Quotes of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. ”

- Amit Ray

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa