“Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being.” – Don Miguel Ruiz

“The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back.” – Anne Lamott

“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words.” – Jeffrey Eugenides

“Let us love, since that is all our hearts were made for.” – St. Therese De Lisieux

“It’s quite simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes.” – Antoine De Saint Exupery

“Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness, there is at least one which makes the heart run over.” – Ray Bradbury

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Charles Dickens

“The best portion of a good man’s life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” – William Wordsworth

“Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. – Cheryl Strayed