"I have seen suffering in the darkness...yet, I have seen beauty thrive in the most fragile of places." -Aisling, The Secret of Kells
"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived, and still, as he lived, he wondered." -Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For, like a shaft, clear and cold, 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, The Return of the King
"No one is told any story but his own." -C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
"When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better." -C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
"No man is useless while he has a friend." -Robert Louis Stevenson
"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." -Robert Louis Stevenson
"No, we cannot [defeat them in battle]. But we will meet them in battle nonetheless." -Théoden, The Return of the King
"Oh, my mistress! Do not by any means destroy yourself! For if you live, you may have good fortune, but the dead are all dead alike." -Hwin, The Horse and His Boy
"I'm fairly often just completely happy. Like, for instance: when you get into a bath quickly and the waters exactly the right temperature, and you go "ohhhh!" I mean, no one really gets any happier than that...you're never, you know, blissfully happy with the love of your life in the moonlight, and when you are, you're too worried about it being over soon, whereas the bath moments, there's loads of those!" -Arthur Shappey, "Cabin Pressure"
"There is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so worth doing as simply messing about in boats." -Rat, The Wind in the Willows
"What I like best in the whole world is me and Piglet going to your house to see you, and you saying 'what about a little something?' -Pooh Bear
"It's a misty old world, but we're only here for a short while." -The Secret of Kells
"In every task that must be done, there is an element of fun." -Mary Poppins
"I will not say 'do not weep,' for not all tears are an evil." -Gandalf, The Return of the King
Robin: Gosh, Batman. Self-control is hard.
Batman: All virtues are, old chum. That's why they're virtues.
"When someone loves you for a long, long time, then you become real." -The Velveteen Rabbit
"I am happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you as a friend. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to think about how fine everything is." -Frog, Frog and Toad
"If you're sad, remember two things: it's not your fault, and it won't always feel like this." -John Finnemore
"That's not your worry, Fiona darlin. You're shoulders are too narrow to carry all that." -The Secret of Roan Inish
"I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet if there were no danger in the lakes." -Out of the Silent Planet
"If more people valued food and cheer and song over hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit
"Pray, hope, and don't worry." -Padre Pio
" 'Stop brooding, Don Camillo,' Christ said one day. 'A parish can get along very nicely even if the church-tower lacks one of its bells. Noise is not everything. God has very sharp ears and can hear perfectly well even if He is called by a bell the size of a hazelnut.' " -The Little World of Don Camillo
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