"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." 
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us."
- Anne Lamott

"Let's make this happen,
girl you gonna show the world that something good can work
and it can work for you. 
And you know that it will."
- Two Door Cinema Club, "Something Good Can Work"

"Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times."
- Ani Difranco, "Lost Woman Song"

"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air.  All I must do is find it, and copy it."
- Jules Renard, February 1895

"Peace.  It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.  It means to be in the midst of all of those things and still be calm in your heart."
- author unknown

"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."
- Pope Benedict XVI

"The first true love that folded at the slightest touch,
brought down like an old hotel,
people digging through the rubble for things they can resell."
- Elliott Smith, "Junk Bond Trader"

“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.” 
- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

"Prayer is the voice of faith."
- William Van Horne

"Sometimes it's a good day to die, and sometimes it's a good day to have breakfast."
- Thomas, Smoke Signals

"Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Inside every one of us lives an utterly mortified teenaged girl.   You can move across the city.  Grow out your perm. Dye your hair.  Change your name.  Marry.  Travel the world.  Earn degrees.  Win prizes.  But she lives on—awkward, moody, embarrassed, and self-despising.  And ready to leap out at the most untimely moments.  There’s nothing we can do but pity her, pity ourselves, have a good laugh with a girlfriend, and then move on."
- Joanna Brooks

"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least."
- Goethe

"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim."
- Margaret Thatcher

"Faith in God includes faith in His timing."
- Neal Maxwell

"Ontology, the study of the being, holds that life is a supreme good that cannot be measured and consequently cannot be graded.  On the opposite, health can be assessed and graded. Physicians are constantly establishing whether the health of their patient is improving or declining. However, the value of human life cannot be measured, and is not determined by the quality of an individual’s life at a particular time point."
- N. Pinacchia (via)

"For with you is the fountain of life, in your light we see light."
- Psalm 36:9

"I knew who I was this morning, but I have changed a few times since then."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

"What do I do when I want to
Be as close as I can get to you
I feel like a cruel girl saying both yes and no
I want you to want me
I need to trust you though" 
- Sam Phillips, "What Do I Do"

"With your pen and notebook you've blown me away
It's the smallest words we cannot say."
- Camera Obscura, "Pen and Notebook"

"Watch out for each other. Love and forgive everybody. It’s a good life, enjoy it!"
- Jim Henson

"We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong."
- Laura Stavoe Harm

"Don’t become too narrow. Live fully. Meet all kinds of people. You’ll learn something from everyone. Follow what you feel in your heart."
- Yuri Kochiyama

"Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight."
- Gordon B. Hinckley

"I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
- Rebecca West

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."
- Sophocles

"I'm not afraid to 'dress like a woman' because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman."
- Iggy Pop

“There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.”
- Brian Andreas

"Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson