Sarah Dessen Quotes

A lot of people don't get second chances.

Life gives you an endless supply of do-overs.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

I had my chance. Now he has his.

Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I've forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I'm ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it's never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.

I live in a constant state of gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation for the second chance I was given, so anytime in any film, when that is given to someone, I always appreciate it.

I believe, in life, you always get a second chance.

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

The things that happen in your life are either your choices or opportunities and lessons the universe has put before you. Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.

This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?

I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.