Sarah Butland > Sarah's Quotes

“I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower?”
― Kelly Moran

“...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“What if the very reason you were created was to be creative?”
― Michelle Dennis Evans

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Women think that they can make sad things go away by knowing the reason that they happened.”
― Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists

“You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.”
― Anne Lamott, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. 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 gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

“I wish I was brave like you." "Brave? Me?" Alex hadn't thought of it like that. She'd just done what she had to do.”
― Jo Ann Yhard, Lost on Brier Island

“We learn that the more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“But we all know that the seeds of greatness grow faster in the hearts of those doing work they love than in the bitter hearts of those enslaved by work they despise.”
― Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power

“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.”
― Confucius

“Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.”
― Savi Sharma, Everyone Has A Story

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
― George Carlin

“My father once said you don’t know where you are unless you know where you’ve been, And, when you know where you are, you know, as well, where you need to go, and you can figure out how to get there.”
― David A. Robertson

“People always say, “Write what you know,” but writing is an act of exploration, self-reflection, and personal growth. I can say that now more than ever, in writing this story. If you only write what you know, how are you growing? Instead, write to your passion, write what you know, write to understand, write to connect, but don’t stay hidden in your comfort zone (an ironic thing for something with anxiety to say, I know.) When you write about something you’re passionate for, you connect with people who feel that passion, or share it.”
― David Alexander Robertson, All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety

“We are time travellers. We visit the past - the events and decisions in our lives - sometimes repeatedly. Typically, these trips to another time are powered by regret, things we wish we would have done differently.”
― David Alexander Robertson, All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety

“We need to let go of the shadows and start living in the light again. We all do.”
― Sarah Butland, The Shadows Behind Us

“Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.”
― Joanna Scott