When you make a homemade card for a friend or relative, you can always put a quote inside, from a famous person in the pages of history. Here are a few that might work well for you, depending on whom the card is for.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

-Lydia M. Child

Happinessconsists in giving, and in serving others.

-Henry Drummond

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

-Norman MacEwan

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

-Dave Tyson Gentry

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

-George Eliot

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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