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Looking for Me

Beth Hoffman

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Never tie your happiness to the tail of someone else's kite.”

“Sometimes it's not what we hold on to that shapes our lives--it's what we're willing to let go of.”

“Maybe that's what love does - smooths the hard edges of life, giving us a gentle place to land when we fall.”

“I thought about that old saying, how we can never go home again. But I think it's more like a piece of us stays behind when we leave -- a piece we can never reclaim, one that awaits our next visit and demands that we remember.”

“You're wrong, Mama. The world's beautiful, but you're so busy being disappointed in everything you don't see it!!”

“You can't see the whole sky from one window.”

“But even so, I wondered--how well do we really ever know someone?”

“But I hurt everywhere, Mama. How do I make it stop?" She looked at me with a sad smile. "I don't know. Only you can figure that out. But try to remember something, Teddi: Never tie you happiness to the tail of someone else's kite.”

“We are the authors of our lives, and, through choice or circumstance, some of us leave our stories unfinished or untold. Though it’s taken me a long while to get here, I’ve come to accept that life, like the vast woodlands that surround my childhood home, is layered with mysteries.”

“The human mind holds tightly to those things it can’t reconcile.”

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Book Keywords:

relationships, happiness, home

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