Just being

"We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness."

--Thomas Merton

Safe

"Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, ‘a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all’. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, and sadness."
- J.R.R. Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring

A gift for Thanksgiving day

"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.”

--Horace

(Each day is a gift. Thank you, dear God, for my life.)

Beyond its reach

"...the thought pierced him that in the end, the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach."

--J.R.R. Tolkien in The Return of the King

Silence

“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.”

--Henri Frederic Amiel

Words

“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.”

--William Shakespeare

Heart

“A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.”

--Charles Dickens