{"author":"Hannah Brencher","author_id":"Hannah+Brencher","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"All those dotted lines were just the parts of the story where she would get on the ground and get her hands dirty with the mess of it all. The mess and the glory of other people’s hearts and heart songs. She would learn it would take grit, and guts, and courage to make a difference. But the world will always need people who care enough to make a difference, so she needed to not miss her casting call.","author":"Hannah Brencher","tags":["courage","dotted-lines","grit","hands","hearts","making-a-difference"],"id":25685,"author_id":"Hannah+Brencher"},{"text":"Because you deserve dignity, beyond anything else in this world. You deserve a God, and a faith, and a belief that finds you dignified at the core.","author":"Hannah Brencher","tags":["belief","dignity","faith","god","love"],"id":97729,"author_id":"Hannah+Brencher"},{"text":"I believe now that we’re the enemy to the things we really want for our lives. We get really good at telling ourselves ugly lies on repeat every day. You’re unworthy. You’re ugly. You’re inadequate.","author":"Hannah Brencher","tags":["desire","self-esteem","self-worth"],"id":98761,"author_id":"Hannah+Brencher"},{"text":"Even though love covers all things, fear is what keeps us silent and keeps words unsaid. Fear keeps us standing in one place. Eventually, when it wins, it means we never got the courage to say what we needed to say.","author":"Hannah Brencher","tags":["courage","fear","love"],"id":131266,"author_id":"Hannah+Brencher"},{"text":"Finally, finally, this is what bravery looks like. This is what courage looks like. It has nothing to do with dominating the day, every single day. It has to do with showing up and speaking truth. One true sentence after one true sentence.","author":"Hannah Brencher","tags":["bravery","courage","speaking-truth","truth"],"id":168600,"author_id":"Hannah+Brencher"},{"text":"I cried because sometimes no matter what you try to hide behind— letters or texts or emails or a busy schedule— life still finds a way to barrel through all the distractions. And life still hurts. Even though it's beautiful.","author":"Hannah Brencher","tags":["daily-life","inspirational"],"id":178521,"author_id":"Hannah+Brencher"},{"text":"I had to take the first step for myself.","author":"Hannah Brencher","tags":["grace"],"id":190540,"author_id":"Hannah+Brencher"},{"text":"They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.","author":"Hannah Brencher","tags":["words","writing"],"id":193015,"author_id":"Hannah+Brencher"},{"text":"When it came to talking with God, I wanted to believe he was like those stars. If I looked, he’d be there. I’d lost a lot of things in the years that led up to this point - shoes and keys and books and boyfriends - but I never lost that hope.","author":"Hannah Brencher","tags":["belief","faith","god","hope","lost","stars"],"id":215548,"author_id":"Hannah+Brencher"},{"text":"Looking back, I wish that everyone could have that sort of moment: a moment where you realize that your hands are so impossibly small and this world is so impossibly big. And the two don’t seem to add up. Maybe recognizing the smallness of your own hands is just the very first step to changing anything at all.","author":"Hannah Brencher","tags":["change","poverty","problems","small"],"id":239843,"author_id":"Hannah+Brencher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}