“I think there’s just one kind of folks. folks.” – Harper Lee

“What I want is so simple I can’t almost say it: elementary kindness.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.” – Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love or danger, it would almost be easy to live. – Albert Camus

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them forever.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.” – Carolyn Kenmore

“How we spend days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard

“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.” – Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” – John Irving

“In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow