“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”
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Lisa Wingate
“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.” ― Lisa Wingate, A Month of Summer
“But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat. It is as ever present as a pulse.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We’re always trying to persuade ourselves of things.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand. No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn’t suit the moment.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see. Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.” ― Lisa Wingate
“Well, that’s one of the paradoxes of life. You can’t have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“People don’t come into our lives by accident.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don’t intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“We plan our days, but we don’t control them.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it out and see what else is on the table.” ― Lisa Wingate
“Fear builds walls instead of bridges. I want a life of bridges, not walls.” ― Lisa Wingate, The Prayer Box
“One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met his expectations. My father did that for me, and no amount of effort on my part can fully repay the debt.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.’ The first death is beyond our control, but the second one we can strive to prevent.” ― Lisa Wingate, The Book of Lost Friends
“I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“What the mind don’t ’member, the heart still know. Love, the strongest thang of all. Stronger than all the rest.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.” ― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses
“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.” ― Lisa Wingate, A Month of Summer
“But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat. It is as ever present as a pulse.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We’re always trying to persuade ourselves of things.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand. No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn’t suit the moment.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see. Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.” ― Lisa Wingate
“Well, that’s one of the paradoxes of life. You can’t have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“People don’t come into our lives by accident.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don’t intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“We plan our days, but we don’t control them.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it out and see what else is on the table.” ― Lisa Wingate
“Fear builds walls instead of bridges. I want a life of bridges, not walls.” ― Lisa Wingate, The Prayer Box
“One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met his expectations. My father did that for me, and no amount of effort on my part can fully repay the debt.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.’ The first death is beyond our control, but the second one we can strive to prevent.” ― Lisa Wingate, The Book of Lost Friends
“I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“What the mind don’t ’member, the heart still know. Love, the strongest thang of all. Stronger than all the rest.” ― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours
“The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.” ― Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses
