Sixteen

Sunlight finds a way

of always decorating
your eyes just for me.

-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott

"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it, intellect is poverty."

-The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain

"I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."

-Master Humphrey’s Clock, Charles Dickens

"Los of catel may reovered be, but los of tyme shendeth us"
(Loss of property may be recovered, but loss of time ruins us)
-Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

"When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools"

— Lear, King Lear, Act IV, scene iv


“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest”
-Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, scene

"I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen."

-The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck

"People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more."

-Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

-Texts and Pretexts, Aldous Huxley

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."

-The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut

"He was like a song I’d heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since."

-Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."

-The Princess Bride, William Goldman

"She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality."
-Moonchild, Aleister Crowley

You have peace,” the old woman said, “when you make it with yourself.

-The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom

"I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky...more than blessed...if you got to say goodbye at all."
-Sarah Dessen's The Truth About Forever

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Impromptu Personal Thought:

Selfess acts are the purest form of poetry.