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“When we’re reaching for a fix, especially one of the big fixes, I think we have to ask, ‘Does my attachment to this thing lead to my flourishing and the flourishing of others?’ If it does, it’s full of sacramental grace and purpose. If
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“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.”
― For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
― For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
“It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“In the beautiful words of Lore Wilbert Ferguson: Tell me, I want to say to my fellow writers, tell me of your inner demons, tell me of your flesh. I want to hear the war that waged within you as you navigated complex stories and spaces. I want to know how hard you fought and how much you wept and how little you prayed. Tell it honest, tell it slant, tell it however you want to, but tell the truth because the truth is ten thousand little protests that got you where you are and every one of them matters to God and to me and even to you because there you are and there you were all along.5”
― Let There Be Art: The Pleasure and Purpose of Unleashing the Creativity within You
― Let There Be Art: The Pleasure and Purpose of Unleashing the Creativity within You
“Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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