Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
– Robert Frost
Feb 282014
Feb 272014
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33308-what-greater-thing-is-there-for-two-human-souls-than
Feb 262014
we loved with a love that was more than love
…
And neither the angels in Heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
– Edgar Allan Poe, Anabel Lee
Feb 252014
I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.
– Sylvia Plath, from her journal
Feb 242014
I never found the companion that was as companionable as solitude.
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Feb 232014
The wise know their weakness too well to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.
– Thomas Jefferson
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/he-who-knows-best-quotation
Feb 222014
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
– Benjamin Franklin