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“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“We are all a little broken. We are a mosaic. We're made up of all those we've met and all the things we've been through. There are parts of us that are colorful and dark and jagged and beautiful. And I love every piece of you. Even the ones you wish didn't exist.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“When we're connected to others, we become better people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.”
― Randy Pausch

“Sometimes, all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

“Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

“People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them. But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

“I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And if you don’t got it? Flaunt it. ’Cause what are we even doing here if we’re not flaunting it?”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

“if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

“People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That’s a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster on Downton Abbey who has never felt a man’s touch and whose heart has turned to stone, but I don’t understand how you could have self-confidence if you don’t do the work... I have never, ever, ever, met a high confident person and successful person who is not what a movie would call a 'workaholic.' Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

“Pretend you’re good at it.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“Our fears matter. Because ultimately, our fears show how we’re relying on our own efforts and not trusting in our Savior. The truth is we—you and I and everyone—are always inadequate. We’re never enough. We’re always weak.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Faith doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Faith means you don’t let fear stop you.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Grace. Changes. Everything. We don’t bring anything. Jesus brings everything.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“the pathway to your greatest potential is often straight through your greatest fear.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“How do you think your life might change if you prayed daily a daring, faith-filled prayer of whole-life devotion to the one who gave it all for you?”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“but the Bible teaches us that our heart deceives us and is desperately wicked. At its core, our heart is all about self—not Christ. It’s about what’s temporary—not eternal. It’s about what’s easy—not what’s right. It’s obsessed with what we want—not what God wants.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Lord, reveal what holds my mind hostage. Show me what I fear the most. Go ahead, help me face what terrifies me.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“It’s easy to impress people with our strengths, but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life; having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity, and in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim. Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas, where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizon of our hopes; and to push back the future in strength, courage, hope, and love. This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ. Amen!*”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“When you start to avoid what hurts you, what happens? Over time, your spiritual side grows stronger. And your selfish side starts to die.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“When you cry out to God for forgiveness, he doesn’t remember your sins. They are gone. Forgiven. Washed away. And forgotten. In the same way that the coal removed Isaiah’s guilt and sin, the blood of Jesus takes away ours.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. —psalm 139:23–24”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“What if rather than avoiding brokenness we embraced it? Welcomed it? And even prayed for it? “God, break me.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“A. W. Tozer, who said, “It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Let your fears drive you to God. The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe

“Because Jesus’ body was broken, because his blood was poured out for us, we too should live daily for him, broken and poured out.”
― Craig Groeschel, Dangerous Prayers: Because Following Jesus Was Never Meant to Be Safe