I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

Thank you to the people who have recently helped my family and me through a tough time of loss. I appreciate your kind comments, texts, and emails.
This is a video made last year using the beautiful art and photos my Uncle Joe contributed. I chose Victor Hugo quotes because he was one of Uncle Joe’s favorite authors.
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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Joe Bott and Victor Hugo ¤
Gems 10.151
“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.”
-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-DameGems 10.152
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
-Victor Hugo, Les MisérablesGems 10.153
“To love or have loved, that is enough. As nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
-Victor Hugo, Les MisérablesGems 10.154
“Love is the only future God offers.”
-Victor Hugo, Les MisérablesGems 10.155
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
-Victor HugoGems 10.156
“A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.”
-Victor Hugo, Les MisérablesGems 10.157
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream — what more could he ask. A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
-Victor HugoGems 10.158
“What is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes, and the stars through his soul.”
-Victor Hugo, Les MisérablesGems 10.159
“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
-Victor Hugo, The Man Who LaughsGems 10.160
“I have been loving you a little bit more every minute since this morning.”
-Victor Hugo, Les MisérablesGems 10.160b
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Music “Beautiful Things” performed by Calvin Clavier from Pixabay.
Photos by Joe Bott, founder of DeadFred.com.