There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.


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ELISABETH ELLIOT
Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have e...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK
You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally rea...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the m...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’v...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stre...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not the...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this lis...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely und...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other peop...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experien...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
You haunt my days and dreams.
JENNIFER ELISABETH
If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.
JENNIFER ELISABETH
The Fall will always be yours and mine…
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinnin...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportuniti...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes alm...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenti...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to cha...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, ca...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and w...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desi...
ELISABETH SHUE
I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimula...
ELISABETH SHUE
Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, ...
ELISABETH LENK
To pursue the thing she needed to do, Virginia Woolf wrote, “a woman must have money and a room of...
ELISABETH EAVES
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to th...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pr...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who ar...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
There is no such thing as Christian work. That is, there is no work in the world which is, in and of...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
A Christian sees all men as made in the image of God. All are sinners too, which means that the imag...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
He who had known the ceaseless worship of angels came to be a slave to men. Preaching, teaching, hea...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's con...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His k...
ELISABETH ELLIOT