Do you ever have one of those days, or weeks, or months where you keep coming across brilliant words? Where the words seem like something more, something heavier, some small treasure waiting just for you alongside the journey road?

Maybe since I have such a love affair with words, I’m more altered by them. But maybe you’re altered, too. So, as a toast to life-giving words (and the ones who so transparently offer them), I wanted to share a few I picked up along my path this week…

“We have magic adventures, more wonderful than any I have told you about; but now, when we wake up in the morning, they are gone before we can catch hold of them.”
- A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“Lucky I’m in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again…”
- Jason Mraz, Lucky

“Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.”
- Annie Dillard

“If I turn to the suburbs where I live and see the pretentious mega-houses, the ugly shopping malls strewn about to make consumption more efficient, and the alluring billboards promising comfort and relaxation in very seductive ways – all of that while forests are demolished, streams dried up, deer and rabbits and birds driven out of my environment – I am not surprised that my body screams for a healing touch and a reassuring embrace.”
- Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved

“Perhaps the real answer is beyond human understanding: we know so little about Time and Individuality.”
- C.S. Lewis, Yours, Jack

“You are never more Christ-like than when you are choked with compassion for the brokenness of others.”
- Brennan Manning

“There is no fear in love…”
- 1 John 4:18