You can't, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can't get the best out of it. "Now, let's have a real good talk" reduces everyone to silence, "I must get a good night's sleep" ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wasted on a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel as if we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? For, as I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead, but cuts us off from them. ~ C. S. Lewis

That was very nice of the library to loan me 11 books. ~ Emma Pyles

Life is an unending sequence of choices. ~ Sharon Berry and Ollie Gibbs

The best way to do a task is usually not the easiest way to do it. ~ James A. Chapman

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. ~ Proverbs 14:23

The world is a reflection of the success or failure of the church. ~ Nolan Clayton

Let love be without hypocrisy. ~ Romans 12:9a

If all men were just, there would be no need of justice. ~ Agesilaus

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying...that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~ Swift

God knows what He's doing and He has a purpose in having her move far, far away. And He not only has a purpose in her life but in the lives of those she's leaving behind. ~ Kate Dorsey

Ah, no, it should not;
Let it be.
But once heart's feast
You were to me.

~ Louise Bogan, "Rhyme"