Life isn’t smooth, but it’s the bumps that help us find out who we are. And it’s handling the bumps that gives us courage.
—Sarah Morgan in Once a Ferrara Wife…
Knowledge is the life of the mind.
—Abu Bakr
Everyone lets you down, it’s a fact of life. The key is to know when they’re doing it because they don’t care enough to try not to.
—Kelley York in Hushed
Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love… but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
—George Bernard Shaw
Life is always uncertain. We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.
—Susanna Kearsley in The Rose Garden
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
—Henry Drummond
Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.
—Jill Shalvis in Simply Irresistible
When something or someone is no longer bringing you up, but pulling you down—it’s time to let go. When something or someone is no longer adding to your life, but subtracting from it—it’s time to let go.
—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman
People who let their dogs and cats have litters in order to show their children the “miracle of birth” should come witness the “miracle of death” performed in the back rooms of animal shelters all over the country.
—Phyllis Wright
Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?
—Sue Monk Kidd
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained.… They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
—Walt Whitman
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
—Muhammad Ali
All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
—Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Life can be unfair and unkind, but sometimes we just have to let go and let fate take over.
—Lisa De Jong in Plastic Hearts