7 Quotes by Allison Fallon

What is the cost of holding back what is trying to be expressed through you?

Maybe we should live our lives in a constant state of expectation, always curious and excited about the possibilities that could unfold in front of us. Maybe it is our sense of vision that colors our reality.

We have a set of rules for our faith, our sexuality, our marriages, our dating relationships, for choosing a church—nothing is off-limits. We tell ourselves to always do this, and never do that, and everything will turn out perfectly. Worse than that, we back up our rules with Bible verses and tell everyone else to follow them too.

Most of us, when we get over our need to be important to the world, realize how important we already are. Then, and only then, do the words and ideas that have always been trying to be expressed through us finally come.

What if there is no one else on the planet who can express the thing that’s trying to be expressed through you? What if this is your one shot, and you don’t have much time left? The thing in you that wants to be expressed can never be expressed through anyone else.

We have a set of rules for our faith, our sexuality, our marriages, our dating relationships, for choosing a church – nothing is off-limits. We tell ourselves to always do this, and never do that, and everything will turn out perfectly. Worse than that, we back up our rules with Bible verses and tell everyone else to follow them too.

Writing helps us not only see the words we’re already using but then change the words we’re using so that we can in turn change our lives.