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Quotes for the Life Project of the 3rd variety.

• "everybody has faith"-rob bell, velvet elvis 18
• "god is bigger than the christian faith"-rob bell, velvet elvis, 27
• "None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives."-Kathleen Norris
• i think what it comes down to is this: we have a choice as women to be good or to be great. to me, what it means to be good is that you are polite and you’re well behaved, you don’t say what you feel, you don’t make waves, you don’t get in trouble and you’re not messy and you spend your life obsessing about your body and trying to be skinny…you are so good that you disappear and you don’t exist anymore. or you become great. you make a decision that you are going to be great. and what that means is that you are going to stand up for what you believe and speak your truth and know that there are going to be people who don’t like you and people who love you. and you’re going to be whatever shape, whatever size, whatever color, whatever age you are and you are going to be proud of it and you are going to stand in it. and you are going to end up having a life that is full of mystery and excitement and outrageousness and joy and difficulty. and you are going to be able to withstand being alone, in your own self, by yourself, in the world. and i think you have to make a choice as a woman which life you want…if we really are serious about saving the human species we must take the energy, time and attention you spend fixing your body and direct it toward fixing the world."-Eve Ensler
• "Its never too late, (or in my case too early) to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of. And if you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."-The curious case of Benjamin Button
• "A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neighter here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all..." -Herman Hesse

• "Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness." -Herman Hesse
• "When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too will live beside the sea."

"That is all very well little Alice," said her grandfather, "but there is a third thing you must do." "What is that?" asked Alice. "You must do something to make the world more beautiful" said her grandfather. "All right," said Alice. But she did not know what that could be. " -Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney 1982

• Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, fabulous, gorgeous, talented? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You're playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that's within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we automatically give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others. --Marianne Williamson
• "people think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. but a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. a true soul mate is probably the most important person that you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. but to live with a soul mate forever? nah. too painful. soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. and thank god for it...his purpose was to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light could get in, make you so desparate and out of control that you had to transform your life...that was his job, he did great, but now it's over...so miss him. send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it. you're just afraid to let go of the last bits of him because then you'll really be alone, and you are scared to death of what will happen if you are really alone. but here is what you gotta understand...if you clear out all that space in your mind that you're using right now to obsess about this guy, you'll have a vacuum there, an open spot--a doorway. and guess what the universe will do with that doorway? it will rush in--God will rush in--and fill you with more love than you ever dreamed. stop using him to block that door. let it go. you gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone outta be."

(from eat.pray.love)

• "You have to draw your own lines. And when you do draw those lines, you have to keep your best interest at heart."-MG
• "Living is a form of NOT BEING SURE. Not knowing what next or how. The moment you know, you begin to die a little. The artist never extremely knows. We GUESS. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap into the dark." -Agnes demile
• "I like living, breathing, better than working...My art
  
  that of living: each second. Each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it is a sort of sonstant euphora." -Marcel Duehamp
• "Wisdom begins in wonder." -Socrates
• "Learning isn't predictable." -Gord Peteran
• Now I will do nothing but listen. I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused, or following, sounds of the city, and sounds out of the city--sounds of the day and night." -walt whitman
• Sometimes a tree can tell you more than can be read in a book.-Carl Jung
• Everyone is an artist. -Joseph Beuys
• ."Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. -Annie Dillard
• god is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

hebrews 13:8

• En otros tiempos, había un niño que creía que no podría fracasar; y no podría morir. Podría vivir sin nadie y nunca caerse. Pero sin Dios todos nos caímos. -grits

"Here is the deepest secret nobody knows... (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)" -EE Cummings

• "If there is a tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember, you're braver than you believe, stranger than you seem, and smarter than you think, but the most important thing is even if we are apart, i'll always be with you."
• So was I once myself a swinger of birches.

And so I dream of going back to be. I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. (Robert Frost)

We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends. (Shel Silverstein)

• "Most of the time we don't tell people what we really mean, but we believe that everyone is telling us exactly what they mea nto say. Let that one sit in your mind for awhile."-Nicole Sherry
• go be that starving artist you're afraid to be. open up that journal and get poetic finally. volunteer. suck it up and travel. you were not born here to work and pay taxes. you were put here to be a part of a vast organism to explore and create. stop putting it off. the world has much to offer than what's on 15 television at TGI fridays. take pictures. scare people. shake up the scene." - jason mraz
• You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place." -Miriam Adeney
• "when it gets right down to it the individuals that are really doing interesting things and changing the world don't seem to paying much attention to the cutting edge technologies. they're too busy conducting experiments, spending time alone, making mistakes, dreaming up new ideas, sitting in the midst of uncertainty... embracing mystery."-Keri Smith
• All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unalike. - Maya Angelou, Letter To My Daughter

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us. - Sappho

• "In the quiet hours wehn we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing."-A.A. Milne
• The British philosophy Alan Watts, author of The Wisdom of Insecurity put it this way: If you want to study a river, you don't take a bucketful of water and stare at it on the shore. A river is not its water, and by taking the water out of the river you lose the essential quality of river, which is its motion, its activity, its flow.
• "i, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions." augusten burrows
• Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. - Lewis B. Smedes
• Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.

Hebrews 11:11

• Que vocé abrace o Deus que é maior do que qualquer descriçåo. --rob bell, she.

"may you embrace the God who is bigger than any of our language."

• From him I learned that people are more than their mistakes.- postsecret
• "Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it."

~ Erwin W. Lutzer

• Kreyon Bon Die pa gin gonm.

(What God promises he will give.) (haitian proverb)

• God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

• love: ascribing unsurpassable worth to others at cost to ourselves.
• The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.- Douglas Adams
• There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Edith Wharton)
• If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing. (Margaret Thatcher)
• silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. -maragret lee runbeck
• No one can build her security upon the nobleness of another person. -willa cather
• Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

~G.K. Chesterton

• If god is for me, who can be against me?
• On Facebook, ‘God’ has 3,098,622 fans, ‘Lady GaGa’ has 4,872,691.
• "long before you decided what you were going to do with God, God decided what he was going to do with you."-Louie Giglio
• "What is, therefore our task today? Shall I answer: "Faith, hope, and love"? That sounds beautiful. But I would say--courage. No, even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth. Our task today is recklessness. For what we Christians lack is not psychology or literature...we lack a holy rage--the recklessness which comes from the knowledge of God and humanity. The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets, and when the lie rages across the face of the earth...a holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world. To rage against the ravaging of God's earth, and the destruction of God's world. To rage when little children must die of hunger, when the tables of the rich are sagging with food. To rage at the senseless killing of so many, and against the madness of militaries. To rage at the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of destruction peace. To rage against complacency. To restlessly seek that restlessness that will challenge and seek to change human history until it conforms to the norms of the Kingdom of God. And remember the signs of the Christian Church have been the Lion, the Lamb, the Dove, and the Fish...but never the chameleon." -Kaj Munk, Danish preist