Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.
Grief never mended no broken bones.
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.
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
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.
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
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.
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.
O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!
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.
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