Jeanne Adamek > Jeanne's Quotes

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“But is life a success when it doesn’t include time for after-school talks, and curling up to read books on winter nights, and weaving daisy chains in the summer? Is it a success when you have all the big things but none of the small ones? Is it as it should be when everybody grows up and moves to opposite coasts and doesn’t care if they ever see each other?”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“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

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Be patient, Katie. Everything doesn’t have to work itself out today.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“Pride and resentment do not create bread that will rise. Bread, like a good life, can only be created by honest measure, patience, warmth, and time.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.”
― Jan Karon, At Home in Mitford

“I understood now that all of us have that place inside that wants to be part of something, that needs the comfort and companionship of loved ones. Within each of us, there is an empty room, and when we open the door, light flows in. The wider we open it, and the longer we leave it open, the brighter our souls become.”
― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.”
― Bob Marley

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is how a person meets them, how they survive them. Given the inevitability of losses and disappointments in life, that's where the challenge is and the uniqueness. I was offering her sympathy.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Incident at Badamya

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

“When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing. ”
― Elizabeth Peters

“It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

“I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...”
― Laurie R. King

“Worrying never heads off a crisis, and it doesn't prepare you for one.”
― Emilie Richards, Sister's Choice

“It's not who you come from, but who's standing right beside you, that counts most.”
― Emilie Richards

“Growing old is not for sissies.”
― Emilie Richards, Sister's Choice

“When your dreams turn to dust, maybe its time to vacuum".”
― Marie Bostwick, A Single Thread