To find someone you love, you gotta be someone you love.

To find someone you love, you gotta call your own bluff.

Ahoy.

So...Here are some quotes that have meaning things to me lately. 

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."

                   -Jeremiah 29:11

"No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles.  If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name.  Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass.  A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection."

                   -The Wise Man's Fear

"And do this, understanding the present time.  The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.  The night is nearly over; the day is almost here.  So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.  Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.  Rather clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature."

                   -Romans 9:11-14

"It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.  Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their won surprise that they wear it well."

                    -Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will produce its crops, and the heavens will drop their dew.  I will give all these things as an inheritance to the remnant of this people.  As you have ben an object of cursing among the nations, O Judah and Israel, so will I save you, and you will be a blessing.  Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong."

                   -Zechariah 8:12-13

"You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.  He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying."

                    -Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

"I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me.  Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows.  But take heart, because I have overcome the world."

                     -John 16:33

"We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps."

                      -Proverbs 16:9

"He is before all things, and in him all things hold together."

                      -Colossians 1:17

"When I glanced back several minutes later, he was eating unabashedly from his pocket and bickering with his wife about whether or not the peasantry could make bread from acorns.  From the sound of it, I guessed it was a small piece of a larger argument that they had been having their entire lives."

                       -The Wise Man's Fear

"He opened his mouth wide. Sharp teeth.  Breath that smelled of leaf mould and the underneaths of things."

                       -Troll-Bridge

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