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“If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist.”

Life Hope Opportunity Appreciate Privilege Appreciation Thanks Abandon Opportunities Thanksgiving Thankfulness Thankful Brutality Lose Savagery Exist Forfeit

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“I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage.”

Life Opportunity Gratitude Appreciate Privilege Appreciation Thanks Miserable Thanksgiving Thankful Plan Accident Astounding

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“I find the world in my head as much more pleasant than the world around me. But unless I journey out of my head and take some of the best of that world out into the worse of the world around me, I do a disservice to both and should live in neither.”

World Change Risk Journey Impact Heal Help Encourage

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“To underestimate the power of your influence is to rob others of the change that could have been theirs because of the power that you refused to believe in.”

Change Power Influence Self Esteem Confidence Impact Self Confidence

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“The sign of a good book is that it entertains you. The sign of a great book is that it changes you.”

Writing Book Reading Change Words Author Transform Entertain

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“Don’t believe ‘in’ something better unless you’re willing to ‘make’ something better.”

Believe Belief Change Better Improve

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“God has no interest in doing some slick revisions or innovative tweaks in order to make transformation feel measured and safe. Rather, He’s about delivering a sweeping overhaul to your life that will leave nothing untouched and everything transformed. Therefore, the question regarding transformation is whether we’re brave enough to experience the transformation from which we cannot return but cannot miss.”

God Change Safe Transformation Transform Overhaul

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“One of the greatest ways in which to understand the unsurpassing ingenuity of God is to hold up who we used to be against who we’ve become. But possibly the greatest way to see His ingenuity is to allow what He’s done to begin revealing the vision of where He’s yet to take us. And that is exactly the kind of genius that I will gladly bow before and give the whole of my life to.”

God Christian Purpose Jesus Change Journey Genius Calling Transformation Salvation

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“Easter does not change history. Rather, it transforms what history does to us and what the future can do for us.”

God Jesus Change Freedom History Salvation Redemption Liberation Easter

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“The New Year is a fabricated line of demarcation wherein we believe that this ‘line’ gifts us with the opportunity for a new start and an excuse to celebrate it.”

Change Celebrate New Year Gifts New Start Resolutions New Beginning

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“Transformation that is neither fiercely turbulent nor inordinately frightening is not transformation.”

Growth Change Transformation Frightening Advancement Maturation

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“One of the most dangerous things that you can do is to change yourself before you know yourself.”

Self Wisdom Choices Change Gender Transition Foolishness Self Reflection Self Understanding

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“It doesn’t take much to change your life, except everything that you have. That’s why so few people do it when every person actually could.”

Life Purpose Growth Change Determination Goals Maturity

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“If you want to make someone mad, tell them the truth. It want to infuriate them, refuse to argue it. And if you want to transform them, remain their friend while you’re doing all of the above.”

Truth Change Anger Mad Friend Transform Infuriate

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“Dear God, give me what I don’t have to do what I can’t do.”

God Christian Change Impossible Calling Transformation Mission Possible

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“The worst part of telling someone, “I told you so,” is to have to tell them a second time because they didn’t figure out the problem the first time.”

Problem Wisdom Change Responsibility Learning Accountability

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“The individual who kills who they ‘are’ out of the belief that they are liberating who they are ‘not’ will eventually kill both. And I have often thought that one way to make certain that we destroy our lives is to live it having died twice.”

Death Change Identity Died Die Transgender Kill

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“To change yourself is not to cultivate yourself. Rather, it is to rob yourself of what you could have been as a means of becoming what you cannot.”

Change Identity Gender Transition Become Cultivate Rob

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“Richness is not found in changing something that does not suit our preferences or orientation. Rather, real richness is found in understanding there is a definitive purpose that will be sacrificed in the changing that the changing will never make up for.”

Wisdom Change Selfish Foolish Orientation Misguided Preferences

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“It is in the utter exhaustion born of my battle with fear and trauma that all pretense and pretending is methodically stripped away. And although that process seems callously brutal, its intent is to leave me facing the rank ugliness of my weakness without the debilitating filter of denial or other such maladies. And it is in this place of excruciating rawness that I now have sufficient pain and ample frustration to compel me to change that which I’ve spent a lifetime cultivating.”

Pain Change Denial Frustration Justification Exposure Excuses Rationalization Rawness

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“I’m not looking for a better world. Rather, I’m looking for better men who refuse to let the world be anything but better.”

Men World Change Integrity Determination Bravery Impact Better Transform Improve

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“If there's anything I can learn from Christmas, it's that to change my world I have no alternative but to sacrifice on behalf of that world. But what I soon realize is that in such sacrifice, the greatest thing that is changed is me.”

World Change Sacrifice Transformation Personal Growth Christmas Give

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“The best gifts are those that leave something in the heart of the recipient long after the gift has left their hands.”

Giving Hands Change Impact Meaningful Gift Transform Encourage Alter

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“Change yourself and you will have begun the process of changing the world. Reverse that order and all that you will change is your level of frustration.”

World Self Change Self Improvement Personal Growth Personal Development Frustration Change Your Life Change The World

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“I don’t want to waste my time winning an election. Rather, I want to invest my time in changing the world.”

World Politics Change Influence Election Change The World

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“In discarding everything that you are, you have recklessly thrown away all of that which can build you into everything that you can be. And that is entirely different than attempting to change who you are, which will leave you with who you won’t be.”

Change Self Esteem Self Love Personal Growth Self Confidence Maturity Self Acceptance

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“Not a day goes by that did not have a great opportunity packaged in it somewhere. And the question is, did the opportunity go by with the day?”

Hope Opportunity Change Day Possibilities Transform Packaged

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“If you were to use one word to describe your life, would it be a noun or a verb?”

Life Purpose Change Identity Calling Transformation Mission Verb Noun

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“If the space that you take up is the sum total of the space that you influence, you have wasted your space while robbing all of the other spaces.”

Change Space Sacrifice Influence Heal Help Selfless Transform

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“An impression thrills someone for a moment. An impact changes them for a lifetime. And although both words share the first three letters, they share little else.”

Change Transformation Impact Lifetime Words Impression Transform Impacting

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“Every single second of your life shows up possessing enough opportunity to transform every single second that will follow. So you might think about what you’re going to do with the ten of them that it took to read this.”

Life Different Time Opportunity Change Potential Possibilities Changes Second

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“If the one word that you use to describe your life is a noun, maybe you should replace it with a verb. And once you’ve done that, maybe should write a sentence that outlines how you intend use your verb to help people who have settled for nouns.”

Action Purpose Change Influence Identity Transformation Impact Mission Verb Noun

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“The fool who believes that he had the ‘last laugh’ doesn’t realize that the last laugh typically comes long after his last laugh.”

Wise Fool Idiot Arrogant Laugh Bully Cocky Last Laugh

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“If there are not times in our life when we laugh so hard that we cry, we have become far more serious than life ever asked us to become.”

Life Laughing Serious Negative Maturity Laugh Casual Life Balance Jaded

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“To leave someone because their choices demand that we do so is not to give up on them. For even though I may never see them again, dear God you see them every minute of every day. And in the seeing, I ask that You see what I could not, and be what I cannot.”

God Faith Prayer Loss Relationship Rejection Abandonment

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“I can staunchly reject the notion that I was created to live in relationship with God. But should I do that, I will be unable to reject all of the consequences for which I was not created.”

God Christian Purpose Jesus Relationship Salvation Foolish Redemption Reject

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“My impatience is that utterly stealthy thief that robs me of some of life’s greatest moments by whispering that it’s ‘now or never,’ when actually it’s ‘now will result in never.”

Friendship Relationship Patience Tolerance Cooperation Partnership Impatience Mentoring

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“In a relationship with God, it’s far more about the willingness to be ‘found’ and far less about possessing the ability to ‘find.”

God Christian Found Jesus Lost Relationship Salvation Saved Redemption

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“I must pray with great earnest that God grants me the ability to imagine Who He is, as I am barely able to imagine who I am.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Imagine Relationship Understand

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“I am emptier for having lost you, but I became fuller by realizing that losing someone leaves you space to be more of someone yourself.”

Loss Marriage Relationship Empty Dating Leaving Divorce Break Up

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“If we’ve kept God far from us, we might ask how far we are from just about everything else.”

God Christian Jesus Relationship Salvation Distance Redemption Rejection

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“Of course I can’t reach God. But He can reach me.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Relationship Salvation Redemption Connect Reach

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“Possibly the greatest failure of all is to assert that our failures declare our value as being the same as that which we continue to fail at.”

Self Esteem Identity Failure Value Self Confidence Worth

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“The value of the goal is never determined by the lack of energy that we have to pursue it.”

Energy Determination Value Goals Worth Fortitude Fatigue

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“If you feel that your life doesn’t matter it’s likely that you decided that it didn’t matter, and then you chose to act on a poor decision.”

Life Choices Self Esteem Perspective Value Self Confidence Foolish Decisions Worth

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“I was created for the simple reason that to not be created was unthinkable.”

God Purpose Creation Calling Value Mission Intelligent Design Created Designed

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“If I reject love, it’s typically because I do not understand it sufficiently to see it even when it stands right in front of me. And if through some miracle I do see it, I don’t value myself sufficiently to embrace it even when that self-same love sets the immensity of my value right in front of me. And what I cannot afford to forget is that God’s love is never intimidated by either of these.”

Love Value Rejection Worth Foresight Aware Attuned

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“By the time I emerge from them, I have somehow left in the quiet of the woods all that I thought was important when I had entered them. And if the things that I thought to be important become nothing more than litter left in the woods, I might want to begin building my life on the things that will never be left as litter.”

Important Humanity Eternal Value Valuable Woods Treasure Materialistic Cherished Litter

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“The majesty of geese lifting themselves over the road and surging into the morning sky laid bare the meaningless rush of cars speeding off to places that seemed much less important than those for which the host of magnificent geese were destined. And I thought that there is more meaning in a handful of geese aloft than a million men on a thousand roads.”

Men Purpose Destiny Value Meaning Futility Geese Roads

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“The person in the mirror is waiting for you to believe that their reflection is greater than what can be contained by a thousand mirrors.”

Perception Reflection Value Worth Mirror Self Understanding Self Perception

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