Jane Kirkpatrick Quotes

#1. You ride horse of good intent," Naomi said. "It does not arrive at destination.

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#2. We seek neither convenience nor ease, but to live at the edge of possibility.

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#3. My mother always said to keep my eyes open for the unexpected good, the little treasures.

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#4. The visionary mind takes many turns before settling on any specific path.

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#5. Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.

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#6. Flowers remind us to put away fear, to stop our rushing and running and worrying about this and that, and for a moment have a piece of paradise right here on earth. God offers healing through flowers and brings us closer to Him.

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#7. Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.

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#8. That everything that happens can be converted to good. We simply do not know the good of it, our world being so vast and wide and us but a small part in it

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#9. The essential code must include . . . how to crawl from the wreckage when this life falters, how to plunge to the cellar of sorrow and grope for the ladder that might bring you back into some kind of light, no matter how dim or strange.

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#10. Don't deny the dreams. They're a gift given to make your life full. Accept them. Reach for them. We are not here just to endure hard times until we die. We are here to live, to serve, to trust, and to create out of our longings.

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#11. Change isn't the end ... It's an unfolding, the beginning of something different.

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#12. if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten

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#13. Some of what I remembered was not my own story. It was twisted like tobacco strands, tangled with a dozen other memories of people who were here and others who were not even a part of the terror.

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