Top 100 Shauna Quotes
#1. I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person.
Debi Mazar
#2. Shauna stalks into a room as though it offends her. She was a plus-size model, one of the few known by one name. Shauna. Like Cher or Fabio. She stood six one and weighed one hundred ninety pounds. She was, as you might expect, a head-turner, and all heads in the waiting room obliged. Shauna
Harlan Coben
#3. George's eyes moved quickly back to the paper, and his lips twitched as he finished, And finally , to Shauna Fontaine, I leave the knowledge that, when I started it with her, I got a vasectomy.
Kristen Ashley
#4. Max" Shauna greeted him, her voice a contented purr than she looked at me and her eyes grew cold. "Nina."
"She bitch from hell" I replied, Bitsy's head shot around and she looked at me with wide eyes, her fear had disappears, delighted astonishment in its place while Max grunted his amusement.
Kristen Ashley
#5. According to Shauna Rae, you just never know when the people next door are cooking meth until the trailer explodes.
Lexi Blake
#6. We walk toward the training room, Shauna updating Zeke on her week at the fence
Two days ago the idiot I was on patrol with started freaking out, swearing he saw something out there ... Turns out it was a plastic bag.
Veronica Roth
#7. I had an aunt named 'abnormal Shauna' once. But she passed away in an unfortunate cliff-top interpretative dance and fireworks accident.
Joshua Donellan
#8. I don't forgive people.Just ask Shauna Bradley. We were best friends in kindergarten until I discovered she was the one stealing the fruit snacks from my desk. She lost my trust that day, and
even now when I see her, I have to refrain myself from shouting, Why? Why did you do it?!
Nicole Christie
#9. But this is what I've learned the hard way: what people think about you means nothing in comparison to what you believe about yourself.
Shauna Niequist
#10. A mindful parent is one who is committed to practicing being present and awake, and to listening deeply to her child, moment by moment. Mindfulness depends upon awareness.
Shauna L. Shapiro
#11. 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
#12. I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.
Shauna Niequist
#13. Age, like numbers on a scale and letters on a report card, tells us very little of who we are. You decide every year exactly how young and how old you want to be.
Shauna Niequist
#14. You cannot taste the oil until you pour out the vinegar.
Shauna Niequist
#15. When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.
Shauna Niequist
#16. Me. I see moments of heartbreak that led to honesty about myself I wouldn't have been able to get to any other way. I am thankful for what I learned, what I became, what God gave me and what God took away during that season.
Shauna Niequist
#17. When Life is Well say THANK YOU & CELEBRATE, and when life is Bitter say THANK YOU & GROW.
Shauna Niequist
#18. But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.
Shauna Niequist
#19. Life would never be perfect or hold no trials, but He who loved us in our darkest hour would see us through while holding us in the palm of His hand - completely safe and secure - only asking the that we trust and obey.
Shauna Williams
#20. To pray is to say that there is more than I can see, and more than I can do. There is more going on than meets the eye.
Shauna Niequist
#21. WHEN WE know what's essential in our lives, everything else is negotiable. What are some things you don't do? What things could you intentionally leave undone so that you can focus more deeply on the things you feel called to and passionate about?
Shauna Niequist
#22. Oh, the quiet moments alone with God I sacrificed in order to cross a few things off the to-do list I worshiped.
Shauna Niequist
#23. The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being.
Shauna Niequist
#24. You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the true culmination of super and natural.
Shauna Niequist
#25. I needed a piece of a story, something real and full of life and blood and breath and heartache, something that someone had lived through, a piece of wisdom earned the hard way. That's why telling our stories is so important.
Shauna Niequist
#26. Christians have made too much out of work in the same way that Americans have begun engaging in yoga competitions - twisted-up versions of a purer thing. Christians want to make a difference. So we do, and we do, and we do, and then we find ourselves exhausted. In
Shauna Niequist
#27. People called me tough. And capable. And they said I was someone they could count on. Those are all nice things. Kind of. But they're not the same as loving, or kind, or joyful. I was not those things. I
Shauna Niequist
#28. The problem is that the worldview I've chosen has melted like butter. I had a plan, and the plan is gone.
Shauna Niequist
#29. Even though my fear was detonating over and over like bombs dropping, the fragile and fractured wings of my heart dared to beat as well, and alongside all that fear and all that gratitude, I felt the first precious rush of hope.
Shauna Niequist
#30. Risotto is one of those dishes you just have to try a few times yourself, to teach yourself the moves and sounds and smells and textures. This is a guide map, but kind of a rough and tattered one.
Shauna Niequist
#31. Pretty sure we can't call you 'Stiff' anymore, Tris.
Veronica Roth
#32. You want me to say that when you grow, finally, all the changes will stop, but they don't. There will be another one, another opportunity to grow, to shed your skin, to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, to break out of your cocoon like a perfect new butterfly.
Shauna Niequist
#33. Stop. Right now. Remake your life from the inside out.
Shauna Niequist
#34. Fiction ... It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.
Shauna Singh Baldwin
#35. There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.
Shauna Niequist
#36. I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world he made is extraordinary, and that his comfort is like nothing else on earth.
Shauna Niequist
#37. There's no denying Bird-man's well-intentioned heart. He's a good guy, not the type of prick who would take your favorite Stryper t-shirt on tour and bequeath it to some random trollop he hooks up with while conveniently forgetting you ever existed.
Shauna Cross
#38. We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.
Shauna Niequist
#39. Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.
Shauna Singh Baldwin
#40. In my experience, you can never go wrong with flowers and food, even when someone insists that there's nothing at all you can do.
Shauna Niequist
#41. Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.
Shauna Niequist
#42. Gossip is so dangerous, because it makes you feel like you told the truth. And you did. Just not to the person involved. It scratches that itch, that impulse to tell the truth, but it has no power to transform, and it destroys trust. When
Shauna Niequist
#43. Grace isn't about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and never come up empty. It's when you finally realize that the other shoe isn't going to drop, ever.
Shauna Niequist
#44. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day.
Shauna Niequist
#45. This is hospitality at its core. This is the beat of my heart: to experience grace and nourishment, and to offer it, one in each hand, to every person I meet - grace and nourishment. You can rest. You don't have to starve.
Shauna Niequist
#46. Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.
Shauna Niequist
#47. I am still surprised on a regular basis at the love I feel for the spirit of God, the deep respect and emotion that I experience when I see an expanse of water or a new baby or the kindness of strangers.
Shauna Niequist
#48. IT'S EASY to long for nothing but good news and carefree days, but a full life includes the broken and dark and difficult parts, too. Thank God for walking with you in the seasons of heartbreak.
Shauna Niequist
#49. [Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.
Shauna Niequist
#50. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.
Shauna Niequist
#51. the difference between restaurant cooking and home cooking - and often, too, the difference between great flavor and tasteless food - is two things: more heat and more seasoning. His constant refrain as he made his way around the kitchen: "More heat. More salt. More butter.
Shauna Niequist
#52. Be very careful that you are not giving yourself to a pale imitation of life with Christ - life about Christ, or life generally near to Christ.
Shauna Niequist
#53. I don't know if this is a season of sweetness or one of sadness. But I'm learning that neither last forever.
Shauna Niequist
#54. What God does in the tiny corners of our day-to-day lives is stunning and gorgeous and headline-making, but we have a bad habit of saving the headlines for the grotesque and scary.
Shauna Niequist
#55. So now, out of desperation, I'm back to prayer. I'm back to prayer, sheepishly, because I couldn't make my life work without it. I pray out of sheer lack of options.
Shauna Niequist
#56. The general world population will survive without one more stage production and one more gallery showing. This is the thing, though: you might not. We create because we were made to create, having been made in the image of God, whose first role was Creator.
Shauna Niequist
#57. 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 willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
Shauna Niequist
#58. we're constantly looking for ways to help each other's lives get lighter, easier to carry, closer to the heart of what we love, less clogged with expectations and unnecessary tasks.
Shauna Niequist
#59. Live with hope and courage and lived instead a long season of whining, self-indulgence, and fear.
Shauna Niequist
#60. But it isn't about perfection, and it isn't about performance. You'll miss the richest moments in life - the sacred moments when we feel God's grace and presence through the actual faces and hands of the people we love - if you're too scared or too ashamed to open the door.
Shauna Niequist
#61. Sometimes the darkest parts of us can be our teachers in ways that our sweeter qualities never could.
Shauna Niequist
#62. But our goal, remember, is to feed around our table the people we love. We're not chefs or restaurateurs or culinary school graduates, and we shouldn't try to be. Make it the way the people you love want to eat it.
Shauna Niequist
#63. We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.
Shauna Niequist
#65. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don't lose yourself at happy hour, but don't lose yourself on the corporate ladder, either.
Shauna Niequist
#66. Every year, you will trade a little of your perfect skin and your ability to look great without exercising for wisdom and peace and groundedness, and every year the trade will be worth it. I promise.
Shauna Niequist
#67. I need grace and truth-telling and camaraderie from other moms. I need us to tell the truth about how hard it is, and I need us to help each other, instead of hiding behind the pretense and pressure of perfection.
Shauna Niequist
#68. Why does Papaji tell Jeevan this story? Roop wonders. Whenever Gujri tells Roop a story, se reminds Roop that stories are not told for th telling, but for the teaching.
Shauna Singh Baldwin
#69. Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways.
Shauna Niequist
#70. you just have to take one step, and that when you do, the next one will appear.
Shauna Niequist
#71. I don't always change my clothes just because I'm leaving the house. I wear yoga pants 99 percent of the time, and I pretend that other people don't notice that I'm wearing my pajamas in public.
Shauna Niequist
#72. When Life is Well say THANK YOU & CELEBRATE, and when life is Bitter say THANK YOU & GROW.
Shauna Niequist
#73. I don't know much about football, but when I see one player take his opponent down with a gruesome flying tackle, I can't help but have immediate, newfound respect. Any derby girl worth her skates would kill to throw a block like that.
Shauna Cross
#74. when you stay with something instead of walking away, it builds something new inside of you, something solid and weighty, something durable. But you do have to wait for it. You have to earn it the hard way.
Shauna Niequist
#75. And that's the core of prayer: admitting that just maybe, there's something going on that we can't see. So when I'm afraid, I pray, and I ask for God's help, that I will be able to see something I wasn't able to see before, or at least trust him to do the seeing.
Shauna Niequist
#76. Something has to get you back to prayer, and in my experience, the surest thing in either case is desperation.
Shauna Niequist
#77. Great art says the things we wished someone would say out loud, the things we wish we could say out loud.
Shauna Niequist
#78. your world will never be small if you love to read, because you can be anyone, anywhere, at any period in history. My
Shauna Niequist
#79. After all these years, the heaviest thing isn't the number on the scale but the weight of the shame I've carried all these years
too big, too big, too big.
Shauna Niequist
#80. My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.
Shauna Niequist
#81. God gives us something amazing when he gives us life, and I want to live with gratitude. I want to live in a way that shows how much I appreciate the gift.
Shauna Niequist
#82. there are interesting, smart, kind people just absolutely everywhere, and that when you do things you care about, you find quick kinship with people who are passionate about those same things.
Shauna Niequist
#83. Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.
Shauna Niequist
#84. And I know I'm sarcastic and defensive and I make a joke out of everything and am highly resistant to anything that reeks of sentimental corniness, but I'm giving you my heart anyway because being with you feels like home, and I know you won't break it.
Shauna Cross
#85. 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 since the beginning of time, if you bend all the way down and put your ear to the ground to listen for it.
Shauna Niequist
#86. These things can either strip us down to the bone and allow us to become strong and honest,
Shauna Niequist
#88. After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm ... I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.
Shauna James Ahern
#89. When we, any of us who have been transformed by Christ, tell our own stories, we're telling the story of who God is.
Shauna Niequist
#90. Life with God at its core is about giving your life up to something bigger and more powerful. It's about saying at every turn that God knows better than we know, and that his Spirit will lead us in ways that we couldn't have predicted. I have known that, but I haven't really lived that.
Shauna Niequist
#91. I want to celebrate in the face of despair, dance when all we see on the horizon is doom.
Shauna Niequist
#92. I've learned that in many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.
Shauna Niequist
#93. We actually want to hear the whole story. We want to understand who you are because of that season. I'd never bring that season up, but it's part of our history, and it meant something to me that they wanted to understand it.
Shauna Niequist
#94. What I found, though, is that is you're not chasing one fantasy, you're chasing another.
Shauna Niequist
#95. 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 mothering everywhere we see it, and more than that, recognizing that when any of us mother
when we listen, nuture, nourish, protect
we're doing sacred work.
Shauna Niequist
#96. It is better to be loved than admired. It is better to be truly known and seen and taken care of by a small tribe than adored by strangers who think they know you in a meaningful way.
Shauna Niequist
#97. That always used to make you happy don't do the trick anymore, because they can't break through the sadness and fear that are covering over everything in your life.
Shauna Niequist
#98. When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.
Shauna Niequist
#99. Life is painful, and we carry with us so much disappointment and heartbreak. But I'm fighting to save some space inside me where I can create hope.
Shauna Niequist
#100. No one lives out an exciting calling without just plunging forward at some point, full of fear and uncertainty.
Shauna Niequist
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