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Quotations for Toasts and Speeches<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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(Excerpted from\u00a0<\/span>MitzvahChic<\/a>, A New Approach to Hosting a Bar or Bat Mitzvah That is Meaningful, Hip, Relevant, Fun & Drop-Dead Gorgeous, available at\u00a0<\/span>www.mitzvahchic.com<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Often the hardest part of writing a speech for your child’s bar\/bat mitzvah is getting started. If you’re hung up, don’t keep trying to think of that all-important first line yourself when there’s so much great material out there. Use a quote! This selection contains quotations on life, children, and friendship.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller<\/li>\n
  • The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller<\/li>\n
  • Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. – Elie Wiesel<\/li>\n
  • We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. \u2013 Winston Churchill<\/li>\n
  • There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein<\/li>\n
  • Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Live each day as if your life had just begun. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/li>\n
  • What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/li>\n
  • Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw<\/li>\n
  • Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. – James R. Cook<\/li>\n
  • Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. – Samuel Johnson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Children and Adolescents<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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    • The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter De Vries<\/li>\n
    • The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter De Vries<\/li>\n
    • Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. – Anonymous<\/li>\n
    • You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Quotations on Friendship<\/h2>\n

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      • Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. – Unknown<\/li>\n
      • Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. – Unknown<\/li>\n
      • What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. – Frank Crane<\/li>\n
      • A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes. \u2013 Unknown<\/li>\n
      • A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself – Unknown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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