Stewart O'Nan Quotes

Life is perfect for none of us. Rather than being judgmental and critical of each other, may we have the pure love of Christ for our fellow travelers in this journey through life.

It’s as easy as we choose to make it,” he murmured, pressing his forehead to mine. “At least, this decision is. Nothing’s truly easy, Georgina. Love and life . . . they’re wonderful, but they’re hard. We may mess up again. We have to be strong and decide if we can still go forward, even when things aren’t perfect.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.

People understand you make mistakes in life.

Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.

I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it

A man must take the fat with the lean.

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

I'm grateful for the experiences I've accumulated. Of course, there are certain things you wish were not on anyone's list of life experiences, but it's a life. It's a good life. And I like what's there.

You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

I'm sure we could all relate because we've all got life. Some people ain't got it

It's only life. We all get through it.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.

How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.