All because of love, when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal.
-Rumi
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
-Leo Tolstoy
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If you speak or act with an evil thought, pain follows. If you speak or act with a pure thought, happiness follows, like a shadow that never leaves.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust. God watches them play and forgets the priest.
I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
-Karl Lagerfeld
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
-Carl Schurz
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand