Top 70 Viola Shipman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Take a cup of love Add a dash of care Mix with kindness Add a bit of patience Top it off with faith Sprinkle liberally with understanding Share with everyone you meet.”

— Viola Shipman

2. “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, then you can move mountains. Nothing will be impossible.”

— Viola Shipman

3. “You can’t stop time. You can only hope you use it wisely.”

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4. “Fear doesn’t prevent death. It prevents life. Naguib Mahfouz.”

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5. “Most people sleepwalk through life playing the game. They’re like sheeple.” “Sheeple?” “Part people, part sheep,” he says, “following the herd mentality.”

— Viola Shipman

6. “Friends are the pieces who complete us, the pieces that complete life’s puzzle.”

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7. “You can create and be anything in this world that you want to be... Your imagination should be limitless.”

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8. “If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life.”

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9. “The daisies remind you to be happy. The hydrangeas remind you to be colorful. The lilacs remind us to breath deeply. The pansies reflect our own images back at us. The hollyhocks remind us to stand tall in this world. And the roses – oh, the roses! – they remind us that beauty is always present even amongst the thorns.”

— Viola Shipman

10. “Pablo Picasso once said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Lauren.”

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11. “But if you’d have a mind at peace and a heart that cannot harden, Go find a gate that opens wide upon a little garden.”

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12. “Life is but a short journey, filled with such horror and beauty, that too often allows our potential and destiny to die unfulfilled or allow us to bloom in ways we never imagined. But I – all of us – really have only one joint destiny: to leave this world a better place for those who follow.”

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13. “Isn’t an ordinary life a grand one all its own, filled with great drama and tragedy, hopes, love, losses, and dreams?”

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14. “Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.’” He.”

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15. “Tell me about the loons,” Lolly would always reply. And he would. “They mate forever, just like humans,” he would tell her. “They always come home, to the same place, same lake, every year, as soon as the ice thaws. They are territorial, and mates will defend their home from other loons. Small lakes can only accommodate one pair of loons, so they are always together, and they always talk to each other.”

— Viola Shipman

16. “But sometimes-at the strangest times- I think God forces us to stop for a moment, be still and reflect on our lives. Either we choose to pay attention or we don’t... and I think that often determines the path we take.”

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17. “It’s up to us to remember how multifaceted we are and to celebrate all those odd little angles we have which make us who we are.”

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18. “Draw outside the lines! Make the sky purple instead of blue! That’s what it looks like to dreamers!”

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19. “What is the only city with three dotted letters in a row?” Willo interrupted. “Beijing,” Angelo laughed.”

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20. “There’s only one way to tackle life, enjoy a day at the beach, and jump into a Great Lake: Headfirst!”

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21. “The only things we can control are our happiness, our destiny, our impact on others. Rest is up to God.”

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22. “Sometimes you have to realize that the only constant in life is change.”

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23. “Think what a better world it would be if... the whole world had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.”

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24. “These charms capture every moment of my life... and yours, too. None of us would be sitting here today without them. They tell the story of where we’ve been, how far we’ve come, and where we still hope to go. I still believe that my life is like that dragonfly charm I gave you when you were a girl: Despite any sadness, it has been filled with good fortune.”

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25. “I hear my family’s voices in the jangling of my charms.”

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26. “It’s not about being religious. It’s about knowing that life and the world are way too intricate to just end like this.” He.”

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27. “You don’t need permission to have fun. Fun is the one thing we can do anytime we want. Fun is always free!”

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28. “We can’t see everyone’s past – the hardships and sadness people have gone through is often buried deep – but we all have the ability to continue growing until the world is able to witness our growth and beauty.”

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29. “What wish did you grant me?” Lolly asked. “I can’t tell you,” the little girl said very seriously. “But if you believe, it will come true.”

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30. “We too often let others take our dreams from us. We let fear overwhelm us. We take the path of least resistance. We stop trying to build our own castle.”

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31. “The worst thing in the world is to have regrets. You will always have a few, but they shouldn’t be ones that keep you up at night.”

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32. “This charm is a reminder to live a life in which you become a person of many dimensions. Only that way will you become a whole, happy person.”

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33. “Change is inevitable. Forgetting is inexcusable.”

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34. “Life has not always been easy on her... yet she has somehow managed not only to survive but also to believe in the beauty of the world. She has remained an optimist. She has fun in this life, no matter what. I’ve learned that you can plan your life all you want, but you can’t control it. You have to dive headfirst into it, experience its joys and pains... you have to live... and then you have to share those stories with the ones you love before its too late.”

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35. “I didn’t just see fireworks, I felt them. I felt like I’d eaten a million lightning bugs when I was with him. He made my soul brighter, and that’s all you can ask for when you’re in love.”

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36. “The morning light shimmered through the trees and gave the lake an otherworldly hue. Everything in summer Michigan seemed to have a soft shimmer to it, as though God had hung gauze over the sky and softly scattered glitter on all His creations.”

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37. “Give a piece of yourself. You will never realize how deep of a footprint you might make on a stranger.”

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38. “You must remember, unhappiness can consume you entirely, without you realizing. Happiness is a choice.”

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39. “My mom says tears are just too much emotion, like when the bathtub overfills... and she says hugs are like Band-Aids.”

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40. “Love is being dependent on another, in life and spirit. That’s a rare blessing, isn’t it?” Don.”

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41. “Do what makes you happy. It sounds so simple and yet it’s so hard, because few of us do. We live out of fear. We live for others, their hopes and expectations. We do what makes everyone else happy.”

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42. “If we’re good to Mother Nature, she will be good to us, he always used to tell her. Same goes for people.”

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43. “Think of what you could be, not what everyone else wants you to be.”

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44. “We have all been given a seed of faith, but it is up to us to spread that around. We must believe in ourselves, have faith in what we don’t understand. When we do, the world will open. You will no longer fear.”

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45. “She smiled... and let loose a happy scream that seemed to release decades of insecurity, unhappiness, obsessiveness and worry.”

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46. “You can’t schedule fun, and you can’t put it off for the future. At some point, you just have to say to heck with everything and dive in headfirst.”

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47. “There is no bad luck. There is only life, and it’s heartbreaking and awful sometimes, but it’s still beautiful and precious.”

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48. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson.”

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49. “Hope that something beautiful would grow despite the harsh winter, the frozen earth and a world that was constantly at war.”

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50. “Life involves loss, grief and setbacks. How we choose to deal with all of that is living. I woke up, and I choose to just live in the moment today.”

— Viola Shipman