Amy > Amy's Quotes

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Because while musical prodigies are always celebrated, early readers aren’t. And that’s because early readers are only good at something others will eventually be good at, too. So being first isn’t special - it’s just annoying.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“I don’t have hopes,” Mad explained, studying the address. “I have faith.” He looked at her in surprise. “Well, that’s a funny word to hear coming from you.” “How come?” “Because,” he said, “well, you know. Religion is based on faith.” “But you realize,” she said carefully, as if not to embarrass him further, “that faith isn’t based on religion. Right?”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Because while stupid people may not know they’re stupid because they’re stupid, surely unattractive people must know they’re unattractive because of mirrors.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered…”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don’t waste your time crying over what you’re not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can’t see all the beautiful things around you.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.’ ”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“The same road always leads to the same place. If we get on it expecting to go somewhere different, we'll be disappointed, won't we? As you said, it isn't very smart.

...Do the same things, get the same results. Simple, stupid.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“we cannot change where God has put us. If we are to bloom at all, we must bloom where we have been planted.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“The beginning of a journey is always uncertainty, but with uncertainty comes hope.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“My roses grew wild and died as I busied myself with feeding and diapering, nursery rhymes and sickbeds.......the best times of my life, the times that passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“...It's hard to feel like much is wrong in the world when you're looking into the eyes of a happy baby.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“We are born somewhere small and quiet and we move toward a place we cannot see, but only imagine. Along our journey, people and events flow into us, and we are created of everywhere and everyone we have passed. Each event, each person, changes us in some way. Even in times of drought we are still moving and growing, but it is during seasons of rain that we expand the most-when water flows from all directions, sweeping at terrifying speed, chasing against rocks, spilling over boundaries. These are painful times, but they enable us to carry burdens we could never have thought possible.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“I cannot put words to the feelings within me on the day we brought her out for burial. It is an odd thing to stand so close to life’s beginning and life’s end. Birth and death are such strange cousins. We carried my mother to the graveyard, shed tears and sang hymns, then returned home, stood over the cradle, smiled, and sang lullabies. . . .”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“What we cannot change, we must endure without bitterness.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“It occurred to me that I should do more for other people. I never once considered that there were people just down the road who cannot afford proper clothing, or care for their children.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“Sometimes life moves so fast, the road splits in an instant, and you only have a heartbeat to decide which way to turn.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“Time passes... but memories do not.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“...The best times of my life, the times that passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“What we cannot change, we must endure without bitterness.
Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see. Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“The reason why a person lies is almost always more interesting than the lie itself”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“If every story had a happy ending, then we’d have no reason to start again. Life is all about choices, and learning how to put ourselves back together when we fall apart. Which we all do. Even the people who pretend they don’t.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“The only good thing about losing everything, is the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“words don’t come with gift receipts and you can’t take them back.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Books can be mirrors for whoever holds them & people dont always like what they see”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Silence cannot be misquoted.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors