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How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living QUOTES

How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living QUOTES

1 " We want a little risk in our lives because it keeps things interesting. It wakes us up, it gives us a sense that we're alive and breathing and doing Something! Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

2 " There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

3 " When you are bored, restless, longing for something more, unfulfilled, feeling like you've settled, haunted by the sense of being trapped in your own life, these are the deep waters of your soul speaking to you, telling you something is wrong, something is missing, something needs to change. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

4 " If you feel stuck in your life, like it’s passing you by, like there’s something way better for you somewhere out there and you’re missing it, try this—try throwing yourself into the small things and repeating to yourself: This is where I start. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

5 " Find your rituals, develop your routines, create those practices that ground and center you. Stick to them, don't apologize for them, treat them, even the small things, like they're big things. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

6 " It's the voices in your head that speak doubt and insecurity and fear and anxiety. Like a tape that's jammed on "repeat," these destructive messages will drain an extraordinary amount of your energies if you aren't clear and focused and grounded. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

7 " It's important to embrace several truths about yourself and those around you, beginning with this one: who you AREN'T isn't interesting. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

8 " There is a difference between details and clutter. Clutter is the books on your shelf that you’re never going to read, the stacked-up papers that have been untouched for months, the endless flotsam and jetsam in your car, your closet, your garage, your kitchen, your bedroom, and your office. Clutter is all those clothes that you haven’t worn in years filling all those shelves and drawers. Clutter is all those possessions you’ve got piled in the garage just in case you might need them someday. Even though it’s been seven years since you first made those piles and haven’t looked in them since. Details are those pictures that remind you why you do what you do. Details are those books that are filled with underlining and notes. Or the books that you actually will read. Details are those few items of clothing that you actually do wear. Details are those objects you use regularly that help you do better whatever it is you do. Details are the tools of your craft. Details remind you who you are, where you’ve been, and what your path is. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

9 " Far too often, we don't start because we can't get our minds around the entire thing. We don't take the first step because we can't figure out the seventeenth step. But you don't have to know the seventeenth step. You only have to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1. Start with 1. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

10 " Decide now that you will not spend your precious energy speculating about someone else's life and how it compares with yours. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

11 " When we don't throw ourselves completely into it and we hold back our best efforts because of what happened in the past, we are letting the past decide the future. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

12 " How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

13 " What would it look like for you to approach tomorrow with a sense of honor and privilege, believing that you have work to do in the world, that it matters, that it's needed, that you have a path and you're working your craft? "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

14 " Are you breathing? Are you here? Did you just take a breath? Are you about to take another? Do you have a habit of regularly doing this? Gift. Gift. Gift. Whatever else has happened in your life—failure, pain, heartache, abuse, loss—the first thing that can be said about you is that you have received a gift. Often "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

15 " No one has ever done this before. No one has ever been you before. This exact interrelated web of people and events and places and memories and desire and love that is your life hasn't ever existed in the history of the Universe. Welcome to a truly unique phenomenon. Welcome to your life. I want you to be here. Welcome to here. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

16 " At any moment in the day, you can only do one thing at a time. And the more intentional you are about knowing what your 1 is, the more present you will be. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

17 " Be honest about your joy. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

18 " Craft is when you meet up with someone else who's serious about her craft and you talk for hours about the subtle nuances and acquired wisdom of the work. Craft is when you realize you're building muscles and habits that are helping you do better whatever it is you do. Craft is when you have a deep respect for the form and shape and content of what you're doing. Craft is when you're humbled because you know that no matter how many years you get to do this, there will always be room to learn and grow. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

19 " Selling your house, giving away possessions, working multiple jobs for a period of time, going back to school and moving in with friends or relatives, sharing a car with your partner and riding your bike more, investing all your savings in a new venture, living on the other side of the world for a year— your friends may not understand, your co-workers may not get it, your extended family may think you’ve lost your mind— that’s okay. Better to receive some odd looks and have a few people roll their eyes than spend your days wondering, What if I did that . . . ? Take that step. Make that leap. Try that new thing. If it helps clarify your ikigai, if it gets you up in the morning, if it’s good for you and the world, do it. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

20 " Boredom, cynicism, and despair are spiritual diseases because they disconnect us from the most primal truth about ourselves - that we are here. "

― Rob Bell , How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living