Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Love and you shall be loved. 

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

The least defect of self-possession vitiates, in my judgment, the entire relation.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

“Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207” 

“The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.” 

“I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.” 

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” 

“He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...” 

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People people have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself.” 

“People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us. And yet—” 

“You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.” 

“Not "Forgive us for our sins" but "Smite us for our iniquities" should be the prayer of man to a most just God.” 

“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.” 

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.

If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly, but humbly and truly. It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men’s, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.

There can be no excess to love; none to knowledge; none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. 

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

All mankind love a lover.

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, love to complete your life.

Don’t choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

“She lives in the poetry she cannot write.” 

“I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.” 

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.” 

“No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself” 

“anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often,” 

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one,” 

“There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.” 

“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)” 

“The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.” 

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.” 

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred… If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves