“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.” —Immanuel Kant

“If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.” —Madeleine L’Engle

“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.” —Epicurus

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” —H.L. Mencken

“If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.” —Shauna Niequist

“This is what ultimately matters: where you end up, not the speed at which you get there, or the number of people you impress with your jittery busyness along the way.” —Cal Newport

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” —Arthur Brisbane, and many others.

“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.” —Gandhi

“Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.” —Stephen Covey

“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.” —Corrie Ten Boom

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.” Colossians 3:23-24 (ESV)

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” —C.S. Lewis

“New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things we think with. And they alter the nature of community: the arena in which thoughts develop.” —Neil Postman

“I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.” —St. Patrick

“Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work.” —Oswald Chambers

“I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes me.” —C.S. Lewis

“…God rewards fasting because fasting expresses the cry of the heart that nothing on the earth can satisfy our souls besides God. God must reward this cry because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.” —John Piper

“We read to know we're not alone.” —William Nicholson