“It’s universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.” – Marianne Williamson

“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to do down the chute.” – Tina Fey

“All of us are just holding it together in various ways — and that’s okay, and we just need to go easy with one another, knowing that we’re all these incredibly fragile beings. – Alain De Botton

“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” – Madeleine L. Engle

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. – Anne Lamott

“Beautiful things are difficult.” – Plato

“Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience.” – Chad Harbach

“If it is right, it happens — the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.” – John Steinbeck

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words — wait and hope.” – Alexander Dumas