74 Quotes by Viola Shipman

I hear my family’s voices in the jangling of my charms.

Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.’” He.

We have all been given a seed of faith, but it is up to us to spread that around. We must believe in ourselves, have faith in what we don’t understand. When we do, the world will open. You will no longer fear.

Think what a better world it would be if... the whole world had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.

These charms capture every moment of my life... and yours, too. None of us would be sitting here today without them. They tell the story of where we’ve been, how far we’ve come, and where we still hope to go. I still believe that my life is like that dragonfly charm I gave you when you were a girl: Despite any sadness, it has been filled with good fortune.

The worst thing in the world is to have regrets. You will always have a few, but they shouldn’t be ones that keep you up at night.

What wish did you grant me?” Lolly asked. “I can’t tell you,” the little girl said very seriously. “But if you believe, it will come true.

Life is but a short journey, filled with such horror and beauty, that too often allows our potential and destiny to die unfulfilled or allow us to bloom in ways we never imagined. But I – all of us – really have only one joint destiny: to leave this world a better place for those who follow.

You can create and be anything in this world that you want to be... Your imagination should be limitless.