Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.
— Elizabeth Elliot
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
—
Ecclesiastes 3:11
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francie, “something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you’re alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
