Christina Baker Kline Quotes

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.

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

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

I take whatever I can get with grace.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

You can have all you can expect and accept.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.

The best gig is the one you've got.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

The love received is the love that is saved.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'