117 Quotes by Joan Bauer

It’s like getting an extraordinary meal after you’ve been eating junk food for a long time. The taste just sweeps through your sensibilities, bringing all-out contentment, and the sheer goodness of it makes up for every bad meal you ever had.

I don’t expect life to be easy. It hasn’t been yet and I’m not holding out for smooth sailing in the future. Not everyone likes this philosophy, but it makes sense to me because when life hits the skids, I don’t have to regroup as much as the people who walk around in a cloud like the world owes them a joyful existence.

Like my grandmother always said, ’you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

A heart will say amazing things if it’s given half a chance.

My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy.

You’ve got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you’ve got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

And we learned that you don’t have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.

Some things go too deep for words.

It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry.