A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal (Henri Beyle)
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love. - William Shakespeare
James Joyce - Molly Bloom in Ulysses.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. - William Ward
Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages. - Marcel Proust
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
I have made an important discovery…that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication. - Oscar Wilde
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. - James Baldwin
This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer. - Ernest Hemingway
Though an old man I am but a young gardener. - Thomas Jefferson
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. - C.S. Lewis