Karen White Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Karen White
But you can't hide from your past forever. One day it will come sneaking up behind you and hit you upside the head. — Karen White
It still amazed me sometimes when I caught sight of myself in a mirror. I would be startled to see the stranger there, as if still expecting to see my blond hair and tight skin, my hands with long, straight fingers. Age was a thief, an insidious one who instead of robbing you at night while you slept took all of your possessions one by one and forced you to watch. — Karen White
Edith said that any glass that could withstand such a beating without crumbling was something to be celebrated. — Karen White
She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn't preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt. — Karen White
Rainbows always gave her hope - hope that something beautiful waited for those strong enough to survive the storm. — Karen White
We travel with the same packed bags we've always had, until we take the time to unpack them. — Karen White
If tears could build a stairway
and memories a lane,
I'd walk back up to Heaven
and bring you home again. — Karen White
I can not regret what I have learned. Regardless of what you decide and what becomes of us, it will not change this belief, and whatever children I may have, I will try to teach them this: that life is meant to be more than existence. Fight for and hold on to your passion, whatever it is, but surrender gracefully when the passion is well spent. For it is through loss that we learn, and grief that we grow stronger, and living that we learn how to love. Everything is a choice, and by avoiding choices, one not only ensures that a wrong decision won't be made, but also steals a soul's chance to live, to learn, and to love. — Karen White
To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn. — Karen White
I'm trying to say that it takes some people a very long time to realize something they thought was true isn't true anymore. And maybe never was. — Karen White
Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important. — Karen White
Bees see colors in the ultraviolet range that humans cannot. Some flowers have colored maps like little runways to show the bees where to land. Humans are blind to these special markings, but the bees see them. - NED BLOODWORTH'S BEEKEEPER'S JOURNAL — Karen White
My mom would say that crying for the moon is a lot like sitting in a rocking chair: It keeps you busy but it won't get you anywhere. — Karen White
and whether you could force happiness on yourself, simply by arranging your mouth in a happy expression. — Karen White
over the smooth lip of the china cup, I thought of how someone's loss had become my gain, of how the tide would roll in and out again as if nothing had changed, and how sometimes the separation between endings and beginnings is so — Karen White
He paused as if waiting for her to say something, but all she could do was stare at him and wonder why he couldn't see that she was a ghost and not really there at all. — Karen White
The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night. — Karen White
We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough — Karen White
Looking pretty isn't about how people see you. It's about letting people know how you feel about yourself. — Karen White
That we need to ask for forgiveness even when we believe we've done nothing wrong." She paused, as if wondering whether she should continue. "And to forgive ourselves. That's usually the hardest kind of forgiveness. — Karen White
The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer. — Karen White
Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts. — Karen White
Every life would have some rain in it, but that's the only way you'd ever get to see the rainbow. — Karen White
Time is a funny thing. It can take some people a whole lifetime before they realize they've been playing tug-of-war all by themselves. — Karen White
...as if I didn't know that holding something too tightly could damage it irrevocably. — Karen White
A pile of timber, remains of either a house or a ship, huddled like a frightened child, cradling a glint of metal in — Karen White
every time we remembered something, we weren't remembering the event itself but the last time we'd remembered it. It — Karen White
But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been. — Karen White
But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim. — Karen White
Madame LaFleur would say that you're more of a classical ballet dancer instead of a jazz dancer. But sometimes all you have to do is change costumes to become something different. — Karen White
I stared back at him, trying to think of a way to explain how I'd eradicated the word "want" from my vocabulary long ago and replaced it with "need." It made life so much easier that way, blowing away all the unnecessary and distracting clutter from a life of purpose, much like I imagined a storm sweeping away anything not strong enough to withstand the struggle. — Karen White
There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are. — Karen White
Have you ever known grieving that ends only when your own heart stops beating? — Karen White
I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human heart rendered by the absence of a mother and father. — Karen White
Because no one can hurt us as much as those we love the most. — Karen White
Do I want to know where I came from? Yes. But that doesn't impact who I want to be. — Karen White
A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."
If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld ... I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always. — Karen White
Jude says it's because that's the way I look at life_ it's so much more exciting when you don't know what's on the other side of the day you're in. you just expect the best, deal with the bumps, and pray that your boat doesn't fall apart under the big waves ...
(re driftwood) It will remind me of him and life in general. Because if you think about it, every day is full of wrong turns and roads that take us nowhere. But when you stand back and look at it, you can see how beautiful it all turned out and that you're standing where you're supposed to be. — Karen White
You're strong at the broken places. — Karen White
Sometimes all we need to do to forgive our parents is to understand their own childhoods. — Karen White
Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life. — Karen White
Sugar, your clothes should always be tight enough to show that you're a woman, but loose enough to show that you're a lady." She — Karen White
Do you know how diamonds are made?"
She gazed steadily at him, the light turning her green eyes transparent.
He didn't wait for her to answer. "They're made of a single element - carbon. But, over millions of years, the carbon had to undergo incredible pressure-something like a minimum of four hundred pounds per square inch-and cook to at least seven hundred degrees. The amazing thing is that if there's not enough pressure or heat, instead of a diamond, plain old graphite is made. Imagine that-instead of the world's most indestructible and beautiful thing, you get just graphite. Something to make pencils with. Sure, pencils are nice and useful. But they aren't diamonds. — Karen White
Maybe it was the way of the South to welcome home wayward family members who had no claim to such a piece of history except for a willingness to adopt it as their own and a shared last name. — Karen White
I've always thought my attraction to water was because it offers an unending source of renewal. It's there with each wave - with each tide. Always wiping the shore clean of all imperfections in time for the next tide. — Karen White
We all need something to soften the sharp edges. To give us balance. Otherwise, I think we'd find ourselves stumbling around in the dark like lost souls. — Karen White
You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow. — Karen White
Sometimes it's necessary to tell a lie when the truth will break a heart. — Karen White
Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness. — Karen White
A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between. — Karen White
Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were. — Karen White
We all make choices, Miss Szarka. And if it doesn't work out the way we wanted it to, we can spend a lifetime blaming ourselves or blaming others. Either way, we've spent a lifetime blaming instead of a lifetime doing other things ... I think the possibilities for second chances are everywhere if we just look hard enough. Eve — Karen White
It was as if even the changes had a rhythm to them, bringing you back to the place you started only the second time around you were stronger and wiser. — Karen White
The more we loved, the more we lost ourselves. — Karen White
I remembered my grandfather telling me to always remove the stinger as quickly as possible, because it will continue to pump venom into the skin for as long as ten minutes. But — Karen White
I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults. — Karen White
Hearing again the words from the Gullah woman, All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone. — Karen White
Me? Rebuild" I shook my head."First off, I don't know anything about construction or reconstruction. And second, have you been down there? Have you seen it? So many people haven't moved back or rebuilt, and I totally get it. Why invest all that time and money when each hurricane season brings a new threat?"
Aimee regarded me with a steady blue gaze. "Why build skyscrapers in San Francisco that might be knocked down by an earthquake? Or why build farms in Kansas and Oklahoma that might get blown away by a tornado?" She snorted, and it seemed so uncharacteristic for the elegant old woman that I almost laughed. "Where did they want us to go, anyway? I figure if we're still breathing, then we're meant to keep going. So we rebuild. We start over. It's just what we do. — Karen White
I've found that you can't measure happiness the way you measure yards in a race. You just learn to recognize it when it arrives so you can enjoy it while it lasts. — Karen White
Every life holds the promise of rain. But after the rain comes the rainbow. You just have to stick around long enough to find it. — Karen White
There are no limits to starting over. That's why the sun rises every day. Unless you're running in circles and then the outcome never changes. — Karen White
Those who refuse to acknowledge the past are condemned to repeat it. — Karen White
They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood. — Karen White
There is how we
were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing
which doors to open, and which to close. — Karen White
You ain't dead yet, so you ain't done. — Karen White
If you get stung, lick it," I said. "Bees have over two hundred pheromones they use to communicate with each other, and they leave some on your skin when they sting to alert the other bees that there's danger. — Karen White
We have a choice. We can count the years we have lost, or we can count the years we still have ahead of us." She — Karen White
Well, you get out of bed, you eat your grits, say hey to your neighbor, you give extra love to her children, and you live your life. The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you. But life does go on. — Karen White
Moving on doesn't mean forgetting. — Karen White
I think sometimes the best mothers are simply those who make the decision to love their children every day, regardless of what happens. — Karen White
Courage isn't about the absence of fear. Courage is doing the one thing you think you cannot do. — Karen White
But maybe everybody was like that, all of us living the lives we had to while dreaming of the lives we wanted. — Karen White
There was so much we didn't know, so much we would never know. The secrets of the dead are always kept. — Karen White
it, but I knew that whatever driving force was — Karen White
Feelings of hurt and betrayal and utter loss poured through me like batter hitting a hot skillet. — Karen White
Must take care of de root for to heal de tree. — Karen White
I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking. — Karen White
Taking care of the details was probably how Merritt took back control, and Loralee wondered whether every girl who lost her mother did the same thing when life got muddier than a puddle. — Karen White
I think worrying is a lot like chewing gum. Eventually it runs out of taste, and you've got to spit it out. — Karen White
I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a rainy day and see the beauty in it. It's what got her out of bed every morning. — Karen White
Mama?"
"Yes, Emmy."
She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?"
Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable. — Karen White
Love is all about sacrifices - big and small ones. It's only when you know how much you could give up for somebody that you know what true love really is." The whirring fan spun above them, — Karen White
I've been the sheriff here for about five years now, and I'm surprised we haven't met."
"She's been gone awhile
out to California," Trip explained.
The Sheriff nodded, replacing his hat,"Sorry to hear that. — Karen White
All you wander aren't lost, you know. — Karen White
Some are called to be gardeners of souls, and she'd tended hers with the blind dedication that accepted the floods and famine along with the sunshine. — Karen White
You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad. — Karen White
Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all. — Karen White
Maybe with Sara's accident he had finally begun to see that life continued after a fall and that the hands that reached to pull you out didn't have to be your own. — Karen White
That there are no troubles in life that can't be sorted through or solved by spending time in the garden — Karen White
Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments. — Karen White
When everything you're about to see is too much, look up and see that the sky is clear and know that everything is going to be all right. — Karen White