Favorite Quotes.....

For years I've been keeping an on-going word document....a list of favorite quotes. Usually it is a sentence I run across while reading a book or even the lyrics from a country song. I opened an email this morning and found an interview with Cheryl Strayed and added another to my growing list.

She said, "Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room." I know why this quote meant something special to me today....and it prompted me to go back to my list and find a few others.

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."- Albert Einstein

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple, the philosophy is kindness." - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

"I have survived so much loss, as all of us have in our fourties. My parents, my dear friends, my pets. Rubble is the ground on which our deepest friendships are built......the bad news is that you will never completely get over the loss of that beloved person. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through. It's like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly - that still hurts when the weather is cold - but you learn to dance with the limp. You dance to the absurdities of life; you dance to the minuet of old friendships." - Anne Lamont

"Cause love only comes
Once in awhile
And knocks on your door
And throws you a smile

And takes every breath
Leaves every scar
Speaks through your soul
And sings to your heart...." - Lady Antebellum - Charles Kelley, Richard Belmont Powell and Anna Wilson

"What I want more than ever is to appreciate that I have this day, and tomorrow and hopefully days beyond that. I am experiencing the learning curve of gratitude." - Mary Chapin Carpenter

I love when a sentence jumps off a page and hits me right between the eyes....the sentence that says "re-read me". So I do. And I add them to my collection. Authors that capture and express thoughts much more eloquently than I ever could.