The paradox

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

 --Mother Teresa

Like bread

“Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

--Ursula K. LeGuin

Use well the days

Round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I have passed them by
A day will come
I will take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon and East of the Sun...
--J.R.R. Tolkien/Annie Lennox (Click here to see why Annie Lennox is billed with Tolkien.)

Thank you, Oliver!

Time

Time heals what reason cannot.

--Seneca

The beauty of the soul

As love grows within you, so beauty grows; for love is the beauty of the soul.
--Saint Augustine

A true friend

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.  

~William Penn

The gift

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.”

 

--Thomas Hughes