Isabel

“You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. ”
― Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies

“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“A piece of the sky and a chunk of the earth lie lodged in the heart of every human being.”
― Thomas Moore

“If this word should turn out to be a 'Te moriturum saluto,' perhaps it will brighten the dark moments a little to think how you have meant to someone more than anything ever has or ever will. What you have striven for will not end in nothing, all that you have done and been will not be wasted, for it will be a part of me as long as I live, and I shall remember, always.”
― Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth