Cheryl Frederick > Cheryl's Quotes

“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

“If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
― Christina Westover

“Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly

“They who do not fear darkness have learned to light their own candle.”
― Dodinsky

“Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.”
― Dodinsky, In the Garden of Thoughts: Be Your Best Self

“When I reach the place of my dreams, I will thank my failures and tears. They too, kept me going.”
― Dodinsky, In the Garden of Thoughts: Be Your Best Self

“Do not become a stranger to yourself by blending in with everyone else.”
― Dodinsky

“People relying on others or someone to complete them are delaying the opportunity to discover the person they are meant to be.”
― Dodinsky

“To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someone else's spirit whenever you can.”
― Dodinsky, In the Garden of Thoughts: Be Your Best Self

“It is a fact of life that injustice has no color and stupidity comes in all colors. Still I am grateful and believe the world is brimming with people whose hearts are colorblind. In my eyes, they are the most resplendent.”
― Dodinsky

“When someone leaves you, it doesn't give you permission to run away from yourself too.”
― Dodinsky

“If you allow momentary defeats to find shelter in your heart, you are allowing your most beautiful dreams to become homeless.”
― Dodinsky

“We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree—deeply rooted to withstand all life’s upheavals.”
― Dodinsky, In the Garden of Thoughts: Be Your Best Self

“It is better to try to form a learned opinion than to dispense an ill-conceived one and rush to the judgment of others.”
― Dodinsky