Rachel

“Heaven. Now there’s a thought. Nothing has ever been able, ultimately, to convince me we live anywhere else. And that heaven, more a verb than a noun, more a condition than a place, is about leading with the heart in whatever broken or ragged state it’s in, stumbling forward in faith until, from time to time, we miraculously find our way.”
― Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness

“I think time stands quite still and we move around in it, sometimes slowly and sometimes at a furious rate.”
― Marlen Haushofer, The Wall

“The world is filled with discouraged, downtrodden individuals who could make their situations better by simply choosing to continue on in hope. Once we learn the power of hope and practice it, it is a hard habit to break. Just as a person can form a habit of being discouraged each time things don’t go her way, she can learn to encourage herself through hoping that a blessing is right around the corner.
What we say in difficult times determines how long the difficulty will last and how intense the difficulty will become. I am certainly not saying that we can control everything that happens to us by choosing right words to speak, but we can control how we respond to the things that happen to us, and choosing right thoughts and words helps us do that.”
― Joyce Meyer, Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“However, loving is nothing if it is not an education...”
― Alice Walker, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness