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

Saint Valentine, pray for us,

Solitude

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light,
the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to
man.  All men come into this world alone
and leave it alone.
 --Thomas De Quincey

Great love

Great love can change small things into great ones, and it is only love which
lends value to our actions.
--Saint Faustina Kowalska

Apparation of Our Lady at Lourdes

"I promise you happiness not in this world, but in the other."

--words of Our Lady at Lourdes to Saint Bernadette in 1858

Filled

Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.
--Jane Hirshfield in The Stone of Heaven

Courage

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

--Frances Rodman 

O wind

O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
--Percy Bysshe Shelley