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At the moment when the road looks the harshest, and you think you cannot continue on that is when you relearn your first mode of transportation; you crawl. You dig your fingers into the dirt, and propel yourself forward with your toes, but you never give up. You've gotta learn to bend with the sway. You never know what is around the next curve.

Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without the "living water" of Gods Word.

The person who says it can__ be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.

I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.

If ever you feel lost, terrified, alone, emotionally and physically drained...when you feel like depression has overpowered you, and that the world itself, has devoured you...just remember that you are not alone, you are loved, you are a beautiful story waiting to be told._ -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)

I would rather burn out than rust out.

People come and go in our lifetime, but we hold onto the ones worth keeping, the ones who have touched our lives in such a way that changes everything we thought we knew or felt; life itself changes._ -Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)

It seemed to me that life was a giant ice skating rink, and I was the only one who didn__ have skates. Most people fear death. I don__. I__ only afraid of not living. I don__ want to be the one behind the ice rink fence, watching other people having fun.

Worldly possessions didn't matter much to him, but his freedom did. He could come and go as he pleased, with nothing more than the backpack underneath his seat. It was a simple existence for a simple man.

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment __o feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

No matter what, you can only live this moment.

Death was easy. Life was complicated.

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, every month, every year? Let me get you started. My one thing is this, __'m one day closer..._ One day closer to a goal, an outcome, or the results I'm after in my life. This is my way of remembering the importance of focusing on the life I desire and living a life of gratitude! So, what__ your one thing_?

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.

Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.