Sweet

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.  --Lord Byron

The arms of love

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future; the arms of love gather you together.  

--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from Southern Mail, 1929

The sweetness of friendship

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

--Kahlil Gibran

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

“In the evening of this life, we will be judged on love alone.”

--Saint John of the Cross

My friend

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend.”
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Feast of the Holy Name of Mary

 "O Lady! thou in whom my hopes have rest!"
--Dante Alighieri in Paradiso

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our death. Amen. 

The river flows on

“How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on”

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery