All Along You Were Blooming Quotes

“Living in the moment is learning how to live between the big moments. It is learning how to make the most of the in-betweens and having the audacity to make those moments just as exciting.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Even though you have learned the skill of running on empty, now is the time to learn the art of breathing deep all over again,”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“So take photographs of everything:
ordinary things,
simple things,
between the door
and by the window things.
Light-ridden and shadow-heavy things.
Forever things.
Fleeting things.
Take photographs of everything.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Even when there are a thousand things to do, cherish these unrushed moments. Make room in your heart for them. There will be many mountains to climb, but always make time to find the pastures where you can rest.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“She no longer had the desire to bend herself into the frame of photographs where she was unwelcome”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Let today be the day you are kind to yourself and focus on believing what is beautiful and true. And this does not mean you ignore your imperfections. It means, in spite of them, you believe there is beauty to you.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“While we are trying to make sense of things,
may we learn to make peace with things.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“But no matter who stays
or who walked away,
remember all the things
they taught you.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“You may not have chosen your surroundings, but you can choose to find life in them.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Never let anyone who cannot bear your pain make you feel you are unbearable. Not everyone is capable of walking with you, but that does not mean you are not worthy of belonging.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Choosing to have joy
is not naively thinking
everything
will be easy.
It is courageously
believing
that there is
still hope,
even when
things get hard.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“You are free to forgive
and you are also free
to heal.
You are worthy of love
no matter how anyone else
has made you feel.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Were we really meant to rush with all abandon toward some earthly hilltop finish line? Or was God telling us something in those whispers to “be still,” that all along, it was necessary, to slow down, trust, and heal.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“For out here, in the wild, you are agile, walking through your own uncertainty. And that, dear friend, takes bravery.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Even the dull moments that make you long to be elsewhere, will prepare you for where you want to be, and you will have gratitude when you arrive there.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“A few years ago, on a particularly cold autumn day, I found myself in a pit of self-doubt. Yet I was beginning to realize that if I ever wanted to grow, I couldn’t stay there. I realized that I could spend the rest of my life doubting myself, or I could make the brave decision to work through self-doubt and allow myself to be stretched in ways I had not been before.

Excerpt From: Morgan Harper Nichols. “All Along You Were Blooming.” iBooks.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Take photographs of everything. You never know how long these moments will be here. Things are going to change.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Under blue skies,
on cracked rocks,
in dry heat,
in desert land,
grace is the hand that is never out of reach
reminding you:
you are not weak
because you are lonely.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“find moments
between breaths
between midnight and mornings,
when no one is speaking
and no one is singing
but God-Sent-Love is breathing.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“When you find yourself falling into the pit of anxiety, remember the ladder of hope that reminds you there is no reason to be afraid. There is still a way out of this, and you are still capable—not perfect, but capable—and you have permission to try to climb again. Even if your hands shake, and your knees are weaker from the fall, you can still trade your fears of tomorrow with hope for today: the courageous decision to climb on anyway out of the pit of anxious thoughts.
There is no reason to live afraid.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“You are free to move around the room, to paint the walls a new color, and declare there is more to you.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“even when you are still, there are so many ways to find your way to gratitude.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“For beyond your accomplishments and your calendars, and your lists, you were made with purpose and intention to reflect Glorious Light and to abide in Love that reminds you even in the pause you are still where you need to be.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“It is okay to long for days past. It is natural to feel the imprint of what was, for all you lost is still a part of you. These memories carve their way into your heart, and you do not know how to recover its original form. And even when you try, you cannot shake the old feelings, her words, those photographs . . . but now, even here, after all of these years, you are free to remember, while also moving onward on this path, filled with Light, even if your earliest steps are small.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“I know that I have changed. I know that even though I still feel traces of my former self, I see things differently now. I have learned not to hide my pain for fear of what others might say. I have learned some days will be harder than others, and that is absolutely okay. I do not have to be strong all the time. I am not a burden because I have burdens, and because there is a lot on my mind. And maybe not everyone will have time for me, and maybe there will be people who feel I am too much, but I have learned that I am still worthy of Love, and that is more than enough.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“You may have ideas about how others
see you
but you are not defined
by their perceptions
You are not an object
under someone else's magnifying glass
whose only purpose
is to be observed
You are a living, breathing human being
with a beautiful soul
that is on a hope-anchored journey
of learning what it means to be whole”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“As sure as the water
makes way
past the river stones,
so does hope carry you
past the depth
of your unknowns,
under fogged and white-gray skies
that demand
the most of tired eyes,
the sound of the rushing river
gently speaks:
all is passing,
truly passing.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“RATHER THAN WORRY ABOUT CREATING A LIFE THAT WAS IMPRESSIVE, SHE TURNED HER ATTENTION TO CREATING A LIFE THAT WAS BRAVE. SHE TURNED HER ATTENTION TO BEAUTY OVER PERFECTION, LOVE OVER COMPARISON, AND TELLING A STORY OF GRACE, INSPIRING OTHERS TO DO THE SAME. Not everyone’s strength looks the same.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“Never let anyone who cannot bear your make you feel you are unbearable”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“She had reached her end, and it was there she learned to see, this was not the end at all. This was the beginning.
And it would be here, as the waves rushed in, she would hear the sea calling.
She is starting again.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living