"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?"

~John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, 1961

"While it's impossible to trace the pinball path of a single prayer, our prayers somehow exit our four dimensions of space-time in order to get to the God who exists outside of the four space-time dimensions He created when He said, "Let there be light." Our prayers don't dissipate over time; our prayers accumulate through eternity."

- Mark Batterson, in "The Circle Maker"

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

~John Burroughs, "Winter Sunshine"

Being a parent is like jumping out of a plane with a bunch of people who can't open their own chutes.

So you fly around doing it for them.

Then you hit the ground. But you don't die.

You haul yourself up off the ground and cook dinner.

- Unknown

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

- Mark Twain