Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney

I think doing the right thing isn’t always the right thing to do.

Grief is a patient thief and steals far more than people who have never known it realize.

“Success is often the result of a series of failures. Try to remember that. You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person. Especially yourself.

I think sometimes it’s only when something gets taken from a person that they appreciate what they had.

I keep my thoughts to myself because silence cannot be misquoted.

as though the trees are whispering in a language I don’t understand.

little taste of yesterday’s rain to help prepare you for tomorrow,”

You can only rearrange the furniture of your life a number of times before things look the same as they did.

“I think sometimes things have to get really dark for us to see what we have. The world always looks more beautiful at night, when the darkness hides everything that is ugly.”

Life is beautiful and life is ugly and we have to learn to live with both sides of that same coin and see the light in the darkness.

The world is Beautiful Ugly, relationships are Beautiful Ugly, love is Beautiful Ugly. Understanding that makes life easier to live with.”

My sorrow is a ledge nobody can talk me down from and I prefer to fall alone.

there’s no need to be afraid of the dead, it’s the living you have to watch out for.

No man is an island, but a woman can be if she needs to be.