Sarah Dessen Quotes

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

Oh, I suppose you've given me as square a deal as you could. We shouldn't expect from any person something beyond his capacity.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.

If you cannot have the thing you want, you want the thing you have.

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to resort more and more to very small, almost invisible pleasures, little extras. You've no idea how great one becomes with these little details, it's incredible how one grows.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.