That Birthday in Barbados Quotes

“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” ― Henny Youngman”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” ― Mother Teresa”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“If you are not too long I will wait here for you all my life.” ― Oscar Wilde”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“THE THING ABOUT second chances is knowing what to do with them if they’re given to you.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“I used to be adventurous, curious about life and experiences. Somewhere along the way, I started to believe life didn’t have much left to show me. How”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“My goal is to keep heading for a better place.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”  ― Dalai Lama”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Because I own my choices. I decided at some point along the way not to care if another person doesn’t approve of my choice. I need to know that I think it’s the right choice.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Life is short, my friend. We have to make the most of our chances. We’re not so different from these little guys. Happiness is out there. But it’s not guaranteed, and we can’t wait for it to come to us.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“A counselor once told me the need to control is really about perfectionism and the inability to accept uncertainty. Do you agree with that?”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“The way my heart hurt with hope for them as I watched them struggle with every step forward.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” ― Earl Nightingale Catherine”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.” ― Louise Gluck”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“the need to control is really about perfectionism and the inability to accept uncertainty.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“until we can identify the root cause of our actions, we are doomed to make some version of the same mistakes again and again.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“I’m not 40, I’m 18 with 22 years of experience.” ― Unknown”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.” ― Frederick Douglass”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“My life is a train and it has derailed.” ― Amelia Mysko”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Life is hard. But life is beautiful. And it will always, always be worth the struggle.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”  ― Dalai”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ― Mark Twain”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” ― Joseph Campbell”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“It was what it was. And I try to believe that we are who we become because of every single thing that happens to us. My goal is to keep heading for a better place.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
― Ann Landers”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Along with the other losses I’ve grieved in the past three years, I feel a deep pang of mourning for the death of the woman I used to be.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.

“Then I hope it is because I am wearing my life well instead of it wearing me.”
― Inglath Cooper, That Birthday in Barbados: Turning Forty. A Divorce. A Tropical Escape. And Finding Love.