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“Don’t focus on what you haven’t done. Rather, focus on the fact that what you ‘haven’t done’ is often the best indicator of what you should be doing.”

“Overhead there lies an uninterrupted ocean of delicate blue whose expanses are freely coursed by majestic white behemoths quietly sailing to distant horizons. And under our feet there are listless expanses of emerald-green brilliantly splashed by the golden pigment of a thousand dandelions. And to stand in unbridled awe of both is to miss neither, for to miss such things is to miss life itself.”

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“Pain is the fire that steels the soul to better fight life’s battles and more deeply appreciate its beauty because of the battles. But maybe one of the greatest battles is being willing to live the beauty of this reality.”

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“To schedule life is to miss it.”

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“To live unto oneself never involves living.”

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“Much like a river, I can sit at the edge and watch a lot of life flow by. Or I can jump in the water and flow by a lot of life. Or I can simply refuse to believe in the existence of rivers.”

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“I suppose that part of the gift of life is the opportunity to make it a gift for the ‘others’ in our lives. For then, no one is without a gift.”

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“If you’re not growing, you’re not living.”

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“If I abandon every memory that possesses some element pain in order to be free of pain, will I experience the far greater pain of living a life that I can’t remember living?”

Life Pain Choices Living Painful Abandon Consequences Trade Off

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“Some of us are always waiting for life to begin. And I often wonder if life actually began a look time ago and we were too afraid to admit that it began.”

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“The fact that I was born does not mean that I am alive.”

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“If I have not chosen to stand for something bigger than myself, I will have lived out my life being smaller than myself.”

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“The definition of living is not based on the number of years spent, but on the degree to which we’ve spent ourselves in the living of them.”

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“So what are you doing here, other than taking up space?” she asked rather snidely. He replied, “I’m using up the space that I’m living in to enlarge the space that you’re taking up.” And after a thoughtful pause, she turned and in a somber tone said, “Then I will start doing the same.”

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“It is my hope that despite the gravity of the trials, we will never forget that the privilege to live life always offsets the difficulties involved in the living of it. This is the essence of thanksgiving.”

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“If the outcome of our years lived serves us, I would suggest that we haven’t lived.”

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“If we have nothing to live for, we have to create something to live for.”

Life Purpose Calling Living Value Meaning Meaningless Worthless Nothing

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“What we forget is that the past is not a place to live. Rather, it is the place that gives us what we need to live more robustly in a present that will become an even more magical past if we let it be so.”

Life Needs Past Growth Lessons Living Insight Maturity Present Provision

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“I admire animals, for they don’t question life. Rather, they just live it. And on that rare occasion when I reach that enviable place, I realize that I’ve been living a ‘task’ rather than living a life.”

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“To ‘live’ and to ‘grow’ are synonymous with each. For one without the other doesn’t mean that we’re dead, but it certainly means that we’re not living. And truth be told, I don’t know that there’s a whole lot of space between the two.”

Life Growth Living Live Dead Grow

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“Is the greatest fear our fear of life, or should it be the fear of not changing life? For the former shuts us down, while the latter shuts down the possibility of being shut down.”

Life Fear Change Living Shut Shut Down

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“In time, we become who we believe ourselves to be. And if who we believe ourselves to be is less than who we are, we will live a life that is less than what it was supposed to be.”

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“It is when we have made the ‘fear of fear’ the thing that we fear that we are no longer living in fear, rather we are living in the exaggeration of fear.”

Life Fear Living Scared Frightened Fearful Exaggeration

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“If I’m not living this life in conjunction with God, I’m not living this life. Rather, what I’m doing is living the lie that I’m living this life.”

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“Every single day in a thousand different ways, the script that I am writing across the pages of my life is dramatically impacting how others are writing theirs. And if I dare to recognize that I am writing far more scripts than this single one that I hold in my hand, would I not hold the page of this day and apply the pen of how I lived it in an unimaginably different way?”

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“How many stories are there that have been lived, but will never be told? Far too many for me to squander the one that I’m living.”

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“We spend far too much time working to get through the moment to understand that life is a collection of moments. And if we don’t come to see the confluence of moments as the fabric of life, we will miss life while living the very moments that were supposed to create it.”

Life Moments Enjoy Living Experience Celebrate Existing

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“Life is not random, for randomness is simply purpose that we’ve yet to discern.”

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“Life is not something to be “done.” Rather, it is something to be “lived.” And to confuse the former with the latter is to squander both.”

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“Simple men do great things simply because they do not purport to see anything grand in their efforts. They only see the responsibility of living life in keeping with the gift that it is. And that is greatness indeed.”

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“Much like life, you don't complete a puzzle by throwing away the pieces.”

Life Growth Pieces Living Abandon New Year Careless Maturation Puzzle

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“Sometimes life has to strip us in order to save us.”

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“My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment.”

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“I don’t necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don’t wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.”

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“It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.”

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“If safety is my goal, living life is not.”

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“We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.”

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“Why in the world have we never found what we’re really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won’t accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.”

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“Peace is achieved when our conscience rests in the fact that we’ve engaged in ‘right’ living, verses believing that living is a ‘right.”

Life Peace Rights Living Conscience Obligation Entitlement

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“It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.”

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“To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.”

“The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.”

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“Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right.”

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“To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.”

“If we’re missing life it’s probably because we’re expecting it to reveal itself to us, rather than realizing that life is revealed by us looking for it.”

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“We can fill our lives with ‘stuff,’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that ‘stuff.”

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