Quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

Above all shadows rides the sun.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

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

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.

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.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.The chances, the changes are all yours to make.The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

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

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.