"Sunlight fell upon the wall ...."

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor.

Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one?

Seek out the source which shines forever.

Rumi

"Life's splendor forever lies in wait ...."

“Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view,  deep down, invisible, far off.  It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf.  If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.”  

Franz Kafka

"There is hope and a kind of beauty ...."

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

H R Giger

"But love is blind ...." (Part III)

“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;”