Favorite Quotes

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if 
one only remembers to turn on the light."

"It is our choices who show what we truly are, 
far more than our abilities."

Both courtesy of JK Rowling via Albus Dumbledore

"Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face."

Victor Hugo

"Love wins, love always wins."

"Love is the only rational act."

Both from Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom

"A self is not something static.... It is always becoming."

Madeleine L'Engle

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. 
What is essential is invisible to the eye."

From The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness 
because it shows me the stars."

Og Mandino

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."
From the movie Dead Poets Society

"Everywhere in nature we are taught the lessons of patience and waiting. We want things a long time before we get them, and the fact that we want them for a long time makes them all the more precious when they come."

Joseph F. Smith