The freedom that I wanted as a kid would - probably would not have been good for me and not in the way in which I wanted it.
Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.
It takes courage to be the author of your life.
It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.
If you make the wrong decision, you make the wrong decision. That's all there is to it. There are few guarantees in life. One of them is that you will make lots of mistakes The worst thing you can do is wimp out and spend your life in suspended animation refusing to make a choice because it may not be a perfect one.
Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.
A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.
Trace started on his way again, this time taking the lead. "She's five-four and weighs less than one-twenty. Matt can handle himself. " "Says the man with the black eye.
I feel really blessed because of where I come from.
Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.
At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.