Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Joseph Fort Newton
“When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
“Give me my scallop-shell of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon,
My script of joy, immortal diet,
My bottle of salvation,
My gown of glory, hope’s true gage;
And thus I’ll take my pilgrimage.”
Sir Walter Raleigh, “His Pilgrimage”
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar Wilde
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
Henry Miller
“You know its love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”
Julia Roberts
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.”
Blaise Pascal
“You are every reason, every hope and every dream I’ve ever had.”
Nicolas Sparks
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
Roy Croft
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
Joseph Campbell
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Baldwin
Reminder:
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.”
Bill Wilson
