“ Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. J.K. Rowling
“ There’s so much to be grateful for, and praising God for giving you His Spirit is a great place to begin.Even if you don’t think you have much to be grateful for right now, know that you can always pr… Stormie Omartian
“ There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on fighting when we see our comrades fall beside us. But there's… Juliet Marillier
“ There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. Henry David Thoreau
“ The trouble with good fortune is that people tend to equate it with personal goodness, so that if things are going well for us and as well for others, we think they must have done something to have br… Ann Patchett
“ The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but bu… Jack Kerouac
“ Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair in the approach to midnight, a clock ticking at the threshold of awareness. All… Alan Moore
“ Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic. Mindy Kaling
“ Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowin… Bryan Lee O'Malley
“ Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enem… Oscar Wilde
“ Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower.… Karen Kingsbury
“ It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrectio… Francine Rivers
“ It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear. Lois Lowry
“ Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. Eudora Welty
“ If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily ours but only ours to… Elisabeth Elliot
