Even When

He is able, even when I'm not. - Carole Lewis

Not Said

You don't have to explain something you have not said. - Author Unknown 

Smiling

Smiling doesn't necessarily mean you're happy. Sometimes it just means you're strong. - Author Unknown

Quiet Strength

Never assume quiet is weak and loud is strong. - Author Unknown

Thoughts

I jot ideas down in the notebook, not because I’m worried I’ll forget them, but because there’s something about translating thoughts into writing that helps me deepen and develop my ideas. - John Claude Bemis

Cooking

Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. - Curtis Stone

Window

A writer is working when he's staring out the window. - Burton Rascoe

Ugly Ducklings

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. - Maeve Binchy

Like I Talk

I write like I talk. No one ever gets talker's block. - Seth Godin

Tears

 Tears aren't too much. They're the way your heart speaks when words are not enough. - Jenny Meilihove

Cheers on the Other Side

We hear tears loudly on this side of heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley. - Zig Ziglar

Read Aloud

Having someone read aloud to you is one of the greatest pleasures in life. - Roald Dahl

From His Perspective

As women, we tend to be more critical of ourselves. We need to learn to see our beauty and worthiness from God's perspective, not our own. - Angie Perschall

Make Up Your Mind

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. - L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

The No

We are always grateful for the yes, but we need to be as grateful for the no. - John Gray

For All That We Love

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. - Hellen Keller

Troubles

I can let troubles make me bitter and angry. Or I can let the pain make me more sympathetic to others. - Rob L. Staples

Heroic

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so heroic. - George Carlin

Listening

The secret to having a great conversation is listening. - Donald Miller

Reading

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss. - Nora Ephron

Every Day

Every day God calls us to keep trusting --- to get out of bed and spend another 24 hours washing dishes, doing laundry, loving our family, believing he has everything under control --- even when He seems silent. - Vera Gilmor

Feelings

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen

Rising

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Nelson Mandela

Silence

So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence. - R. Arnold

Resources

Don't limit your thinking by your present resources. - Michael Hyatt

With You

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. - Arwen Undomiel

Until

Holy Spirit, think through me until your ideas are my ideas. - Amy Carmichael

Possibilities

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. - Thomas Edison

Freedom

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. - Peter Marshall

Reading and Naps

Reading and naps, two of life's greatest pleasures, go especially well together. - Will Schwalbe, Books for Living

The Centre of Worship

I believe some Christians today have forgotten that worship is not for them. It is for the Lord. Worship is not meant to please me, to make me feel good, to meet my criteria, my standards, my tastes. Worship is for God. I am not to be at the center of worship. - John Phelan Jr

Walk

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right. - Soren Kierkegaard

Fingerprints

It will be gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall will appear higher and higher, and then suddenly they disappear. - Dorothy Evslin