The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should obey it.
-C. S. Lewis
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find that he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
-Henry Ford
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
-Edmond De Goncourt