"It is a pleasure to a real lover of nature to give winter all the glory he can,
for summer will make its own way and speak its own praises."
~Dorothy Wodsworth
(I love this one, mostly as a quiet personality metaphor... but I also love the season of winter and think it's often under-appreciated!)
"What can this incessant craving and this impotence of attainment mean, unless there was once a happiness belonging to man, of which only the faintest traces remain, in that void which he attempts to fill with everything within his grasp?"
~Blaise Pascal
"Our heart will carry us either to God or to addiction... Whatever the object of our addiction is, it attaches itself to our intense desire for eternal and intimate communion with God and each other in the midst of Paradise - the desire that Jesus himself placed in us before the beginning of the world. Nothing less than this kind of unfallen communion will ever satisfy our desire or allow it to drink freely without imprisoning us."
~John Eldredge
"People can be broken, sure, but any surgeon knows what's broken can be mended, what's hurt can be healed, and no matter how dark it gets, the sun's gonna rise again."
~Meredith Grey
*I know this show is overdramatic and Meredith is not really anyone's favorite character, but I like what they've done with her lately... I've had some very Cristina-like friends in the past, but I never liked the idea of me being "the Meredith." However, she's gone from being "all dark and twisty" and the whiny girl who nearly drowned because she stopped trying to swim... to becoming resilient and strong and compassionate in the wake of several crises that included losing the person closest to her. They may, of course, totally ruin that next season, but I'm choosing to identify with that version of her (and hopefully stop watching the show now) -- no best friend or husband around, no one "person" but several people that love her, and she's determined to fight and survive and make the most of the rest of her life! ❤
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