Angela Anderson > Angela's Quotes

“Those early characterizations (Our parents give us) can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime”
― Kelly Corrigan, The Middle Place

“If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“The best way to get even is to forget.”
― Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle

“For all these years, you’ve lived under the illusion that, somehow, you made it because you were tough enough to overpower the abuse, the hatred, the hard knocks of life. But really you made it because love is so powerful that tiny little doses of it are enough to overcome the pain of the worst things life can dish out. Toughness was a faulty coping mechanism you devised to get by. But, in reality, it has been your ability to never give up, to keep seeking love, and your resourcefulness to make that love last long enough to sustain you. That’s what has gotten you by”
― Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.”
― Lisa Gardner, Live to Tell