Amanda Mitchell

“Success should always call for showing greater kindness, generosity, and justice; only people lost in the darkness treat it as an occassion for greater greed.”
― Cyrus the Great

“To me, the rainbow was a profoundly hopeful symbol, separating the the white light of appearances into its multiple spectrum and revealing a hidden dimension. It reminded me of my belief that it was the mission of science to pierce through the layers of everyday reality and penetrate to the truth.”
― Candace B. Pert, Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine

“It's like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. I know now folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.”
― Samwise Gamgee

“Tearing the paper means you've stopped believing in the infinite possibilities of a square.”
― Tor Udall, A Thousand Paper Birds