“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!

I will not walk backward in life.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.

The wise speak only of what they know

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

No matter how astray the becoming might be, I’ll never search for the old in me.

We reshape our memories into uglier versions because it’s hard to forget them while they’re still beautiful.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

Once you start to love yourself, everything will change, you will get great peace of mind. You will develop a stronger relationship with yourself.

Be kind to yourself, the change for the good starts with you.

Your choice in people changes when you start loving yourself.

We all have a choice to make our voices heard at the ballot box. Don’t sit this out. When we vote, things really can change.