13 Quotes & Sayings By Sarah Strohmeyer

Sarah Strohmeyer graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.S. in Marketing and a minor in Communications. In 2010, she collaborated with her husband, Andrew, on the book The Big Picture: A Guidebook to the College Application Essay. Since then, she has worked as a college admissions consultant and has appeared on television and radio shows related to college admissions, including Good Morning America and NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross Read more

She is a frequent contributor to College Confidential and was recognized by Huffington Post as one of "The Top 20 College Admission Experts to Follow on Twitter."

I think the only answer is to live life to...
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I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories. Sarah Strohmeyer
Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The...
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Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives. Sarah Strohmeyer
God always sends an angelto soften the sting of the...
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God always sends an angelto soften the sting of the devil. Sarah Strohmeyer
I believe that within every one of us is a...
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I believe that within every one of us is a woman of undiscovered beauty, a woman who is charming and talented and light of heart Sarah Strohmeyer
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Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death. Sarah Strohmeyer
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He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know. Sarah Strohmeyer
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I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just can’t win.’ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away. Sarah Strohmeyer
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A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty. Sarah Strohmeyer
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The most powerful sex organ was the brain, you know what that means Poor Justin! Sarah Strohmeyer
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This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers. Sarah Strohmeyer
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Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life. Sarah Strohmeyer
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Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we’d finally find our people. Sarah Strohmeyer