Quotes from Camron Wright

Never a choice. Always being rescued.

For news of the heart, watch the face.

Stories teach us to not give up hope because there are times in our own journey when we mustn't give up hope. They teach endurance because in our lives we are meant to endure. They carry messages that are older than the words themselves, messages that reach beyond the page.

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if every story ended with a handsome prince, there wouldn't be anybody left in the kingdom to stand around and cheer.

I try to sleep myself, but my occupied mind is holding my tired body hostage.

The vain woman spent fortunes seeking out astrologers, sorcerers, and magicians who would concoct spells and potions to preserve her beauty and help her remain looking young--but envy is hard to cover.

Because I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.

Does everything always have to mean something else?" I ask before we get started. Who knew that literature was so tangled and complicated? "That is a wonderful lesson, Sang Ly. Remember it." "What was it again?" I ask, not certain to what she was referring. She repeats it for me. "In literature, everything means something.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within.

We were just so glad to finally have the war over, nobody seemed to care who had won. We didn't understand that peace at any price is a fool's bargain. We welcomed apathy with open arms, invited it over for dinner, offered it keys to the spare bedroom, then silently slept while it sneaked up behind and cut our throats. We wanted change. Could the new leaders be any worse than those who had just been overthrown? I would find out that very day.

It doesn't matter where you live, Sang Ly, it is how you live.

For news of a mother's heart, watch her child's face.

Was all this mess just part of God's master plan?

To find purpose in our problems, to see past the ugliness, rather than step back, we should get closer. Only then will we notice the beauty.

William Shakespeare called dreams the 'children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

accolades, let us simply remember to: LaughMore, for laughter is the window through which we glimpse the joy of God; HopeMore, because tomorrow life will give us another chance; GiveMore, for when we share our time, we share our most prized possession; ForgiveMore, because as we forgive others, we learn to also forgive ourselves; and LoveMore, for while faith may have the power to move mountains, love has the remarkable power to change the human heart.

Perhaps this was a secret that heroes don't share: Courage comes from doing common things.

there is a declaration in our sacred texts that reads 'Vasudhaiva kutumbakam,' which means 'The whole world is a family.

Desire without a plan is only a dream

Just when we think we have our own stories figured out," she says, "heroes arise in the most unexpected places.

Returning to one's roots is healthy and admirable. However, if it's at the expense of following your own path in the world, or of losing sight of what matters most, then I think you'd be making a mistake." If

Life never stops, child. Even when it's noisy, unpleasant, painful, it's still the sound of duty, of love, of family, of laws older than time that help us to ultimately find contentment- to be happy. It's the sound of our universe. It's the sound of purpose.

Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great kingdoms.