Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.