Erica Bauermeister Quotes

• Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

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  Children, Growing Up, Fun

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.60, Penguin

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• Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.

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  Heart, Different, Needs

  Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.17, Penguin

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• The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

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  Empathy, Age, Enough

  Erica Bauermeister (2013). “The Lost Art of Mixing”, p.136, Penguin

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• Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.

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  Beautiful, People, Life Is Beautiful

  Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.94, Penguin

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• You're not traveling if you already know everything.

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  Knows, Ifs

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.68, Penguin

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• Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.

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  Sometimes, Given, Grows

  Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.21, Penguin

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• TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything-at which point, the process would start all over.

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  Children, Growing Up, Fall

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.63, Penguin

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• We’re all just ingredients. What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal.

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  What Matters, Grace, Meals

  Erica Bauermeister (2010). “The Monday Night Cooking School”, p.103, Penguin UK

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• A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.

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  Risk

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.125, Penguin

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• You ride one in to the beach, and it's the most amazing thing you've ever felt. But at some point the water goes back out; it has to. And maybe you're lucky-maybe you're both too busy to do anything drastic. Maybe you're good as friends, so you stay. And then something happens-maybe it's something as big as a baby, or as small as him unloading the dishwasher-and the wave comes back in again. And it does that, over and over. I just think sometimes people forget to wait.

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  Baby, Beach, Thinking

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.31, Penguin

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• You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.

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  Book, Certain

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.12, Penguin

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• If you live in your senses, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you’ll never need a greeting card to make you remember.

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  Eye, Romance, Taste Buds

  Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.113, Penguin

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• I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.

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  Memories, Thinking, Remember

  Erica Bauermeister (2010). “The Monday Night Cooking School”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.'

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  Courage, Broken, Choices

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• Marriage is a leap of faith. You are each other's safety net.

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  Safety, Leap Of Faith, Leap

  Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.47, Penguin

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