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.
Quotes to Explore
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I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
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Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.
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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.
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We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.
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It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.
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The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife.
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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.
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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.
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I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.
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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 …
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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.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.
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If we want to get to the source of what we feel, we need to figure out what we believe and value.
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Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.
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I would rather be a member of this Afrikan race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.
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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.
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Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.
