What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them.

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.

I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either.

I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

There is something comforting about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.

As such the meaning of hegemony is subject to varying interpretations depending on how the historical role of the United States is interpreted.

How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.

Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.