"Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe...." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.”

“But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.”

“Mountain gorses, do ye teach us. . . .That the wisest word man reachesIs the humblest he can speak?”

“If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.”

“I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.”

“I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.”

“I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”

“Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.”