Allison Vesterfelt > Quotes

“Trusting takes a different kind of energy. It takes showing up, despite your moods or personal whims. It is not inventing opportunities out of nowhere, but being obedient to respond to them as they come across your path. It’s waking up, silencing insecurity, and taking steps forward even when you don’t know how it will turn out. It means adjusting expectations at times, when reality doesn’t look like the “dream” from your head. It is moving forward in anticipation, without knowing exactly what lies ahead.”
― Allison Vesterfelt, The Chase: Thoughts on Quitting Your Job and Chasing Your Dreams

“Where your passion meets their need, that is your calling.”
― Allison Vesterfelt, Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

“...maybe the healthiest way to form expectations it to expect less in the specific and more in the general.”
― Allison Vesterfelt, Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

“A special kind of simplicity happens when you leave behind all things unnecessary, and even some necessary ones. There is no noise, no chaotic motion—just silence. All of a sudden feelings start to rise to the surface you didn’t even know you had. You start to think thoughts you didn’t realize you were capable of thinking. There’s an incredible clarity of mind that comes to you when you leave everything comfortable behind.”
― Allison Vesterfelt, Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

“And the good news, the really good news about all of this is not just that failure is not the end of us. It is that failure is the beginning of us. It is our starting place. It humbles us in the best kind of way, helps us to see our tiny little place in the giant, cosmic, story being written, and in turn connects us to our Creator. It is from this place of connection that the best version of ourselves, the most alive and true and gracious version of ourselves shows up, and we’re able to start living in freedom and grace the story we’ve been wanting to live all along.”
― Allison Vesterfelt, The Chase: Thoughts on Quitting Your Job and Chasing Your Dreams

“I thought about how houses weren't just houses. They were like relationships. They're where we unfold ourselves -- the real version of us -- the first-thing-in-the-morning, up-late-working, sick-as-a-dog, movie-watching, crying-in-a-heap version of ourselves. Slowly but surely, our places become a part of us.”
― Allison Vesterfelt, Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

“As long as you're a spectator in your life, you're not a worshiper of God. You can be an obedient spectator, but not a worshiping spectator.”
― Allison Vesterfelt, Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

“You don’t have to go. You can stay home. It’s up to you. But if you let fear stop you from doing what you really want to do, you’ll regret that forever.”
― Allison Vesterfelt, Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

“He helped us put a quart of oil in the car”
― Allison Vesterfelt, Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

“I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.” APOSTLE PAUL (PHILIPPIANS 4:12) PACKING”
― Allison Vesterfelt, Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

“but if we thought through all the potential hang-ups and holdups, if we pondered all the mistakes that we could possibly make, maybe it would prevent us from moving forward in our journey. And perhaps that would be the worst mistake of all.”
― Allison Vesterfelt, Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

“I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.” APOSTLE PAUL (PHILIPPIANS 4:12)”
― Allison Vesterfelt, Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

“If we fear work because we’re scared it won’t matter in the end, the work we do ends up not mattering. We keep ourselves busy with to-do lists to feel productive or we justify watching TV all day. Either way, we never get to where we’re trying to go.”
― Allison Vesterfelt, The Chase: Waking Up the Power and Beauty of Your Creative Life