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- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
A safe life includes following your dreams with the full knowledge that doing so is not, in any way, shape or form, safe in the traditional meaning of the word. Because living safely means dying without too many regrets. That is safe.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we're ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It's as simple as that. We're all in pain in different ways, and we don't get the help we need because we're too ashamed to talk about the pain.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we're supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person's heart is different - be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book tours are super hard for me as a raging introvert. I love humanity, but actual humans are hard for me. So something like a book tour - where I'm constantly on the road - scares the hell out of me.
- Quiet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask a woman who she is, she'll tell you who she serves and sometimes what she does. But that isn't the whole story.
- Blooms
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms, goes away, and comes back. The annual blooms for just a season, and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it's still enriched the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way, no love is wasted.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized I didn't just want to parent children in my own little home but to mother the whole world. What's the point of gaining influence if you're not going to use it?
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'll tell fear it can come along with us in our minivan, okay? But we'll just tell fear it can't drive. Sometimes we'll tell it to not even talk. Like when we tell our kids, 'Enough. No words.' We're going to play the quiet game with fear. Fear is not the boss of us.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is kind, right? It's not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as human and have all of the thoughts and feelings that I have and never be able to talk about it, ever? Guys are in desperate need of truth telling. They are in desperate need of a revolution.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making sensible family rules around cell phones and driving is a way to love yourself, your marriage, your children, and the world well.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to remember that being rejected by church is not the same as being rejected by God. God did not kick you out of church, honey. The church kicked God out of church.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When folks decide they love any institution more than the individual souls inside them, they're missing the mark.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all the time. I am so afraid that the world will not be kind to my children.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day we will finally see that when we reject any person or group of people, we reject a part of our very selves. All are one. All are in. All are God's beloved children with a place at the table.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity doesn't believe in gay marriage.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should live out our particular brand of faith, sure - but we should never force our brand of faith upon anyone else. All violence starts with the desire to change others and then never, ever ends.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in people because I believe in God. I think God knew what God was doing when God made each of us.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, we need to ignore the words people say and attend to their underlying, urgent, life or death questions: Am I valuable? Am I loved? The great thing is that the answer is easy: Yes! The answer is always yes. We don't have to think too hard.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's take our own hand and say, 'There, there, sister. You're doing a good job. I'm proud of how you're handling all this craziness down here. Don't give up. Carry on, warrior.'
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over time, I have come to believe that 'brave' does not mean what we think it does. It does not mean 'being afraid and doing it anyway.' Nope. Brave means listening to the still small voice inside and doing as it says. Regardless of what the rest of the world is saying.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Brave' is very specific and extremely personal. It can't be judged by people on the outside. Just can't. Sometimes brave means letting everyone else think you're a coward. Sometimes brave is letting everyone else down but yourself.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not bound to spend my precious days on Earth trying to keep up with the Joneses - because the Joneses are really just a bunch of folks in conference rooms changing 'trends' rapidly to create fake monthly emergencies for us.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how I like my house. I like it cute and cozy and a little funky, and I like it to feel lived in and worn, and I like the things inside of it to work. That's all. And for me, it's fine that my house's interior suggests that I might not spend every waking moment thinking about how it looks.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is suggested to us a million times a day that our bodies are projects. They aren't. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your body is not your art - it's your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.
- Alongside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I've learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It's a little dangerous.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Questions are like gifts - it's the thought behind them that the receiver really feels. We have to know the receiver to give the right gift and to ask the right question. Generic gifts and questions are all right, but personal gifts and questions feel better.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It's less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it's 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all trained by Disney to believe that the wedding is the finish line, but the wedding is just another starting line. In light of this fact, we should quit the huge, fancy, debt-inducing weddings.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young people: marry simply, start your life, and party later. Think of how much babysitting for your future colicky baby you could buy with that wedding budget. Think of how much marriage therapy you could buy. Invest in your marriage, not your wedding.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I'm the opposite of it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are going to ask for our daily bread, we've got to take the time to receive it and eat it. God provide, but we've got to slow down long enough to taste and see.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity asserts that God made himself human. Those are two different categories - two different levels of worthiness. God is one category, and human is another. That's a downgrade. After that jump, there are no more categories - no more downgrades. There are no human levels of worthiness. There is no hierarchy in God's eyes.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
If grace isn't shocking and countercultural and scandalous and a little ridiculous, then it's not Grace.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest part of living without social media was remembering that my little life was enough, so I could just stay there and live it without asking for anyone else's permission or validation. I realized that for me, posting is like asking the world, 'Do you 'like' me?'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was detoxing from social media, I realized that I was thinking in status updates. It seemed I had trained my brain to translate everything I experienced throughout the day into 140 characters or less.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parenting is the most important thing to many of us, and so it's also the place we're most vulnerable. We're all a little afraid we're doing it wrong.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think that if we are going to call ourselves pro-life, we must also agree that starvation and poverty and disease and immigration and health care for all and war and peace and the environment are also pro-life issues.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.
- Love Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do not have to agree with me to love me.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020