One word

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

--Sophocles

Strong

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

--Corrie Tenboom

Well of affection

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

--Nan Fairbrother

The humble man

The humble man is God-surrendered, safe from despair because he knows that he is loved by Love Itself.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Affection

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Peace

Peace is the effect not of justice merely, but of love.

--Saint Thomas Aquinas

The language of friendship

The language of friendship is not in words but meanings.

--Henry David Thoreau