the invisible risk of not starting a business is that the people who wait to find “the perfect idea” get passed up by people who’ve started profitable businesses. The longer you wait, the more demoralizing it is to see other people soar —
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“This world is beautiful but badly broken. St. Paul said that it groans, but I love it even in its groaning.”
― Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
― Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World

“Sometimes when we are called to obey, the fear does not subside and we are expected to move against the fear. One must choose to do it afraid.”
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“A woman who reads is a woman who knows she must act: in courage, in creativity, in kindness, and often in defiance of the darkness around her. She understands that life itself is a story and that she has the power to shape her corner of the drama.”
― Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
― Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

“It was very humiliating to be worsted by a girl—a country girl at that, who had passed most of her life on a farm! No doubt she was strong-minded and wanted to vote. I was quite prepared to believe anything of her.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
― Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

“To know yourself as an agent in the story of the world, one able to bring light and goodness in the midst of suffering, is a profoundly empowering knowledge, one that I believe comes to every woman who reads.”
― Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
― Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

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