"Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not."

“Go pick bananas, we'll run the canal.”

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”

Source : "Gratitude in Grief: Finding Daily Joy and a Life of Purpose Following the Death of My Son" by Kelly S. Buckley, (p. 133), 2010.

“At the core of your Heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.”

“Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.”

Source : "Charles Ives' Rambunctious 'Fourth Of July'". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. July 3, 2008.

“The Devil's out of fashion.”

“If you focus on the sweeter things of life, that's exactly what you're going to get out of life”

“Be happy, and a reason will come along.”

“I would never believe it of you, my boy, regardless of the schemers your mother and sister turned out to be. You may not be the most clever boy, nor the most prudent, nor the most gentlemanlike, nor...Edward cleared his throat.Right! But you have a good heart, and I have every hope that with the proper education and mentoring you will be credit to the family yet.”

Source : Julie Klassen (2010). “The Silent Governess”, p.406, Bethany House