‘I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.’
- Billy Joel
‘Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.’
- Walter Pater
‘Send home my long strayed eyes to me, which too long have dwelt on thee’
- John Donne
‘All love is unrequited. All of it.’
- J. Michael Straczynski
‘When we get too caught up in the business of the world, we lose connection with one another, and ourselves’
- Jack Kornfield
‘When the light has sharply faded and you have lost your way, let another’s love guide you. It can turn blackest night into day.’
– Kevin Meyers
‘No legacy is so rich as honesty.’
- William Shakespeare
‘I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.’
- Ani Difranco
‘But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.’
- Homer
‘I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it’
- Charles II
