Alex Bauman

“Sometimes there’s nothing more comforting than sitting in thankful awareness of our physical selves, our consciousness, and the ability to think and feel joy and pain. Our bodies and minds let us experience the world in our own ways, completely and utterly unique to ourselves.”
― Paola Merrill, The Cottage Fairy Companion

“We are living memorials to those we have loved and lost. Life may continue after heartbreak, but it will be innately different. And this need not be a sad thing. In fact, the experience can connect us to our souls more than we ever thought possible. It offers us a new life that no longer lives in the shallows, but left open and raw, ready to experience what this new world has to offer. The souls we once knew are preserved in stories written on our hearts, ones that we will recite again and again. And in that chanting of a memory, in bringing them back to life a thousand times over, we start to understand.”
― Paola Merrill, The Cottage Fairy Companion

“Hope,” Jane said, “is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Nothing could ever matter again but the things that were eternal... There are so many stories already in the world, and so many are splendid and great, that it is difficult to believe it can be worth the telling. But if only I can tell it under direction, it will carry at least one quality of clear, running water- sincerity.”
― Amy Carmichael, Gold Cord