​“Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.”
- Brian Andreas

She was incapable of being lukewarm about anything that pleased her. She simply did not know how to give a half-hearted response. When she was delighted, she was as likely as not to stand on her tip-toes and clap her hands. If people laughed at her, she laughed with them." -O' Pioneers, by Willa Cather

You never know how things are going to turn out. You almost know. But you can never be quite sure.
-Marian; from Letting Her Go

"Esteem becomes legitimately grounded through accomplishing something through hard work. Build work ethic first. The esteem will follow." - Cheri Miller

Q: J, why do you cry so often?
A: For the same reason I laugh so often. Because I'm paying attention.

Life is about noticing what you need to believe. And then MAKING IT SO.
Leadership is offering the world exactly what you need — before you have it.
LOVE IS GIVING YOURSELF AND OTHERS SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN.
-Glennon Doyle Melton

"The first action is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb come when we are doing sensible things - praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, chatting with friends over a pint and a game of darts- not huddled together like frightened sheep thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.
- CS Lewis, On Living in an Atomic Age
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Hopes dashed, dreams crushed, game over. Except not. She got back on her bike and raced a race she should be winning just to finish.
-Trent Dougherty, regarding his daughter in the Nationals bike race

"Teenagers always find the spots. Always. If you're backpacking or exploring some back road, in any country, ask the teenagers. They know where the best spots are."
​-Jedidiah Jenkins

She lost him, but she found herself.
And somehow, that was everything.
​-Taylor Swift

Not needing to be right is a vastly underrated freedom. It frees you to engage in philosophy (the search for truth) rather than debate (the search for victory) -- dialectic rather than eristic. And it also frees you to treat your fellow human beings as potential sources of light rather than the "good guys" and "bad guys" of our never-ending ideological wars. -David Corey

More and more, I simply live to be the antidote to the things I find hurtful or damaging in the world, rather than arguing with those I believe are being hurtful or damaging.
-John Pavlovitz

I looked closely at humanity and all of its brokenness and decided to forgive it and myself. Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.
-Glennon

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King Jr.

“She teaches me, through her words and her actions, that if you take the next right step, if you live a life of radical and honest prayer, if you allow yourself to be led by God’s Spirit, no matter how far from home and familiarity it takes you, you won’t have to worry about what you want to be when you grow up. You’ll be too busy living a life of passion and daring.”
- Shauna Niequist.

Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar//
Traveler, there is no path. The path must be forged as you walk.
​-Antonio Machado

You will act on the world and it will act on you. There will be many days when a person like you, who expects social/religious progress, will be depressed and discouraged. Try not to let this bug you. Your friends, the real ones, will always be in your corner, and some days, that will have to be enough.
Doesn’t mean you aren’t making a difference."
-Brian Wood

“Was it love of people?' I asked her.
'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people.”
-Jennifer Worth, a midwife

Unlatch your clinging fingers to the idolatry of years, and burn the fuel you’ve been given. You were made to burn.
-Dan Fredinburg

You must be willing to listen. Ask questions. Don’t preach. Just love. Listen. Learn. And maybe, just maybe, they’ll be convinced that the message you say is life-giving is worth hearing one last time. -Preston Sprinkle

"Retain the power of speech no matter what other power you may lose ... Do what you will, but speak out always. Be shunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared, be in doubt, but don't be gagged. The time of trial is always. Now is the appointed time."
​-John Jay Chapman, "The Unity of Human Nature"

"I was terrified of being muscled into writing a book I didn't want to write because I was broke, so I asked the community that trusts my voice to help me get there."
-Jed Jenkins

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely." -Roald Dahl

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. -A.A. Milne

"How much good inside a day? Depend son how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends on how much you give 'em."
-Shel Silverstein

"The city tells you that everywhere else is boredom. The wild doesn't protest or argue, it just waits for you to know."
-Jed Jenkins

When a wave comes, go deep. -Glennon Melton

'Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.' -E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

"Everything started to happen before it happened because I talked about wanting it to happen. I was willing to scare myself by setting high expectations for what I wanted to do."
-Jed Jenkins

​Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. -Dr. Seuss

Jesus doesn't ask the already brave to do brave things. Jesus asks the becoming brave to keep becoming. -Preston Yancey

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. -Robert Brault
{"Yes! I accept everyone's apology!!! Not sorry?? Too bad--it's done! Your refusal to apologize is not the boss of my peace and freedom!!! I forgive you, everyone on Earth. Let us begin again. When all else fails, forgive people. Drives 'em nuts." -Glennon Melton)


"I feel a responsibility to be true to myself, and in doing so, that liberates others to be true to themselves."
-Jed Jenkins

"Sometimes we don't need to figure it all out but rather just leave a smidge of space to be moved by the sacred unknown. You don't need an answer right now. Just keep doin' your happy thing and leave the door a little cracked open."
​-Tiffany Gray

"Don't be trapped by dogma--which is living with the results of other people's thinning. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
-Steve Jobs

"I believe deeply in the power of speaking your dreams into existence."
-Jedidiah Jenkins, Jacob Combs, & Me

For the wretched of the earth there is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
​-Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

"I don't care where you fly, just go there and come back with something beautiful."
-Jedidiah Jenkins' Dad

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
-Benjamin Franklin

"When you chase an intention, people support you. When they see something manifested in you, even if it's not exactly what they want to do, they think 'Finally, someone's going after something.' That is exciting for people."
-Jed Jenkins