Quotes from Lisa Wingate

The most difficult battles are not the ones fought outside the armor, but the ones within it.

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that.

Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

The most important endeavors require a risk.

No way out but through the storm now.

The truths you establish early stay with you. They're written in the journal of who you are—the one you carry around in your pocket like an operating manual for life.

images. What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the ocean to rescue the foundering ship. It cannot calm the waters or clear the shoals. It can only cast light into the darkness. It can only point the way. Yet, through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Show this old lighthouse the way.

Do not let yesterday use up too much of today

Who chooses the schedules we keep? We do, I guess.

Except God don't create accidents. We only think there are accidents because we don't know what God has in mind.

The secret to a good life isn't in getting what you want; it's in learning to want what you get. I'm learning to want what I've got and not to think about the rest so much.

Most of the time when we got a tough row to plow, the Good Lord makes us fall a little short and puts another mule in the pasture. You don't never know whether you're the blind mule or the deaf mule, but you're always one or the other.