Quotes from Mary Alice Monroe

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions.

Treat your family like guests and your guests like family.

My story will change, and so will yours. We'll just go on changing, making a new set of choices, then living them out. That's what life is anyway, just a long string of choices.

This dog had shown more courage than I. This great, powerful, beautiful dog was willing to take a chance on me - a broken, depressed, lonely Marine.

The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.

The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.

Basically it means there is no one correct view of the universe. We each see things from our own frame of reference.

Friendships were easy when life was going smoothly. What was hard was to be there for your friend when life got rough and the friendship was neither easy nor fun. The challenge was to forgive the friend when she failed.

I can't change the past. I can't take the hurt back. But I can soften it if I can just learn how to accept it.

Sometimes people get angry and do things they shouldn't. Things they regret.

Life is more about the journey than the destination

How ironic she thought, to store the past but never tend to it. ~ Mary June

Intuition guides us and the wise person listens.

And quickly. If you let it, grief could swallow you whole.

Whatever it was inside of me, whatever kernel deep inside that enabled me to believe in fairies, in Peter, in the Neverland itself, this was my source of strength. No one could ever take that away from me. As long as I believed, no matter where I was or with whom, I'd always belong. Because I was at home in my own heart." Wendy

caterpillar must shed its skin five times before it forms the chrysalis. The caterpillar doesn't just change. It completely transforms. The old form dies and the new is reborn. That's the miracle that gives us hope.

Dawn tore at the seam of night, pulling the blackness back a little farther with each passing minute.

A woman's life has so many demands because she is the axis around which so many little planets spin.

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions. ~ Olivia Rutledge from The Beach House