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“I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest - blest beyond what language can express; because I am my...”
“The purity of peace, which is genuine happiness, cannot be found outside of you in material possessions, accomplishments, or other people. Pleasure is a fleeting emotion based on an external factor...”
“During these past years, not being able to speak with you, I dedicated myself to reviewing, within myself, the sacred books I know by heart. I had the idea I should summarize them in a single volum...”
“Your life is an opportunity to question, discover, and explore.”
“Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace.”
“Gratitude enables you to be fearless, and to never shy away from reveling in every moment of your life.”
“Your life is a reflection of your thoughts and actions--what will you reflect?”
“He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.”
“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”
“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment. ”
“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
“Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My masters colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, all energ...”
“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in...”
“By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea,From there the wind comes and blows over the world,By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea,From there the clouds come and rain falls ...”
“In time of rain I come:I can sing among the flowers:I utter my song: my heart is glad.Water of flowers foams over the earth:My heart was intoxicated.”
“At that moment there was no need of any scientific knowledge to understand his communication of reassurance. The soft pressure of his fingers spoke to me not through my intellect but through a more...”
“For the sun, stars, oceans, and all the trees, Ill consider it.”
“Peace within us translates to our exterior world. Our outer and inner state of peace is directly related to each other. It's simply impossible to have lasting peace around us unless we have peace w...”
“My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours o...”