one hundred twenty-one

"The greatest romance one can find, is to fall in love with God. The greatest journey one could embark on, is to seek Him. The greatest achievement one can obtain, is to find Him."
— St. Augustine

one hundred twenty

"Even after the entire world has taken me apart, there’s still a part of me left for you."
— I Wrote This For You

one hundred nineteen

"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
— Henry Rollins

one hundred eighteen

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
— Dag Hammarskjold

one hundred seventeen

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
— Stephen R. Covey

one hundred sixteen

"If you’re not willing to be mocked, cut off, and face scrutiny for it, it’s probably not that valuable to you."
— Lacrae

one hundred fifteen

"We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves."

— David Platt

one hundred fourteen

"People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you’re successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get hurt. Give the world the best you’ve got anyway."
— Mother Teresa

one hundred thirteen

"Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our own."
— Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

one hundred twelve

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."
— C.S. Lewis

one hundred eleven

"Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose."
— C.S Lewis

one hundred ten

"Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment."
— Sarah Dessen

one hundred nine

"We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid to age we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone, someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder, who doesn't humiliate you beyond repair...that's sweet."
— Daniel, P.S. I Love You

one hundred eight

"People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look."
— Adele

one hundred seven

"I couldn’t tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you."
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

one hundred six

"Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters."
— John Green

one hundred five

"I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence."
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

one hundred four

"Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven’t happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways."
— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet

one hundred three

"People come and go - they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in your favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past."
— Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

one hundred two

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia… You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
— John Green

one hundred one

"If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads."
— Robert Pattinson

one hundred

"You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time anymore for anyone else. You’re one of the few who put up with me."
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451