer, recipe, red

S -- sugar plums, snow, Santa Claus, St. Nick, star, stockings

T -- tree, turkey, tinsel, train, "Twas the night before Christmas...", traditions, togetherness, travel

U --

V -- visitors

W -- winter, wreath, wrapping

X -- X-mas, eXhausted

Y --
Z --

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Glad to Be Me!

Sometimes I wish I was someone else, but mostly I’m glad I’m ME!
We all have our likes and differences as everyone can see.
Some of us like to hurry, some like to take our time.
Some spend all their money, some save each dime.
Some are good at English; some are good at math.
Some of us like showers some prefer the bath.
Some of us are quiet; some of us are loud.
Some of us like to be alone; some of us like a crowd.
Some of us are tall; some of us are short.
Some like to play an instrument, some like to play a sport.
Some of us are black or brown, and some of us are white.
Some of us leave the light on when we go to bed at night.
All of us are special as everyone can see,
You like you, and I like you, but also I like ME!

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1. The sun sings.
The heart answers.
The soul listens.

2. The heart sings.
The sun answers.
The soul listens.

3. Although some say the word "soul" is obsolete, there is no substitute.

4. The soul is the foundation of nothingness upon which the person is built.

5. There is no dualism of body and soul. They are two views of one person.

6. In time the person dies, body and soul, except as a bell reverberates long after it is struck.

7. Outside of time, however, the soul is that part of a person that is eternal and unchanging, the same in every being that ever was and ever will be.

8. We experience the soul in the same way that we experience our thoughts and feelings. But unlike these other experiences, our experience of the soul is our window onto eternity, through which we see the essential truth, beauty, goodness, and oneness of all things.

9. Nothingness is the soul of Being.

10. That is why when we look for the soul we cannot find it. But when we eliminate all else, we find ourselves immersed in its sea.

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1. Romantic love is a lightning bolt. Married love is an electric current.

2. Marriage is a mirror in which one sees a reflection of oneself.

3. The source of joy, in marriage as in lovemaking, is union with another. That is why, while there may be pleasure in purchased ***, there is little joy.

4. Similarly in marriage: when love is mutual, joy bubbles over onto all of life; when it is not, nothing is untouched by sadness.

5. In a good marriage one is continuously in love, regardless of anger, hurt, or the longing to be free. The trick is to be aware of it.

6. In time, one may resent the permanence of one’s spouse almost as much as one relies on it.

7. That is why married couples bicker over trivia. For what is annoying at the moment is insufferable over a lifetime.

8. The hatred in a divorce is directly proportional to the love in the marriage, since only a strong hatred can sever a strong love and set the wounded free.

9. Marriage is a bulwark against time. For time is the measure of change, and in marriage two vow never to change.

10. In the end, of course, like the sea to a sandcastle, time sweeps over marriage, whether through death or betrayal. The bit of respite marriage affords is, however, all the Eden one needs for happiness. Or is likely to get.

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~Life~



A great pleasure in life is doing what

people say you cannot do.

(Walter Gagehot)

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Accept the challenges of life

so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
As we live, so we learn.
Aspire to inspire before we expire.
Be careful how you live....
you could be the only Bible
some people ever read.

Count the night by stars, not shadows;

count your life by smiles, not tears.

Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Count your age by friends, not years.


Dance like there's nobody watching,

love like you'll never get hurt,

sing like there's nobody listening,

live like there's heaven on earth.


Don't dream your life,

live your dreams.


Don't look...you might see.

Don't think...you might learn.

Don't walk...you might stumble.

Don't run...you might fall.

Don't live....you might die.


Don't subject your life on other peoples pleasures.

(Taneh Palko)

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Don't take life serious. It's not permanent.
Don't try too hard,
the best things come
when you least expect them.
Embrace the mystery of all you can be.

Enjoy life, there is plenty of time to be dead.

Every person's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

(Hans Christian Andersen)