" Whatever you are, be a good one. "

— Abraham Lincoln

" I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for. "

— Georgia O’Keeffe

" A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a difficult time. "

— Proverbs 17:17

" New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. "

— Lao Tzu

" I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. "

— Margaret Mitchell

" I have found the one whom my soul loves. "

— Song of Solomon 3:4