The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Grief never mended no broken bones.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
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