5/15/26 - WORTH REPEATING

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Fill your church with multitudes and with eloquence and with incense and with color till the eye is weighted by its oppressiveness, but if the waiting, panting, broken heart is not there, Christ is miles away, yes, on the other side of the horizon, with His back to us. The Son of Man came to seek and save that which is lost. He comes to our poverty, weakness, and self-renunciation, not to our wealth and strength and self-assertion. 

- Joseph Parker in In His Presence: Daily Devotionals Through the Gospel of Matthew, compiled and edited by Lance Wubbels 

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Failure aint the opposite of success.
Its part of the syllabus.

~Snoop Dogg // 1/17/26 Facebook post

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Goodness and beauty and contentment; they grow the deepest roots in the darkest places. They just do. And it's not a good time. But it's also like really, really beautiful, and sometimes just enough of a glimmer in your hard season to help you get through another day. So if you are in that place, in a place of just wishing this would all be over, be honest and kind in it. 

~ Kendra Adachi // 12 Ways to Be a Better Problem Solver, Part 2 // The Lazy Genius

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Because if you want to grow, something has to go. Growth always involves goodbyes. Not just to possessions, but to habits, routines, expectations, sometimes people or past versions of ourselves. This is where our progress often slows down. We say we want to change but we hesitate when it asks something from us. So we delay the decision. We keep what's familiar. We carry more than we need to. But every step forward requires something to be left behind. Of course the clearer you are about who you want to become, the easier it becomes to release what no longer supports that life. So you get clear on the person you want to be and the life you want to live. Then start saying goodbye to everything that isn't that. 

~ Joshua Becker // 4/7/26 Facebook reel // Becoming Minimalist 

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You know, trust is the oxygen of all human relationships. So you starve a relationship of trust and you will starve it, of its vibrancy, potentially you'll even starve it to death.

~ Lysa TerKeurst // 7 Things That Build and Break Trust in Your Marriage // Therapy and Theology

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1/18/26 - WORTH REPEATING

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People are complicated. And the longer you live, the more you realize the most inexcusable behavior often stems from the saddest traumas.

~ Brandon Stanton // Humans of New York, 10/12/25 post


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(I)f I waited for the other person, the person who hurt me, if I wait for them to own what they did and say they're sorry, I may attach my wellbeing to the person who's hurt me the most for the rest of my life. And the severing can only happen is if I detach my ability to heal and move forward and recognize forgiveness is not so much giving a gift to this person. Forgiveness is God's prescription for the human heart to heal. It's much more about me and God.

~ Lysa TerKeurst // How To Forgive When the Hurt Was So Unfair // Therapy & Theology

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Being thoughtful does not require anyone to say anything to you about what you did. Being impressive absolutely requires someone else saying something to you about what you did.

~ Kendra Adachi // 10 Ways to Simplify a Holiday Gathering // The Lazy Genius

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I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so.

~ George Washington Carver // 1440 Daily Digest,  1/5/26 edition

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Don't measure every day against your best day. Don't do it.

~ Kendra Adachi // 12 Ways to Be a Better Problem Solver, Part 1 // The Lazy Genius

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10/1/25 - WORTH REPEATING

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An excuse is just the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

~ Jim Cress // Is Pornography Actually Harmful? // Therapy & Theology 

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Reducing stress does not come because you're adequately prepared. Reducing stress comes because you're cultivating the skills of adjusting and noticing in addition to preparation. You're doing all three. 

~ Kendra Adachi // A Pep Talk for the Middle of the Year Blur // The Lazy Genius Podcast

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We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

~ Tom Hanks // 1440 Daily Digest, 7/9/25 edition

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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

~ Alex Haley // 1440 Daily Digest, 8/11/25 edition

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We will steer where we stare.

~ Lysa TerKeurst // When Divorce Makes You Feel Like You Weren't Enough // Therapy & Theology

3/3/25 - WORTH REPEATING

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I want to enjoy today, and celebrate today, instead of just living with longing for a possible future.

~ Crystal Paine // The Crystal Paine Show // Lessons Learned from 22 Years of Marriage and 20 Years of Parenting

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One of the biggest things I'm trying to point out is there's liturgical realms of worship happening in the way that we swipe and unlock and what we look at and when we look at it. And so, to bring that point to a close, the way that we should think about our ordinary small rhythms is we should think about them as daily liturgies of worship to something. And what we want to do is say, "How can my regular ordinary day of work or parenting or life be filled with gospel liturgies of worship to the God who actually is and actually loves me back. 

~ Justin Whitmel Earley // Daily Grace Podcast // Habits of Purpose with Justin Whitmel Earley 

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I just think that until we're willing to let Jesus touch our wounds, we won't know what it's like to hear his invitation to let us touch his.

~ Quina Aragon // Daily Grace Podcast // Experiencing the Love of God with Quina Aragon

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You don't have to be blooming to be growing.

~ Ruth Chou Simons // The GraceLaced Podcast // You Don't Have to be Blooming to be Growing

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Am I allowing the fear that someone is basically projecting on my future to steal the joy of today?

~ Crystal Paine // The Crystal Paine Show // Quietly Rebelling Against the Narrative of Fear

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1/4/25 - WORTH REPEATING

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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate action of its members.

~ Coretta Scott King 1440 Daily Digest, 4/27/24 edition

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You only learn from people who have different ideas than you. And if you just seek a constant stream of confirmation about what you already believe, about what you already think you know, you are not stretching yourself. You are not learning. It's like going to the gym and lifting weights that you know you can already lift. You're never going to get stronger. You're never going to get in better shape. You're never going to get more fit. You're just going to become this echo chamber of opinions that don't go anywhere. ~ John Delony // Navigating Political Discourse & Engaging Different Worldviews // The Dr. John Delony Show

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Time doesn't heal all wounds. It's what we plant in the soil of time that determines whether we are headed toward healing or toward bitterness.

~ Lysa TerKeurst // How Can I Trust God When I Don't Understand What He Allows? // Therapy & Theology

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Ask yourself about the kind of life you want: What would you do day to day, and with whom, and where? Consider the life you have. Do one thing today, however small, to close the gap between the two.

~ Dame Maggie Smith //  1440 Daily Digest, 12/28/24 edition

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Bad things are always happening loudly: the injury, the flat tire, the mistake that gets you criticized. Everybody talks about the moments that make things a hassle.

Good things are always happening quietly: the completed workout, the healthy meal, the ten minutes of writing. Nobody talks about the little moments that add up.

What good things have you done quietly today?

~ James Clear // 3-2-1 Thursday, 1/2/25 edition

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4/28/24 - WORTH REPEATING

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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

~ Vanessa Williams // 1440 Daily Digest, 3/18/23 edition

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Privacy is withholding information for the sake of healing. Secrecy is withholding information for the sake of hiding so that bad behavior can continue.

~ Lysa Terkeurst // How Do I Talk Divorce With My Kids? // Therapy and Theology

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I think stories are empathy engines. They create these bridges between us.

~ R. Eric Thomas // Insightful and Entertaining Memoirs // What Should I Read Next?

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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different hopes, different dreams.

~ Jimmy Carter // America the Beautiful: Together We Stand, written by Katharine Lee Bates, illustrated by Bryan Collier, Raul Colon, Diane Goode, Mary Grandpre, John Hendrix, Yuyi Morales, Jon J. Muth, LeUyen Pham, Sonia Lynn Sadler, and Christ Soentpiet, and compiled by Orchard Books

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A fact is information minus emotion. An opinion is information plus experience. Ignorance is an opinion lacking information. Stupidity is an opinion that ignores a fact. 

~ unknown

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3/11/24 - WORTH REPEATING

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If you are breathing today, life still holds opportunity.

~ When Life Feels Far from What You Imagined // Joshua Becker // Becoming Minimalist

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If you find yourself caught in the relentless pursuit of wealth, take a moment to reflect on what truly matters to you. Remember that money can buy comfort and convenience, but not happiness or fulfillment. Find your balance and nurture the aspects of life that are truly priceless.

~ I was determined to be rich, but then life showed me why the greatest joys aren’t things you can buy. // Tina Fey // HackSpirit

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The pain of being homeless - the endless waiting in welfare offices, the thoughtless dismissal, the terror of the streets, the endlessness of the long, dreary days, especially Sundays. The burdensome struggle to carry everything you own with you, the desperation of loneliness, the fear when the sun goes down, the biting cold of a careless February afternoon. The longing to have just five minutes alone with your kid for just one night, the distant memory of shared moments of joy and peace a long, long time ago. These are all real things that happen to real people.

~ Kip Tiernan, quoted in Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie's Place, the Nation's First Shelter for Women // Christine McDonnell and Victoria Tentler-Krylov

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We may impress people with our successes. But we connect with people through our weakness.

~ How to Have Meaningful Relationships in an Increasingly Digital World // Joshua Becker // Becoming Minimalist

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A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results. 

~ Bennet Cerf // Winning Words: Quotations to Uplift, Inspire, Motivate and Delight // Allen Klein

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10/29/23 - WORTH REPEATING

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

- Queen Elizabeth II // 1440 Daily Digest,  9/9/23 edition


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"Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt, CJ, you're a better witness for what's beautiful."

~ Last Stop on Market Street, written by Matt De La Pena and illustrated by Christian Robinson

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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg // 1440 Daily Digest,  9/18/23 edition

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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

~ BB King // 1440 Daily Digest,  9/16/23 edition

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

~ George Washington // You're My Friend So I Brought You This Book, edited by John Marvin

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People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

~ Joseph Newton // You're My Friend So I Brought You This Book, edited by John Marvin

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8/26/23 - WORTH REPEATING

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Poem

Fingerprints look like ripples
because time keeps dropping
another stone into our palm.

~ Bill Knott, quoted in 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, selected and with an introduction by Billy Collins

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Your truth is the whisper in the chaos.

~ King of Glory  // All Sons & Daughters // All Sons & Daughters

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Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.

~ Those Who Remain: A Postapocalyptic Novel // G. Michael Hopf

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The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile."

- Julia Child // quoted in 8/15/23 1440 Daily Digest

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Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the one who is beloved.

~ St. Augustine

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7/17/23 - WORTH REPEATING

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There is no such thing as a difficult person. There are just people with whom we are not doing a great job of managing our own minds and emotions.

~ ~ Julia Kristina Mah // How Emotionally Intelligent People Deal with Difficult People // Simplify Magazine, September 2019, quoted in 2/10/23 Simplify Magazine Inspiration e-mail

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The measure of a man is not how many servants he has, but how many men he serves.

~ Dwight L. Moody

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Cheerfulness is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

~ Anonymous // Winning Words: Quotations to Uplift, Inspire, Motivate and Delight, compiled by Allen Klein

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If you want to stop getting slivers in your toes, you can go out and pad the world in rubber or you can put on a pair of shoes.

~ Julia Kristina Mah // How Emotionally Intelligent People Deal with Difficult People // Simplify Magazine, September 2019, quoted in 2/10/23 Simplify Magazine Inspiration e-mail

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Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

~ Tina Fey // quoted in 5/18/23 1440 Daily Digest 

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5/9/23 - WORTH REPEATING

Hurt and hope can co-exist. 

~ Toni Collier // Discovering Hope & Healing After Brokenness // The Crystal Paine Show

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One doesn't have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. 

~ Charles M. Blow // unknown context // quoted on Facebook

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Content people may not have the best of everything, but they MAKE the best of everything.

~ Dave Ramsey // Dave Ramsey Facebook page

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Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

~ Adolphe Monod


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Happiness doesn’t arise from making everything in our lives perfect. It comes from embracing life as it is and finding small moments of gratitude, joy, kindness, beauty, and human connection within it. By truly being present for those moments and being grateful for them, we find so much joy and the resilience to weather life’s storms.

~ Nataly Kogan // A Case for Enjoying Little Moments, Even When Life Sucks // Simplify Magazine, March 2019, quoted in the 4/10/23 Simplify Magazine Inspiration e-mail 

1/20/23 - WORTH REPEATING

First, being present. Which I get, it's like, kind of overused these days. But for me, being present means caring so much about the thing you're doing or the person you're with that you stop caring about all the other things you need to do. And it's essential in delivering unreasonable hospitality. See, so often we have such long to-do lists that we aren't able to slow down enough to actually listen to the people around us, to the things they're saying and all the things they're not saying.

Will Guidara // The Secret Ingredients of Great Hospitality // TED Talks

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It does not take a big budget to start infusing this into your culture, because remember, it's not the cost of the gesture that matters. It's how it makes people feel. 

Will Guidara // The Secret Ingredients of Great Hospitality // TED Talks

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Marriage means responsibility. 

~ Victor Moore as Aloysius T. McKeever // It Happened on 5th Avenue

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A house, any house, is only what its occupants make it.  

~ Victor Moore as Aloysius T. McKeever // It Happened on 5th Avenue


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Here’s the thing. In Revelations, it says to us that there will be worshipers in Heaven from every tribe, language, nation and people group. To me, I don’t take that lightly. And so my point there is if we really want to have a more accurate picture of who God is, then we need to be more intimately engaged with all God’s people. And I think one of the things in the West, we’ve crippled ourself and our own discipleship because our pride helps us to think that we, because we have more money, we have more education, we have more power, we can dictate to everyone else who God is and how we should respond to God and what God is like. 

But the irony to that to me is that the number of people that are considering themselves people of faith, or going to church, particularly as Christians is declining in the United States. That is not the case in Asia. It’s not the case in Africa. So I think there’s a certain amount of humility is required to say, what can we learn from the global church? What can we learn from all God’s people, people from every tribe, language, nations and people group?

~ Natasha Sistrunk Robinson // Voices of Lament with Natasha Sistrunk Robinson and Mariah Humphries // Emily P. Freeman's The Next Right Thing

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8/27/22 - WORTH REPEATING

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The best way to learn something is when it is relevant and necessary and meaningful to the learner.

~ Carlo Ricci // Learn by Doing // The Costco Connection - August 2022

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Have a good day, today. And if you can’t. Well, then help someone else have one.

Because that’s the same thing.

~ Sean Dietrich // I Hope // Sean of the South 

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1. Humbly observe where the people around you are struggling.
2. Identify the next smallest thing you can do to address that struggle.
3. Do that thing. Do it right now.
4. Repeat the process.

~ John Pattison // Why I Started Reading the Local Newspaper // Strong Towns

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Match your expectations to the energy you're willing to give.

~ Kendra Adachi // How to Pack Lunch for Work // The Lazy Genius Podcast

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It’s amazing when you think about the opportunities that each of us have, every day, to bring good into this world—even from the humblest of places. To think we must accomplish a certain degree of worldly success before we can be a meaningful source for good is to miss out on the opportunities right in front of us each day.

~ Joshua Becker // The Impact You Can Have From a Small Space // Becoming Minimalist

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6/21/22 - WORTH REPEATING

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Everything we say at funerals should be said at birthday parties instead. We leave so much love unspoken. 

~ jmadhu, quoted from Twitter on Facebook

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As I've defined it many times, faith is acting like God is telling the truth. Or another way, acting like it is so, even when it's not so, in order that it might be so, simply because God said so. 

As we have stated so often, faith is measured by your feet, not by your feelings. Your feelings are the caboose, your movement is the engine.

~ Tony Evans // Never Give Up // OnePlace

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Your life is an occasion. Rise to it. 

~ Dustin Hoffman as Mr. Magorium // Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

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Why is it so much easier to be unkind when you can't see the person? Herein, I think, lies the answer: when we speak unkindly to someone's face, we can see hurt. We can see pain. But our devices take that connection, that physical connection, and break it off so that we can no longer see a person's eyes fill with tears or the red climbing into their cheeks. We have lost the ability to be ashamed of ourselves for these comments, and I think that in this, we are losing the ability to communicate with each other as a whole.

~ Cecilia Landis // Kindness and Critique // The Stories Between Us

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Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.

~ Lila Green // Winning Words: Quotations to Uplift, Inspire, Motivate and Delight, compiled by Allen Klein

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8/16/21 - WORTH REPEATING

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I’m really proud that I’m still interested. Not ‘interesting’—that’s a different thing. I mean interested. I’m still interested in the world. ‘Interested’ feeds me, and if that makes me interesting-- then great.

~ 5/29/21 interview on Humans of New York

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Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be important, wonderful. If you want to be recognized, wonderful. If you want to be great, wonderful. But recognize that he who is the greatest among you shall be your servant. That's your new definition of greatness. And ... the thing that I like about it, by giving that definition of greatness, means that everybody can be great. 

~ Martin Luther King Jr. in The Drum Major Instinct, as quoted in The House That Love Built: Why I Opened My Door to Immigrants and How We Found Hope Beyond a Broken System, written by Sarah Jackson with Scott Sawyer

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I've been a fool, went down
Thought I could walk the line
Be just in time to turn it back around
But I fall through that old forbidden door
And though I knew the stakes
Still made my way
Just like every time before

I'm over my head and lost
And no, there's no way I'm able to pay back the cost
But this I call, this I call to mind
That I'm not alone
And I can come back home anytime

So I'll go, to the storehouse I'll go
To the storehouse of mercy, I'll go

~ The Gray Havens in Storehouse on She Waits 

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Expectations are premeditated resentments. 

~ probably from Alcoholics Anonymous, but I can't find confirmation

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If you watch HGTV too long, you’ll become dissatisfied with your home. If you stay on social media too long, you’ll become dissatisfied with your life. If you watch the news too long, you’ll become dissatisfied with the world.

Unplug.
Pray.
Read any book.
Spend time with loved ones.
Take a walk.

Our minds are easily influenced, but we control what the influences are. Choose wisely.

~ Ash Alles

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3/12/21 - WORTH REPEATING

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Wherever I run, wherever I am

Healing is found in the scars on your hand

And though I may wander, though I may fail

There you are calling to me

Lifted me up

Now I can see

You made the way

There's mercy for me

~ Mercy for Me by Athey Music

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It is with books as with women; where a certain plainness of manner of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel, which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections. 

~ David Hume, quoted in Sublime Thoughts, compiled by James Clarence Harvey

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That's the thing about judging by external appearances.

Most people trying to impress you with them aren't worth emulating.

And those living the most meaningful lives have long since given up trying to impress you with a fancy coat. 

~ Joshua Becker in Don't Judge By External Appearances at Becoming Minimalist

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A person who calls himself frank and candid can very easily find himself becoming tactless and cruel. A person who prides himself on being tactful can find eventually that he has become evasive and deceitful.

A person with firm convictions can become pigheaded. A person who is inclined to be temperate and judicious can sometimes turn into someone with weak convictions and banked fires of resolution.

Loyalty can lead to fanaticism. Caution can become timidity. Freedom can become license. Confidence can become arrogance. Humility can become servility.

All these are ways in which strength can become weakness.

~ Dore Schary in the 12/9/93 Bits and Pieces (I heard someone quote this and have only found it sourced online from a 1993 edition of Bits and Pieces. I don't know what that publication is, but they used the quote 13 years after Schary died and I'm not sure where it was originally spoken or published.)

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A good woman is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

~ unknown, quoted in Sublime Thoughts, compiled by James Clarence Harvey

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12/1/20 - WORTH REPEATING

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And what I’ve discovered is that thoughts running wild will lead to emotions running wild. And when emotions are left unchecked, life gets heavy really fast.

~ Heather Aardema in Rising with a New Routine at No Sidebar

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I made that decision in anger. It was the biggest mistake of my life. 

~ Geoffrey Rush as Michael Kingley in Storm Boy

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"I want to be rich."

"That's not a goal; it's a result." 

~ Baotian Li as Grandfather and Xin Yi Yang as Ren Xing in The Nightingale

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This is what I know. In the deepest, blackest night of despair, if you can get just one pinhole of light ... all of grace rushes in. 

~ Tim Ferris quoting Auburn Sandstrom in The Story of a Curious Phone Call at The Tim Ferriss Show

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Most people get married believing a myth, that marriage is a beautiful box full of all the things they have longed for - companionship, intimacy, friendship.

The truth is that marriage, at the start, is an empty box. You must put something in before you can take anything out. There is no love in marriage; love is in people, and people put it into marriage. There is no romance in marriage; people have to infuse it into their marriages. 

A couple must learn the art and form the habit of giving, loving, serving, praising - keeping the box full. If you take out more than you put in, the box will be empty.

~ Dr. J. Allan Peterson

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5/13/20 - WORTH REPEATING

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It's cool when you give from the hip; it's a game-changer when you give from the heart.

~ Michael Jr. on More Than Funny


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Even simple jobs or simple ideas, backed by worthy causes, are ... that's the best you can do.

~ Casey Roman in Van Life: The Duck of Justice


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Is the spirit you reflect building your marriage or building a wall?

~ Judy Slaughter in To Love Their Husbands, part two on 4/7/20


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No matter how hard things get, the birds always sing in the morning.

~ Zoo 


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Pride is the greatest of all evils that beset us, and of all our enemies it is that which dies the slowest and hardest.

~ J. N. Darby, quoted in Brokenness, Surrender, Holiness: A Revive Our Hearts Trilogy, written by Nancy Leigh DeMoss


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4/1/20 - WORTH REPEATING

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Some people are proud and conceited because they ride a fine horse, wear a feather in their hat, and are expensively dressed, but who can fail to see their folly, or that if any one has reason to be proud over such things, it would be the horse, the bird, and the tailor!

~ Introduction to the Devout Life, written by St. Francis de Sales

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If you dislike someone, dislike them alone. Don't recruit others to join your cause.

~ TobyMac's Facebook page


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Visual enjoyment of the natural world is the most effective tool for motivating learning and understanding. The more tantalizing the visual stimulation, the more an individual wants to know about the object of their desire.

~ Christopher Marley in his Exquisite Creatures display at OMSI


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Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.

~ Charles Spurgeon


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The waves that are rolling over your head are the same waves that are still under Jesus' feet.

~ Brett Meador teaching from Mark 14:22-33 at Athey Creek Christian Fellowship


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1/15/20 - WORTH REPEATING

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To be without friends is a serious form of poverty.

~ It Happened on 5th Avenue


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If you want to learn how to enjoy life and craft something you do not need to escape from, you can do so. It may require you to change your mindset, your pursuits, or where you focus your energy, but it is always worth it.

~ Joshua Becker in How to Craft A Life You Don’t Need to Escape From on Becoming Minimalist

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We don’t have to monetize or optimize or organize our joy. Hobbies don’t have to be imbued with a purpose beyond our own enjoyment of them. They, alone, can be enough.

~ Molly Conway in The Modern Trap of Turning Hobbies Into Hustles on Man Repeller

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We are loved when we are carried, and loved when we are the carriers.


~ Emilie Kleiner in this Facebook photo


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I want a life I cannot pay for
I want a life I can't afford to live without
I want a life I cannot pay for
I want a life I can't afford to be missing out

I don't wanna be 85, singing
"Oh, no, I think I missed it, I was chasing money"
I don't wanna be 85, singing
"Oh, no, I got a big house, but my heart is ugly"

~ Andy Grammer in 85 on The Good Parts

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