Top 35 Rochelle B. Weinstein Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It Is Never Too Late The last word has not yet been spoken The last sentence has not yet been written, The final verdict is not in. It is never too late To change my mind, My direction, To say no to the past, And yes to the future, To offer remorse, To ask and give forgiveness It is never too late To start over again To feel again To love again To hope again.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

2. “One day at a time means no end in sight, only another tomorrow. There are no catchy phrases to make suffering go away.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

3. “Forgiveness is the greatest act of love you can give another human being. With forgiveness comes the ability to fully love – yourself and others. And when I say love, I mean all that comes with it.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

4. “Bad things happen to good people, Zoe. It doesn’t mean you’re bad. It means the universe found a warrior in you. It chose carefully. It’s up to you how to move forward. You can choose to be the victim, or you can choose to be the warrior.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

5. “I’ve heard it said that life is about choices. Paths stretch out ahead of us- sometimes, we make conscious decisions and other times, fate intervenes and chooses for us.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

6. “Sometimes it’s better to let someone or something go. Release yourself from old wounds, and you will find that anything is possible and is very well within your reach.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

7. “When life throws a curveball, you have a decision. You can go on being angry and empty, or you can move toward peace. It’s living or dying. Choose the path that makes you feel alive.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

8. “Feelings are as real as actions, and their consequences can be just as dangerous.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

9. “We don’t always leave someone we love, or forget them, or get over them all at once. Every time they hurt us and every time we cry, we’re saying a partial good-bye until the person is eventually gone. Believe me, I’m much better off now.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

10. “Abandonment leaves a painful mark. It inks you for life, if you let it, making you believe you’re not worthy, leaving you distrustful of wishes and dreams, when they only disappoint.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

11. “Maybe there are people in the world who are meant to be alone. Maybe they touch lives for brief moments, intermittent connections with long-lasting effects. Maybe we’re meant to learn from goodbyes. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s all a bunch of nonsense that sounds good in theory but rips you apart, leaving everything broken.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

12. “Some people were put on this earth to do good, to be good. Liberty literally saved people. I think God had preserved her as a way of saying thanks.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

13. “Looking for answers distorts the truth,” I said. “It tricks you into believing you have some control over the situation. We’ll never be able to understand why bad things happen to good people, so don’t do this to yourself, Mrs. Sammler. Don’t punish yourself for things that are beyond your control.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

14. “Usually, people are never what they seem, only what we wish them to be.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

15. “No matter how hard you try, no matter the level of wishful thinking, there are some things that are beyond our control.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

16. “What makes a parent, I understood at that moment, is not so much genetics, but all the other things you give. Anyone can be a parent, but to be a mom or a dad, that takes years of giving with no thought of getting.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

17. “To see the adult version of their little girl had to be startling. Ari never resembled me as closely as this precious child did. “She’s beautiful,” I spoke, feeling the tightness in my throat. “She looks like you.” “Thank you, but I was never as pretty as she is.” “She’s a terrific kid,” she said. “You’d be very proud of her.” “You’re the one that should be proud.” “We are.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

18. “She said that when we argue with people, sometimes we get so stuck in our own heads, we can’t be objective in our responses. She recommended that I take a deep breath and consider where the other person was coming from, what baggage he carries around with him.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

19. “We can’t be the fairy tale, but might we be something better?”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

20. “Happiness wasn’t overrated. It was a gift meant to be cherished and held tight.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

21. “He stood up, and the pull toward him caught me at once. I wished I were imagining it. I wished the space that surrounded him didn’t call out to me like a palm against my skin.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

22. “There are people who spend years behind bars for unspeakable crimes, their physical constraints visible. Others commit sins, and although not punishable by law, their sentences are as confining as those in jail. The burden of my sins was condemning me, emotional constraint was my punishment. The lie that had sprouted out of love had turned into something that I realized might destroy an innocent child, a decent marriage, a good man. These were the nooses I carried around with me.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

23. “Forgiveness is the greatest act of love you can give another human being.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

24. “The thing about nostalgia is that it sneaks inside of you when you’re not expecting it. When you get used to living without someone, you think you’re immune to the emotions that grab you when they reappear.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

25. “I was changing, but I thought we would change together. So how could I be upset with him for being who he always was?”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

26. “Jonas and I, although her birth parents, had to take a step back and allow this family, this other family, to deal with their history without outside interference. She wasn’t ours to reminisce about. She wasn’t ours to debate similarities or differences. We’d lost those rights a long time ago.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

27. “Your parents have done a terrific job with you, Michelle, much better than I might have done. You need to understand the circumstances that led me to my decision. It’s not that I didn’t love you, God, I loved you too much. Things worked out for the best. You’ll understand that better when you get a little older.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

28. “You don’t always have to physically go somewhere to experience something magical.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

29. “Sometimes when you do something you love, the joy is great, but the pain is even greater.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

30. “I would have liked to have held her again. If I did, she would feel all the reasons I gave her up. She’d know how much I loved her, and how I would still do just about anything to save her.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

31. “What about my father?” “First, I want to explain something to you. I loved you. I loved you long before I ever gave birth to you. You were created from a love that some people never experience. I cared about your father very much, but there were reasons we couldn’t be together, reasons I still don’t understand today, but you have to know that there was always love. Whatever else we were missing, whatever it was we didn’t have to make it last, we always had that feeling between us.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

32. “My eyes lingered a little while longer on the nape of his neck, the round cheek, perfect little nose. He was an angel, for sure, an angel sent to me from heaven. I was amazed that the creation of someone unique was so universally known to all mothers.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

33. “I would have never gotten rid of you – that was never an option – but I also knew that I was just a kid and how could I give you the life you deserved? I wanted you in this world, and I wanted you to have everything you would ever dream of, but it wasn’t possible for me to be the one to give it to you.” She.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

34. “People can surprise you, though most of them won’t. Love is the precursor to hate.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

35. “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another. -Anatole France.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

36. “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -Albert Schweitzer.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein

37. “I liked her. It was improbable that we’d ever be friends, in the broader definition of the word, but I would have liked to have known my daughter’s mother. If friends were an option, I would have explained the reasons I had to give her up and then maybe she’d tell me why she couldn’t have kids, why they didn’t adopt more children, and what it was like the day they brought Michelle home. “I’ll.”

— Rochelle B. Weinstein