Letters of Freedom Quotes

“For so long, all my life really, I wasn’t important to anyone. That sounds a bit whiney maybe, but it’s true. I’m not feeling sorry for myself – I just wasn’t loved. And because nobody loved me, or at least nobody I was aware of – I know now that my mother never stopped loving me and that makes such a difference – I’m not used to it.”
― Jean Grainger, Letters of Freedom

“from a soap opera on TV. ‘The kids that were allowed out of Germany, the Jews, before the war really got going. They arrived here, and their parents had no idea who was going to take care of them.”
― Jean Grainger, Letters of Freedom

“But one thing I do know. You have to love yourself before you can truly give or receive love from anyone else.”
― Jean Grainger, Letters of Freedom

“what ifs. So all over the world, people are staying in terrible marriages, awful jobs, living places they don’t want to live, because they are afraid of what will happen if they take a leap of faith, they are afraid of their own instinct, and they lack trust in themselves.”
― Jean Grainger, Letters of Freedom

“What would you do if the fear was gone?” It is a great question to ask yourself, because once we remove the element of fear from our decisions, then we find our true heart’s desire. Fear takes over if we let it, allowing people to only live half of the life they choose, or sometimes none of it, because they are crippled by terror and”
― Jean Grainger, Letters of Freedom

“As a specialist in palliative care, he’d explained that he saw enough to be sure that once someone decided they had had enough of living, they could shut themselves down. Medicine from that point on could only keep someone alive artificially. Once the spirit rests, then so too does the body.”
― Jean Grainger, Letters of Freedom

“People know towards the end. It’s as if the other life, whatever waits for us all on the other side, comes closer and the person isn’t scared any more.”
― Jean Grainger, Letters of Freedom

“There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
― Jean Grainger, Letters of Freedom

“What would you do if the fear was gone?” It is a great question to ask yourself, because once we remove the element of fear from our decisions, then we find our true heart’s desire. Fear takes over if we let it, allowing people to only live half of the life they choose, or sometimes none of it, because they are crippled by terror and what ifs. So all over the world, people are staying in terrible marriages, awful jobs, living places they don’t want to live, because they are afraid of what will happen if they take a leap of faith, they are afraid of their own instinct, and they lack trust in themselves.”
― Jean Grainger, Letters of Freedom