6 Quotes by Ariana Carruth

Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?

When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded withGod for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.

Finding her meant that I could move forward unabashedly, without fear of rejection, without the endless need for acceptance from my husband or from anyone else. My worth was decided by me, now.

In the dim light of today are the shadows of yesterday’s affliction and the hope of tomorrow’s gifts.

It was all about release, about letting go of the unknowns.I was having a disabled child and that was that. There were no hidden truths to discover. I would not know anything about her birth, her survivability odds, all her ailments, until her life actually unfolded.