I feel as if my being were dissolved and the idea of you were diffused throughout it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne · Hawthorne to his fiancée Sophia Peabody from Salem, May 26, 1839, during their long engagement.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance that it overflows upon the outward world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne · The narrator as Hester lets down her hair in the forest and the sunshine breaks through, the one bright hour she and Dimmesdale are given.

Happiness is like a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Often credited to Nathaniel Hawthorne · Hawthorne never wrote it, and neither did Thoreau, who also gets the credit; the earliest version is an anonymous 1848 newspaper piece in the New Orleans Daily Crescent, signed only "L."

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I feel as if my being were dissolved and the idea of you were diffused throughout it.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance that it overflows upon the outward world.

Happiness is like a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Life with you is a perpetual honeymoon.

Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.

Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.

We Value Your Opinion Comments

“I feel as if my being were dissolved and the idea of you were diffused throughout it.”

“Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance that it overflows upon the outward world.”

“Happiness is like a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“Life with you is a perpetual honeymoon.”

“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.”

“Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.”

We Value Your Opinion Comments

I feel as if my being were dissolved and the idea of you were diffused throughout it.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance that it overflows upon the outward world.

Happiness is like a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Life with you is a perpetual honeymoon.

Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.

Being someone's first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.