9 Quotes by Joy Jordan-Lake

Sometimes I do slip and say what I mean, instead of what ought to be said.

There’s a beauty, and there’s a strength, you know, that grows only in a long walk together in the same direction.

You’ve had a tough crack at life, I’ll give you that. But you don’t got to let the bad thrown at you become the ugly you think you got to be.

A life worth living is one of compassion. And a life of compassion will include many tears.

Now all white Southern women keep as a weapon against uncouth world a certain smile that can be whipped out of storage and tacked up, in an instant, covering over a multitude of too-candid moments. My mother’s face, whose upturned mouth never moved, registered confusion, then fear-then landed where I expected that steely doggedly cheerful resolve of a smile.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” – Jackie Robinson.

It’s part of the role mountains play in our lives. To make us feel small. Humbled.

Funny how much I’ve read about this place for months – pages and pages of history. And no idea how little I knew until I came for myself.

You make sure you do something good with your life, you hear? Something that puts more beauty and more kindness into the world. And be a person of courage, my Kate. With a tender heart but a lot tougher hide.