Words.

"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting." ~ John Green

Quotations, whether they be from the pages of my favorite books, lines from a movie, song lyrics, or spoken word, are my favorite things. I collect them like my eight-year-old self collected rocks. Here is my collection of favorites. It grows every week and reflects my inner thoughts, dreams, and feelings.

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone." ~ Audrey Hepburn

"Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken." ~ William Shakespeare

"So many people shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them." ~ Sylvia Plath

"Let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious." ~ 1 Peter 3:3-4

"Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?" ~ Sigmund Freud

"Behind the dirty curtains of our painful symptoms there is something great to be seen: the face of Him in whose image we are shaped." ~ Henri Nouwen

"There's a loneliness that only exists in one's mind. The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly." ~ The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

"We accept the love we think we deserve." ~ The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

"You are more than the choices that you've made,

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,

You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade." ~ "You Are More", Tenth Avenue North

"What she really craved was a connection. That feeling you got when you knew you were supposed to be with someone." ~ In Dreams, J. Sterling

"I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness." ~ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

"Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning." ~ Psalm 30:5

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." ~ St. Augustine

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" ~ Ernest Hemingway

"How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved." ~ Brennan Manning

"Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire." ~ St. Catherine of Sienna

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." ~ Corrie Ten Boom

"I want to know a song can rise from the ashes of a broken life,

And all that's dead inside can be reborn." ~ "Worn", Tenth Avenue North

"Be still, and know that I am God." ~ Psalm 46:10

"So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never known most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from these. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them." ~ The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

"Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life." ~ Parker Palmer