It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
–Jane Austen
http://www.jasna.org/info/about_austen.html
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
–Marcus Aurelius
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17212.Marcus_Aurelius
How fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till all the seas gang dry.
–Robert Burns
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/709
Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…
–Alfred, Lord Tennyson
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/300
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
–Dylan Thomas
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/150
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
–Charlotte Bronte
http://www.bronte.org.uk/haworth-and-the-brontes/family-and-friends/charlotte-bronte
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it.
–E. E. Cummings
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
–Napoleon Bonapart
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bonaparte_napoleon.shtml
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
–J. R. R. Tolkien
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html
Cora Lee, Regency Romance Author 