The love of one

Son, I'd say you were going at it the wrong end first, said the Judge, turning up his coat-collar. How could you care about one girl? Have you ever cared about one leaf?Riley, listening to the wildcat with an itchy hunter's look, snatched at the leaves blowing about us like midnight butterflies; alive, fluttering as though to escape and fly, one stayed trapped between his fingers. The Judge, too: he caught a leaf; and it was worth more in his hand than in Riley's. Pressing it mildly against his cheek, he distantly said, We are speaking of love. A leaf, a handful of seed--begin with these, learn a little what it is to love. First, a leaf, a fall of rain, then someone to receive what a leaf has taught you, what a fall of rain has ripened. No easy process, understand; it could take a lifetime, it has mine, and still I've never mastered it--I only know how true it is: that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.

Truman Capote, The Glass Harp

If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

Elizabeth von Arnim

Looks like we caught a Dragon by the tail.

Don Pettit

Faith doesn't get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

The end of birth is death; the end of deathIs birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou,Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befallsWhich could not otherwise befall?

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, verse

I'm wishing Donald Trump luck. I'm going to give him a chance and we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one too.

Dave Chappelle

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Jonathan Sacks

Prove that you love me through a lingering gaze, and never losing that twinkle of adoration in your eyes.

Richelle E. Goodrich

We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.

Luc De Clapiers

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

E.S. Barrett

He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.

William Shakespeare

Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Ivan Illich