I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.
Jennifer Elisabeth
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Just to be a person. You know? Y... LEILA SALES Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re aroun... WARSAN SHIRE Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You ... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY Embrace your strengths, but admit your weaknesses. Be smart enough to realize that, while you’re g... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Your health, your experiences, and your life do not have to be at the mercy of your negative emotion... SUSAN BARBARA APOLLON It takes a really long time to realize this, but if you’re lucky you eventually see that you’ve ... C. JOYBELL C. Whenever we talk about darkness and light, the terms seem so abstract that many consider the answers... ROBIN SACREDFIRE You know what I like about you, Finch? You’re interesting. You’re different. And I can talk to y... JENNIFER NIVEN Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or... 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ZAK BAGANS You’re not just different, you’re exceptional. And I think it’s time that I make you feel that... KANDI STEINER Believe in your abilities.Your negative thoughts about yourself send a signal throughout the world t... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. ... RICK WARREN It is nearly impossible to feel anything negative in here. Because you’re really connected, to eve... COLLEEN CHEN Sometimes he wakes so far from himself that he can’t even remember who he is. “Where am I?” he... HANYA YANAGIHARA Exactly what it sounded like, Munchkin. You want to live here in a Sentinel compound then you’re g... R.L. MATHEWSON Patches don’t look it, but when attached to your soul they can get pretty heavy. They go over the ... NATHAN REESE MAHER …there’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually de... R.C. SPROUL I wish you could tell me where you are now. I mean, I know you’re dead, but I think there must be ... AVA DELLAIRA You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, y... MITCH ALBOM Keep making pretty music on the inside, even when you feel like you’re dying on the outside. SCOTTIE SOMERS Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, y... E.A. BUCCHIANERI "Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just a... CULT OF DONE The world is a mystery. This, what you’re looking at, is not all there is to it. There is much mor... CARLOS CASTANEDA I know that you and your girls have been told for years on end that you just don’t pass up any opp... STEVE HARVEY All drama is about lies. 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ELISABETH ELLIOT I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can h... ELISABETH SHUE He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to... ELISABETH SUSSMAN He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to... ELISABETH SUSSMAN Part of the challenge in this country is encouraging people to save enough for retirement, but an eq... ELISABETH GEHL Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s... ELISABETH ELLIOT We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevi... ELISABETH ELLIOT When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Hi... ELISABETH ELLIOT The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the ... ELISABETH ELLIOT We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you h... ELISABETH ELLIOT But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do ... ELISABETH ELLIOT God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justi... ELISABETH ELLIOT Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less,... ELISABETH ELLIOT If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril i... ELISABETH ELLIOT One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when a... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for. ELISABETH ELLIOT Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you ELISABETH ELLIOT The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will no... ELISABETH ELLIOT Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logic... ELISABETH ELLIOT The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appe... ELISABETH ELLIOT Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward... ELISABETH ELLIOT I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself ... ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t... ELISABETH ELLIOT If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is... ELISABETH ELLIOT The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mom... ELISABETH HASSELBECK One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lif... ELISABETH ELLIOT The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances. ELISABETH ELLIOT What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may... ELISABETH ELLIOT I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I d... ELISABETH ELLIOT Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in ... ELISABETH SHUE I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have.... ELISABETH SHUE I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play. ELISABETH SHUE She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is... ELISABETH SHUE Writing? Pshhh, this is art. NOELLE ELISABETH The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much ELISABETH FOLEY Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of conta... ELISABETH ELLIOT Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have e... ELISABETH HASSELBECK I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the m... ELISABETH HASSELBECK Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desi... ELISABETH SHUE I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimula... ELISABETH SHUE Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, ... ELISABETH LENK To pursue the thing she needed to do, Virginia Woolf wrote, “a woman must have money and a room of... ELISABETH EAVES Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive. ELISABETH ELLIOT The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to th... ELISABETH ELLIOT The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society... ELISABETH ELLIOT If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pr... ELISABETH ELLIOT It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at... ELISABETH ELLIOT Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who ar... ELISABETH ELLIOT If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as ... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is no such thing as Christian work. That is, there is no work in the world which is, in and of... ELISABETH ELLIOT A Christian sees all men as made in the image of God. All are sinners too, which means that the imag... ELISABETH ELLIOT He who had known the ceaseless worship of angels came to be a slave to men. Preaching, teaching, hea... ELISABETH ELLIOT Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's con... ELISABETH ELLIOT God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His k... ELISABETH ELLIOT