Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

- Joan Bauer

You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

- Joan Bauer

We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when w…

- Joan Bauer

I'm working hard to have a good life. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourse…

- Joan Bauer

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

- Joan Bauer

Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to…

- Joan Bauer

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be fle…

- Joan Bauer

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting…

- Joan Bauer

Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face.

- Joan Bauer