Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

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.

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

I’m not something to butter up and taste when you get bored.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

If your love is not as strong as a tidal wave, I will not be moved.

My father, soft as rainclouds, my mother, hard as hail, prepared me to take the world by storm.

My heart must be bigger than my brain – blocking it out of all my decisions, so that I cannot think past the way I feel.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Real love is freedom, and this is what you’ve been given by the Creator – the freedom to love and to choose your own path.

When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.

Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

Don’t forget me, don’t forget me. I wouldn’t leave you if you’d let me.

My love rumbles like the sternum of a lion. Be mindful of the beast you stir up.

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.

I knew from that first moment we met. It was not love at first sight exactly, but – familiarity. Like oh, hello, it’s you. It’s going to be you. Game over.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.