"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

~Lao Tzu

"Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are."

~Mason Cooley

"We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on You."

~2 Chronicles 20:12

"It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful."

~The Nester

"A head full of fears has no space for dreams."

~Anonymous 

"Family isn't always blood.  It's the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are.  The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what."

~Anonymous 

"When ambitions trump relationships, our stories suffer for meaning."

~Donald Miller

"Be the reason someone smiles today."

~Anonymous

"I'm embracing that being fully me is so much better than an imitation version of someone else."

~Lysa TerKeurst

"Leah's hunger for love and acceptance was met not by a man, but by the steadfast love of her heavenly Father."

~She Reads Truth  

"A godly man can make a woman fall in love without touching anything but her heart."

~Jordan Kemper

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."

~Dr. Seuss

"History is not just facts and events.  History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own."

~Julius Lester  

"Friends remind us we are part of something greater than ourselves, a larger world."

~Barbara Jenkins 

"You have a ticket to Heaven no thief can take, an eternal home no divorce can break.  Every sin of your life has been cast to the sea. Every mistake you've made is nailed to the tree.  You're blood-bought and Heaven-made.  A child of God, forever saved.  So be grateful, joyful- for isn't it true?  What you don't have is much less than what you do."

~Max Lucado  

"I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another."

~Divergent

"You can spend too long on a one-sided love."

~Mrs. Patmore (Downton Abbey)

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

~Martin Luther King Jr. 

"No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books."

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love...they depart to teach us about loss.  A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart.  If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big."

~Erica Jong  

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will truly know peace."

~Jimi Hendrix

"There are no happy endings.  Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle and a very happy start."

~Shel Silverstein

"Life is full of beautiful moments, one right after the other."

~Zach Sobiech

"Cherish the children marching to the beat of their own music.  They play the most beautiful heart songs."

~Fiona Goldsworthy 

"Dance with God, and He will let the perfect man cut in."

~Anonymous