“Then did I learn how existence could be cherished, Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.”
Quotes for When You Feel Grateful · Page 23
Words that open your eyes to the abundance already present in your life.
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“Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree.”
“What use is it to slumber here: Though the heart be sad and weary?”
“Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”
“It seems to me, Govinda, that Love is the most important thing in the world.”
“Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.”
“Everyone has a right to happiness and sooner or later I will have it.”
“Democrats are always happy. Democracy is a sort of laughing gas.”
“Democracy always seems bent upon killing the thing it theoretically loves.”
“Whosoever knows how to render benefit for benefit must prove a friend above price.”
“Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.”
“For everything that's lovely is but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight.”
“Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.”
“Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?”
“Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.”
“No man has ever lived that had enough Of children's gratitude or woman's love.”