Cristen Rodgers Quotes

#1. Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It's no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.

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#2. We all have a unique art, our personal passion that serves as a vessel through which our souls can speak. True happiness is found by filling it, and purpose is fulfilled by pouring it out.

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#3. We are all rocks fallen away from the same great mountain, sometimes finding our way back home by grace. There's no use in throwing stones because, no matter what shape they may take, even they are just another piece of us.

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#4. We are all gardeners, planting seeds of intention and watering them with attention in every moment of every day.

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#5. Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence.

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#6. My mind is the sun,
and my heart is the moon.
In the sky between them,
there I am.

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#7. I look into your eyes and I'm sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both.

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#8. Summer rushes in on the heels of spring, eager to take her turn; and then she dances with wild abandon. But the time soon comes when she gratefully falls, exhausted and sated, into the auburn arms of autumn.

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#9. We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write.

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#10. Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away.

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#11. At times there will be fire; this we can't avoid. But it's up to us to decide whether it will consume or it will purify.

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#12. Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.

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#13. Maybe the moon just lost herself gazing too long at the brilliance of the sun and that's how she got her glow.

And maybe we're made of the same
mysterious sort of magic that makes us magnify and mirror whatever we look at the most.

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#14. We share the same water in our veins, air in our lungs, the same dust in our bones. We are two petals on the same flower of life, my friend.

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#15. We all have our own song as we glide in and out of one another's dance, yet amazingly everything seems to flow as if it were all choreographed from the start.

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#16. Let's nurture our spirits until they shine; and then let's strip down to our naked souls and dance through life until we drop little bits of light behind us that glow like fireflies in the night.

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