It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Life is but thought.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
