"It's time for women to stop being politely angry."
- leah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner

"Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?"
- 1 Corinthians 6:19 (NIV)

"Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss."
- Nora Ephron, 1941-2012

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us."
- Oliver Wendall Holmes

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into place."
- Lucille Ball

"These are the unspoken legacies we inherit when we belong to a people: not only luminous visions of eternal expanses of lovingkindness, but actual human histories...We inherit all the ways in which our ancestors and parents and teachers were wrong, as well as the ways they were right: their sparkling differences, and their human failings. There is no unmixing the two."
- Joanna Brooks, The Book of Mormon Girl

"The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you’re not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow."
- Gordon B. Hinckley

"I want to think again of dangerous and noble things...
I want to be light and frolicsome...
I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings."
- Mary Oliver

"We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children."
- Joycelyn Elders

"Make your own path."
- Doug Wilson

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."
- C.S. Lewis

"The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother."
- Elaine Dalton

"When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another -- and ourselves."
- Jack Kornfield

“I had no idea how to get boys to notice me. I still don’t. Who cares?”
- Amy Poehler

"Move on and accelerate
You don't have to be afraid"
- Cascada, "Evacuate the Dancefloor

"Wherever you are, be all there."
- Jim Elliot

"Just consider how much learning happens when you choose a mate. Along with thrilling dependency comes glimpsing the world through another’s eyes; forsaking some habits and adopting others (good or bad); tasting new ideas, rituals, foods or landscapes; a slew of added friends and family; a tapestry of physical intimacy and affection; and many other catalysts, including a tornadic blast of attraction and attachment hormones — all of which revamp the brain."
- Diane Ackerman, "The Brain on Love," New York Times Magazine

"I saved Latin. What did you ever do?"
- Max, Rushmore

"If there was nothing wrong in the world, there wouldn't be anything for us to do."
- George Bernard Shaw

"It's like when everyone's up in my face
And I want to quit the human race
Find a quiet corner out in space
And stake my claim."
- Girlyman, "Supernova"

"I can no other answer make but thanks. And thanks."
- William Shakespeare

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax