I don’t think you’ve even begun to realize all there is for you to love. And I know you better than anyone, and here’s what I know about you: You have so much love to give! But I feel like you’re all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying ‘Where are the apples?

— Elizabeth Berg

Elizabeth Berg Quotes

Some things come true. They might come true in ways different than we might have predicted, but some things do come true.

— Elizabeth Berg

The heart is a small muscle with tremendous strength;.

— Elizabeth Berg

Everyone seemed to be in a blind hurry, and there was no relief in sight. Technology rushed us ever forward, and simple civility – a certain kindness and care – got sacrificed.

— Elizabeth Berg

Life has its way, and it seems to me now that the object might only be to learn how to be graceful, to understand the value of a deep kind of acceptance.

— Elizabeth Berg

We forget how ready people are to help. You can talk all you want about the evil spirit of man. But I don’t think it’s true. I think most of us are just dying to be good. And one way we can do that is to forgive the bad in others as well as in ourselves. I don’t say don’t hold people accountable. Help them be accountable. But to say those words to yourself or another? ‘I forgive you’? Most powerful words in the world.

— Elizabeth Berg

Do not carry remorse for anything in the past; in the end, it is only prideful. Let peace dwell inside you, live your life in joy, and give thanks that God has come to you in this way.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think love is all about risk. And reinvention. And honesty and revelation. And if you don’t have that in a relationship, you don’t grow, and you don’t stay true to what you started together.

— Elizabeth Berg

The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

— Elizabeth Berg

Patience is not only a virtue; it is a form of grace.

— Elizabeth Berg

You know what? That woman’s pain being greater than yours doesn’t make your pain any less. She deserves the best we can offer, and so do you. Now roll over and hike up your johnnie.

— Elizabeth Berg

Oh, what I want to do is hand my life over to someone else. That’s all. And they could rearrange everything into something that would make sense.

— Elizabeth Berg

Kids don’t really see old people. A lot of people don’t.

— Elizabeth Berg

It’s funny how, oftentimes, the people you love the most are given the least margin for error.

— Elizabeth Berg

Yes, life is a minefield at any age. Sometimes we feel pretty certain that we know what’s coming. But really, we never do. We just walk on. We have to. If we are smart we count our blessings between the darker surprises.

— Elizabeth Berg

His mother said, “Oh, it’s miserable to love, Johnny, I’m sorry to tell you so. Miserable for me, anyway, because I feel it too hard. And what happens then? What do you think? You go from the lovely direct to the pain – you can’t help it.

— Elizabeth Berg

He supposes a great many ills of adults might be cured by a nap or a good meal or a bit of timely reassurance. But adults complicate everything. They are by nature complicators. They learned to make things harder than they need to be and they learned to talk way too much.

— Elizabeth Berg

No. Real love isn’t like that. My dad says real love is when the other person is your best friend and you shouldn’t have to work hard around them, it should be, like, more natural, and you just want to be with them even if you’re not doing anything.

— Elizabeth Berg

For me, computers were like the kids in the classroom with their hands always raised, saying, Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

— Elizabeth Berg

For everything there truly is a season; if his life’s work has not taught him that, it has taught him nothing. The birth of spring, the fullness of summer, the push of glory in the fall, the quiet of winter.

— Elizabeth Berg

That’s what life is, at its best. A confession club: people admitting to doubts and fears and failures. That’s what brings us closer to one another, our imperfections.

— Elizabeth Berg
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