“The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good, even if there is an element of selfishness involved. Like the kids at my school might join the Key Club or Future Buisness Leaders of America, because it's a social thing and looks good on their record, not because they really want to volunteer at the nursing home. But the people at the nursing home still benefit from it, so it's better that the kids do it than not do it. And if they never did it, then they wouldn't find out that they actually liked it.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“(T)he world is broken up into pieces, and...it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“I've learned that almost anyone will help if you ask for it.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“Hey when there's a chance to win a free spoon rest from Creative Pottery Studio, people can't pass that up!”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“that. Amanda and Leo tried to help me last year,”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“of a heart attack from all this stress, I’d be impressed with her dedication. I can’t think of a single instance in my life when I’ve tried”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“The Day Tara the Great Destroyed the Zombie Queen and Then Ate a Grilled Cheese Sandwich would be”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“Okeydokey.” “I think I liked you better when I didn’t understand you.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“Okey —” “Don’t say it.” “Dokey.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“I don’t even know where to start with the story. Leo says,”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“One leather-bound copy of the Bible, black, Book of Genesis repeated twice One”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
“I am a wearer of many hats.” I”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 13 Gifts
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“The most loyal are usually the most wicked. It is not our enemies we should look to to betray us, but our friends. For we do not expect loyalty from our enemies, do we? Betrayal is only birthed from loyalty. Look at Judas. And Brutus. And Brad Pitt.”
― Anne Malcom, quote from Fatal Harmony
“The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed. No matter how well prepared they are, all moms and dads experience a moment of total shock, when the tidal wave of feelings first washed through them, knocking them off their feet. It's incomprehensible because there's nothing to compare it to. It's like trying to describe sand between your toes or snowflakes on your tongue to someone who's lived their whole life in a dark room. It sends the soul flying.”
― Fredrik Backman, quote from Beartown
“You become what you give your attention to.”
― Epictetus, quote from The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
“Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.'
'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.'
'When are we happy?'
'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.'
'What is regret?'
'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.'
'What is sorrow?'
'To long for the past.'
'What is the highest pleasure?'
'To hear a good story.”
― Vikram Chandra, quote from Red Earth and Pouring Rain
“I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed.”
― Annie Dillard, quote from Holy the Firm
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