“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet-scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”
"Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others find it in a person."
- Beau Taplin
Love
"When they work, long distance are the best sort of relationships, I think. That a person could wait months, cross miles and oceans for a few spectacular moments with the person they love, that’s it, you know, that’s all that we’re searching for."
- Beau Taplin
Love
"Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too."
- Beau Taplin
Hope
"Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful, too."
- Beau Taplin
Hope
""Hell exists. It is here, 3 a.m., awake and without you.""
- Beau Taplin
Adversity
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature