Top 100 Karen White Quotes
#1. There are no limits to starting over. That's why the sun rises every day. Unless you're running in circles and then the outcome never changes.
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#2. It's good to be a little nervous. God compensates those with a lack of talent with an overabundance of self-confidence. -Gigi
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#3. When everything you're about to see is too much, look up and see that the sky is clear and know that everything is going to be all right.
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#4. Life is a lot like the interstate, where every exit is an entrance someplace else.
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#5. Because no one can hurt us as much as those we love the most.
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#6. I've found that you can't measure happiness the way you measure yards in a race. You just learn to recognize it when it arrives so you can enjoy it while it lasts.
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#7. Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.
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#8. A pile of timber, remains of either a house or a ship, huddled like a frightened child, cradling a glint of metal in
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#9. There is how we
were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing
which doors to open, and which to close.
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#10. Don't see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to
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#11. and whether you could force happiness on yourself, simply by arranging your mouth in a happy expression.
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#12. Well, you get out of bed, you eat your grits, say hey to your neighbor, you give extra love to her children, and you live your life. The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you. But life does go on.
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#14. Bees see colors in the ultraviolet range that humans cannot. Some flowers have colored maps like little runways to show the bees where to land. Humans are blind to these special markings, but the bees see them. - NED BLOODWORTH'S BEEKEEPER'S JOURNAL
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#15. I've always thought that old clothes are a lot like old houses; they bring the past and present together.
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#16. You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad.
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#17. Sugar, your clothes should always be tight enough to show that you're a woman, but loose enough to show that you're a lady." She
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#18. There was something about the past - the reassurance that others had lived and loved and survived before me gave me something to cling to in the present.
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#19. Feelings of hurt and betrayal and utter loss poured through me like batter hitting a hot skillet.
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#20. We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough
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#21. But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been.
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#22. The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.
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#23. But maybe everybody was like that, all of us living the lives we had to while dreaming of the lives we wanted.
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#24. Life doesn't get easier. We just get stronger.
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#25. Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.
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#26. I think worrying is a lot like chewing gum. Eventually it runs out of taste, and you've got to spit it out.
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#27. Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her
the only memory I allowed myself to keep.
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#28. I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a rainy day and see the beauty in it. It's what got her out of bed every morning.
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#29. I think sometimes the best mothers are simply those who make the decision to love their children every day, regardless of what happens.
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#30. But you can't hide from your past forever. One day it will come sneaking up behind you and hit you upside the head.
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#32. That there are no troubles in life that can't be sorted through or solved by spending time in the garden
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#33. it, but I knew that whatever driving force was
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#34. Every life would have some rain in it, but that's the only way you'd ever get to see the rainbow.
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#35. Rainbows always gave her hope - hope that something beautiful waited for those strong enough to survive the storm.
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#36. She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn't preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt.
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#37. To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
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#38. Taking care of the details was probably how Merritt took back control, and Loralee wondered whether every girl who lost her mother did the same thing when life got muddier than a puddle.
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#39. Courage isn't about the absence of fear. Courage is doing the one thing you think you cannot do.
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#40. You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.
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#41. That we need to ask for forgiveness even when we believe we've done nothing wrong." She paused, as if wondering whether she should continue. "And to forgive ourselves. That's usually the hardest kind of forgiveness.
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#42. A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.
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#43. I wish I could change things for you, make it so this all doesn't have to hurt so much. But that's the point, isn't it? That one day we'll find that the pain we suffered was worth it.
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#44. Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.
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#45. I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human heart rendered by the absence of a mother and father.
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#46. The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.
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#47. Life went on, no matter how much you dared the sun not to rise again.
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#48. Must take care of de root for to heal de tree.
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#49. Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.
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#50. If tears could build a stairway
and memories a lane,
I'd walk back up to Heaven
and bring you home again.
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#51. Sometimes all we need to do to forgive our parents is to understand their own childhoods.
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#52. It was as if even the changes had a rhythm to them, bringing you back to the place you started only the second time around you were stronger and wiser.
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#53. Jumping to conclusions is often the only exercise some people get, and is always easier than finding the patience to discover the truth.
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#55. Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them; you nourish them. You sow your seeds, and reap what you sow.
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#56. Madame LaFleur would say that you're more of a classical ballet dancer instead of a jazz dancer. But sometimes all you have to do is change costumes to become something different.
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#57. I'm trying to say that it takes some people a very long time to realize something they thought was true isn't true anymore. And maybe never was.
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#59. There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.
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#60. When the wind shifts against the sun, trust it not, for back it will run.
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#61. If you get stung, lick it," I said. "Bees have over two hundred pheromones they use to communicate with each other, and they leave some on your skin when they sting to alert the other bees that there's danger.
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#62. All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone." The Time Between
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#63. He paused as if waiting for her to say something, but all she could do was stare at him and wonder why he couldn't see that she was a ghost and not really there at all.
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#64. It's not only ghosts who haunt us. Our memories follow us through life, surprising us now and again when we are forced to turn around and look behind us.
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#65. You ain't dead yet, so you ain't done.
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#66. I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.
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#67. A life without rain is like the sun without shade.
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#68. I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.
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#69. I've always thought my attraction to water was because it offers an unending source of renewal. It's there with each wave - with each tide. Always wiping the shore clean of all imperfections in time for the next tide.
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#70. Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.
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#71. Love is all about sacrifices - big and small ones. It's only when you know how much you could give up for somebody that you know what true love really is." The whirring fan spun above them,
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#72. Looking pretty isn't about how people see you. It's about letting people know how you feel about yourself.
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#74. I've been the sheriff here for about five years now, and I'm surprised we haven't met."
"She's been gone awhile
out to California," Trip explained.
The Sheriff nodded, replacing his hat,"Sorry to hear that.
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#75. every time we remembered something, we weren't remembering the event itself but the last time we'd remembered it. It
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#76. Maybe it was the way of the South to welcome home wayward family members who had no claim to such a piece of history except for a willingness to adopt it as their own and a shared last name.
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#77. There was so much we didn't know, so much we would never know. The secrets of the dead are always kept.
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#78. The weight of fear goes away as soon as we face our monsters and realize they weren't as scary as we thought.
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#79. Edith said that any glass that could withstand such a beating without crumbling was something to be celebrated.
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#80. Sometimes it's necessary to tell a lie when the truth will break a heart.
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#81. There are too many unknowns in life to say you know what's going to happen.
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#82. I remembered my grandfather telling me to always remove the stinger as quickly as possible, because it will continue to pump venom into the skin for as long as ten minutes. But
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#83. Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.
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#84. Sometimes bravery can be just another face of desperation.
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#85. But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.
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#86. The feelings I had for my sister were jumbled together, like the monkeys in a barrel game we'd had as children. All the brightly colored monkeys with their curved arms tangled and entwined, so convoluted that it was almost impossible to separate them.
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#87. ...as if I didn't know that holding something too tightly could damage it irrevocably.
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#88. The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you.
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#89. Time is a funny thing. It can take some people a whole lifetime before they realize they've been playing tug-of-war all by themselves.
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#90. My mom would say that crying for the moon is a lot like sitting in a rocking chair: It keeps you busy but it won't get you anywhere.
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#91. The price for flight. I'd never thought of it that, of my decision having any sort of value. But of course it did. Every choice meant giving something up to gain something else.
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#92. It's a male - a drone. They don't have stingers." I
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#93. Those who refuse to acknowledge the past are condemned to repeat it.
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#94. over the smooth lip of the china cup, I thought of how someone's loss had become my gain, of how the tide would roll in and out again as if nothing had changed, and how sometimes the separation between endings and beginnings is so
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#95. Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.
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#96. Hearing again the words from the Gullah woman, All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone.
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#97. The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.
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#98. It'll be all right. Maybe not tomorrow or even the next day, but one day it won't hurt so much.
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#99. They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.
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#100. It wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe
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