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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a92a74e | Simply let go of distraction for one moment. In that moment, you have the power to make a significant connection with another human being. You have the opportunity to be in the right place at the right time. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 6180455 | In that moment I made a vow. No matter what happens around me, no matter what I feel I need to do, I will never be the first to let go. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| c182a57 | Most scientific cartography is concerned with the dissemination of spatial knowledge. | Arthur H. Robinson | ||
| 683ebe4 | Be an example of what it means to live presently, and continually verbalize the benefits you receive from living Hands Free. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 1eaaa47 | Choosing connection over distraction offers a chance to nurture your most sacred relationships -- now and in the future. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| f11f281 | In what ways does your daily pace interfere with your ability to sit, relax, and be available to the ones you love? | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 680cb10 | On this journey to grasp what really matters, discomfort often comes before growth; hurt before healing; regret before promise. By going to the darkest places in our soul, we find light. This first and most difficult step in the journey offers the chance of a new beginning -- a chance to grasp the moments that matter from this day forward. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| e0bfdda | You have the power to live in the now despite that inner nudge pushing you out of the moment toward perfection and productivity. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 89d7203 | THE HANDS FREE PLEDGE I'm becoming Hands Free. I want to make memories, not to-do lists. I want to feel the squeeze of my child's arms, not the pressure of overcommitment. I want to get lost in conversation with the people I love, not consumed by a sea of unimportant emails. I want to be overwhelmed by sunsets that give me hope, not by overloaded agendas that steal my joy. I want the noise of my life to be a mixture of laughter and gratitud.. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| ea7deb0 | That More Peaceful Person started with one calm reaction in the midst of chaos. That | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 1d29a88 | At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| d569820 | One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon -- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Dale Carnegie | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 499b5f3 | What would love do? I ask myself as I look in the mirror and start picking myself apart. Love would look past the reflection and say, "Look how far I've come." Love would say, "I'm grateful for another day." | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 79a35f4 | It's critical to see all you are rather than what's missing, imperfect, unattractive, or broken. You see, there's someone who looks at you and sees something he or she can hold on to. You're a keeper. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 41ce585 | Nothing was more important than being with the God-given gift of the person in front of me. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| adb96b9 | when it comes to building up a human being, unconditional attention is just as important as unconditional love. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 8263e18 | Ban the mirror. It cannot reflect how much you are loved. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 464e9ab | I just want to celebrate you as you are instead of waiting for you to become what the world expects you to be. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 63effe7 | I just want to hear you laugh. I don't care about perfect pitch. I just want to see you smile. I don't care about golden trophies that shine. I just want to give you a soft place to land. I don't care about what place you come in. I just want you to be comfortable in your skin. I don't care about the blemish on your nose or the size of your jeans. I just want to love you today, as you are. I don't care about what the world expects you to be.. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 8e00e8f | beautifully illustrated what it means to live in authenticity: to acknowledge unpleasant feelings, like shame and humiliation, and give voice to them. She then asked someone she trusted to sit with her in her sadness -- without smoothing over the negative feelings or brushing them away. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| ce5d653 | So go on, extraordinary one. Live and let live. Love and be loved. Bloom in time--in your own time. Now I see you for who you really are. And you are a wonder. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| b0eeb42 | The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love. Jennifer Edwards | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 0d8a1e1 | It is in the times I least want to be Hands Free that I most need to be Hands Free. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| d119524 | Today most maps are printed by lithography. | Arthur H. Robinson | ||
| b814b94 | allow yourself to rest, I will renew you and fill you with peace." It suddenly occurred to me that perhaps "doing" for God was not the way he intended for me to live. Instead, perhaps I should try "being" for God." | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 3427d17 | Despite the choices of the past, today we are presented with a blank page. A beautifully flawed, yet memorable and gratitude-filled life is at our fingertips. But we must dig in--dig in to the gooey, heavenly mess that is life. When we make the choice to grasp what really matters, things often turn out better than expected. May you find a moment today to open your hands, say yes, and dig in. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 23d76a2 | When we see each other's scars, we love each other more. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 2e1c049 | The only person who could protect my time was me. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 79a1bfa | What would love do when hate-filled words and cliques build barriers that keep people out? Love would look for the lonely, excluded, and alienated. Love would reach out a hand and say, "Come as you are. There's a place for you here." | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| a394de1 | No matter what I am in the middle of doing, No matter how inconvenient it is to look up, No matter how busy I think I am, When my children walk in the room, When my children hop in the car, When my children and I are reunited after a separation, The world is going to stop for a moment. And I will shine my love into their eyes and into their hearts, So my children see and feel how much I love them. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 3e64d53 | Let me consider the possibilities for a moment: What might result if love becomes my default choice today? What opportunities might open up? What connections might be repaired? What moments might I capture that otherwise might be missed? Who might I start becoming? Today I have the chance to make grand possibilities come to life. I will choose love as much as I humanly can. | Rachel Macy Stafford | ||
| 4e0c6ab | That red leaf is so much more than an ordinary leaf; it is a day in my life, and quantities are limited. Whether it be a frantic Monday or a draining Wednesday, each day is a leaf drifting down, down, down. It might not be a vibrant, red leaf that takes my breath away, but it's a leaf that will never be on my tree of life again. | gratitude hopeful-and-encouraging motivational | Rachel Macy Stafford | |
| d1ebdb5 | the Facebook Election that Smith had so eagerly predicted was turning out not to be the Facebook election he had optimistically envisioned. | Jill Abramson | ||
| b793a81 | Jobs later explained, "We discussed whether it was correct before we ran it. It's grammatical, if you think about what we're trying to say. It's not think the same, it's think different. Think a little different, think a lot different, think different. 'Think differently' wouldn't hit the meaning for me." In order to evoke the spirit of Dead Poets Society, Clow and Jobs wanted to get Robin Williams to read the narration. His agent said that.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fb6ef22 | Lines have expression, and by the use of lines alone we can suggest impressions. | Arthur Hammond | ||
| 7e5d57e | Practically speaking, the securing of true tones in a photograph depends entirely upon the exposure. | Arthur Hammond | ||
| 955b6ca | Dr. Ockenga had been a student of Machen's at Princeton University and followed him out. But then Ockenga, like Dad, became a critic of the fundamentalist's endless civil wars and started looking for a new way to present a friendlier evangelical faith (and face). He helped invent a movement called the New Evangelicals. Their mascot was Billy Graham. Other figures like Carl Henry, founder of Christianity Today magazine (and a man who became .. | Frank Schaeffer | ||
| 32008e5 | Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross. | discipleship discipline | Billy Graham | |
| ce3a265 | Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future. He hid nothing from them. No one could ever accuse Him of deception. No one could ever accuse Him of securing allegiances by making false promises. In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship meant a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross. He asked them to count the cost carefully, lest they should turn back when they met with suffering and privation. | Billy Graham | ||
| 42fa81e | By then, Dad and I were both saying that evangelicals who would not take a stand on abortion had denied their faith. By the early '80s, most evangelical leaders (who wanted to keep their jobs) came over to our side on "the issue" or were intimidated into silence if they still had doubts. But the spiritual-versus-political debate was over. Billy Graham might be maintaining his nonpolitical stance, but we activists had won. Evangelical Christ.. | Frank Schaeffer | ||
| 8a74a64 | I believe that my parents' call to the ministry actually drove them crazy. They were happiest when farthest away from their missionary work, wandering the back streets of Florence; or, rather, when they turned their missionary work into something very unmissionary-like, such as talking about art history instead of Christ. Perhaps this is because at those times they were farthest away from other people's expectations. I think religion was ac.. | Frank Schaeffer | ||
| 05eb555 | Did the followers of Billy know that he'd plucked his seventeen-year-old daughter out of her first semester at Wheaton College to marry a man almost twenty years older than her whom she had never met until Billy introduced them? Would they have cared? Every human being has a dark side. But when you are being hailed as a conduit-to-God, the fact that you are a mere human--or, in the case of Billy Graham, just plain bizarre--has to be ignored.. | Frank Schaeffer | ||
| 10f8f26 | In his "year of doubt"--as Mom always called it--Dad had spent the better parts of several months pacing in our old Champery chalet's hayloft. He was considering giving up his faith. Things no longer made sense to him. Somehow he convinced himself to still believe. And in 1949 (at about the same time Dad was pacing), Billy Graham was also suffering from doubts and had a similar re-conversion. Billy walked into the woods, laid his Bible on a.. | Frank Schaeffer | ||
| 1018415 | They reached down for their three armloads of debris. Steve scooped up his first load, flung it out, and gathered his second. Suddenly, Wes slammed into the fence with such force that his body was driven in an arc right over the top of Steve. It only took a split second for Steve to realize what had happened. As Wes had bent over to reach for an armload of debris, he had been hit from behind by more than twelve feet of reptile, weighing clo.. | Terri Irwin |