The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

-The little comfort of love?-Is that comfort so little?-Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

God hears every quiet prayer on your heart.

Follow your own morality but never forget to be kind. Kindness is always better than morality.

Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult.

Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?" "Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.

The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.