The Time That Is Given Us

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“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is…

Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

514

“You don’t have to say anything.”
He sat back in his chair. “I won’t. As always, words fail when you most want to say the right thing.” “People think they have to say something, and it never makes me feel better.”
“I know. I’ve decided language isn’t as advanced as we think it is. We’re still apes trying to express our thoughts with grunts while most of what we want to communicate stays locked in our brains.”

― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

To Determine Intimacy

216

It’s not time or opportunity that determines intimacy; it’s disposition alone. 7 years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, & 7 days are more than enough for others.

The One Thing

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The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So, write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. ~ Neil Gaiman

What God Chose To Make Me

217

I’d rather be what God chose to make than the most glorious creature I could think of; for to be thought about, born in God’s thought, & made by God, is the dearest, grandest & most precious thing

Without Stain

219

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you,  to go through it, not without pain, but without stain. ~ C. S. Lewis

Always Continue The Climb

235

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Tide Will Turn

220

When you get into a tight place & everything goes against you, till it seems you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place & time that the tide will turn.