“When the fear of losing out pains you only a Heavenly touch can sustain”

“Despair NOT! Refuse to be gloomy or negative. Don’t allow challenges and situations to rob your joy. Do not allow anything or anyone to take YOUR PEACE AWAY!”

“He told her about the first time he had looked on the back of her neck as she sat in the church pew. Of the feeling that had never let go of him since. He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless, he said, to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and for the damage done therein. For the dead, and for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell, Inman said, for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn’t changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you. Nevertheless, over all those wasted years, he had held in his mind the wish to kiss her there at the back of her neck, and now he had done it. There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.”

“Do not find or create a story that limits you.”

“We are all spawned from the same great canvas yet we lose ourselves through the melding of vistas.”

“Even in the darkest times the gods are always there.”

“Be sensitive to those around you, sometimes they could be silent but screaming for help from within”

“What McKenna possessed was far more beguiling than mere physical beauty. She possessed a kindness, a generosity of spirit. Offering him the most dangerous thing of all – hope.”

“Adoption: Every Child a Wanted Child… There are 143 million orphans in the world waiting for someone to want them. Could one of them be waiting for you?”

“Hope is the star that shines brighter in darker nights.”

“Match that love trying to stay alive in your hunger.”

“Hope was a cold hearted mistress who promised a dozen wonderful things, and didn’t deliver a single one of them.”

“I’m still doing it. I’m still doing the thing I never do. I’m hoping. Or at least I’m trying on hope for size.”

“Hope isn’t poison, Lissa. Hope is the thing that keeps you going when everything is awful and dark and you don’t know which way to turn.”

“You have creative control in this life: Choose Love over fear, Choose Hope over despair.”