Until I Say Goodbye Quotes

“Remove the want, and you remove the pain.”
― Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy

“I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like for her to try to find her birth mother before I die, so that I might meet her and say, "Your brought to life an exceptional human being who God divined my sister. And it was indeed divine. Thank you.”
― Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living

“As Lao Tzu wrote: Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
― Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy

“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.”
― Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy

“allow for something otherwise unlikely.”
― Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy

“For the depression comes less frequently now. Since my diagnosis. Since acceptance. It swoops in like a butterfly, landing silently as they do on the bushes near the Chickee hut. I watch it flutter, admiring the complexity. I feel its weight for
a moment, then it's gone. That kind of sadness has a beauty. It lets me know I am alive.
And that I still care.”
― Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living

“Fearing the possible is no way to live.”
― Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy

“When I was well, I flitted in and out of my house, noticing the kids’ clothes strewn about, the crusted dishes in the sink, the hair in the shower drain. Oh, well, I thought, such is life. But when I became sick, I started to notice bigger things. Or maybe the little things seemed bigger. Like the chipped paint on the gutters. The dull walls that needed a “Pop!” The dilapidated dining table (a dump site for clean laundry) abused for years by kids, including one who drew on it with a Sharpie.”
― Susan Spencer-Wendel, Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy