You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
A sacrifice is a gift of the essence or the product of our lives. It may be a gift of our time, a gift of our talent, or a gift of our treasure.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fools are fools only because they think they can understand love.
-Paulo Coelho
Restrain the mind until it dissolves in the Consciousness. This is wisdom, this is meditation. The rest is all logic and verbal extensions.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Love flows through a union that lives up to mutual responsibility. Love is not self-seeking, it’s not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrong.