Anna Quindlen Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Confidence, Letting Go, Being Yourself

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

• being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Strong, Giving, Parent

• Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

  Anna Quindlen

  Giving Up, Smart, People

  Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.1, Random House

• We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives the lie to our carefully constructed facade of safety.

  Anna Quindlen

  Lying, Exercise, Class

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

  Anna Quindlen

  Believe, Giving, Abortion

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.211, Ballantine Books

• I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.

  Anna Quindlen

  Journey, Years, Giving

• knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Giving, Mortality, Greatest Gifts

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

• However, there will be a Republican Party platform that will coalesce around their convention. Unless I miss my guess, it will be considerably more conservative on these issues, perhaps even than Governor Romney is, and I think that that will give Americans a clear set of choices about all issues, but about women's issues too.

  Anna Quindlen

  Party, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yourself, and that if you have two coats you should give one to the man who has none.

  Anna Quindlen

  Love You, Men, Two

• There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and which both supports and gives you time to support your family. I felt so lucky to have all that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fashion, Giving, Support

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

• It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Giving, Feelings

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.90, Ballantine Books

• All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate a different perspective into the process, to give young women something to shoot for and someone to look up to. But all things are rarely equal.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Order, Careers

• I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?

  Anna Quindlen

  Stars, Hate, Writing

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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