Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people more beautiful than perpetual kindness. ~ Leo Tolstoy
Just Carrying On
Sometimes carrying, just carrying on, is a superhuman achievement. ~ Albert Camus
The Most Important Decision
The most important decision you will ever make is to be in a good mood. ~ Voltaire
The Old Man And The Sea By Ernest Hemingway
In this tale of inward struggle and personal triumph, an old fisherman reaches within the depths of himself to fight the good fight and wrestle with the fish of his dreams alone on the ocean.
The Final Forming of Character
The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. ~ Anne Frank
An Open Broken Heart
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken. ~ Alice Walker
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
But then a better thought occurred, and this was the one I carried away with me that day: If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?
An Adventure Worth Telling
It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
A Touch That Never Hurts
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts. ~ Charles Dickens
They Have Made Me
I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten: even so, they have made me. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson