6 Quotes by Lisa Heathfield

You can love someone deeply, but somehow not always do the right thing by them. People have flaws. We get so much wrong. Maybe if you try to understand him as a human being with faults then you can move forward.

It’s your choice, June. It’s your life and you get to choose your path. Carry your past down the difficult route, or take your past from your shoulders, leave it here and walk down the other road.

I’ve learnt that if you’re careful, you can hold a butterfly in your hand. And that even if it’s been trapped, frightened, in a jar, it still has a chance to survive. Because a butterfly with a broken wing can still fly.

Suffering produces endurance,’ he reads. ‘And endurance produces character and character produces hope.’ I feel his hand gently on my back. ‘And hope does not put us to shame.

Forgiveness is easy,′ he says. ‘It’s just like a door. You open it and walk through.

Some things in life can seem really tough... There are things that seem like a mountain and you can’t find a way round it, yet don’t have the energy to go over it, either. You always find a way, though, eventually. Us humans are very strong underneath it all.