Quotes from Susan Meissner

I don't know how to thank you.' 'You can help someone else down the road, when the time comes.' Emmy fingered away wetness at her eyes. She knew she would remember that moment for the rest of her life, that moment when someone who barely knew her fulfilled every childhood wish she'd ever had to feel she mattered.

Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will. So make it beautiful, if you can.

Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.

we play the cards we've been dealt—as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says—based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards.

I think this is the danger we face whenever time passes and those who have suffered recover from what flattened them. The generation coming up behind might underestimate or miss completely all that the older generation survived. Q.

Sooner or later she will learn time changes everything, takes everything: sometimes in a blink, and sometimes so slowly you can't even see it happening.

This is how it is for all of us. Life will send us across a bridge we did not want to cross, but when we finally open our eyes on the other side, we see that there had been nothing to fear at all.

Life is wonderful and beautiful but oh, how hard it can be.

I want you to know that love is not a person. It is not of this earth at all. It wasn't until now that I realized I had mistakenly come to believe that love came from a place inside me and therefore had to protect that place. It comes from heaven, Eleanor. It is given to us not to hold on to or hide from, but to give away.

Sometimes the expectation is better than the fulfillment.

Love is the only true constant in a fragile world.

Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

But life is lived at the moment you are living it, she thought. No one but God in heaven has the benefit of seeing beyond today.

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell. But not every story is beautiful.

I guess our eyes don't change much from when we were young. Perhaps it's just how we see things that changes.

Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell'" she said reading aloud the store's tagline at the top of the form.. "I love that.

Don't borrow tomorrow's burdens, my gram used to say.

we, as a society, archive our history. We don't want to forget where we've been and what we've seen. The past informs us, and can easily transform us, if we choose to let it. Q.

the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper," a quote by W. B. Yeats

there is always, always the other road to choose, even if it seems to be nothing more than an unpaved path in the middle of nowhere?

I came through the crucible, and it did not reduce me to ashes. I survived.

She wanted to wake up in the arms of the angels and have them tell her she was worthy of love -- to give it and to have it given to her.