If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name Quotes

“Only adults weep with joy. Children don't. They haven't learned how rare moments of true happiness are.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name

“Do we feel God’s presence because we are looking for him, or do we feel it because he is looking for us?”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“the world could end in any number of ways, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. The only choice any of us has is what to do if we’re still here after it happens. Do we die a little death every day ourselves or do we reach for someone’s hand and dance again?”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“A life spent working and living in a small town with people I may disagree with has taught me a lot about humility and forgiveness. And when to keep my mouth shut. Some lessons have been more painful than others, but my days and my life are richer because of them.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name

“It's as if we are all moving through this world on a big old ship, holding on to one another as we cruise up the generous river of life. The water that floats us is always new, yet it flows in the same direction, over the same old sand.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name

“Only adults weep with joy. Children don’t. They haven’t learned how rare moments of true happiness are.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“me want to have that kind of easy faith, the kind that is like breathing. Faith so clear you don’t even think about it, you just feel it.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“Wild places are reminders that the world doesn’t revolve around us. It doesn’t care about our little successes or smashing failures. The tides ebb and flow and the seasons change regardless of how we live or die.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“There’s a Buddhist saying that when your house is done your life is over.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“That it will never come again / Is what makes life so sweet.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“I realized how critical it is to teach our children that people think differently, and that there are ways to act on our beliefs without demeaning others who don’t believe the same things.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“There is no secret to being, as Linnus says, in that “first percentile,” that minority of young couples who stay together for life. It’s as simple, and as complicated, as keeping that look in your eyes.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“I want to be like Angie when I die, old and in bed. In my daydream I’m under my own quilts, with a dog on the bed and the familiar view out our bedroom window. Chip is there—I have already decided I have to go first. I don’t think I can live without him.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“both make the connection with objects from our past, too, and like to live surrounded by old things that wouldn’t pass as antiques and aren’t valuable to anyone except us.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“To shake off things like this I need to move—outside. I used to exercise for my body, but these days it’s more for my soul.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“the way Emily Dickinson meant when she wrote, “That it will never come again / Is what makes life so sweet.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.” There”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“Our hearts are every bit as malleable as stardust turned to gold. Loving one another polishes them.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

“There's a Buddhist saying that when your house is done your life is over. I hope Tom works on Camp Weasel forever.”
― Heather Lende, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name