"Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with."
- Ellen DeGeneres

"I'll only ask once that you and your adorable sweater step away from the door."
- Nick, Youth in Revolt

"Life always was, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.  So, too, with God.  For God is what Life is.  So, too, with Love.  For love is what God is."
- Neale Donald Walsh

"Why does it always have to rain on Sunday?"
- Kim Richey, "Pretty Picture"

"Book lovers never go to bed alone."
- Anonymous

"Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live." - Jacqueline Winspear

"Family life is full of major and minor crises — the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce — and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul."
- Thomas Moore

"My face had said too much
Before our hands could even touch
To greet a 'hello'
(So much for going slow...)"
- Carbon Leaf, "Life Less Ordinary"

"It's in the Bible. Look it up."
- Tara

"My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word 'farting.'"
- Tina Fey, Bossypants

"To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now."
- Donald Altman

"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
- Oprah Winfrey

"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle."
- Anna Quindlen

"Diagnosis actually means to look at all possibilities and allow what you see most to begin to reveal solutions.  So in and of itself, the art of medicine is the art of stepping back and asking questions."
- Cynthia Caillagh

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home."
- Bill Cosby 

"I've made up my mind,
made it up as I went along."
- Grand Archives, "Orange Juice"

"Patience produces character, and character produces hope.  And this hope will never disappoint us."
- Romans 5:4-5

"I still close my eyes and go home -- I can always draw from that."
- Dolly Parton

“Call it 'womb awe' or even 'womb worship' but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?”
- Sam Keen

"People don't realize this, but loneliness is underrated."
- Tom, (500) Days of Summer

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
- Maya Angelou

"You are way more fun to spend time with than a group of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts."
- Claire

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great.  When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition, it is important with whom you regularly associate.  Hang out with friends who are likeminded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives.  Similarly, be that kind of friend for your friends."
- Mark Twain

"I throw my hands up in the air sometimes
Saying ayo
Gotta let go"
- Taio Cruz, "Dynamite"

"Hope has two beautiful daughters: anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to change them."
- Saint Augustine

"For it is the God who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."
- 2 Corinthians 4:6

"Be with those who help your being."
- Rumi

"Life is all about timing … The unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable becomes available, the unattainable …. attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It’s all about timing."
- Stacey Charter

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little."
- Sydney Smith

"Growing old and I want to go home..."
- Nick Drake, "Black Eyed Dog"