Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004 Author of the Standing Room Only Weblog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001573/). When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion. Abraham Lincoln 16th president of US (1809 - 1865) To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish author (1850 - 1894) He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute. William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973 Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973 Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973 |