"In love there are two things– bodies and words."
- Joyce Carol Oates
Love
"The journal is the ideal place of refuge for the inner self because it constitutes a counterworld: a world to balance the other."
- Joyce Carol Oates
Balance
"The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way."
- Joyce Carol Oates
Relationships
"Don’t labor over a little cameo work in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind."
- Joyce Carol Oates
Creativity
"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
- Joyce Carol Oates
Empathy
"When trust is betrayed, dreams shattered, hearts broken and broken again, when we want justice and need mercy, when our fists clench and our tears flow, when we need to know what to hold onto and what to let go of, we can always remember Him. Life is not as cruel as it can sometimes seem. His infinite compassion can help us find our way, truth, and life [see John 14:6]."
- Elder Gerrit W. Gong
Healing
"This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life."
Healing
"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."
Healing
"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
Healing
"Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what’s happened and continue living."
- Erza Scarlet
Healing