Shauna Niequist Bittersweet Quotes & Sayings

My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white. — Elizabeth Taylor

Bittersweet is the idea that in all things there is both something broken and something beautiful, that there is a sliver of lightness on even the darkest of nights, a shadow of hope in every heartbreak, and that rejoicing is no less rich when it contains a splinter of sadness. Bittersweet is the practice of believing that we really do need both the bitter and the sweet, and that a life of nothing but sweetness rots both your teeth and your soul. Bitter is what makes us strong, what forces us to push through, what helps us earn the lines on our faces and the calluses on our hands. — Shauna Niequist

Wait, I will come with you.' Then they recognized his voice and waited, and when he came up to them suddenly his bearskin fell off, and he stood there a handsome man, clothed all — Jacob Grimm

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state. — Denise Juneau

I wanted, of course, for this bittersweet season to be over. I felt so strongly that when I finished the book, I'd be free to move into another season, one of life and celebration. But this is what I know now: they're the same thing, and that's all there is. — Shauna Niequist

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense? — William Pitt

Bittersweet is the practice of believing that we really do need both the bitter and the sweet, and that a life of nothing but sweetness rots both your teeth and your soul. — Shauna Niequist

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs? — Charles Bass

When Life is Well say THANK YOU & CELEBRATE, and when life is Bitter say THANK YOU & GROW. — Shauna Niequist

When Life is Well say THANK YOU & CELEBRATE, and when life is Bitter say THANK YOU & GROW. — Shauna Niequist

Yes, of course we were pretentious
what else is youth for? — Julian Barnes

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time." — Henry David Thoreau

Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination. — George Henry Lewes