‘There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.’
- Washington Irving
‘Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.’
- Napoleon Hill
‘This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.’
- Friedrich Nietzsche
‘In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn’t. Be wise and don’t let good things crowd out those that are essential.’
- Elder Richard G. Scott
‘A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other’
- Charles Dickens
‘You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.’
- Henry Drummond
‘I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.’
- George Santayana
‘E’en her fair hand, which might bid heat return To Frozen age, and make old hermits burn, Applied to my dead cinder, warms no more Than fire to ashes, could past flames restore’
- John Wilmot
‘We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.’
- Edward R. Murrow
‘A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text’
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
