Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...

Billy Graham

Tags: billy graham, christianity, joy

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Issey Miyake

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Issey Miyake

Tags: computers, technology, work, try

They say you cannot love two people equally at once, she said. And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each...

Cassandra Clare

They say you cannot love two people equally at once, she said. And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each...

Cassandra Clare

Tags: epilogue, infernal devices, james castairs, jem, jem castairs, soul, tessa, tessa gray, the infernal devices, theresa gray

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Ayn Rand

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Ayn Rand

Tags: architecture, build, order, clients

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

Tags: addiction, addiction recovery, advocacy, drug addiction, drugs, mental health, mental illness, society, treatment

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

Neil Gaiman

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

Neil Gaiman

Tags: bravery, courage, fairy tales, feminism, self, valour, women

About Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams (born 8 September 1955), is an American writer, educator, conservationist, and activist. Williams' writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of Utah. Her work focuses on social and environmental justice ranging from issues of ecology and the protection of public lands and wildness, to women's health, to exploring humanity's relationship to culture and nature. She writes in the genre of creative nonfiction and the lyrical essay.