Jodi PicoultWe make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
About This Quote
I think every single one of us has something in our past that we can look back on and say, "I realize now, I did make a mess out of my life. I did stupid things." But you know what? That's okay. Because there are a couple of things that we do every day that are exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
Source: Vanishing Acts
Some Similar Quotes
- I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.
- Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to...
- Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
- We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
- Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
More Quotes By Jodi Picoult
- You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
- If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
- You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
- I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
- And he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.