Joanna Gaines Quotes

#1. If I had planned my life, it never would have ended up like this. So maybe it's kind of fun not to plan. Maybe it's more fun just to see where life takes you.

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#2. I have to choose to thrive, even in the pain. Even when it's tough. ... We can do this. God has not brought us this far to let us down now.

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#3. That got me thinking about the pressure we women and moms are all under these days. It seems as if the standards are so much higher than they were just a few years ago, mainly because of what we see whenever we look on the Internet.

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#4. So from the age of five to about twenty, religion to me was a matter of 'you do this, and you don't do that, and you do your best to walk the straight line.

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#5. Even locked doors can be unlocked in time.

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#6. It's up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now - and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we'll be happy.

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#7. We didn't know what made "great TV." We were just trying to make a living and trying hard to honor the craft we had both fallen in love with over the years.

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#8. Don't quit, and don't give up. The reward is just around the corner. And in times of doubt or times of joy, listen for that still, small voice. Know that God has been there from the beginning - and he will be there until . . . The End.

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#9. You bloomed?

I did. If I hadn't married Chip, I might not have ever bloomed.

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#10. I came to think of God as more of a gracious friend who was accompanying me on this journey, a friend who wanted to carry my burdens and speak into my life and shape me into who I really was and who I would become.

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#11. I don't think it's irrational or too conservative of me to think, I never want to carry my baby into the county jail ever again.
Is it?

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#12. I always said, "When things come against us we can either turn on each other, or we can come together and turn on it."
-Chip Gaines

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#13. I've always loved magnolia trees and their blooms - there's something so beautiful about a magnolia blossom. It demands attention, and you can't help but love those big, creamy petals and that fragrant smell.

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#14. One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better our relationship was.

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#15. It is no easy thing to trust in God, to walk away from a career, to give it all up not knowing if you can ever get it back or even come close. But I did it. I heeded his voice, and somehow I found peace about it.

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#16. She cried. Again. That was sort of her thing during year one. If we ever write a marriage book, chapter 1 will be called, "She cried.

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#17. Best of all, as happy as Chip Gaines was, he seemed happiest around me.

I'm a generally happy person. My mom says I was a happy baby. But it's a fact--I was always happiest around Jo. And I still am.

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#18. There's something about doing things the way our ancestors used to do them that kind of puts your heart back into the rhythm of this thing called life.

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#19. I always thought that the "thriving" would come when everything was perfect, and what I learned is that it's actually down in the mess that things get good.

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#20. I finally believed it was actually a beautiful thing to be unique and to be different.

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#21. I mean, that's life. Life is never predictable. Life is never really manageable. If your mind-set is always, "I'm just surviving", it seems to me that would wind up being the mind-set for the rest of your life. You'd just get stuck in it.

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#22. I liked stability. I liked safety. I liked traditional and I liked being on time. And this Chip with the beet-red face wasn't any of those things. I did think he was kind of fascinating, though.

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#23. Well, I'm mad, but I'm not primer-in-the-face mad.

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#24. life is found in the glass of spilled milk and in the long, narrow hallway filled with socks and soccer balls.

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#25. Whether you are in an eight-hundred-square-foot home or living in a dream house on a lake, contentment is found on the way.

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