Cody Smith

“Girls have always been told that their value is tied to their appearance; their accomplishments are always magnified if they're pretty and diminished if they're not. Even worse, some girls get the message that they can get through life relying on just their looks, and then they never develop their minds. [...]

Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even what you work at it, you're working at being passive.”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“Only when awe of God rules your heart will you be able to keep the pleasures of the material world in their proper place.”
― Paul David Tripp, Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do

“On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. PSALM 145:5”
― Paul David Tripp, Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do

“Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning”
― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain