Cheap Therapy Hand Painted Greeting Card Messages (12.31.12)

General Messages

G1. The day you were born is worth celebrating.

G2. I celebrate your birth. I celebrate your Life.

G3. Thank you for teaching me how to love.

G4. Can you believe we’ve made it through all that we have? I'm so thankful for you.

G5. A true friend is someone you can call at 3 a.m. without apologizing.

G6. Friendship is the ultimate blessing in this Life.

G7. Everything makes more sense when I'm around you.

G8. Thank you for listening to me.

G9. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -Sam Keen

G10. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? -Satchel Page

G11. Most of the best answers come when walking in Silence.

G12. Often the best way to help a person is to listen.

G13. Only love is real. -Carole King

G14. Spend some time alone every day.
G15. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
G16. Remember that Silence is often the best response.
G17. Fear less/ Love more; Eat less/Taste more; regret less/Hope more; shout less/Listen more; do less/Be more

G18. A loving home can change the world.
G19. The past- its a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

G20. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

G21. One never knows does One?

G22. Don’t believe there's plenty of time for everything. There isn't. -Lillian Hellman

G23. Sometimes even the most gentle words don’t work.

G24. Getting older doesn't have anything to do with getting old.

G25. I wish I could ease your pain.

G26. Thanks for always knowing how to help.

G27. I know I can’t make it better, but I’m here for you.

G28. Thanks for such a great time.

G29. Thanks for your kindness.

G30. Thanks for your generosity.

G31. THANKS! I’ll never forget you!

G32. Thanks for always supporting me.

G33. May your new life together be filled with Joy and Love.

G34. I’m thinking of you.

Humorous Messages

H1. My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant

H2. You can't have everything. Where would you put it? - Steven Wright

H3. The trouble with aging is that by the time we know our way around, we don’t’ feel like going!

H4. The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
H5.Now that menopause has begun, a day without physically harming someone is a good day.

H6. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. -Kathy Norris

H7. Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.

H8. Princess, having had sufficient experience with Princes seeks Frog.

H9. The reason why I'm a vegetarian isn't because I love animals. I just I hate plants.

H10. Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you age, temptation starts avoiding you.

H11. There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it.

For example I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
H12. I wish I'd had all of these problems when I was 16 and knew everything.

H13. If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. -Doug Larson

H14. Insanity is my only means of relaxation.

H15. Reason to smile: Every 7 minutes of every day, someone in an aerobics class pulls a hamstring.

H16. Women over 50 don't have babies because they would put them down and forget where they left them.

H17. One of life's mysteries is how a 2-pound box of candy can make a woman gain 5 lbs.

H18. My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely.
H19. The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
H20. The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

H21. The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends.

H22. Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
H23. Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.

H24. I gave up jogging for my health when my thighs kept rubbing together and setting my pantyhose on fire.

H25. Amazing! You hang something in your closet for a while and it shrinks two sizes!

H26. A friend of mine confused her Valium with her birth control pills. She had 14 kids, but she doesn't really care.

H27. If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
H28. Did you ever notice: When you put the 2 words "The" and "IRS" together it spells THEIRS.

H29. If work is so great, why do they have to pay you to do it?

H30. Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain.

H31. My greatest fear is that PMS doesn’t exist and this is my real personality!

H32. I hope your birthday is a fantastic as you think you are.
H33.Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. - Ed Gardner.

H34.All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. -Frank Zappa.

H35.Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. ~Steven Wright

H36. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -George Carlin.

H37. Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This Is going to

take more than one night.' -Charlie Brown.

H38. I can see your point, but I still think you're full of it.
H39. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care.
H40. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
H41. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
H42. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
H43. Someday we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.
H44. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
H45. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
H46. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
H47. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.
H48. Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.
H49. How about "never"? Is "never" good for you?

H50. Thanks for always being older than me.

H51. Thanks for never telling me I look fat.

H52. Thanks for dumping me. My life has never been better!

H53. When the horse is dead, get off it.

H54.People who say they sleep like babies don’t have them in their home.

H55. Never loan your car to someone to whom you’ve given birth.

H56. When you children finally leave home, don’t forget to change the locks.

H57. Parenting – where’s the manual?

H58. We always appreciate the wisdom of those who come to us for advice.

H59. Cancel my subscription. I can’t take any more of your issues.

Life Lesson Messages

L1. Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive. -Bugs Bunny

L2. The world is as you dream it. -Shamanic Saying

L3. There is only NOW. Live for This Moment.

L4.Only that day dawns to which we are awake. - Thoreau

L5. What's heard is more important than what’s said.

L6. Wrinkles are proof of all the smiles you’ve shared.

L7. What is essential is invisible to the eye. -St Exupery

L8. Sometimes, in this river of Life the best thing to do is just float.

L9. Pain is inevitable. Giving up is optional.

L10. Not all those who wander are lost. - Tolkien

L11.You’ve got a friend. -Carole King

L12. Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. - Lennon

L13. Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. -. Byrnes

L14.Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. -Harry Anderson

L15. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
L16. Sure, the world is full of trouble. But, as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world. -Helen Keller

L17.Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein

L18. Everybody gets the blues. -BBKing

L19. What a long strange trip its been. -Garcia

L20.Its better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not.

L21. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. -Thoreau

L22. Dwell in possibility.-Dickinson

L23. If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. -Lin Yutang

L24. It's always something. - Rosanne Rosaana Danna SNL

L25. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.

L26. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. -Nelson Mandela

L27. Laughter is a smile that's exploded.

L28. Let your fear be a bridge and not a wall.

L29.You never know when you’re making a memory. –Rickei Lee Jones

L30. Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now. -Dylan

L31.Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing. -Helen Keller

L32.Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. - Edison

L33. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. - Haida Indian Saying

L34. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Emerson

L35. Here is the secret to Life: Love and accept love.

L37. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -Kierkegaard

L38. Be gentle with the earth.
L39. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
L40. Life is too short to drink cheap wine.

L41. Always do what you are afraid to do. -Emerson

L42. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
L43. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

L44. We are always getting ready to live, but never living. -Emerson
L45. Climb to paradise by the stairway of surprise. -Emerson
L46.The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. -Francis Bacon

L47. I never gave anyone Hell. I just told the Truth and they thought it was Hell. -Truman

L48. The best kind of answer often has no sound.

L49. The secret of life is enjoying the passing of time... -James Taylor

L50. Don't sweat the small stuff.

L51.Here comes the sun /Here comes the sun /I say /It's all right - Harrison

L52. You are what you ought to be.

L53. Never settle for someone else’s definition of who you can be. - Susan Sarandon

L54. This is going to be the best day of my Life.

L55. When nothing is certain – anything is possible.

L56. When the horse is dead, get off it!

L57. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.

L58. Don’t make your living at the expense of your life.

L59. Distance is nothing. It’s the first steps that count.

L60. What we learn with pleasure we never forget. -Mark Twain

L61. We’re fools whether we dance or not. So we might as well dance. –Japanese Proverb

L62. If you can’t change the situation change your attitude

L63. Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughta be. – Richard from Texas

L64. Life’s better when you add water.

L65. Leap! And the net will appear. – Zen saying

L66. Live a small life. – Chase Beaubriand

Spiritual Messages

S1. Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful blessing.

S2. Never put a period where God has placed a comma. - Gracie Allen

S3.God is everywhere even in rock and roll.

S4. Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he becomes. -Bhagavad Gita

S5.God will show you the Way

S6. We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. -Jung

S7. If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

S8. All shall be well. -Julian of Norwich

S9.Our God did not say: You will not be tempted, tried and troubled. Our God did say: You will not be overcome. -Julian of Norwich

S10. I know that God will not give me more than I can handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much! -Mother Teresa

S11. World peace must develop out of inner peace. -The Dalai Lama

S12. Trust the Path

S13. Wonder is the basis of worship. -Thomas Carlyle

S14. Since God made so many different people, He must have made at least that many Ways to Him.

S15. Let it be.

S16. Peace is something we choose each day.

S17. It’s not about what you give. Its about how much love you put into what you give.

S18. Travel light in Life.

S19. Life isn’t perfect and people are not perfectible. -Joan Chittister

S20. The opposite of Fear isn’t Courage its Faith.

S21. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. -Voltaire

S22. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

S23. What affects one of us affects all of us.
S24. Dance like no one is watching. Love like it will never hurt.

S25. There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is. -Einstein

S26. God comes in countless shapes and forms.

S27. All you need to do to see God is open your eyes and heart.

S28. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, we’ll have peace. -Jimi Hendrix

S29. Fear is the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

S30. If it doesn’t include laughter, it’s not the religion for me.

S31. Blessed are the cracked. They let in the Light.

S32. Think higher. Care deeper. – Elie Wiesel

Health & Recovery Messages

H&R1. A sad soul can kill you faster than any disease.

H&R2. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage. - Anais Nin

H&R3.You are not lost, you are on your way

H&R4.Life is too short to drink bad coffee

H&R5. You CAN have everything you want just not all at the same time.

H&R6.Easy Does It

H&R7.One Day at a Time

H&R8.Call Your Sponsor!

H&R9.Congratulations on Staying Sober, One Day at a Time

H&R10.Trudging the Road of Happy Destiny

H&R11.H.A.L.T. (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired)

H&R12.F.I.N.E. (Fed-up, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional)

H&R13. D.D.A.G.T.M. (Don't Drink and Go To Meetings)

H&R14. For my Favorite Dopeless Hope Fiend

H&R15.Progress, Not Perfection

H&R16.We Will Know a New Freedom and a New Happiness - Big Book pp.83&84

H&R17.We Will Comprehend the Word Serenity- Big Book pp.83&84

H&R18.We Will Know Peace- Big Book pp.83&84

H&R19. We Will Intuitively Know how to Handle Situations that USEDTO BAFFLEUS - Big Book pp.83&84

H&R20.Self Seeking will Slip Away- Big Book pp.83&84

H&R21.Fear of People and Economic Insecurity will Leave Us- Big Book pp.83&84

H&R22.Are these Extravagant Promises? We think not! - Big Book pp.83&84

H&R23.You'll Find The Promises after Step Nine - Big Book pp.83&84

H&R24. What good is a disease, if you cant use it?

H&R25. Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell

H&R26. Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.

H&R27. Worry just drains your energy.

H&R28.He who knows that enough is enough will have enough. -Lao-Tzu

H&R29.Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. -Mark Twain

H&R 30. I hope you’re feeling stronger soon.

H&R31. I send you healing thoughts and prayers.

Nature Messages

N1. If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. -Aristotle

N2. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. -Lindbergh

N3. Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. -Michel de Montaigne

N4. Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. - Thoreau

N5. Nature is the art of God. -Thomas Browne

N6. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -Francis Bacon

N7. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -Shakespeare

N8. When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. -Samuel Johnson

N9. Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. -Standing Bear

N10. How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! -John Muir

N11. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

N12. I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

-George Washington Carver

N13. How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! -Emily Dickinson

N14. I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. -John Muir

N15. What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! -Logan Pearsall Smith

N16. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran

N17. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't take notice. -Alice Walker

N18. I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. -e.e. cummings

N19. The poetry of the earth is never dead. -John Keats

N20. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods -Lord Byron

N21. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. -Walt Whitman

N22. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to

body and soul. -John Muir

N23. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. -Lao Tzu

N24. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. -Helen Keller

N25. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. -Albert Einstein

N26. I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. -Alan Hovhaness

N27.Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there. -Robb Sagendorph

N28. There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. -Thomas Jefferson

N29. I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. -John Burroughs

N30. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect

view of its plain. - Thoreau

N31. How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! -Emerson

N32. Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man. -George Wherry

N33. Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. - Thoreau

N34. Nature teaches more than she preaches. -John Burroughs

N35. Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

N36. The AMEN of Nature is always a flower. –OW Holmes

Art Messages

A1. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. --Abraham Moslow

A2. Art is a jealous mistress. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

A3. I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. -Vincent van Gogh

A4. Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail. --Julia Cameron

A5. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. --Emile Zola

A6. Art is what you can get away with. – Andy Warhol

A7. No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. --Martha Graham

A8. Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. --Pablo Picasso

A9. I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a

painful, difficult search within. --Louise Nevelson

A10. Ars Longa, Vita Brevis - Art (is) Long, Life (is) Short --Hippocrates

A11. Art is just a pigment of your imagination. --Tony Follari Comedian

A12. A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude. -Willa Cather
A13. Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. -George Bernard Shaw
A14. A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. -Michelangelo
A15. Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. -John Ruskin
A16. Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or

                people might think we're stupid.   -Jules Feiffer
A17. An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.              -Jean Cocteau
A18. I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. -Georgia O'Keeffe
A19. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. -Kafka
A20. Art is not a thing; it is a way. -Elbert Hubbard
A21. To draw you must close your eyes and sing. - Pablo Picasso
A22. We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.            -Pablo Picasso
A23. Painting is just another way of keeping a journal. -Pablo Picasso
A24. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.         -Scott Adams
A25. Every good painter paints what he is. -Jackson Pollock
A26. Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -Stella Adler
A27. The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools. -Thomas Eakins
A28. Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Pablo Picasso
A29.To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.       -Schumann
A30. There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.       -Charlie Chaplin
A31. Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. -Roy Lichtenstein
A32. There is no must in art because art is free. -Wassily Kandinsky
A33. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. -Degas
A34. Painting is silent poetry. -Plutarch, Moralia
A35. I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. -Henri Matisse
A36. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. -Twyla Tharp

A37. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. -Andre Gide
A38. All great art is a visual form of prayer. -Sister Wendy Beckett
A39. Great art picks up where nature ends. -Marc Chagall
A40. What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. -John Updike

A41. My husband lets me have all the art supplies I can hide.

Cat and Dog Lovers’ Messages

C&D1.The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tale instead of his tongue

C&D2. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. –Ann Landers

C&D3. If there are no dogs in Heaven, when I die I want to go where they went. –Will Rogers

C&D4. There is no therapy in the world like having a puppy lick your face.

C&D5.The average dog is nicer than the average person. –Andy Rooney

C&D6. I wonder if dogs think poodles are members of some religious cult. –Rita Rudner

C&D7. Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like has never washed a dog.

C&D8.If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise.

C&D9. Even my dog is worried about the economy because her dog food has gone up to $3.00 a can. That’s $21.00 in dog money!

C&D10. Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. –Roger Caras

C&D11.My goal in life is to become the kind of person my dog thinks I am.

C&D12. When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her? - Montaigne

C&D13. A dog will flatter you, but you must flatter the cats. -George Mikes

C&D14. You can keep a dog, but it is the cat who keeps you. – Jenny de Vries

C&D15. Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.

C&D16. Cats are kindly masters, as long as you remember your place. – Paul Gray

C&D17. Dogs come when they’re called. Cats take a message and might get back to you.

C&D18. A MEOW massages the heart. – Stuart McMillan

CD&19.If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow on our cats, they too would purr.

C&D20.Cats always know whether or not people like them. They just don’t always care enough to do anything about it. –Carriere

C&D21. There are two remedies for the miseries of Life: music and cats. -Albert Schweitzer

C&D22. Hang around dogs and kids. They both help you laugh!