"The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers"

“The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.”

Source : Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.173, Penguin

“I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.”

“Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.”

“Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance.”

“There is no peace without forgiveness.”

“I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.”

Source : Georgia Douglas Johnson, “I Want To Die While You Love Me”

“If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.”

“Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.”