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No matter your age, stage of life, or circumstances, don't forget to dare to dream with God. You don't have to figure anything out. Just keep saying yes to Him, in big ways and small, and watch what He does.
Lysa TerKeurst
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Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
Clarice Lispector
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Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.
E. Stanley Jones
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Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying âYes, Lord!â - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
Tara Brach
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One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes."
Brené Brown
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Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.
Greg McKeown
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When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.
Paulo Coelho
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I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.
Jenny Downham
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Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!
Suze Orman
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Saying âNoâ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying âYesâ is not always a virtue
Paulo Coelho
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The problem with saying yes all the time is that it won't make you Wonder Woman. It'll make you a worn-out woman. And soon you'll find the relationships you treasure most are constantly getting your 'less' instead of your 'best' because of your endless to-do list and overwhelming schedule.
Lysa TerKeurst
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Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
Seth Godin
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I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.
Guy Maddin
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There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.
John Currin
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Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.
Eckhart Tolle
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Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.
Jim Carrey
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You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes."
Marshall Sylver
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Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.
Stephen Colbert
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I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.
Richard Patrick
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Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.
Tom Hanks
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If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die.
Susan Sarandon
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We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can."
Bill Gates
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Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.
Rob Lowe
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Just say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.
Tina Fey
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I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'
Ringo Starr
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Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.
Steve Jobs
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It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.
Noah Emmerich
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This is an attraction based Universe. You cannot say no. You are always saying, 'Yes please, yes please, yes please,' with your attention.
Esther Hicks
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Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.
Lysa TerKeurst
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Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".
Eda LeShan
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Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no".
Richard Branson
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Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy.
Pope Francis
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After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.
Timothy Garton Ash
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The power of saying no is so much more than the power of saying yes.
Julianna Margulies
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Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I'm always saying yes.
Cody Simpson
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I'm a great believer that saying yes is a lot more fun than saying no.
Richard Branson
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I learned to stop saying yes because I then have to back out. I've been trying to prioritize my health.
Laura Benanti
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I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.
Richard Branson
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Because we have such a deeply grooved conditioning to reject and condemn ourselves, particularly in this culture, I find that emphasis on the word "acceptance" is central in healing. It brings our attention to the possibility of saying yes to what we are experiencing in the moment, and counteracts the conditioning to push away what feels unpleasant or intense or unfamiliar.
Tara Brach
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How often in your life have you been criticized for having the feelings you do?. Did this make you feel invalidated?. How often do you simply stuff your feelings and agree with others, saying yes, when you really mean no.
Catherine Cardinal
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To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.
Sam Keen
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There are so many great stories and characters out there that you can just keep saying, "Yes," but you've got to eventually make the decision that if it's something you really want then do it for yourself.
Channing Tatum
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We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.
Erwin W. Lutzer