Grief gives life a permanently provisional feeling.
— C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed, 1961

If you cannot be the example, do not teach the words.
— Maitreya

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
— Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
— Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
— Rabbi Julius Gordon

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
— Robert Newton Anthony

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
— Georges Duhamel

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
— Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It's religion I'm doubting.
— Bono

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
— C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed, 1961

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you.
— C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed, 1961

Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
— Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006

Time exists, but just on your wrist, so don't panic
Moments last and lifetimes are lost in a day
— Travis, Indefinitely

What worries you masters you.
— Haddon W. Robinson

Never explain your actions or choices. Those who love you don’t need it, and those who don’t won’t accept it.
— my twist of a quote by Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
— Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
— Dr. David M. Burns

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
— Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
— Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Dawn, Sec. 297

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
— Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
— W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), Of Human Bondage, 1915

I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.
— Bono