Ann Brashares Quotes

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.

I don't really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.

I've had a lot of ups and a lot of downs, but I don't look back on anything with regret.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.

Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I don't have any regrets.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.