love poems for broken hearts

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau



The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903



It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



A horse is poetry in motion. ~Author Unknown



Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ~Elbert Hubbard



It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. ~Manitonquat



Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. ~Bobby Bragan, 1963



Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. ~Jean Cocteau



You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~Jane Galvin Lewis



Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. ~Ecclesiastes 12:7



Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~Kin Hubbard



A dog is not "almost human" and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. ~John Holmes



Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future. ~T.A. Sachs



California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. ~J.B. Priestley



They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe. ~Edward Westcott



I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ~Henry David Thoreau



Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. ~Ellen Frankfort



Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ~Ovid, Tristia



Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves. ~Author Unknown



To the lamp of love: may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial. ~Author Unknown To the loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Williston Fish