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Bob Goff
“There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. It doesn't come in an envelope. It's ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen. It's the invitation to actually live, to fully participate in this amazing life for one more day. Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I've seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.

Turning down this invitation comes in lots of flavors. It looks like numbing yourself or distracting yourself or seeing something really beautiful as normal. It can also look like refusing to forgive or not being grateful or getting wrapped around the axle with fear or envy. I think every day God sends us an invitation to live and sometimes we forget to show up or get head-faked into thinking we haven't really been invited. But you see, we have been invited -- every day, all over again”
Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Mary Beth Keane
“It wasn't that she didn't love him, he knew. It was that she loved him so much that it frightened her, loved him so much that she worried she might have to protect herself from it. He tried to let her know that he'd figured that out, finally, that there was no need to explain, but then he realized that she might not know it herself.”
Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes

Mary Beth Keane
“But things are meant to change, Peter said. Because life changes and people change. As long as we change together, we’re okay.”
Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes

Mary Doria Russell
“until you’ve been there, you can’t know what it’s like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago.”
Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

Mary Beth Keane
“We repeat what we don’t repair,”
Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes

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