63 Quotes by Taya Kyle

Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me.

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan. I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them. There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

When life brings you to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray.

Chris always said, “The body will do whatever the mind tells it to.

My father gave me a piece of advice that has stuck with me over the years: you don’t have to follow the Bible to get to heaven, but it is a recipe for happiness.

Sorrow telescopes time and rearranges it. Things that happened quickly seem in memory to have taken ages. The order becomes jumbled – which thing did I do first, which next, what then?

Chris used to say that he would spend a lot of time in the woodshed when he got to heaven, but believe me, if St. Peter takes him back there at all, it will be for the briefest of moments. The good far, far outweighed whatever bad there was. We’re all human, of course, and none of us are perfect, but Chris was far above the average part of the spectrum.