Tracy L. Higley > Quotes

“A bookshop holds a thousand portals to other worlds between the pages…”
― Tracy L. Higley, Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time

“Do not let the darkness masked as light take you prisoner.”
― Tracy L. Higley, Garden of Madness

“How could a person not belong in the only place she ever lived?”
― Tracy L. Higley, The Queen's Handmaid

“Everywhere there is beauty, my dear. And those who draw our eye, our ear, any bit of our attention to this beauty are the artists among us. Whether the beauty is a sculpture or a piece of jewelry. A sonata or a sitting room. A well-told story or a well-proportioned building, or even a well-oiled machine. Let us never minimize the gifts of those who bring us beauty in whatever form they are skilled to bring it.”
― Tracy L. Higley, Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time

“The fear of the unknown was eclipsed by the gladness that came of taking action, of doing something rather than waiting, of following what seemed to be the call of my life.”
― Tracy L. Higley, Awakening

“sucking her into itself as she dashed from her building into the gray morning chill and descended rain-slicked”
― Tracy L. Higley, Awakening

“Impactivity is the distinction between the mere productivity you strive for and the deeper impact that you wish to have in the world.”
― Tracy L. Higley, Impactivity: What if You're Working Hard on All the Wrong Things?

“Why do you care so much about these artifacts? Beyond the academic interest." I considered this. "Because it could be that someone is using them to rewrite history. To erase evidence of accomplishments that dont fit their preferred narrative. Or perhaps there is more truth to be learned”
― Tracy L. Higley, Hieroglyphs and Homicide

“that the One God’s love for me gave me worth, even if I was rejected and abandoned by all others.”
― Tracy L. Higley, The Queen's Handmaid

“The choices we make to accumulate, to display, to put in storage, and to hoard keep us locked in a mental prison of overwhelm. When the physical space around you is cluttered and you never feel like you're on top of all the organizational projects that need doing, how can you possibly feel free to pursue a new Adventure? But as I said, getting unshackled is about more than the tangible acts of clearing out our calendars or our clutter.”
― Tracy L. Higley, Impactivity: What if You're Working Hard on All the Wrong Things?

“The world-change that can be effected through people with wealth requires people to earn wealth. Beauty that follows in the footsteps of the Great Creator requires creative artists. Your work, your calling, no matter what it is, has an inherently sacred quality.”
― Tracy L. Higley, Impactivity: What if You're Working Hard on All the Wrong Things?

“with Jack and I behind,”
― Tracy L. Higley, A Time to Seek

“Desperation, I’ve noticed, makes men remarkably unattractive. All that clawing and pleading rather destroys the romantic mystique.”
― Tracy L. Higley, Palm Trees and Poison

“That is the choice. It comes to every one of us, in whatever beauty we pursue. To continue as an aspiring artist, doing our making safely on the side—dipping the toe, coloring in the lines, delivering the expected. Or to face our drowning, thirsting desperation and fling ourselves into the wild, even as an amateur—a lover. And lest you think you can simply avoid this choice, you must understand avoidance is still a choice.”
― Tracy L. Higley, Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time

“But I also believe that you want more than productivity. In the secret places of your heart you want to have an impact on people. You want to shine, not hide. You want to produce or create or make a difference. You”
― Tracy L. Higley, Impactivity: What if You're Working Hard on All the Wrong Things?

“The wind was strangely warm for March, with a hint of salt impossible this far from the sea. The kind of peculiar wind that dampened the soul and whispered of longings unfulfilled, of desires just out of reach. The”
― Tracy L. Higley, Awakening

“You have a purpose, a destiny to fulfill. We all do. But your purpose is something quite apart from your value. It’s given to you because you are highly valued, not as a means to prove that value.”
― Tracy L. Higley, A Time to Love

“Do you have a faith that holds you up when life gets tough, that guides you through life?”
― Tracy L. Higley, Chasing Babylon

“empty people who were searching, always searching, and never finding. Pretending to be their own masters, but giving themselves to powers that controlled and destroyed them.”
― Tracy L. Higley, Chasing Babylon

“If you are convinced that God has gifted you for a particular work, and that He has also given you a passion for it, and it is a gift that meets a need in the world, then I think God will show you how to find the time, money, and energy to live in obedience.”
― Tracy L. Higley, Impactivity: What if You're Working Hard on All the Wrong Things?