“It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“When Life is Well say THANK YOU & CELEBRATE, and when life is Bitter say THANK YOU & GROW.” — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.” — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“We have, each one of us, been entrusted with one life, made up of days and hours and minutes. We're spending them… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness. — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“One thing’s for sure: if you decide to be courageous and sane, if you decide not to overspend or overcommit or overschedule,… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I hate that for a season, no had to be the answer to almost everything. But over time, when you rebuild a… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Present over perfect living is real over image, connecting over comparing, meaning over mania, depth over artifice. Present over perfect living is… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“But this is what I'm finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible way. That… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I'm waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-wor thy experience unfolding gracefully. This… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I know that life is busy and hard and that there's crushing pressure to just settle down and get a real job… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“When you haven’t yet had your heart really broken, the gospel isn’t about death and rebirth. It’s about life and more life.… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Everything is interim. Everything is a path or a preparation for the next thing, and we never know what the next thing… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Today is your big moment. Moments, really. The life you’ve been waiting for is happening all around you. The scene unfolding right… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the news… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.” — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud...I want my everyday to make God belly laugh,… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and look back and realize that the best thing about me… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Today is your big moment. Moments, really. The life you've been waiting for is happening all around you. The scene unfolding right… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“to be true about life, too. If you dig in and fight the change you’re facing, it will indeed smash you to… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I think life is delicious, and I want to gobble it up in big bites, eating, drinking, reading, talking, traveling - everything.… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Celebration when your plan is working? Anyone can do that. But when you realize that the story of your life could be… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I don’t know where you are these days, what’s broken down and what’s beautiful in your life this season. I don’t know… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.” — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.” — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that’s been playing… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I am still surprised on a regular basis at the love I feel for the spirit of God, the deep respect and emotion that… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“...now that I am a mother, I understand what Mother's Day is about: it's about looking through our lives and recognizing the act of… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“We have, each one of us, been entrusted with one life, made up of days and hours and minutes. We're spending them according to… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“Years ago, Aaron and I were talking with the pastor of a fast-growing church, and another friend, a more seasoned pastor. The first pastor… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“I believe deeply that God does his best work in our lives during times of great heartbreak and loss, and I believe that much… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
