How else but through a broken heart may Christ enter in?

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About Oscar Wilde

Portrait of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a part of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about all the nonsense that you both went through. However, letting go is being okay with never seeing this person ever again… being okay with never knowing how their life turned out… being okay with fifty or more years of silence… being okay with running into that person at a grocery store and having them not acknowledge your presence. This is the part of life that doesn't sit well with me and never will. It tears my heart in pieces, robs me of gratitude, drains me of anything positive and eats at the faith that holds on.

—Shannon L. Alder

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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

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The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact we can see. And the more selfish we remain and self-centered, the more selfish our way of life is, the lonelier we feel and the more miserable. This is also a fact we can see.

—14th Dalai Lama

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

—Charles Dickens

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