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The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

John Eldredge

I wasn’t mean; I wasn’t evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy.
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Hesitant Man Myself Need Warrior Woman
Story is the language of the heart.
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Heart Language One Liner Story
Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Choice Fight Man Warrior
We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
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Clear Eyes Heart See
Desire reveals design, and design reveals destiny.
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Anand Thakur
There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey, something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
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Anand Thakur
Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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Desire Life Live Whisper Worth
Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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Alive Desire Faith Hope
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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Anand Thakur
What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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Audience Crowd Himself Person Play Remark Strike True
When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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Dangerous Hurt Live Vulnerable Woman
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
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Acknowledgement Healing Wound
I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
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Help Integrity Live Myself Theory Writing
A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.
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Goal Himself Life Man Mission Togetherness Woman
Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.
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Anand Thakur
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
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Character Kind Motive Theatre Try Understand

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