"It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary."

“Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine”

“We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.”

“God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.”

“God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. . . You want to see where Christ crucified abides today? Go to where the poor are suffering and fighting back, and that's where He is.”

Source : "Mountains Beyond Mountains". Book by Tracy Kidder, 2003.

“We always learn more from the losing than the winning.”

“We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless we take Him to them. None of us knows when the loveliest hour of our life is striking. It may be when we take Christ for the first time to that grey office in the city where we work, to the wretched lodging of that poor man who is an outcast, to the nursery of that pampered child, to that battleship, airfield, or camp”

“I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.”

Source : "Patti Stanger: Millionaire Matchmaker Weighs In On Celebrity Splits" By Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2011.

“Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?”