Looking for Me Quotes

“Never tie your happiness to the tail of someone else's kite.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“Sometimes it's not what we hold on to that shapes our lives--it's what we're willing to let go of.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“Maybe that's what love does - smooths the hard edges of life, giving us a gentle place to land when we fall.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“I thought about that old saying, how we can never go home again. But I think it's more like a piece of us stays behind when we leave -- a piece we can never reclaim, one that awaits our next visit and demands that we remember.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“You can't see the whole sky from one window.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“But I hurt everywhere, Mama. How do I make it stop?" She looked at me with a sad smile. "I don't know. Only you can figure that out. But try to remember something, Teddi: Never tie you happiness to the tail of someone else's kite.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“You're wrong, Mama. The world's beautiful, but you're so busy being disappointed in everything you don't see it!!”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“But even so, I wondered--how well do we really ever know someone?”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“We are the authors of our lives, and, through choice or circumstance, some of us leave our stories unfinished or untold. Though it’s taken me a long while to get here, I’ve come to accept that life, like the vast woodlands that surround my childhood home, is layered with mysteries.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“My mother used to say that each day was a gift and how we chose to unwrap it would determine our happiness.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“If you allow things like this to ruin your day, pretty soon you’ll wake up and your life will be nothing but an endless string of ruined days that stretch as far back as you can remember.” She turned toward the window, her profile soft and blurred in the afternoon light. “Believe me, if you let disappointments take you too far, you’ll end up getting lost. You’ll never find your way out of it.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“The human mind holds tightly to those things it can’t reconcile.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“I knew the flight into the crazy skies of love would always outweigh the uncertainty of days that didn't yet belong to me.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“Never tie your happiness to the end of someone else's kite.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“Two of the upstairs windows were boarded up, as if the house had closed its eyes in shame and whispered, Look what’s become of me. As I stood surveying the property and wondering how it had come to such ruin, I realized that unless I pulled myself together and found a way to ground myself into my life, I could end up just as sad and empty as that old house.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“When shadows take flight and the moon turns away from the stars, the raven delivers divine law”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“Love travels long miles.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“We’re not supposed to outlive our children. It goes against nature’s plan of things.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“You can’t see the whole sky from one window.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“From the highest branch he watches and waits. The horned owl keeps secrets.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me

“A powerful healing force lives deep within these woods. Whenever you children are hurting or can’t make sense of things, just come out here and spend some time with the trees. Give their trunks a good strong pat. When you go home, you’ll feel better.”
― Beth Hoffman, Looking for Me