I couldn't resist...

Quotes

"I'd like to add some beauty to life. I don't exactly want to make people know more...but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me...to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born."

-Anne Shirley, Anne of Avonlea

"Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything."

-Lois Lowry, The Giver

"Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves."

-Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away and be at rest."

-Psalm 55:6