quotes about Mature Love

“In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.”

“Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.”

“Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.”

“Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it received by the pint.”

“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.”

Source : "Geoffrey Hill, The Art of Poetry No. 80". Interview with Carl Phillips, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 2000.

“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.1, Wordsworth Editions

“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”

“There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.”

“The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.281, The Floating Press

“A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.”