"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."
— Suzanne Weyn (Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium)

"You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold. "
— Max Lucado (Cure for the Common Life)

"It's good to know."
— Joan of Arc

"I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy."
— Keira Knightley

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

"To love would be an awfully big adventure."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"There is always HOPE.

(From The Lord of the Rings screenplay by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens; incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to...

- Frodo to Sam"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
— Winston S. Churchill

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
— Henry David Thoreau

"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."
— Max Lucado

""The geologic cycle is a bunch of balarky.""
— Arthur C. Howard

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
— Abigail Van Buren

"Never, never, never give in!"
— Winston S. Churchill

"May you live every day of your life."
— Jonathan Swift

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"I won't be labeled as average."
— Rachel Joy Scott

"A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.
Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.
She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.
She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls.
She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.
She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night.
In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.
When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple.
Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes.
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
"Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all."
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
Proverbs 31:10-31"
— Various (The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments in the King James Version Translated Out of the Original Tongues)

"I am not going to apologize for speaking the Name of Jesus. I am not going to justify my faith to them, and I am not going to hide the light that God has put into me. If I have to sacrifice everything, I will.

(Rachel Joy Scott did sacrifice everything-including her life for her Savior. She was killed for her faith at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999)."
— Rachel Joy Scott

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."
— George Washington

"Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color."
— Rachel Scott

"I feel like I just found out my favorite love song was written about a sandwich."
— Jane (27 Dresses)

"Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform."
— Kate DiCamillo (Despereaux/the Tale Of Despereaux)

"My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it."
— Brennan Manning (The Ragamuffin Gospel)

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."
— C.S. Lewis

"Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. "
— Maya Angelou

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)