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Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life QUOTES

Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life QUOTES

1 " There is no activity that is somehow more Christian than another. God looks at the heart, and that is the good part that Mary knew. he simply asks us to come as we are and to be willing, open to receive whatever he might have for us this day. That is what it means to live a graceful life. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

2 " Rather than admitting you don't know what to do next, you fake it in public and feel lost when you're alone. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

3 " It isn't about what we are supposed to 'do'; it is about what we choose to 'believe'. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

4 " You miss the living because you are waiting for perfect, and so you let goodness and blessings pass you right on by. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

5 " I want to encourage you today: needy is a beautiful place to be. When we recognize our need, we will finally look around for something (or someone) to fill it. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

6 " God is already carrying your load. Why do you insist on carrying it too? "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

7 " Knowing what you have makes all the difference. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

8 " These outward identities we build for ourselves are not all that we are. A person is made of so many layers. Skin is just the top layer. It's the part you can see, so when you walk into a room, others won't run into you. It's the brown-hair, brown-eyes layer; the you-look-good-in-green layer.
Your outside is important because God made that part. He made you on purpose, uniquely beautiful. But you can't stop there, because that's your body, your skin, your outside. Dead people have all that stuff too. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

9 " Discontentment shows up when we focus on what we can't have rather than what we do have. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

10 " You have a longing to be understood, but still feel the need to protect yourself. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

11 " We all believe somewhere deep inside that we should be better, be doing more, be someone other than who we currently are. ...we feel as if we aren't good enough. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

12 " Just because it doesn't make sense 'to me' doesn't mean it doesn't make sense 'at all'. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

13 " ... the voice of the Dreamer convinced me that 'later' would always be better than 'now', that 'someday' is where life will really happen and high school is just something we have to get through before we can live our real lives. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

14 " The voice of the Dreamer often pushes us to escape. When we listen to her voice, our dreams are held captive. We dream things shaped by heaven but twisted by the world, things of escape and vacation and eternal lounging. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

15 " These hiding places may have been helping you cope, but they are not who you are.
These good girl voices challenge your identity. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

16 " The number one reason we don't believe things that are true is because they don't always feel true. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

17 " This is also a book abut God, about what it means--and what it doesn't mean--to believe. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

18 " Some girls look to fill the emptiness with their rebellious ways and get into trouble. Other girls try hard to fill the emptiness with good things and get praise. But both girls are reaching for something we'll never find outside of God. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

19 " I didn't want to be such a good girl anymore. I wanted people to fear messing with me. ... I wanted to be intimidating. At least that's how I acted. The truth is, what I really wanted more than anything was to be liked. As much as I talked bad about those girls, I would have given anything for them to like me. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life

20 " When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to be tough and untouchable, but really I was squishy and sensitive. "

― Emily P. Freeman , Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life