25 Quotes by Cristen Rodgers

Let’s nurture our spirits until they shine; and then let’s strip down to our naked souls and dance through life until we drop little bits of light behind us that glow like fireflies in the night.

We all have a unique art, our personal passion that serves as a vessel through which our souls can speak. True happiness is found by filling it, and purpose is fulfilled by pouring it out.

At times there will be fire; this we can’t avoid. But it’s up to us to decide whether it will consume or it will purify.

Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you’ll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away.

Sometimes what’s dead must be burned away to make room for new life. Sometimes you just have to step back and let the brittle bits ignite – but once those flames begin to dance their caustic dance, don’t you dare look the other way. Don’t close your eyes. Watch closely and let that image seer itself forever on your mind. Remember what it looked like in the midst of the soot, the smoke, and the haze. Remember, so you don’t repeat the same conditions that required such a blaze.

We share the same water in our veins, air in our lungs, the same dust in our bones. We are two petals on the same flower of life, my friend.

We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we’ve forgotten what it really means to write.