Emily Dickinson

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

"My friends are my estate."

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all."

"How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decreeIn casual simplicity."

"There's a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes."

"The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care"

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

"Forever is composed of nows."

"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality"

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

"Morning without you is a dwindled dawn."

"She dealt her pretty words like Blades --How glittering they shone --And every One unbared a NerveOr wantoned with a Bone --She never deemed -- she hurt --That -- is not Steel's Affair --A vulgar grimace in the Flesh --How ill the Creatures bear --To Ache is human -- not polite --The Film upon the eyeMortality's old Custom --Just locking up -- to Die."

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

"A wounded dear leaps the highest"