Vanessa Diffenbaugh famous quotes

Anyone can grow into something beautiful.
-- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#Beautiful #Grows #Something Beautiful

Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.
-- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#Hate #Passionate #Dislike

Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.
-- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#Giving #Grows #Unloved

If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.
-- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#Daughter #Believe #Roots

She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beating heart, the lungs inhaling and exhaling oxygen, my daughter knew how to scream. She knew how to make herself heard. She knew how to reach out and latch on. She knew what she needed to do to survive. I didn’t know how it was possible that such perfection could have developed within a body as flawed as my own, but when I looked into her face, I saw that it clearly was.
-- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#Daughter #Heart #Oxygen

Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.
-- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#Choices #Behavior #Who You Are

The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

Let me explain it to you then. I just had a beautiful girl trust me enough to touch her and see her in a way no one else ever has. I got to hold her and watch her and feel her as she came apart in my arms. It was like nothing else I'd ever experienced. She was breathtaking and she was responding to me. She wanted me. I was the one making her spiral out of control.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow.

Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible.

A beam in darkness: let it grow.

Grow enough to be consistently happy.

Make something beautiful before you are dead.