Anna White, Mended: Thoughts On Life, Love, And Leaps Of Faith Quotes

I've always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I imagine, so I am letting them rest. Instead, I am holding just what is in my hand.

Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living.

The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul.

I was taught growing up not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, to withdraw myself from the sinful 'others'. But we are all others. We are all sinners in someone's eyes.

I doubt that anyone has a Damascus moment after experiencing discrimination. Most people seem to have shining moments of change after experiencing grace.

Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don’t have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.

Acts of love, for me, are leaps of bravery.

I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew.

I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.

Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.

It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.

I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.

I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you are not lost forever. You are findable.Love just keeps on looking. Love is forever tries.

The most amazing thing is that all my sorrows, all of my darkest moments, are becoming my gifts.

I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

I name you today, heart fears. I am small, but you are smaller. You will not stop me. You have a voice, fears, and I must listen, but then I will open my heart. I will love you right to death.

I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep forever. To question why I deserve to live.

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.