True confession: I’m a quote hoarder.
I underline, dog-ear, highlight, copy and paste other people’s wisdom several times a day. I keep 3×5 cards in my purse and scribble quotes in the dark at the movies. I say, “Ooooh that’s a good one.” A lot.
And I’ve been doing this for years.
So, today, I’m sharing just a sliver of the insight, advise and sayings that have caught my eye, grabbed my heart and challenged me to grow. They are changing me. And I hope these ancient/modern musings make you stop and think or reevaluate your own view of things and, like they have for me, may they give you a little more juice for your journey of living, loving and leading.
What I want you to know:
* It caused me great pain (no torture) to limit this to merely 47.
*Quotes appear in no certain order. They are ALL my favorites.
*Just because I quote someone it doesn’t mean I agree with every single thing they have ever written or what they believe. (Heck, I can’t recall ever agreeing with everything ANYONE has ever said.) I like the adage, “Chew the meat and spit out the bones.”
*All truth is God’s Truth no matter who presents it. I draw from all kinds of sources that resonate with my own life experience or with the Spirit in me. I want to be able to learn from anyone.
* Pick one quote to pass on or to tape to your bathroom mirror.
*Read slow and… savor.
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1) The longer one stays in flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.
Taite Adams
2) Your task is not to seek for love but to merely find the barriers within yourself that you have built up against it.
Rumi
3) The thing about denial is that it doesn’t feel like denial when it’s going on.
Georgina Kleege
4) We become whomever we trust the most says we are.
Bob Goff
5) I was born, when all I once feared, I could love.
Rabia
6) Where is the Life we lost in living?
T.S.Eliot
7) We have all laid the best plans for our children, and then they go out and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to.
Kristina Riggle
8) The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
Bob Goff
9) In prosperity our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.
G.K. Chesterton
10) For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
Thomas Merton
11) When I believed my thoughts I suffered.
Byron Katie
12) It’s all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.
Rich Mullins
13) All paths do not lead to God. But God will meet you on whatever path you’re on.
Unknown
14) You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
Anne Lamott
15) Sin never introduces itself to us as pain.
David Loveless
16) The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.
Rob Bell
17) You have power over your mind- not over outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
18) You need to select your thoughts the same way you select your clothes every day. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on your mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.
Elizabeth Gilbert
19) Sometimes, to be happy in the present moment, you have to be willing to give up hope for a better past.
Robert Holden
20) One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
21) Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.
Colum McCann
22) When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles Allen
23) We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.
Richard Rohr
24) We are shaped by what we love.
Goethe
25) Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Jessica Howell
26) The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Wendell Berry
27) No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.
Randy Pausch
28) Love is the absence of judgement.
Dali Lama XIV
29) I was changing my outfits, my looks, my wig, sometimes several times a day. That’s when I know my soul is restless.
Lady Gaga
30) Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
Ignatius of Loyola
31) There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right—especially theologically right. (That’s merely an ego trip, and because of this “need” churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.
Richard Rohr
32) The truth is everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find out the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley
33) The way you measure the difference between being blessed or being spoiled is the degree to which you feel entitled to it.
Mike Breen
34) Be with those who help your being.
Rumi
35) I will learn to love the skies I’m under
Mumford & Sons
36) Someone’s therapist knows all about you.
Dominic Riccitello
37) None of your sins survived the cross.
Clark Whitten
38) You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda
39) How will you know if you are at the end of your journey if you take the road to another man’s city?
Thomas Merton
40) He has great tranquility of heart who cares for neither the praises or the fault-finding of men. You are not holier if you are praised, nor more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are. And no human opinion can alter who you are in the sight of God.
Thomas ‘a Kempis
41) It’s never about “them.”
Byron Katie
42) If you don’t love the life God has given you then you’re not seeing the love God has for you.
Francis Anfuso
43) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
44) Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.
Pico Iyer
45) Everyone wants to change the world, but no one wants to help mom do the dishes.
Unknown
46) If you do not transform your wounds you will transmit them.
Richard Rohr
47) Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas ‘a Kempis
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48) BONUS Freebie!
Whatever comes, God comes with it.
Caron Chandler Loveless
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Love this! I’m going to print it off and put it next to my bed to read over and over. Thank you for sharing!