"While [gender-reveal parties] may not have originated from the most political of places, what these parties are actually doing is ensuring that people are excited and celebrating the existence of a baby...at their core, these parties are about going out of one’s way to be excited about life regardless of sex or gender." - Lori, via feministing.com

"I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question."
- Harun Yahya

"I have to translate my resume into Spanish. I think I'm just going to submit a copy of Los Juegos del Hambre [The Hunger Games]: Mi nombre es Katniss. Yo vivo en el distrito doce."
- Tara

"Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two..."
- A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

"The grass is greener where you water it."
- Neil Barringham

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"A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful, and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life."
- John Fischer

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"How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!"
- Psalm 133:1

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"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."
- Virginia Woolf

"Let's go with Jesus.  Not the gay-hating, war-making political tool of the Right, but the outcast, subversive, supreme adept who preferred the freaks and lepers and despised and doomed to the rich and powerful."
- John Cusack, on his hero

"Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I really need it."
- Swedish proverb

"Often, the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us."
- Dieter Uchtdorf

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time.  Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."
- E. B. White

"A year from now, you will wish you had started today."
- Karen Lamb

"You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.  We just weren't raised that way."
- Michelle Obama

"You can do anything, but not everything."
- David Allen

“There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.”
- Brian Andreas

"Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it."
- A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (1926)

"Goodbyes always make my throat hurt...I need more hellos."
- Charlie Brown

"For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born."
- Alice Freeman Palmer

"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."
- Martin Luther

"He died that day because his body had served its purpose.  His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave."
- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

"C-A-P-S-I-Z-E all the way home, I'm gonna tilt awhile
M-I-S-S M-E all you want, you're gonna wait awhile"
- Karen O and the Kids, "Capsize"

"If you are one who’s been wandering off course, now is the time to return. You can, you know. Young people, go forward with faith. You’ll be led by the Spirit as was Nephi, 'not knowing beforehand the things which [he] should do.'" (1 Ne. 4:6)
- Boyd K. Packer

"That best portion of a good man’s life
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." 
- William Wordsworth

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."
- George Burns