Renee Carlino > Renee's Quotes

“Wisdom is not the same as information; it's something entirely different. It's often mistaken for good advice, but wisdom cannot be imparted to someone. Wisdom can only be earned.”
― Renee Carlino, Sweet Thing

“Once my grandmother told me I needed to find God and I said, “Why don’t you just tell me where to look and save me the trouble?” I was dead serious. Faith, destiny, all the shit you can’t see, but yet people are so willing to take the leap. Not me.”
― Renee Carlino, Sweet Thing

“Tears had poured from her eyes without any change in her facial expression. It’s pure pain and pure surrender when your soul cries without any fight from your body and that’s how I knew she was deeply affected.”
― Renee Carlino, Sweet Thing

“You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul”
― Renee Carlino, Sweet Thing

“It's a fool who thinks love will set him free. Love equals a morbid and relentless fear of losing the other person”
― Renee Carlino, Sweet Thing

“Leave your life. Leave everyone you love, every care, every stress, every commitment. Live alone. Understand what it feels like to know that if you go into cardiac arrest, choke on a piece of hot dog, or get electrocuted, no one will find you. You’ll rot. No one will mourn you. Imagine this feeling haunting your thoughts for the rest of your life. You’ll wither and vanish, and some stranger will take care of your things and your burial, and you may not even get a placard. Imagine that, live it, and let yourself believe that you should be alone, and then go back to the people who love you.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“I loved you before you existed, and I’ll love you after I’m gone.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here