Great Quotes

"We are all just walking each other home." 
Ram Dass

"The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending; or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well...does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat and in so far is evangelium, giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”
J.R.R. Tolkien

“To eke the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.”  

Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

"The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him.  For like a shaft clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
J.R.R. Tolkien- The Return of the King


"The truest friend does not doubt but hope. "
Jane Austen's Emma


“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis

"Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you."
Ray Davis

“Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.”
Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Foolish ways make fools out of the wise."
Alabama, Once Upon a Lifetime