"I kept the dress. I didn’t know what to do with it. It went from being something I loved to something I hated – relegated to a garbage bag stuffed in the back of my closet. I kicked it on occasion. This one garment had the power of making me feel like I had failed…that I would never be in a long-term relationship, that I would most certainly never be married, and that I was going to spend the rest of my life alone."
- Jillian, Refashionista.net

"Now remember when we get up there, it's the trauma ward, not drama ward. So smiles, everyone, smiles!"
- Choir teacher, Scrubs 2.10

"Do or do not. There is no try."
- Yoda, Star Wars: Episode V

"I'm not judging that person, I'm evaluating him."
- Ricardo

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."
- Chester W. Nimitz

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
- Nelson Mandela

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
- Leonardo da Vinci

“A mother is not a person to lean upon, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
- Dorothy Canfield

"It’s so easy to laugh, it’s so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind."
- The Smiths, "I Know It's Over"

"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying."
- Joan of Arc

"I will find you in the place I'm in, find you when I'm at my end,
Find you when there's nothing left of me to offer you except for brokenness.
You lift me up, you'll never leave me thirsty,
When I am weak, when I am lost and searching
I'll find you on my knees."
- Kari Jobe, "Find You On My Knees"

"Faith — is the Pierless Bridge
Supporting what We see
Unto the Scene that We do not."
- Emily Dickinson

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
- Winnie the Pooh

"The world has a hole in it now. I shall look at the world through tears. Perhaps I shall see things that dry-eyed I could not."
- Nicholas Wolterstorff