Quotes from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.

Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.

laugh and the world laughs with you. weep and weep alone

Thank God, I say, for while I love you so, With that vast love, as passionate as tender, I feel an exultation as I know I have not made you a complete surrender. Here is my body; bruise it, if you will, And break my heart; I have that something still. You cannot grasp it

Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

To know for an hour you were mine completely -- Mine in body and soul, my own -- I would bear unending tortures sweetly, With not a murmur and not a moan. A lighter sin or a lesser error Might change through hope or fear divine; But there is no fear, and hell has no terror, To change or alter a love like mine.

Before night something beautiful will happen to change everything.

Berbicaralah mengenai hal-hal yang membahagiakan. Dunia sudah cukup sedih tanpa keluh kesah kita. Sebenarnya tidak ada jalan hidup yang seluruhnya sulit ditempuh.

You will be surprised to find how much that has seemed hopelessly disagreeable possesses either an instructive or an amusing side." from "The Heart of the New Thought" 1902.

I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire

It is easy enough to be pleasant When life flows by like a song But the man worth while is one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong

There's one sad truth in life I've found while journeying east and west--the only folks we really wound are those we love the most. We flatter those we scarcely know; we please the fleeting guest, and deal full many a thoughtless blow to those who love us best.

Cinta mendatangkan cinta, dan benci mendatangkan benci.

To possess character is to be useful, and to be useful is to be independent, and to be useful and independent, is to be happy, even in the midst of sorrow; for sorrow is not necessarily unhappiness.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, When just the art of being kind Is all this sad world needs.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor a church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high. But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river; And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.

I have always been looking for the noble qualities in human beings, and I have found them. There are great souls all along the highway of life, and there are great qualities even in the people who seem common and weak to us ordinarily.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all this sad world needs.

I would rather be faithful to my future than to my past, if it becomes a matter of choice.