"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love."

“Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.”

“Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Jul 21, 2012

“A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.”

“The revelations which Joseph Smith has given to this people were given to him by Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world; and this people cannot be blessed if they lightly esteem any of them…For this purpose did He give the revelation on plurality of wives, as sacred a revelation as was ever given to any people, and fraught with greater blessings to us than we can possibly conceive of, if we do not abuse our privileges and commit sin. This doctrine is a holy and pure principle, in which the power of God for the regeneration of mankind is made manifest…”

“I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling.”

Source : "Jenna's Tips For Getting Through A Tough Workout". www.seventeen.com. February 27, 2012.

“People will help each other because there is a sense of camaraderie that springs up, which is a survival tactic. You help them because you know you might need their help later. And that is incredibly reassuring.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.”

“In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”