Rachel Joyce Quotes

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?

If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything.

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.

After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.

It was not a life, if lived without love.

If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.

Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.

Queenie Hennessy - "I am here to die."Sister Mary Inconnue - "Pardon me but you are here to live until you die. There is a significant difference.

The sky and the sun are always there. It's the clouds that come and go.

If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there.

The people he met, the places he passed, were all steps in his journey, and he kept a place inside his heart for each of them.

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

Sometimes caring for something already growing is more perilous than planting something new.

Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you.