Karen White Quotes

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

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.

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

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.

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.

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

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

Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.

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.

You ain’t dead yet, so you ain’t done.

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

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.

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.

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.

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.

when you lose your sails, row.

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.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

...Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them