Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
-Mary C. Crowley
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett