Sarah Dessen Quotes

There is always someone worse off than yourself.

I pretty much stay true to myself and try to find the good in people and not be snarky.

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.

So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh.

There's always someone that's dealing with a bigger challenge than you are. You've gotta have perspective.

Not everybody is going to understand you. You can't please everybody. That's just human nature. Everybody has their opinion, and that's going to be there. You deal with it. You take it in stride. You take the good with the bad, the bad with the good. That's part of life.

I don't sit around feeling sorry for myself. There's always somebody who's a lot worse off than you.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my skin and just sort of scurry away. But being able to pick up on that stuff and being able to easily identify the people walking towards the light instead of walking towards the darkness, that's a skill I'm very, very glad to see growing in myself.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it's pretty hard to go wrong.

There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead.

I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.

Things never are as bad as they seem.

I'll have these internal moments where I'm empathizing with someone else or feeling something myself, but I'm like, "How can I see the best in this situation?" Sometimes those are the moments where you can have the most clarity.

Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest

I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.