Regrets don't help anything.

With pencil, you can always erase.

We become what we pay attention to.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

There is nothing perfect...only life.

Every little thing wants to be loved.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

I believe in the goodness of imagination.

It's your time to live, don't mess it up.

My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

So few people know what they're capable of.

Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.

We must err , do so on the side of audacity

What matters is giving over to what you love.

I like to have a title before I start writing.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.

Nobody should go through life without falling in love.

The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.

I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me.

There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

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