Elizabeth Berg quotes

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. (Elizabeth Berg)
I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.
Elizabeth Berg
Sometimes you know before you know.
Elizabeth Berg
People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?
Elizabeth Berg
I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.
Elizabeth Berg
But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.
Elizabeth Berg
Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.
Elizabeth Berg
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
Elizabeth Berg
I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.
Elizabeth Berg
I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.
Elizabeth Berg
It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given. (Elizabeth Berg)
Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
Elizabeth Berg
If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.
Elizabeth Berg
I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
Elizabeth Berg
books are like confort food without the calories.
Elizabeth Berg
I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.
Elizabeth Berg
Don't let your habits become handcuffs.
Elizabeth Berg
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.
Elizabeth Berg
You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
Elizabeth Berg
The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.
Elizabeth Berg
You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart. (Elizabeth Berg)
I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.
Elizabeth Berg
But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.
Elizabeth Berg
As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
Elizabeth Berg
There is incredible value in being of service to others.
Elizabeth Berg