Madeleine L'Engle

When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability, to be alive is to be vulnerable.

Tim Kreider

Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration - it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.

King Caspian in the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Movie)

I've spent too long wanting what was taken from me and not what was given.

Christopher Robin in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Movie)

You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Book)

“In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."


“Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.” 

Albert Camus

I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn't, Than to live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there is.

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Faith is not about everything turning out OK; Faith is about being OK no matter how things turn out.

From Balto

Not a dog.  Not a wolf.  All he knows is what he is not.  If only he could see what he is. -  Boris the goose

From Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

I have survived.  I am here.  Confused, screwed up, but here.  So, how can I find my way?  Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?  

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IT happened.  There is no avoiding it, no forgetting.  No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.  ...  It wasn't my fault.  And I'm not going to let it kill me.  I can grow.

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Scars remind us where we have been; they don't have to dictate where we are going.

I can't find anything to say where this quote comes from for sure.  Some sites say it was on a Criminal Minds episode.  Whatever.  I like it.

Khalil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Anthony Brandt

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph W. Sockman

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.