Laura Schroff > Quotes

“If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle. But it will never break.” —Ancient Chinese Proverb”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“Yet I believed then and I believe now that there is something in the universe that brings people who need each other together. There is something that helps two wildly disparate people somehow forge a bond. Maybe it is precisely the thing that haunts us most that makes us reach out to others we think can provide some solace.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“the things we carry with us from childhood define who we become.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“Rituals are what ground us in our lives, what give us a sense of safety and continuity. In”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“All of our stories, as much as they are about anything, are about loss. And, perhaps, they are about what might have been. I wanted happy, loving parents who danced waltzes in the living room. I wanted children of my own, desperately. We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn’t happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what might have been pales against what we have.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“It’s something I call an invisible thread. It is, as the old Chinese proverb tells us, something that connects two people who are destined to meet, regardless of time and place and circumstance. Some legends call it the red string of fate; others, the thread of destiny.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“I realize some people might not understand why the paper bags were important. But to me, they showed that someone had taken the time to make me lunch. Someone had actually thought of me; someone cared about me.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“But sometimes we are not drawn to that which is different from what we know and fear. Sometimes we are drawn to that which is exactly the same.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle. But it will never break.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“What does it mean when society says your unfit to be a mother? Are there circumstances to be factored in before that judgement is made? What if a mother is doing the best she can in the face of crushing adversity but still doesn't measure up to society's standards?
When does a mother lose her right to be a mother?”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“When we met we were just two people with complicated pasts and fragile dreams.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“What we lose and what might have been pales against what we have.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“We live in a cynical world, and sometimes our cynicism gets in the way of seeing things for what they are.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“I consider my childhood a gift," Maurice once told me. "It happened to me so I could learn the right way to raise my children.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“Look, neither of us is a superhero, nor even especially virtuous. When we met we were just two people with complicated pasts and fragile dreams. But somehow we found each other, and we became friends.
And that, you will see, made all the difference for us both.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He said, “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“But it was my father’s absences—those hours after he left and before he made it home again—that most defined my childhood and that still most define the person I’ve become.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“If love is the greatest gift of all—and I believe it is—then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone. Maurice”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“something I call an invisible thread. It is, as the old Chinese proverb tells us, something that connects two people who are destined to meet, regardless of time and place and circumstance. Some legends call it the red string of fate; others,”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“You see," Maurice said to me, beaming, "I told you I'd get a big table someday.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“I could not have known that the incident she relayed to me would, in my mind, come to define Laura and the kind of person she is.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“It’s something I call an invisible thread. It is, as the old Chinese proverb tells us, something that connects two people who are destined to meet, regardless of time and place and circumstance. Some legends call it the red string of fate; others, the thread of destiny. It is, I believe, what brought Maurice and me to the same stretch of sidewalk in a vast, teeming city—just two people out of eight million, somehow connected, somehow meant to be friends.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“motivation, confidence, and attention I’d never had growing up,” she says. “It was just being present for them. Sometimes, that’s all we need to do.”
― Laura Schroff, Angels on Earth: Inspiring Real-Life Stories of Fate, Friendship, and the Power of Kindness

“Yet I believed then and I believe now that there is something in the universe that brings people who need each other together.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“and that’s when I asked her to tell me what mattered to her in life.”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what might have been pales against what we have. I”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread