This document is a collection of quotes and messages celebrating Lito's 50th birthday. It contains over 30 quotes about aging, family, love, and life lessons. The quotes discuss how siblings teach us important lessons, the importance of family, growing older but not necessarily wiser, and having learned one's hardest lessons by age 50. The document ends by wishing Lito a happy 50th birthday and expressing love from his family.

1. To Lito…

2. “By the time we hit 50, we have learned our hardest lessons…

4. “Sometimes being a brother is better than being a superhero.” - Marc Brown

5. “Siblings are the people we practice on…

6. …the people who teach us about fairness…

7. …they teach us cooperation… …and kindness…

8. …they teach us to be caring… …quite often the hard way.” -Pamela Dugdale

10. “When siblings agree… …no fortress is as strong…

11. …as their common life.” -Anisthenes

12. “We grow neither betternor worse as we get old…

13. …but more like ourselves.” - May Lamberton

14. “Age is an issue of mind over matter… …if you don’t mind… …it doesn’t matter.” -Mark Twain

15. “Growing old is mandatory…

16. …growing up is optional.” -Chili Davis

17. “To keep the heart unwrinkled…

18. …to be hopeful…

19. …to be kind, cheerful, and reverent…

20. …that is to triumph over old age.” - Amos Branson Alcott

21. “I am truly my mother’s son.” - David Geffen

22. “Any man can be a father…

23. …it takes someone special to be a dad.”

24. “Great dads get promoted to grandfathers.” - Unknown

26. “Other things may change us…

27. …but we start and end with family.” - Anthony Brandt

28. Forever on the dance floor…

29. “All we have to decide… …is what to do with the time given us.”

30. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength…

31. …while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

32. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times…

33. …always with the same person.” - Mignon McLaughlin

34. “What’s meant to be…

35. …will always find a way.” - Petrarch

36. “Love is always bestowed as a gift...” …freely, willingly, and without expectation.” - Leo Buscaglia

38. “A daughter may outgrow your lap…

39. …but she will never outgrow your heart.” - Unknown

41. “It is a wise father… …that knows his own child.” -W.M. Shakespeare

43. “You don’t raise heroes… …you raise sons…

44. …and if you treat them like sons… …they’ll turn out to be heroes…

45. …even if it’s just in your own eyes.” - Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

48. “By the time we hit 50… …we have learned our hardest lessons…

49. “We have found out that only a few things… …are really important.”

50. “We have learned to take life seriously… …but never ourselves.” - Marie Dressler

53. Happy 50th Birthday Lito WE love you.

54. Produced by © Rizza T. Kinney