Jan Karon: "Sorrow and joy..."

"Sorrow and joy... so inextricably entwined that he could scarely tell where one left off and the other began."

-Jan Karon, At Home in Mitford

Alan W. Watts: "Had we never known..."

"Had we never known joy, it would be impossible to identify sorrow."

—Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

Nujood Ali: "I'd like so much..."

"I'd like so much for someone here to take my hand, to look at me with kindness."


—Nujood Ali, with Delphine Minoui, I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced