Bob Goff Quotes

Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.

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• I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Guitar
  • Rhythm
  • Strum

• Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Logic
  • Events
  • Ridicule

• We may have created this projection of what God should be, as this judge or test, but the fact is, the only way we know about God is by knowing ourselves in some way. So God must be in ourselves-you can't deny that. If you say that God is somewhere else, which is what a lot of religions say, I just can't deal with it. I guess it's the difference between Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism, or something.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Judging
  • Christianity
  • Buddhism

• We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Risk
  • Values
  • Celebrate

• It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.

  

  Cara Lockwood
  • Never
  • Hurt
  • Chance

• The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Job
  • State
  • Authors

• I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

  

  Michael Hastings
  • Life
  • Perspective
  • Difficult

• I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

  

  Thandie Newton
  • Persons
  • Passings
  • Ageing

• I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Cancer
  • Population
  • Percent

• That’s the thing, chato. I’m not the one to tell it, and you aren’t the one to hear it, but rest assured that it’d be pretty tough to figure out …

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • Rest
  • Thing
  • Figure Out

• I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Life
  • Things
  • Figure Out

• I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Figure Out

• If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Life
  • Father
  • Wisdom

• Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Heart
  • History
  • Faith

• There's nothing like playing at home.

  

  Kygo
  • Home

• Pressed up against him, I can feel the thud of his heart against mine, his ribcase expanding and contracting rapidly against my chest, the warm whisper of his breath tickling the side of my neck, the brush of his leg against my thigh. Resting my arms on his shoulders, I pull back a little to get a look at his face. But he isn't smiling any more.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Up
  • Heart

• Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Figure Out
  • Stop Doing