The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Look back, and smile on perils past!

But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.

Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.

It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right but when I am a little in the wrong.

One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.

How beautiful it will be if your heart grows only the flowers of love and kindness.

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

An ocean does not know how big she is just like you don’t know how loving and amazing you are.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

The day internet stops functioning forever

For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it's over. The salad bar is closed.

From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.