Laurel Lee Quotes

"A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again."
- Laurel Lee
(Related: Heart, Thoughts, Pain, Play)

"Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating."
- Laurel Lee
(Related: Faith, Humor, Difficulties)

"I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place."
- Laurel Lee
(Related: Children, Giving, Privilege, Want)

"I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven."
- Laurel Lee
(Related: Countries, Heaven)

"It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything."
- Laurel Lee
(Related: Peace, Time, Dream, Discontent, Now, Open)