The Seven Year Dress Quotes

“My heartache never stopped, but I learned to be grateful for the essentials of life: for the air in my lungs, the visions my eyes behold, and the very experience of being alive.”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“is a chance and reason for hope. One never knows what the future will bring, but as long as we are alive, there is the possibility for something good. Trust in the goodness and kindness of people. And no matter what, never, never give up. Make this your sustaining attitude. This can never be taken from you.”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“Knowing the verses wasn’t important, knowing God was.”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“Some like to believe there were lessons to be learned from this moment in history; I disagree. I came to realize that life is a game of chance that you enter. It is up to you to determine how you react to the events that chance presents to you. It is up to you to proceed at your own risk. Is there a God guiding any part of the journey?”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“By helping others when it was safe to do so, I found serenity in the midst of the madness.”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“Something inside of me refused to give up. Was I surviving because I thought I had a future beyond this nightmare?”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“I couldn’t change what life throws at me, but I could determine how I receive it.”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“The labyrinth of emotions that I didn’t want to feel, experience, or face—fear, anger, and unbearable loss—enveloped me. I reached out in desperation like a helpless baby who needed her mommy. Hold me. Comfort me. Tell me that everything will be fine. Where are you? By the time the oceans of deep sorrow moved”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“There are no words to help me explain this. It is a sense, from the deepest intuitive place in my soul that understands this whole divine play of life is under His control, not ours. You need to find that place in your soul. It’s there. For everyone.”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“When there is life, there is a chance and reason for hope. One never knows what the future will bring, but as long as we are alive, there is the possibility for something good. Trust in the goodness and kindness of people. And no matter what, never, never give up. Make this your sustaining attitude. This can never be taken from you.”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor E. Frankl”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“The wisdom of my body melded with the wisdom from my Papa that lived on in me. After”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress

“When there is life, there is a chance and reason for hope. One never knows what the future will bring, but as long as we are alive, there is the possibility for something good. Trust in the goodness and kindness of people. And no matter what, never, never give up. Make this your sustaining attitude. This can never be taken from you.” That”
― Paulette Mahurin, The Seven Year Dress