Patricia Carpenter

“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

“But growing up is never that easy, no matter what age you are.”
― Lisa Wingate

“Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.”
― Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water

“Every bird in the air came from a thought of God, and so did I.”
― Lisa Wingate