"My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky."
-William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

"The clearest way into the universe
is through a forest wilderness."
-John Muir (1838-1914)

"What else is nature but God?"
-Seneca (4? B.C.-65 A.D.)

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-The Apocrypha, 6:16

"They are alive and well somewhere,
the smallest sprout shows there is really no death…"
-George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Hegel

"The superior reasoning power…revealed in the
incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
-Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Thou art to me a delicious torment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous. – Ingrid Bergmen

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. – Roy Croft

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open. – Rabrindranath Tagore

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found. – Sir Winston Churchill

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. -Ingrid Bergman

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. – Kahlil Gibran

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Saint-Exupery

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. -John Donne

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -Benjamin Franklin

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. -Henry Ward Beecher

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. -La Rochefoucauld

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. -Joseph Conrad

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? -Christopher Marlowe

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are. -Houssaye

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. -La Bruyere

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. -St. Augustine

To love another person is to see the face of God. -Les Miserables

Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -Dr. Karl Menninger

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. -Alexander Smith

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. -La Rochefoucauld

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. -Lawrence Durrell

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. -La Rochefoucauld

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. -Stendhal

There is no remedy for love but to love more. -Thoreau