Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

Order is power.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.

—Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz's Peanuts

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

—John Dewey

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

—Unknown