Quotes from Susan Meissner

Sometimes fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself.

You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away. I

Home isn't a place where everything stays the same; it's a place where you are safe and loved despite nothing staying the same. Change always happens. Always.

What's there to remember if not the good things?

Good luck made you feel kissed by heaven and smiled upon by the Fates.

Doesn't love make a home? Doesn't love make a family?

Who of us know what we would have done had circumstances changed and we had the chance to make different choices? I said I honestly don't know.....

The frail letters on the first page were barely legible; they looked like whispers, if whispers had form.

you can't get back the day you make a decision that changes everything.

When people are thrown into the abyss and together find their way out of it, they are not the same people.

People who are free to choose will choose the best use for whatever it is they possess. Wealth and prosperity begin with the freedom to choose.

I don't think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, not the other way.

I believe in justice too but I know that sometimes it is not delivered in the way it should be. Sometimes it is not delivered at all and the evil man walks free.

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting—it has been found difficult and left untried." G.K. CHESTERTON What's Wrong with the World

don't think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, not the other way.

Air is free. Someday I will be, too, though not soon enough. There doesn't

The sun every morning, the cloisonné pendant, the silver key, Helen Calvert's letter on how to care for an amaryllis, and the bargain I made.

I battled for my child and I prevailed.

grief is such a strange guest, making its home in a person like it's a new thing that no one has ever experienced before. It is different for every person.

All of Uncle Fred's books on undertaking are lined up like soldiers on the bookshelves in his office. It isn't that hard to understand how something works. You just need to know which book to open and read the words inside it.

My grandmother told me heaven's rules don't just tell us what to do and not do," I said. "They tell us what God is like. People searching for God only need to look at what God says is important. I think love is important to Him. So there are rules about it. Not to make us feel bad about how far we fall short, but to show us how wonderful the real thing is.

I don't want my destiny handed to me. I want to choose it.

I've been to Golden Gate Park several times. It is beautiful and immense, bigger than Central Park in New York.