Life Quotes

“I believe that forgiveness is our holiest sacrament. …the three most common things that people say to others on their deathbed – I forgive you. I hope you forgive me. I love you.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

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― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“I believe that forgiveness is our holiest sacrament. You know my friend Teresa told me the three most common things that people say to others on their deathbed. They are I forgive you, I hope you forgive me, and I love you. In the grandest scheme of things, what else matters more? We need not to sanction bad behavior. Just forgive it. And admit that Lord, we are all messes sometimes. Let us strive for better. Let us”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“I just think…there are now and there always were and there always will be such difficult times in life. So difficult. For me, the way to come to terms is not to look away. And if I can help someone, besides…”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“I think about their little hands, and sometimes I just about come to tears and so then I have to think about how sometimes they were little shits, too.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“never did know what kindness was in the world until I admitted my need for it.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“Oh, what children’s joyful freedom can do for us, seems like a parched lawn being watered, being around them sometimes.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“It seems that people never believe you can be fine alone, but you can be. Whenever I try to have a relationship, I find I have too many unrealistic expectations.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“Sometimes it’s them, more often it’s me. I just end up…I just stop.” “Why?” “I guess I get disappointed. I end up thinking it’s better for me to be alone.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“Well, fussing is part of a marriage, just like hard times are part of a life. They help form it. You may not like it when it’s happening, but you get through it and then you look back and say well fine then. Now I know something.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“Honestly. The years we spend worrying about not much. It’s truly years. Decades! I wonder why when we get to the end, we so often pull all the years we’ve lived through up close for a look-see and then like to smack our foreheads. The saving grace is all the things we do right. Taking a hand needs holding. Offering an apology when one is sorely needed. Stopping to watch or listen or be steeped in gratitude, oh you know how that can happen, I once watched a toddler go in and out of a playground fountain with her little pink swimming suit on, ruffles at the butt. And her diaper hanging low. And she was a little afraid but mostly exhilarated. I had to sit on the bench and watch a while. And all the way home, I felt like watching that child had let me build a little chapel inside myself, and I’d watched that little girl like she was a living prayer. Maybe she was.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“Ruthie, when you are recalling injustices, recall the other things, too.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“You know, I think sometimes when we age, we forget that we must keep on making new memories, keep on meeting new people and having new experiences. Seems like a lot of older people give up and spend all their time looking in the rearview mirror, when here is life still before them. I don't ever want to do that. I still want to do everything I can.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

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― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“never did know what kindness was in the world until I admitted my need for it.’ ”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“Sometimes the strife in this world makes me think I must be silly to have such hope for the spread of good. 'I never did know what kindness was in the world until I admitted my need for it.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“You’d probably think it was something real exciting or embarrassing when it is just me saying how much I like clothespins. I feel that way about buttons”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“Part of life was learning how perfect imperfect could be.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“An autobiography in things”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story

“I believe that something happens in the writing out of things”
― Elizabeth Berg, Life: A Love Story