It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.

Cassandra Clare

He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.

John of the Cross

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

Richard Dawkins

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.

Annie Elizabeth Delany

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Plato

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Nicholas Sparks

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Miguel de Unamuno

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

Sadaharu Oh

Give her hell from us, Peeves.

J.K. Rowling

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

James Levine

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

Charles Dickens

Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.

Christina Rossetti