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“Improv masters learn like babies: dive in and imitate and improvise first, learn the formal rules later. “At the beginning, your mom didn’t give you a book and say, ‘This is a noun, this is a pronoun, this is a dangling participle,’” Cecchini told me. “You acquired the sound first. And then you acquire the grammar later.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“I am a mother at heart. I build a home, which seems like a place to stay, but really, it is a place to leave. That is the way of it. Children are meant to grow up. I understand that now. Maybe you have yet to come face-to-face with what that means. I hope you will take courage and allow your children to walk away with grace.”
― Cindy Rollins, Mere Motherhood: Morning Times, Nursery Rhymes, & My Journey Toward Sanctification

“An idol is anything that for a moment, a season, or a lifetime exercises the rule or control over your heart that only the Lord should have. Whatever controls your heart controls your thoughts and shapes your desires and, because it does, it controls your choices and actions.”
― Paul David Tripp, Everyday Gospel: A Daily Devotional Connecting Scripture to All of Life

“But God lasts when everything else is gone. What shall we do if he is not our friend?”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede