Top 43 Melody Carlson Quotes
#1. Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see.
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#2. If you want to have a good friend, you first must be a good friend.
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#3. Caroline smiled and waved and blew kisses to both of them as she exited the building. But once outside she felt sad and let down, like the party was over and it was time to go home. And yet she remembered her promise to God. She was going to trust that he knew what was best for her.
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#4. What if?..
What if I am all to see?
What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?
What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday
And there is no better way?
What then?
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#5. I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.
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#6. And to the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.
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#7. Sometimes it's good to take a break. Just as long as you remember it's only a break.
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#9. Sometimes things seem good at first ... but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought.
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#10. Next time, you might want to look before you leap.
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#11. Here was this really nice guy who happened to be uber-shy ... and with just a little encouragement, he was suddenly smiling and joking and having fun. Really, what had taken them so long?
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#12. Anyway, Phillip isn't like that. From what I can see, Phillip has good judgement and he genuinely cares about me. And those might be rare qualities in seventeen-year-old boys these days. Not that I'm an expert. Although I am getting better at it.
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#14. It made me wonder, if everyone is so connected to their phones-talking and texting and whatever else it is they do all day long-how do they ever have time to notice the beauty of God's creation all around them? How do they have time to connect to God?
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#15. You don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.
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#16. New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.
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#17. I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong
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#18. Sometimes you have to just go for what you want. Take the risk in order to get the reward.
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#19. So, there you have it, you get up and go to school, thinking it's just another ordinary day and the next thing you know, something totally unexpected happens! Life's like that. I guess it's like Forrest Gump said about the box of chocolates-you just never know what you're going to get!
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#21. If it seems too good to be true... it probably is.
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#23. Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.
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#24. Most guys don't like to be pursued like that. I mean, I suppose it's kinda flattering when a girl likes you so much that she'll go after you, but most guys want to be the ones doing the chasing.
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#25. I always thought faith was kind of a personal thing, Dad says thoughtfully.
Everyone has to figure out for themselves how much they should do things like pray or read the Bible.
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#26. I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.
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#27. Nothing wrong with taking time to figure out your life and make sure you really like where your life is going. I mean, it's better to do it now than when it's too late.
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#28. Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.
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#29. God planned for our lives to connect. Let's make sure we keep it that way.
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#30. A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
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#32. Sometimes we have to let our dreams go in order to allow God to bring them back to us - in his way and his timing.
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#33. But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.
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#34. You guys are living life for yourselves. You're leaving God totally out of it, and as a result things can get pretty messed up.
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#35. You're down now, Jordan, but only for awhile. I think God is giving you a chance to really look at your life and decide just how you want to live it.
That's right, said Kara. You can keep on living it for yourself or invite God to take over.
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#36. Even now, it still bewildered Chelsea the way Virginia and her circle of picture-perfect friends had made that amazing transition - it seemed like overnight - abandoning bikes and Barbies for boys and fashion. But Chelsea hadn't been invited to cross that bridge with them.
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#37. How can this be? How could we have been just sitting there, happily eating our lunch, and then Jess announces that she's gay? Like who does that anyway? And how is it possible that I never even saw this coming? I mean if you best friend has no clue that you're gay, then who does?
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#38. It's possible you've already let the right someone walk right past you.
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#39. I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more
much, much more.
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#40. I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.
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#41. It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?
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#42. I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.
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#43. The best way to get past something was usually to simply do something else, right?
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