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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love; I can still receive; and he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.

We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.

If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.

Indeed, the ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

Love should run out to meet love with open arms.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Marriage is terrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing--a childless mother.

Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek,--the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedom to love and aspire.

No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul.

Concentration makes the individual life simpler and deeper.

Each day there should be fresh resolution, new strength, and renewed enthusiasm.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying.

Happiness is paradoxic because it may coexist with trial, sorrow and poverty.

Happiness is the voice of optimism, of faith, of simple, steadfast love.

The basis of happiness is the love of something outside self.

The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.

In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.