When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, 'What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

— Shannon L. Alder

When you find what keeps you smiling, you have found true happiness; When what makes you smile helps others, you have found your purpose in life...

— Adam Benten Dula

I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God?

— Catherynne M. Valente