"That I might be able to see the hurting inside, instead of just the hurtful outside." ~unknown

"Discernment is not a matter of simply telling the difference between what is right and wrong; rather it is the difference between right and almost right." ~Charles Spurgeon

'Nothing is more necessary than finding God and falling in love and deeper into Him." ~Ann Voskamp

"What you are in love with decides what you live for." ~Ann Voskamp

"A wonderful flaw about human beings is that we're incapable of making perfect copies. Our failure to copy our heroes is where we discover where our own thing lives. That is how we evolve." ~Austin Kleon

"It's our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique." ~Conan O'Brien

"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." ~Salvador Dali

"Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself." ~Austin Kleon

"You start out as a phony and become real." ~Glen O'Brien

"Pretend to be making something until you actually make something." ~Austin Kleon

"Ask anybody doing truly creative work, and they'll tell you the truth: They don't know where the good stuff comes from. They just show up to do their thing. Every day." ~Austin Kleon

"Nothing is more important than an unread library." ~John Waters

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." ~Goethe

"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism." ~William Ralph Inge

"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again."  ~Andre Gide

"...who answers God’s call loses nothing, but a life deaf to God’s call loses everything." ~Ann Voscamp

"Every moral issue is a theological issue. Morality - God = taste and preference." ~Steve Walker

"Love doesn't depend on someone's loveliness, it depends on my heart." ~Steve Walker?

"A lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears." ~The Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey

"When we forget that we are indebted, we come to believe we are owed." ~unknown

"God's will is for us to be holy in his will, not happy outside of his will." ~Steve Walker

"The great challenge in life is not to know what to do, but to do it." ~Barclay

"What you are is what you have been; what you will be is what you do now."  ~Buddha