“The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don’t waste your time crying over… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“In those moments, I'd known that something new was being formed in me, too, created so gently that I hadn't even realized… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“The little box that was given to me was by no means unique. I'd heard of prayer boxes, and I knew what… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“All of life is quilted from the scraps of what once was and is no more- the places we have been, the… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“ Dear Deborah, Words do not come easily for so many men. We are taught to be strong, to provide, to put… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“I wrote about the rush of love, the changing of a woman into a mother—a process that happened without conscious thought, as… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“one of the paradoxes of life. You can’t have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“I’ve finally come to fully understand that you can’t fix another person. You can’t fix the past. You can only change your… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“But is life a success when it doesn’t include time for after-school talks, and curling up to read books on winter nights,… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you’re plowing a… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Well, that’s one of the paradoxes of life. You can’t have it all. You can have some of this and some of… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“That’s how the grievin’ becomes after a time. You’ve tossed off the black blanket, but scraps of it fall on you unexpected,… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“There are times when you awake, and sense the coming day hovering just beyond the edge of the world. Your heartbeat quickens,… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get. Don’t waste… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, deep within me, beyond the passion, beyond the beauty of the night, that little spark of Daily magic ignited in me again, began… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Generally, crises were Mom's domain. Dad's job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“...setting out together in a marriage is a lot like setting out on the river. Some parts will be rough; some will be smooth.… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“I desire to live my life this way,... Not caged by the walls of fear, but in anticipation of the bridges to magnificence. Help… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“It’s funny how what you’re used to seems like it’s right even if it’s bad.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“We are His children, each knit together as we should be. We must go by the name our Father has given us. Beloved.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Remember that, in any encounter, the only thing you can control is your own actions and reactions. You cannot dictate the actions of the… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“How often ... do we pass by a need, a life that could be changed with the smallest bit of effort? And it's not… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
