Alexandra Kuykendall > Quotes

“My old ways were creeping back in, and with them some old feelings. Some lack of energy. Lack of motivation to take my life seriously. My day seriously. I was treating these days like throwaway days. I was falling into a rut.”
― Alexandra Kuykendall, Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What's Right in Front of Me

“Do what only you can do”
― Alexandra Kuykendall, Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What's Right in Front of Me

“I'm grateful for the marker days, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries that remind us to not let the difficult overcome the good.”
― Alexandra Kuykendall, Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What's Right in Front of Me

“As I swing my feet to the floor, I feel my jaw tighten and my heart rate speed up. Back to yesterday’s crazy-busy speed in a matter of seconds.”
― Alexandra Kuykendall, Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What's Right in Front of Me

“I love them with fierce intensity and yet I operate out of depletion, which prevents me from being able to appreciate them in the ways I want to and know I can. My”
― Alexandra Kuykendall, Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What's Right in Front of Me

“There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living,”
― Alexandra Kuykendall, Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What's Right in Front of Me

“I love birthdays because they are about celebrating the fact that God made someone, not what they’ve accomplished or will get done, but that they simply are.”
― Alexandra Kuykendall, Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What's Right in Front of Me

“What if we do each small thing with great passion because we can? Because we are here and we are able to and yet do it with the knowledge we can’t change the world in a day. But we can leave our small, unique imprint on it.”
― Alexandra Kuykendall, Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What's Right in Front of Me

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.”
― Alexandra Kuykendall, Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What's Right in Front of Me

“When I started speaking to people in bullet points rather than complete sentences to maximize efficiency, I knew I wasn’t living as I should.”
― Alexandra Kuykendall, Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What's Right in Front of Me

“I realized when I'm trying to impress someone, I'm not loving them well.”
― Alexandra Kuykendall, Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What's Right in Front of Me