This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.

It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.