Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.
Christmastime is when love and kindness shine at their brightest.
Beauty may catch the eye, but a jolly laugh will lasso the heart.
I tried and they laughed, but I laughed harder because I knew none of them had the nerve to even try.
Sometimes the craziest laugh in the world is the only one that will save your sanity.
Beauty is a behavior. As is ugliness.
Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage.
Most are unaware of their tremendous worth and boundless potential, despite possessing both.
Courage doesn’t defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear.
Easter is the miracle of transformation as seen in the change of seasons, in the maturation of mortal persons, and in the resurrection of souls.
Kresh kept silent beside me as Baron rehearsed his deadly plan. I listened with my eyes aimed at the horizon, witnessing the night consume a final red vein of daylight. It struck me that nightfall always drowned the sunset. Never did the sun resurface from where it sank, nor would it ever.
Pray as if you are fully aware that the intricate timing and rotation of every celestial entity in the universe – including the coming and going of innumerable, precious life forms – does not rest in your tiny, mortal hands.
Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder, will the water prove deep enough? Will my words be satisfactory?
I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At once I realized there was no excuse at all for me not to scale my own mountains.
The truth is, when you have little to do, you do very little. But when you have much to do, you do much. So it should make sense that by taking on more than you can handle, you accomplish more than you ever dreamed you could. And so it is.
The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.
Night helps us appreciate daylight, while lengthy days make us yearn for a good stretch of night.
Las palabras nunca desaparecen, sino que hacen eco para la eternidad. Deja que tu eco suene dulce.
How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.
As a child, I once suffered a bad fall that resulted in scratched palms and scraped knees. I remember how badly it stung, the cold air hitting my bleeding wounds; I felt that I couldn’t stand up for the pain. Through a veil of tears, I recall a kind hand reaching for me and helping me to my feet. My knees and palms were washed clean, and I remember thinking that for the rest of my life, I wanted to help people stand back up.