For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end, the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” ~ J. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. “There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while.“I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.” ~ J.“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” ~ J.Even darkness must pass.” ~ J R R Tolkien Quotes Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. “There is nothing like looking if you want to find something.” ~ J.“Little by little, one travels far” ~ J.“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.” ~ J.“Above all shadows rides the sun.” ~ J.“Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.” ~ J.“It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.” ~ J.“You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.” ~ J.“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” ~ J.All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ J. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.Tolkienĭeep roots are not reached by the frost. “The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.” ~ J.“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ J.“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.” ~ J.The mold of your life is in your hands to break.” ~ J. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. “The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.“The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.” ~ J.
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