“You do not know — how should you? What I think of you! Satisfied? Pleased? Good Heavens — what little words those are to express my feeling! I can tell you how you look, for nothing can ever make you vain. You are beautiful! . . . You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and you look your…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Life assumed for him a new form . . . it was no longer, as he had once been inclined to think, a mere empty routine — it was a treasure of inestimable value fraught with divine meanings. Gradually, the touch of modern cynicism that had at one time threatened to spoil his nature, dropped away from hi…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”— John Green, amazon.com
“My awkwardness went away, and I stretched out, flexed, showed my biceps. He smiled, taking pleasure in my happiness.”— Claire Rudy Foster, nytimes.com
“I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency, my only regret is that I wasn't born.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency. My only regret is that I wasn't born dead or not at all.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“How much do you mean to me? It’s immeasurable. It surpasses the counting of infinite numbers. It goes up to the highest sky down to the deepest pit.”— Bea C. Pilotin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Marriage had for once fulfilled its real and sacred meaning — it had set Love free from restraint, and had opened all gateways of the only earthly paradise human hearts shall ever know — the paradise of perfect union and absolute sympathy with the one thing beloved on this side eternity.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Your eyes are looking at the sky, Thelma. Do you know what that is? Heaven looking into heaven! And do you know which of the two heavens I prefer?”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I wish to God I could keep you all to myself without anybody's interference!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight whiter and purer than snow itself.”— Fridtjof Nansen, amazon.com
“Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.”— Booker T. Washington, amazon.com
“As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does a…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the g…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com