Rachel Simon Quotes

• Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.

  Rachel Simon

  Feeling Down, Way, Fields

  Rachel Simon (2013). “Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

  Rachel Simon

  Sadness, Rainy Day, Two

  Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.

  Rachel Simon

  Fighting, World, Fists

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• Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

  Rachel Simon

  Space, People, Silence

  Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.187, Random House

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• A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.

  Rachel Simon

  Rainy Day, Important, Lost Hope

  Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.192, Hachette UK

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• There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.

  Rachel Simon

  Book, Two, Library

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• When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.

  Rachel Simon

  Mean, Religion, Inward

  Rachel Simon (1894). “Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890”

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• In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.

  Rachel Simon

  Religious, Women, Adversity

  Rachel Simon (1894). “Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890”

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