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Card Message Ideas And Quotations
Holiday Sentiments
Valentine's Day
Mother's Day
Father's Day
Administrative Professionals Week
Occasions & General Subjects
We have put together a massive list of creative, vibrant, and thoughtful ideas for card messages. FloristDEX hopes that this is a very helpful resource! Your local florist might also be able to help you if you're still having problems. If you have any other suggestions or if this was helpful to you, please email us at Cardmessages@Floristdex.com and tell us about it!
Card Message Ideas: Valentine's Day
I like your lips, I like your style But most of all I like your smile. - Unknown
May every blessing be thy lot, I only ask "Forget Me Not". - Unknown
Your eyes are blue, Your heart is true, Your lips divine When they met mine. - Unknown
I bet you a cuddle, I bet you a kiss I bet you'll never guess who sent you this. - Unknown
Valentine, O Valentine, I'll be your love and you'll be mine. - Unknown
I love you more today than yesterday, less than tomorrow. - Angela Gerardi
Whom we love best, to them we can say least. - Proverb
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And thus is winged Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare
Every day I think of you, every night I dream of you, only proves, it must be true, that I'm in love with you. - Unknown
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano de Crescenzo
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, yet enkindles the great. - Unknown
The times we spend together are the best times that I know, I am a better person, because you've made me so. - Unknown
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Card Message Ideas: Mother's Day
A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever. - Unknown
Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries. - Unknown
My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it. - Marc Chagall
No influence is so powerful as that of the mother. - Sarah Josepha Hale
The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. - Barbara Kingsolver
Mothers are instinctive philosophers. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is no substitute for mother. - Unknown
Who ran to help me when I fell, Or kissed the place to make it well? ....My mother. - Ann Taylor
A mother understands what a child does not say. - Jewish proverb
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. - Erich Fromm, psychologist
All I am I owe to my mother. - George Washington, first U.S. president
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. - Irish proverb
Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, and ocean. - Erich Fromm, psychologist
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. - Dorothy C. Fisher (1879-1958)
A Mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. - Unknown
God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers. - Jewish Proverb
Mothers are the necessity of invention. - Calvin
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. - Lin Yutang
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Card Message Ideas: Father's Day
Thank you for the unique combination of your tenderness and your strength. - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
Your courage and vision are beacons to fulfill my own dreams. - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
Thank you for being my Father and my friend. - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
You're the best! - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
Thanks for all you do. - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
Your love and patience have not gone unnoticed. - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
Thanks for always being there when I needed you. - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
Take time to enjoy your favorite things - you deserve it. - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
Posies for my pop! - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
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Card Message Ideas: Administrative Professionals Week
Your hard work and diligence are an inspiration to everyone, and indispensable to me. - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
Thanks for being on my team! Great job! - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
Keep up the great work! - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
Thank you for all you do! - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
Your hard work and dedication are appreciated today and all year. - Society of American Florists, SAF, About Flowers (.com)
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Card Message Ideas: Birthday
Someday our wishes will all come true, but today I am simply wishing you a "Happy Birthday"! - Unknown
Aging is mandatory. Maturity is optional. - Chris Antonak
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. - Ogden Nash
Age is a number and mine is unlisted. - Anonymous
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard, British playwright
It's not how old you are, it's how hard you work at it. - Jonah Barrington, British squash star
There is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn, U.S. senator
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball, American comedian
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. - Bob Hope, American comedian
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. - Bob Hope, American comedian
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. - Unknown
Just say, "I'm not 40, I'm 18 with 22 years experience." - Unknown
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. - Charles Schultz
Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. - Pope John XXIII
Old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Bernard Baruch, American financier
Anyone can get old, all you have to do is live long enough. - Groucho Marx, American comedian
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Card Message Ideas: Business
Success comes before work only in the dictionary. - Unknown
Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five. - Richard Ney, American writer
If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business. - B.C. Forbes, American publisher
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Card Message Ideas: Children
Children are God's angels, sent by Him to brighten our world. - The Ladies Home Journal, 1893
Children are like snowflakes: unique, fragile and fleeting. - Unknown
The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoyevski, 19C Russian novelist
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Card Message Ideas: Congratulations
The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore. - Unknown
Winning is not everything. It's the only thing. - Vince Lombardi, American pro football coach
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Card Message Ideas: Death & Bereavement
If only this world were filled with more angels like you… - Michael McNeeley (Tribute to William Neasham and all other angels)
To your new birth. We will miss you, but God must want your sunshine. - Unknown
Watching over us and protecting us with his angel's wings - Unknown
Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time. - Unknown
Only time moves on to the next scene. Memory remains part of the heart forever. - Unknown
And He will wipe out every tear from their eyes and death will be no more. - Revelations 21:4
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. - Wallace Stevens, American poet
Death is not the last sleep. It is the final awakening. - Walter Scott, Scottish novelist
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. - Oscar Wilde, English writer
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. - Thomas Moore, English theologian
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. - John Allston
It isn't life that matters! It's the courage you bring to it. - Sir Hugh Walpole
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. - Ecclesiastes
God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. - The Wisdom of Solomon
The journey is the reward. - Chinese Proverb
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. - Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
May God hold you in the palm of his hand. - Irish blessing
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. - Mathew 5:4 King James Version
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Card Message Ideas: Education & Graduation
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. - Dr. Seuss' "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the U.S.
Hold fast to your dreams for they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Anonymous
Live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past. - Anonymous
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. - Thomas Dewar
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. - Chinese Proverb
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. - Colin Wilson
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Card Message Ideas: Farewell & Bon Voyage
Until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand. - Irish Blessing
The road goes on forever and the party never ends. - Robert Earl Keen
Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good night till it be morrow - William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
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Card Message Ideas: Flowers
Roses are often lovely to behold, but I'd rather be holdin' you! - Unknown
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature by which she indicates how much she loves us. - Johann Von Goethe, German poet (1749-1832)
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo, French novelist
Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them. - Chinese Proverb
True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades. - Evelyn Loeb
When words escape, flowers speak. - Bruce W. Currie
Flowers are works of art created by Nature for our pleasure. - Unknown
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Card Message Ideas: Friendship
I am your true friend. If you fall I will not pick you up, I will catch you on the way down. - Unknown
A friend is a close companion on rainy days, someone to share with through every phase. - Unknown
For all the times I never said the things I should, I thank you for all the times you understood. - Unknown
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe that I deserved my friends. - Walt Whitman, American poet
No friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. - Unknown
If I had a flower for all the times you've made me smile and laugh, I would have a garden to walk in forever. - Unknown
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. - Anonymous
The older you get, the more you need to know those who knew you when you were young. - Unknown
It is a luxury to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no security as undemanding and comfortable as the kind you feel among friends. - Peter Bodo, in Tennis
To have a good friend, you must first be one. - Unknown
The road to a friend's house is never long. - Danish proverb
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. - Charles Caleb Colton, author
A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. - Frank Crane
Friendship is when people know all about you but like you anyway. - Anonymous
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. - Samuel Paterson
Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. - Yiddish Proverb
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell
Friendship is a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. - Lois L. Kaufman
Sisters by chance, friends by choice. - Unknown
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend. - Albert Camus, French Novelist
True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall. - Thomas Carlyle
The only rose without thorns is friendship. - Unknown
A hug, the perfect gift. One size fits all and nobody minds exchanging it. - Unknown
Friends are born, not made. - Henry Brooks Adams
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Card Message Ideas: Get Well
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"? - Kevin Makay, Zen Contemplations
He who has health has hope, but he who has hope has everything. - Arab proverb
What counts is not the size of the dog in a fight - It's the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, American president (1958)
People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves. - Jules Romain, French physician
Your body is like a bar of soap. It gradually wears down, from repeated use. - Ritchie Allen, American baseball player (1970s)
God heals and the doctor takes the fees. - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
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Card Message Ideas: Love & Romance
Love is an education in itself. - Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States
Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come! - Robert Frost, American poet
Love runs raw and wild through my heart and soul, nourishing me and helping me to grow. - Unknown
You have shown me how to fall in love, how love hurts and how it heals. - Unknown
If you love something enough, you'll eventually succeed in getting it. - Unknown
True love is the unearned compliment, the gift forever giving. - Rep. Burke Day, Georgia House of Representatives
Love is always saying you're sorry. - Rep. Burke Day
I love you more today than yesterday, less than tomorrow. - Angela Gerardi
Love is life...and if you miss love, you miss life - Leo Buscaglia
To love someone is to be the only one to see a miracle invisible to others. - Francois Mauriac
Whom we love best, to them we can say least - Proverb
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. - Henry Ward Beecher
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And thus is winged Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare
The deepest sweetest dreams come true when the paths of destined lovers cross. - Unknown
Heaven is the perfect, unconditional love for another. - Unknown
My love for you is like a pearl, in ways much more than one. It started small, and now is big; it's growing never done. - William N. Braswell, Jr., from This Pearl
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. - Trish Streeter
Every day I think of you, every night I dream of you, only proves it must be true, that I'm in love with you. - Unknown
A kiss is a promise written upon the lips. - Unknown
You'll kiss many toads before you find Prince Charming. - Unknown
To understand the meaning of true love, you must first surrender to it. -R. M. Hoffnagle
If you try to control love, it will turn to dust. If you let love control you, you can fly. - Katharine Treibic, poet
You complete me. - Jerry McGuire
Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons. - Kahlil Gibran
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano de Crescenzo
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love can never be tamed. It can only be felt with a true heart. - Unknown
Many things in life will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. - Unknown
You've got to dance like nobody's looking, and love like it's never going to hurt. - Unknown
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, yet enkindles the great. - Unknown
The times we spend together are the best times that I know, I am a better person, because you've made me so. - Unknown
To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world. - Unknown
Love isn't love Until you give it away. - Oscar Hammerstein, The Sound of Music.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder - Unknown
Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days, And the secret to its meaning is found in simple ways. - Kay Knudsen
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, But somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart - Kay Knudsen
Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile. - Unknown
Love is a feeling that can be given without regrets. - Patricia Sierra
Love is the star that lights our souls throughout our life and beyond. - Patricia Sierra
Beauty lies within the soul and should always be set free take a glimpse at love so true and pure found only.......within me - Mara E. Dvorak, "The Soul Within"
Love is the beauty of the soul. - St. Augustine
Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth. - A Haiku verse
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. - John Heywood, English author (16th century)
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. - Virgil
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo, French novelist
Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease. - William Blake, Songs of Experience
Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. - Christina G. Rossetti
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. - George Sand, English author (1862)
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Keep me as the apple of the eye, Hide me under the shadow of thy wings. - Psalms 17:8
Love is the bridge between two hearts. - Unknown
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint Exupery
The love we give away is the only one we keep. - Elbert Hubbard
A heart that loves is always young. - Greek Proverb
Love is not in our choice but in our fate. - John Dryden, English poet
The heart has its reasons that reason does not know. - Pascal
Real love stories never have endings. - Richard Bach
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. - Anonymous
Everything comes to us from others...To Be is to belong to someone. - Jean Paul Satre
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov, British actor
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him. - Karl Menninger
Love is not a matter of counting the years - it's making the years count. - Wolfman Jack Smith, American disc jockey
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Card Message Ideas: Marriage
After all these years of toil and strife, I'm so glad there is an angel in my life. - Unknown
For you I give a lifetime of fidelity and anything you want of me. No one could replace your love. All I am is for you. - Unknown
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. - Fredrich Halm, 19th century German poet
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. - Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. - Rabbi H. Schachtel, The Real Enjoyment of Living
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. - Andre Maurois
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. - Andre Maurois, French writer
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin
True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever. - Unknown
Let there be space between your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. - Kahlil Gibran
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Card Message Ideas: New Baby
Children re-invent your world for you. - Susan Sarandon, American film actor
A child is someone you carry in your body for 9 months, and carry in your heart for the rest of your life. - Unknown
Babies are bits of stardust; blown from the hand of God. - Unknown
Every child is born a genius. - R. Buckminster Fuller, Canadian engineer
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. - Peter De Vries, American novelist
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. - Woodrow Wyatt, British politician
Babies are such a nice way to start people. - Unknown
When you were born, you cried And the world rejoiced. - Native American
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Card Message Ideas: Pick-Me-Up
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. - Jean Kerr
It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow. - Unknown
He who has achieved success has lived well, laughed often and loved much. - Unknown
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex in the box? - Steven Wright, American humorist
Pain is inevitable, misery is optional. - Unknown
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. BUT, the smaller they are, the further they bounce! - Unknown
If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. - Erma Bombeck
Mistakes are doorways to discovery. - Unknown
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything. - Anonymous
He who throws mud loses ground. - Unknown
Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away. - Ashleigh Brilliant
When the world says, "Give up", Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." - Unknown
Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows. - Helen Keller
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles Schultz, American cartoonist/humorist
The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the others find an excuse. - Unknown
When it is dark enough you can see the stars. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist
Not everything that is faced can be changed, But nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin, American novelist/writer
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. - Unknown
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. - Epicurus
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike, U.S. novelist
Tomorrow is another day. - Scarlett O'Hara, in Gone With the Wind
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! - Emiliano Zapata, Revolutionary
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tsu
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake, English poet
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. First Lady
If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it. - Leo Rosten
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive. - Bugs Bunny
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. - Josh Billings
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. - Oscar Wilde
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Alan Saporta
All beginnings are hard. - Chaim Potok, American novelist
Remember that the mighty oak was once an acorn. - Unknown
The race is not always to the swift... but to those who keep on running. - Unknown
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky
The race for quality has no finish line. - Unknown
A bend in the road is not the end of the world, unless you fail to make the turn. - Unknown
You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. - Unknown
No-one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings. - Unknown
Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. - Unknown
Don't wait for your ship to come in ... swim out to meet it. - Unknown
It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes the game. - John Wooden
Cherish your yesterdays, dream your tomorrows, live your todays. - Unknown
Impossible only defines the degree of difficulty. - Unknown
You can't discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Unknown
You are either part of the steamroller or part of the pavement. - Unknown
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Card Message Ideas: Retirement
Working people have a lot of bad habits, But the worst of these is work. - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer & debater
The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost, American poet
Work is just another of man's diseases and prevention is better than cure. - Heathcote Williams, British playwright
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
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Spanish
Amor (Love)
Bien Recibida, Nina
Bienvenida al Nuevo Bebito (Welcome New Baby Boy)
Bienvenida a la Nueva Bebita (Welcome New Baby Girl)
Buena Suerte (Good Luck)
Con Amor (With Love)
Con todo mi Amor (With All My Love)
Felices Pascuas de Resurreccion (Happy Easter)
Felicidades (Congratulations)
Felicitaciones
Feliz Aniversario (Happy Anniversary)
Feliz Ano Nuevo (Happy New Year)
Feliz Cumpleanos (Happy Birthday)
Feliz Dia de las Madres (Happy Mothers' Day)
Feliz Dia de San Valentin (Happy Valentine's Day)
Feliz Dia del Padre (Happy Father's Day)
Feliz Navidad (Merry Christmas)
Feliz Semana Santa
Gracias (Thank You)
Pensando en Ti (Thinking of You)
Pronta Recuperacion (Get Well Soon)
Que to Recuperes Pronto (Speedy Recovery To You)
Sentidas Condolencias (Deepest Sympathy)
Sentido Pesame
Te Amo (I Love You)
Te Extrano (I Miss You)
Te Quiero
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Other Suggestions:
FloristDEX always recommends that people ask for advice from their local florist. Florists deal with card messages everyday so they are definitely experienced in coming up with creative sayings!
Sources for this compellation include FTD.com, AboutFlowers.com, 800Florals, and the FloristDEX.com Staff.
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