Karen White Quotes

Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.

I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.

Looking pretty isn't about how people see you. It's about letting people know how you feel about yourself.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

Do I want to know where I came from? Yes. But that doesn't impact who I want to be.

A pile of timber, remains of either a house or a ship, huddled like a frightened child, cradling a glint of metal in

Every life would have some rain in it, but that's the only way you'd ever get to see the rainbow.

and whether you could force happiness on yourself, simply by arranging your mouth in a happy expression.

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

Life went on, no matter how much you dared the sun not to rise again.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

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

Sometimes bravery can be just another face of desperation.

You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad.

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.

How wonderful to know your place in the world before you're even born.

...as if I didn't know that holding something too tightly could damage it irrevocably.

You're strong at the broken places.

Don't be a prisoner to your fears

It wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe

It's good to be a little nervous. God compensates those with a lack of talent with an overabundance of self-confidence. -Gigi

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.

Life doesn't get easier. We just get stronger.

Have you ever known grieving that ends only when your own heart stops beating?

All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone." The Time Between

Feelings of hurt and betrayal and utter loss poured through me like batter hitting a hot skillet.

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

The weight of fear goes away as soon as we face our monsters and realize they weren't as scary as we thought.

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.

We travel with the same packed bags we've always had, until we take the time to unpack them.

It'll be all right. Maybe not tomorrow or even the next day, but one day it won't hurt so much.

Courage isn't about the absence of fear. Courage is doing the one thing you think you cannot do.

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.

Must take care of de root for to heal de tree.

Sometimes all we need to do to forgive our parents is to understand their own childhoods.

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.

There are too many unknowns in life to say you know what's going to happen.

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

You ain't dead yet, so you ain't done.

it, but I knew that whatever driving force was

Because no one can hurt us as much as those we love the most.

But you can't hide from your past forever. One day it will come sneaking up behind you and hit you upside the head.

Hearing again the words from the Gullah woman, All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone.

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.

Rainbows always gave her hope - hope that something beautiful waited for those strong enough to survive the storm.

Edith said that any glass that could withstand such a beating without crumbling was something to be celebrated.

But maybe everybody was like that, all of us living the lives we had to while dreaming of the lives we wanted.

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.

When the wind shifts against the sun, trust it not, for back it will run.

Sometimes it's necessary to tell a lie when the truth will break a heart.

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.

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

All you wander aren't lost, you know.

when you lose your sails, row.

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

The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you.

I think worrying is a lot like chewing gum. Eventually it runs out of taste, and you've got to spit it out.

The more we loved, the more we lost ourselves.

Those who refuse to acknowledge the past are condemned to repeat it.

You can be alone in a crowd of people

every time we remembered something, we weren't remembering the event itself but the last time we'd remembered it. It

Life is a lot like the interstate, where every exit is an entrance someplace else.

I think sometimes the best mothers are simply those who make the decision to love their children every day, regardless of what happens.

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.

I've always thought that old clothes are a lot like old houses; they bring the past and present together.

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.

Jumping to conclusions is often the only exercise some people get, and is always easier than finding the patience to discover the truth.

It's a male - a drone. They don't have stingers." I

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.

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

That there are no troubles in life that can't be sorted through or solved by spending time in the garden

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

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.

If tears could build a stairway
and memories a lane,
I'd walk back up to Heaven
and bring you home again.

There was so much we didn't know, so much we would never know. The secrets of the dead are always kept.

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.

You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.