Claire Bidwell Smith Quotes

We must learn to live in this world, because we have no other choice. What we do have a choice in is how we choose to live. We can remain gray and immobile in the wake of our losses or we can open ourselves up to the world, let the sunshine in, fill our surroundings with heaps of flowers, and know that we loved someone truly and deeply.

Claire Bidwell Smith

I am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye.

Claire Bidwell Smith

I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.

Claire Bidwell Smith

When you've gone through something traumatic, when you've faced death and loss as much as we have, it's only natural that it changes your entire view of life.

Claire Bidwell Smith

...the only thing really worth doing in this life is giving love to everyone around you.

Claire Bidwell Smith