My heart is like a singing bird.

Christina Rossetti · A Birthday (1861), st. 1

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Christina Rossetti · The closing couplet of "Remember," which asks to be remembered after death and then gives the survivor leave to go on living.

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.

Christina Rossetti · Remember (1862), l. 1

My heart is gladder than all these, because my love is come to me.

Christina Rossetti · The end of the first stanza of "A Birthday," where a heart is a singing bird, a laden apple tree and a rainbow shell, and none of them as glad.

More Love Quotes

Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “Doing “good” (in an ethical sense) is in reality difficult to achieve. To me, something creative that has been done with love is to have done “good.”” · To Valentine Bulgakov, 4 November 1931.

My nurse was my confidante. Mrs. Everest it was who looked after me and tended all my wants. It was to her I poured out my many troubles.

Winston Churchill · My Early Life (1930)

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!

Charlotte Brontë · Jane to Rochester in the orchard at Thornfield when she believes he is to marry Blanche Ingram and she must leave him; it is this outburst that draws his proposal.

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“My heart is like a singing bird.”

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”

“Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.”

“My heart is gladder than all these, because my love is come to me.”

“Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.”

“My nurse was my confidante. Mrs. Everest it was who looked after me and tended all my wants. It was to her I poured out my many troubles.”

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!”