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61 " The thing about walking closely with God is it has to be a minute-by-minute, day-by-day kind of relationship. No formula can suffice. You have to keep listening, keep following, keep being willing to act and to move on when it’s time. "
― Chip Gaines , Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
62 " A job is something you do for money. Your life's work is done for a bigger purpose, to fulfill a calling or a dream. "
63 " Your goal is too far off to have a straight line of sight to it, but I’m going to need you to keep it firmly fixed in your mind’s eye. The only way this is going to work, the only way that you’re gonna get there, is one foot in front of the other. You have to keep moving forward. And when you think you are about to die—trust me, it’s just a tiny bit further. "
64 " Live a life worthy of being written down, so that at the next go-round, I'm reading your story! "
65 " When something seems insurmountable to most, we shrug, because we eat “insurmountable” for breakfast. "
66 " Who wouldn't want to spend their time with someone who loves them for who they are, and believes the very best about them? Someone who encourages them to fight for their dreams and is the very first one to jump in and fight by their side when needed? "
― Chip Gaines
67 " I don't sit around and allow the what-ifs and the worst-case scenarios to control me. There are so many things that can knock us down, so why waste one minute worrying about what we can't control? "
68 " I believe with all my heart that it’s only after working side by side with another person that you earn the right to speak into that person’s life. It’s a basis of friendship that can forge a path toward common ground. "
69 " We didn’t get happier, we didn’t become the people we were always meant to be, once we got to the farm. All those things were worked out during the journey that led us there—that was the essential part. "
70 " There are plenty of things worth rushing into the unknown for. But don’t be dumb. Save your courage for when it counts. "
71 " you can’t find happiness in the ugliness, you’re not going to find it in the beauty, either. I "
― Chip Gaines , The Magnolia Story
72 " Listen to me here: if you’re going to make a bet, bet on yourself. Of course you won’t always win. Life doesn’t work that way. But if you don’t at least try, how could you ever know what’s on the other side? "
73 " In the coming months, I’d actually figure out a way to stay in touch with all of my clientele and my wholesalers and to continue Magnolia as a home-furnishings brand without having a physical shop too. I felt good about having made the decision to walk away and lock that door. It’s funny, though, looking back on it now, because one very simple concept in life never occurred to me as I was walking away: Even locked doors can be unlocked in time. I simply never could have imagined just how much God had in store for us, and I certainly couldn’t have dreamed just how many keys to other doors God had already placed in our hands. "
74 " When contempt has become the norm and misinformation is rampant, it makes way for a kind of rhetoric that may only be silenced by absolutism. Not trying to be an alarmist here, but I am deeply concerned. "
75 " Drake was a shop baby. He would come home every night smelling like candles. We had friends who owned a barbecue joint, and their baby always came home smelling like a rack of ribs. I liked Drake’s smell a whole lot better. A "
76 " It’s just human nature for couples to turn their insecurities and animosities against each other during life’s more challenging seasons. "
77 " The old has gone, the new has come, and the future couldn’t be more beautiful. "
78 " You were uniquely created for a purpose. I have no clue what that purpose is for you specifically, but I am perfectly confident that you do, in fact, have one. And you would be wise to stop being your own biggest obstacle. Your purpose is just like mine. It’s big, and it’s important, and there’s no one else anywhere on the planet who can fulfill it. "
79 " I came to think of God as more of a gracious friend who was accompanying me on this journey, a friend who wanted to carry my burdens and speak into my life and shape me into who I really was and who I would become. "
80 " Because the key to everything Chip and I have learned in our life together so far seems to be pretty simple: Go and find what it is that inspires you, go and find what it is that you love, and go do that until it hurts. Don’t quit, and don’t give up. The reward is just around the corner. And in times of doubt or times of joy, listen for that still, small voice. Know that God has been there from the beginning—and he will be there until . . . "