Laurel Lea Quotes & Sayings

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place. — Laurel Lea

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal. — Laurel Lea

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything. — Laurel Lea

Appetite turns common food into the fare of kings. — Laurel Lea

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts. — Laurel Lea

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes. — Laurel Lea

(Home) is you in things. — Laurel Lea

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library. — Laurel Lea

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering. — Laurel Lea

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating. — Laurel Lea

I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven. — Laurel Lea

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. — Laurel Lea

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes. — Laurel Lea

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel. — Laurel Lea

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits. — Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility. — Laurel Lea

Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't. — Laurel Lea