I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.”

I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.

Never give up hope, spring will come.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in.

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come.

My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264

Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.

You are significantly more likely to die in a car accident, especially if you fail to wear a seat belt, than to be attacked by ISIS. Wear your seat belt

Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith.

Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.

And then Mum spoons the coffee a little as if she’s having fantasies of flinging it in Britt-Marie’s face. But in a controlled way.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.

I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.

Everything that happens to a child of God, His father filtered and He intends to use it for the good and even when Satan and others mean it for bad because God is sovereignly in control.

It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.