Quotes from Inglath Cooper

AS AN ADULT, I've found life to be pretty predictable for the most part. Work hard. Set goals. Don't expect anything to be handed to you. Remember that perfection doesn't exist.

Try to live by your own sense of right and wrong. Not in response to someone else's treatment of you.

reset to remind you that you're the one in control of your marriage, not Lizzy.

A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well." ? Frederick Douglass

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored." ? Earl Nightingale Catherine

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. - Ovid

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality." —Alexis Carrel

Sometimes, it is nearly impossible to look beyond the parameters of the boxes we put ourselves in.

I'm not 40, I'm 18 with 22 years of experience." ? Unknown

It was what it was. And I try to believe that we are who we become because of every single thing that happens to us. My goal is to keep heading for a better place.

doesn't limit itself to a place, but applies to the lives of its people as well. The present, after all, cannot exist without its past. The two are inextricably tied, a circle that must eventually find its point of completion. For my characters here, raised in a county of like and different, the ends of the circle are about to connect, the ensuing collision forever altering the journey

Real kindness seeks no return; What return can the world make to rain clouds? ~ Tiruvalluvar

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break." ? William Shakespeare

Cometo me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.

I wonder how it is that we go along year after year never questioning the routines we've set for ourselves, never wondering if it could be different.

until we can identify the root cause of our actions, we are doomed to make some version of the same mistakes again and again.

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity. – Arabian Proverb

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break." ? William

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." ? Mark Twain

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. ~ Aristotle

She understood then in a way she never had before what it meant to find the one against whom all others would forever be judged. The one for whom there would be no comparison.

concert in every one of the band's individual tours, she

A counselor once told me the need to control is really about perfectionism and the inability to accept uncertainty. Do you agree with that?

It's choice – not chance – that determines your destiny. " ?Jean Nidetch