“I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think-- the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the… — Lisa Wingate Change Copy Share Image
“My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Maybe there came a point in life where you had to quit categorizing whole groups of people by a few bad experiences.” — Lisa Wingate Bad experiences Copy Share Image
“Mama has always been in charge of the world, and she’s determined not to abdicate now.” — Lisa Wingate Determined 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… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We’re always trying to persuade ourselves of things.” — 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 Choice Copy Share Image
“Well, you know, sometimes we're hardest on the people we know we can count on not to ditch us no matter how… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“When I was at Mrs. Murphy’s and then the Seviers’ house, I thought if I could just get back to the Arcadia,… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Like the beach glass, the wood was more beautiful because of its journey, because of the things it had been through. Inside… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“That part of you that wants to care for other folks is like fresh milk. You might as well pour it out… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“I drop her on the cot and turn away and grab my hair and pull until it hurts. I want to pull… — Lisa Wingate Pain 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 Bygone Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and… — Lisa Wingate Death Copy Share Image
“One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met his expectations.… — Lisa Wingate Children Copy Share Image
“ Who are you, really? The question penetrated, echoed, demanded an answer. It nipped at me in ways I wasn't prepared for,… — Lisa Wingate Introspection Copy Share Image
“For just a moment, I thought about it. I pictured how it would be, dusting off the rusty Romance Lindsey, long hidden… — Lisa Wingate Control freak Copy Share Image
“One of the secrets to life, Epiphany, is to find your gifts and focus on those. Leave your liabilities in the dust… — Lisa Wingate Gifts 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… — Lisa Wingate Beauty 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 Dance music Copy Share Image
“Love skimmed over the surface like a sailboat, grabbing me up and carrying me along one minute, the speed dizzying, the view… — Lisa Wingate Ebb and flow Copy Share Image
“I realize that those who have loved us are never really gone. They live on in all the ones we love and… — Lisa Wingate Love Copy Share Image
“The journey itself was the architect of the wood. The interior would never be fully dark because the struggle had cracked it,… — Lisa Wingate Journey Copy Share Image
“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses.” — Lisa Wingate Music Copy Share Image
“The funny thing about having people believe good things about you is that, without even realizing it, you want to make those… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“She’d noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn’t exist is the only escape… — Lisa Wingate Good story Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.” — Lisa Wingate Decisions Copy Share Image
“Trust. It was possible to trust that which you could not predict, or plan, or control. In fact, it was essential. It… — Lisa Wingate Trust Copy Share Image
“A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose… — Lisa Wingate Integrity Copy Share Image
“Real love isn’t a payment. It isn’t a response to your accomplishments or anything else. It’s a gift without strings.” — Lisa Wingate Gift 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 Change Copy Share Image
“best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain’t no other good way of livin’.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“And if you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hand on one is like Christmas and a birthday… — Lisa Wingate Book Copy Share Image
“you don’t have any choice but to quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat—drift on faith for a… — Lisa Wingate Choice 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
“The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.” — Lisa Wingate Happiness Copy Share Image
“We do not choose the vessel we’re given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside,”… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life goes by in a trickle and sometimes life goes by in a flood. It's in those rainy seasons you find… — Lisa Wingate Flood Copy Share Image
“I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way… — Lisa Wingate Pain Copy Share Image
