Bridget Grace

“Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed.”
― Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture

“Stale words, what are they worth?
A moment comes and God help those for whom it never comes.
When love of such nobility possesses this shaking frame
That even the sweetest word, the ultimate honey, stings like vinegar.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Nothing, but our undertakings; when we vow to weep
seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; thinking
it harder for our mistress to devise imposition
enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed.
This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will
is infinite and the execution confined, that the
desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.”
― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“But you are wise,
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.”
― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida