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101 " Teamwork. Love takes teamwork, I think. "
― Glennon Doyle Melton , Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
102 " Because it will be beautiful. That is the truest answer to the question I’ve been asked for so many years. "
103 " You have to turn your head to see peripheral miracles. "
104 " thought a lot about how beautiful and powerful courage and faith are when they are found together. "
105 " Speaking of messy, I recently quit parenting. I do not parent in August. August parenting is not a good look for me. It’s hotter than hell, and the children and I have already had a whole lot of togetherness. "
106 " People always seem quite shocked by the cruelty that's happening in America's schools. I'm baffled by their shock, and I'm concerned about what's not being addressed in their proposed solutions. "
107 " Sometimes you have to leave to discover that you left everything you needed back home. "
108 " There are two different types of time. Chronos time is what we live in. It’s regular time. It’s one minute at a time, staring down the clock until bedtime time. It’s ten excruciating minutes in the Target line time, four screaming minutes in time-out time, two hours until Daddy gets home time. Chronos is the hard, slow-passing time we parents often live in. Then there’s Kairos time. Kairos is God’s time. It’s time outside of time. It’s metaphysical time. Kairos is those magical moments in which time stands still. I have a few of those moments each day, and I cherish them. "
109 " Education is like Christmas. We’re all just opening our gifts, one at a time. And it is a fact that each and every child has a bright shiny present with her name on it, waiting there underneath the tree. God wrapped it up, and he’ll let us know when it’s time to unwrap it. "
110 " crap. I do not know why this is my solution, but when I arrive "
111 " them to embrace being human instead "
112 " A heart expands exactly as much as her owner allows. "
113 " Fancy language tends to make "in" people feel more in and "out" people feel more out, and I don't think that's how words are best used. Words are best used to describe specific feelings, ideas, and hearts as clearly as possible - to make the speaker and the listener, or the writer and the reader, feel less alone and more hopeful. "
114 " Education is like Christmas. We’re all just opening our gifts, one at a time. And it is a fact that each and every child has a bright shiny present with her name on it, waiting there underneath the tree. "
115 " My destiny is to remind you to look up from the castles you’re building in the sand long enough to notice the cathedrals that God’s building all around you—without you, without your sweat, without your tears, without your consent. "
116 " Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. "
117 " Whatever is our new spiritual motto and mantra. Whatever is divine. "
118 " as if we were going through life with refrigerators strapped to our backs. It was hard to breathe, hard to feel anything but weight and self-pity and anger. "
119 " I don't think kids are any crueler than adults. I just think kids are less adept at disguising their cruelty. "
120 " There is no substitute on God’s Green Earth for girlfriends. "