Susan Meissner Quotes
When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.
The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.
Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.
Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.
When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.
We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.
No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.
We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.
I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.
Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him?
Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell'" she said reading aloud the store's tagline at the top of the form.. "I love that.
Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.
We're going to be okay. Lainey isn't the glue that keeps us together. We are. We're the glue. Okay?
That's what we did, didn't we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid.
Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.
It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.
Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.