Devotion — Page 3

“Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.”

“Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.”

“I take thee to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.”

“I see the secret of the making of the best persons, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the universe.”

“Nothing in the world is single; all things by a law divine in one spirit meet and mingle.”

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

“Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”

“Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, / When I give I give myself.”

“Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, / And slips into the bosom of the lake: / So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip / Into my bosom and be lost in me.”

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. / Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; / For love is sufficient unto love.”

“Remember me when I am gone away, / Gone far away into the silent land;”

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.”

“And I will luv thee still, my dear, / Till a' the seas gang dry.”

“Nelly, I am Heathcliff!”

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

“When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.”

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

“You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.”

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”