Moving Pieces. Moving Places. Moving Peacefully.
Quotes I have come across or read in books that inspire, interest and challenge me.
Everyday we have a choice. We can let fear of something that really is small compared to the greatness of God cripple us. Or we can take a risk, do something to help someone else, make a person smile, change someone’s world. Life to the fullest exists. It’s available. All we have to do is decide to get up and embrace it.
The lottery question might get you thinking about what you would do if talent and money didn’t matter. But they do. The question twentysomethings need to ask themselves is what they would do with their lives if they didn’t win the lottery.
One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
Be still, and know that I am God
Unthought knowns are those things we know about ourselves but forget somehow. These are the dreams we have lost sight of or the truths we sense but don’t say out loud. We may be afraid of acknowledging the unthought known to other people because we are afraid of what they might think. Even more often, we fear what the unthought known will then mean for ourselves and our lives.
It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
Your feelings aren’t truth. There’s only one thing that’s true and it’s the Bible. Learn now that just because you feel something doesn’t make it real.
These are the years when it will be easiest to start the lives we want. And no matter what we do, the twenties are an inflection point—the greatest reorganization—a time when the experiences we have disproportionately influence the adult lives we will lead.
I know that you can do all things;
no plan of yours can be thwarted.