If you want to take aim at the story you want to tell, you have to make small, life-changing choices and then act on them daily. The best decision you can make is always the next one. Each decision should move you closer to becoming all
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“It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“You can’t make a difference without making waves, and some people in the boat won’t like it. So be it. Rock the boat anyway.”
― Play the Man: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be
― Play the Man: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be
“This lesson is, I suppose, a major reason I wrote this book: because along the way I’ve picked up the wisdom that bad things happen, and yet the sun still comes up the next day, and it’s up to you to carry on living your life and keeping your setbacks in perspective. You also have to understand that on some level, these horrible and sad things happen to everyone; the mark of a man is not just how he survives it all but also what wisdom he’s gained from the experience.”
― I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
― I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
“Compassion is an astoundingly, frustratingly affirming force. It Loves the other enough to find beauty and meaning in what the rest of us lazily judge as good or bad. Ahava Love, the brand that has the other’s interests more in view than its own preferences being perfectly tended to, searches and finds the thing to celebrate.”
― Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth
― Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth
“Desperation yields dependency, and dependency yields power. And as you decrease your earthly abilities through sacrifice and embracing less, you’ll see your spiritual fruit increase.”
― Enough: Finding More by Living with Less
― Enough: Finding More by Living with Less
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