Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
-Albert Smith
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
-Abraham Lincoln
Earth teaches me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teaches me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall… Earth teaches me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
Love is the firstborn, loftier than the gods, fathers and men. You, O Love, are the eldest of all, altogether mighty. To you we pay homage!...
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me - deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realised only by the wise.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.
-Oscar Wilde