The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident.(Horace Walpole)
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.(Joseph Addison)
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.(Oscar W. Firkins)
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.(French Proverb)
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.(Henry Drummond)
