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“Some of Theo’s happiest moments long ago were story time with that little girl. Some of his happiest moments now were story time with this little girl. To read with either was to drink from a chalice of gold.”

“We can be such a terrible race at times. But, at the same time, terribly wonderful, all capable of saintliness.”

“We achieve true inner peace when our schedules are aligned with our values.”

“Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.”

“It’s one beautiful contradiction.
A journey of wrong turns that are probably still right.
And dreams of the future even if you don’t get enough sleep to dream.
Exhaustion but effortless love.
The hardest and most rewarding thing ever.
Motherhood.”

“…God is everywhere, and cannot be caged in, as men can.”

“…it is better to laugh than to burst.”

“There is no fool like an educated fool”

“i will never have
this version of me again
let me slow down
and be with her

-always evolving”

“be here
in what needs to be done today

-that’s how you honor tomorrow”

“what a privilege it is
to grow into the
finest version of myself

-aging”

“you have everything to gain
from believing in yourself
yet you spend all your time with self-doubt”

“don’t sleep on
the doormat of your potential
waiting for things to happen
when you could be
the thing that happens”

“if you tried
and didn’t end up
where you wanted to go
that’s still progress”

“i get so lost
in where i want to go
i forget that the place i’m in
is already quite magical”

“there are years in me
that have not slept”

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives, or to find strength in a very long one.”

“Stories are a way to preserve oneself, to be remembered, and to forget.”

“Constantly scanning the world for goodness, I ran with greater lightness.”

“Having a vision doesn’t necessarily mean knowing the specifics about what is going to happen next. It has to do with sending the general direction you’re moving in and having hope that something good is on the horizon. It’s knowing that you do have a future and a purpose, and that it is bright.”

“Everyone needs deliverance at certain times, because there are all kinds of things that can pull us into bondage.”

“True repentance means having so much remorse over what you’ve done that you don’t do it again. Only God can cause us to see our sin for what it is, and feel about it in the same way he does.”

“Everyone makes mistakes. That’s not the issue. But there is an epidemic in the world today of people who can’t admit they did something wrong.”

“Negative words bring negative results and things seldom turn out right for a person who continually uses them.”

“Dreams don’t come true when more time is spent talking about them than praying and working toward achieving them.”

“We can never move out of the present into the future of what God has for us if we cling to and live in the past.”

“A man of integrity says something and means it. He doesn’t play verbal games so you never really know where he stands. He knows to let his “Yes” be “Yes” and his “No” be “No.”