All this was to make us glad and merry in love.

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

Theirs is beauty's fairest pleasure;
Theirs is wisdom's holiest treasure.
Thou dost ever lead Thine own
In the love of joys unknown.

Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Jesu, joy of man's desiring,
Holy wisdom, love most bright;
Drawn by Thee, our souls aspiring
Soar to uncreated light.

Word of God, our flesh that fashioned,
With the fire of life impassioned,
Striving still to truth unknown,
Soaring, dying round Thy throne.

Through the way where hope is guiding,
Hark, what peaceful music rings;
Where the flock, in Thee confiding,
Drink of joy from deathless springs.

Theirs is beauty's fairest pleasure;
Theirs is wisdom's holiest treasure.
Thou dost ever lead Thine own
In the love of joys unknown.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

I would like to express my longing for happy experiences. I do not want us to be for ever regretting. Art has been and remains the part of my life that brings me happiness.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.