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“Love is an engraved invitation to grief.”
― Sunshine O'Donnell, Open Me

“The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on.
-Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.”
― Will Rogers

“The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.”
― Will Rogers

“Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.”
― Will Rogers

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
― Will Rogers

“you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way”
― will rogers

“The only way to beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.”
― Will Rogers

“When you're through learning, you're through.”
― Will Rogers

“Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.”
― Will Rogers

“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”
― Will Rogers

“Lord, let me live until I die.”
― Will Rogers

“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.”
― Will Rogers

“You have taken root in the Beloved.
I love your golden branches

And the hundred graceful movements
Your body now makes each time
The wind, children and love come near.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez, The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz

“Here soar
Not with wings

But with your moving hands and feet
And sweating brows -

Standing by your Beloved's side
Reaching out to comfort this world

With your cup of solace
Drawn from your vast reservoir of truth.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez, The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz

“God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. ”
― Thomas Aquinas

“While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Many cry to the Lord that they may win riches, that they may avoid losses; they cry that their family may be established, they ask for temporal happiness, for worldly dignities; and, lastly, they cry for bodily health, which is the patrimony of the poor. For these and suchlike things many cry to the Lord; hardly one cries for the Lord Himself! How easy it is for a man to desire all manner of things from the Lord and yet not desire the Lord Himself! As though the gift could be sweeter than the Giver!”
― Thomas Aquinas, On Prayer and The Contemplative Life