Secrets of a Charmed Life Quotes

“Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can’t wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can’t.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“Truth is a strange companion. It devastates one moment and enthralls the next. But it never deceives. And because of that, in the end, it comforts.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“what I hope readers will take away, is that a happy life is not made up of what you have dreamed of, chased after, and achieved, but rather whom you poured your life into, who poured their life into yours, and the difference you’ve made in the lives of others. Most of the dreams we pursue don’t have intrinsic worth, but people always do.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“To love is not to be fragile; it is to be unlocked and open. And when something is open, other things can come in.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else’s.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“Oh, but it's our tears that make us human, Isabel.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“there are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else’s.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“I am saying, when you make a choice, even if it’s a bad one, you’ve played your hand. You cannot live your life as though you still held all your cards.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“It was only after time had passed that a person was able to see whether she might have been able to bear the load she was sure had been too heavy.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“Sages of the past would say we are—all of us—just imperfect people on a flawed planet who are trying to hold on to what is good and lovely and right.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“Ah, but what is history? Is it a record of what happened or rather our interpretation of what happened?” “I think it’s both,” I answer. “It has to be both. What good is remembering an event if you don’t remember how it made you feel. How it impacted others. How it made them feel. You would learn nothing and neither would anyone else.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“but if I know anything about time, it is that it stretches to walk with you when you grieve. The rest of the world may zoom past at breakneck speed, but when you are learning to live with loss, time slows to the pace of your breathing.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“But life is lived at the moment you are living it, she thought. No one but God in heaven has the benefit of seeing beyond today.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“a happy life is not made up of what you have dreamed of, chased after, and achieved, but rather whom you poured your life into, who poured their life into yours, and the difference you’ve made in the lives of others.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“I think this is the danger we face whenever time passes and those who have suffered recover from what flattened them. The generation coming up behind might underestimate or miss completely all that the older generation survived. Q.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“we play the cards we’ve been dealt—as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says—based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“I don’t know how to thank you.’

‘You can help someone else down the road, when the time comes.’

Emmy fingered away wetness at her eyes. She knew she would remember that moment for the rest of her life, that moment when someone who barely knew her fulfilled every childhood wish she’d ever had to feel she mattered.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“For a moment, there was no age difference between the two of them, no crossed purposes, no opposing forces. They were just two women trying to chisel a happy life out of giant hulk of rough-edged circumstances.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper,” a quote by W. B. Yeats”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“we, as a society, archive our history. We don’t want to forget where we’ve been and what we’ve seen. The past informs us, and can easily transform us, if we choose to let it. Q.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“She wanted to wake up in the arms of the angels and have them tell her she was worthy of love -- to give it and to have it given to her.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't take.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“we are—all of us—just imperfect people on a flawed planet who are trying to hold on to what is good and lovely and right.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“there is always, always the other road to choose, even if it seems to be nothing more than an unpaved path in the middle of nowhere?”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“People treat you differently when they think you are too young to know what you want.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“a happy life is not made up of what you have dreamed of, chased after, and achieved, but rather whom you poured your life into, who poured their life into yours, and the difference you’ve made in the lives of others. Most of the dreams we pursue don’t have intrinsic worth, but people always do.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“I am not such a significant creature in God’s universe that it is my decisions alone that can change the destiny of another.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life

“Terrible things can happen to you that leave you unable to risk trusting the world with what you love; I know this better than anyone.”
― Susan Meissner, Secrets of a Charmed Life