"Speak your joy. Mean it. Sing it. Do it. Push it down into your bones. Let it overflow your banks and flood the lives of others. At his right hand, there are pleasures forevermore. When we are truly like him, the same will be said of us."
- N.D. Wilson, quoted in Randy Alcorn's Happiness
"...for hobbits were easy-going with their children in the matter of sitting up late, especially when there was a chance of getting them a free meal. Bringing up young hobbits took a lot of provender."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"That is a chapter of ancient history which it might be good to recall; for there was sorrow then too, and gathering dark, but great valour, and great deeds that were not wholly vain."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was MEANT to find The Ring, and NOT by its maker. In which case you also were MEANT to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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