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#1

“Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.”
― Stephanie Nielson, Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy

tags: happiness, inspirational

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#2

“Don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come.”
― Jeffrey R. Holland

tags: blessings, faith, gospel, perserverance, religion, trust

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#3

“So often, we pretend we’ve made a decision, when what we’ve really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

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#4

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance

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#5

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”
― Orson F. Whitney

tags: endurance, experience, faith, fortitude, humility, pain, patience, sorrow, suffering, trial

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#6

“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.”
― Maya Angelou, Conversations with Maya Angelou (Literary Conversations

tags: freedom

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#7

“But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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#8

“Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

tags: door, first-step, journey, step

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#9

“Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

tags: daily-living, faith, mark-buchanan, the-rest-of-god

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#10

“Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

tags: bible, creation, fall, hunger, more, satisfaction, sin

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#11

“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”
― Brené Brown

tags: connection, energy, relationships

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#12

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

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#13

“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

tags: grace, holy, love, unearned-blessings, worthy

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#14

“I have decided the two choices open to me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confront me. But I can add to my problems, as I believe I have done, by dwelling on them. So, no more of that.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

tags: faith, worry

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#15

“Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.”
― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

tags: compassion, spirituality

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#16

“...the way to a friend's heart is through your ears.”
― Kristin Schell, The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard

tags: friendship, listening

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#17

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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#18

“On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now.”
― Janice Kaplan, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

tags: gratitude, happiness, not-immortal, present

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#19

“A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

tags: spirituality

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#20

“And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

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#21

“God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

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#22

“If God didn't withhold from us His very own Son, will God withhold anything we need?”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

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#23

“Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

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#24

“The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

tags: trusting-god

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#25

“An airport cannot choose to only accept arrivals and not departures; there are valid times for travel in both directions. I cannot force people to stay here longer, any more than I can force time to stand still.”
― Shasta Nelson, Friendships Don't Just Happen!: The Guide to Creating a Meaningful Circle of GirlFriends

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#26

“I realized that I couldn’t knowingly look to food for a way out when it had so clearly led me here. It wasn’t hunger that beckoned me to eat more. It wasn’t my stomach that needed to be reconciled. It was shame. It was guilt. And food can’t remedy such things”
― Andie Mitchell, It Was Me All Along

tags: binge-eating, food-addiction, self-improvement, self-love, self-realization, weight-loss

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#27

“The story emerging for me, however, tells a tale of black and brown people being held down so long that white folks have come to believe they got there on their own. The removal of legal barriers that once separated the races has done little to change the distorted belief system that lives on in the hearts and minds of millions of individuals. At this point, the only thing needed for racism to continue is for good people to do nothing.”
― Debby Irving, Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race

tags: cultural-awareness, race-relations, racism-in-america

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#28

“I’ve learned that when it comes to race, there’s no such thing as neutral: either I’m intentionally and strategically working against it, or I’m aiding and abetting the system.”
― Debby Irving, Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

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#29

“When I got honest with myself, I had to own up to the fact that I’d bought into the myth of white superiority, silently and privately, explaining to myself the pattern of white dominance I observed as a natural outgrowth of biologically wired superior”
― Debby Irving, Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

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#30

“If you don’t set your own agenda, somebody else will.” If I didn’t fill my schedule with things I felt were important, other people would fill my schedule with things they felt were important.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

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