Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
You have been the last dream of my soul.
I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
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.
The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
the sight of me is good for sore eyes
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
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.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Reflect upon your present blessings
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.