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We only live once. We all have an expiration date after that we will never come again. I am not saying that to make you sad. I am saying that so you can cherish each moment in your life and be grateful that you are here and you are Special
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”
Pablo
“
Rumors are born with legs that can run a mile in less than a minute.
Rumors eat up dreams without condiments.
Rumors do not have expiration dates.
Rumors can be deadly.
Rumors can get you killed.
”
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Tiffany D. Jackson (Monday's Not Coming)
“
Lies Have expiry dates but the truth never expires
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Oche Otorkpa
“
As the poet Prageeta Sharma said, Americans have an expiration date on race the way they do for grief. At some point, they expect you to get over it.
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Cathy Park Hong (Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning)
“
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
”
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John C. Maxwell (Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work)
“
It’s hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another. You have to make a conscious effort to say, over and over again, “You.” Not everyone makes that choice. Not everyone can.
”
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Rebecca Serle (Expiration Dates)
“
You bit me on the neck? What kind of a sorry-ass vampire wannabe are you, anyhow?”
I grabbed for my dirt-covered purse that lay by my feet. I kept a can of pepper spray in it for protection, or at least I used to. Did I still have it? Did those things have an expiration date? Didn’t matter. If I had to, I’d just use it to bash him over the head.
I’m not a wannabe.” He actually had the audacity to look insulted. “I am a vampire.”
Psycho, I thought. Total psycho.
”
”
Michelle Rowen (Bitten & Smitten (Immortality Bites, #1))
“
dreams have no expiration date.
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Cheryl Seagraves
“
We will never have an expiration date. Our love is destined to exist forever.
”
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Truth Devour (Unrequited (Wantin #2))
“
When you look at the earth’s existence as a whole, we’re nothing. We haven’t even been here long enough to earn bragging rights. Yet humans believe we’re the center of the universe. We focus on the stupidest, most mundane issues. We stress about things that mean absolutely nothing to the universe, when we should be nothing but grateful that evolution even gave our species a chance to have problems. Because one of these days . . . humans won’t exist. History will repeat itself and earth will move on to a different species altogether. Me and you . . . we’re just two people out of an entire race that, in retrospect, is still way less impressive at sustainability than a dinosaur. We just haven’t reached our expiration date yet.
”
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Colleen Hoover (All Your Perfects)
“
But second chances aren't forever Even miracles have an expiration date.
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Robyn Schneider
“
I find comfort in knowing the greatest love stories all have an expiration date…
I just wish ours didn’t have to be today.
”
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Eliah Greenwood (Dear Love, I Hate You (Easton High, #1))
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You don't have to be afraid to walk away because... there's no expiration date on soul-love.
”
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Emily Henry (A Million Junes)
“
It's all eggs and milk in here, and those have expiration dates, so.
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Terra Elan McVoy (Being Friends with Boys)
“
Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.
”
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Laura Miller (By Way of Accident)
“
What do you mean I have a predetermined death?” – Nick
“Did I stutter?” – Death
“No.” – Nick
“Do I look like Webster’s?” – Death
“No.” – Nick
“Then you should understand what I said, since I didn’t speak in code. Every mortal creature is born with an expiration date. Some immortals, too. Set by the big clockmaker. But excessive stupidity and moronic tendencies can shorten it. Pissing me off is one really good way to cut yours down to three seconds from now.” – Death
”
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Invincible (Chronicles of Nick, #2))
“
Jealousy doesn't have an expiration date, apparently.
”
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Colleen Hoover (It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2))
“
Most friendships are bound to a specific time, place or season. Some women characterize these relationships as having expiration dates or shelf lives, because friendships tend to run their natural course.
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Irene S. Levine
“
When your life has an expiration date, you don't have time to be negative. (Paraphrased from Kresley Cole's book "Lothaire")
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Kresley Cole
“
WE ALL HAVE ideas. Ideas are immortal. They last forever. What doesn’t last forever is inspiration. Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date.
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Jason Fried (Rework)
“
To meet the right person, to be with someone I want to see in the morning and naked. To not be afraid to have a bad day around them. To be happy, I guess.
”
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Rebecca Serle (Expiration Dates)
“
My miracle wasn't a cure. It was a second chance. But second chances aren't forever. And even miracles have an expiration date.
”
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Robyn Schneider (Extraordinary Means)
“
If your Doctor cannot prove they are the Creator, what right do they have to give you an expiration date? None fight for your right to live. Been on hospice almost 16 years now. No 'man' has any right to say you have less then 6 months to live, no matter what the pages on the wall say. Fight its your right.
”
”
Debee Sue
“
they convinced me
i only had a few good years left
before i was replaced by a girl younger than me
as though men yield power with age
but women grow into irrelevance
they can keep their lies
for i have just gotten started
i feel as though i just left the womb
my twenties are the warm-up
for what i'm really about to do
wait till you see me in my thirties
now that will be a proper introduction
to the nasty. wild. woman in me.
how can i leave before the party's started
rehearsals begin at forty
i ripen with age
i do not come with an expiration date
and now
for the main event
curtains up at fifty
let's begin the show
”
”
Rupi Kaur
“
Trauma doesn’t have an expiration date,
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Dr. Harper (I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison (Dr. Harper Therapy, #2))
“
Every day that we read the news we have the possibility of being confronted with a fact about our world that is wildly different from what we thought we knew.
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Samuel Arbesman (The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date)
“
It’s hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another.
”
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Rebecca Serle (Expiration Dates)
“
Rumors are born with legs that can run a mile in less than a minute. Rumors eat up dreams without condiments. Rumors do not have expiration dates. Rumors can be deadly. Rumors can get you killed.
”
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Tiffany D. Jackson (Monday's Not Coming)
“
It's hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another. You have to make a conscious effort to say over and over again, 'You.' Not everyone makes that choice. Not everyone can.
(Daphne Bell)
”
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Rebecca Serle (Expiration Dates)
“
We use people
Whether we want to admit it or not.
We use people for moments
Or months
Or years.
It’s a selfish thing we do.
Telling someone
We ´ll love them forever.
Until that forever ends,
After however long.
You couldn’t have fathomed an end when you were with them,
And now u can’t imagine a world
In wich you’re still there.
Our forevers are so fleeting
They almost mean nothing.
so i stopped saying it.
It’s enough to say „Ily“,
And have it end there.
I won’t soil already perfect words with a time stamp.
Because even forever has an
Expiration date.
No always.
No forever.
Just now.
”
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Lili Reinhart (Swimming lessons (Italian Edition))
“
love goals. They can help you become your best self . . . but big dreams shouldn’t have expiration dates. As long as you’re working toward the things you hope to accomplish, it shouldn’t matter if it takes you a month or a decade.
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Rachel Hollis (Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be (Girl, Wash Your Face Series))
“
There is nothing greater in this world then love. Many things in this world have limits and expiration dates, but love is constant and everywhere. More important, it can take many forms and even when we lose those we care about, their love continues as long as we are open to receiving and reciprocating that love. Don't let the physical world dictate who you are and how to act, open your mind to something greater and as a result you will always find peace within your heart.
”
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Jonathan Kuiper (Our Place by the Sea)
“
Like all canned food, love has an expiration date, a price tag, and a warning label. In order to love, you need to check the price tag to see if you have enough money in your wallet, observe the warnings given in fine print, and finish matters before the expiration date. Only then is it a smooth process for everyone.
”
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Kim Un-Su (The Cabinet)
“
Remember, there is no expiration date on your talent. I did not publish my first book until I was 35 years old. If you have a story to tell, it doesn't matter when you tell it. Just get it onto the page and let go of the idea that somehow it's less worthwhile because it took you a little longer to get there than it took others.
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Leigh Bardugo
“
No one is that valuable to plan your future based upon them, because in some point every loyal individual will stab you in the back or in the best situation will just leave you. People have expiration dates. The ones who stay longer become more dangerous.
”
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kambiz shabankareh (The Last Smile of The Plaster-man)
“
Feelings dont have expiration dates.
”
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R.S. Grey (The Beau & the Belle)
“
But wishes don’t have expiration dates.
”
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Lisa Kleypas (Rainshadow Road (Friday Harbor, #2))
“
Muses don't come by everyday and most of them have an expiration date.
”
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Jolie Wolf
“
Love doesn’t have a start date. It doesn’t have a ‘use by’ date. It doesn’t have an expiration date.” He
”
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T.K. Leigh (A Tragic Wreck (Beautiful Mess, #2))
“
But second chances aren’t forever. And even miracles have an expiration date.
”
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Robyn Schneider (Extraordinary Means)
“
Jealousy doesn’t have an expiration date, apparently.
”
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Colleen Hoover (It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2))
“
Grief does not have an expiration date.
”
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Merlyn Gabriel Miller (Sex, Death, Drugs & Madness (Culture is not your friend, Part one))
“
We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learning to be whole.
”
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Rebecca Serle (Expiration Dates)
“
I thought the hardest thing I'd have to do was leave him in June.
But the hardest thing is staying. The hardest thing is living with dying. Loving with dying. The hardest thing is love, with no expiration date, no qualifiers, no safety net. Love that demands acceptance of all things I cannot change. Love that doesn't follow a plan.
”
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Julia Whelan (My Oxford Year)
“
He's the kind of guy who might not have an expiration date. Who I could fall for so completely that I might as well put my heart in a blender right now because it would hurt less. Who I could want with the kind of passion that makes you forget important things like the promises you make to yourself.
”
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Rachael Allen
“
The other suicide had been the actress Clara Blandick, who, one day in 1962, had got her hair fixed up and had carefully done her makeup and put on a formal gown and then pulled a plastic bag over her head and smothered herself. She was chiefly remembered for having played Auntie Em in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.
”
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Tim Powers (Expiration Date (Fault Lines, #2))
“
Holding up my credit card so Gilley could see, I snipped it in half.
'You act like I don't have the numbers, expiration date, and security code memorized,' he mocked.
”
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Victoria Laurie (The Ghoul Next Door (Ghost Hunter Mystery, #8))
“
Science requires an idea to be refutable. It is not good enough for a concept to seem compelling; it must have the potential for a new fact to come along and render it false.
”
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Samuel Arbesman (The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date)
“
Recognize, each one may have their door in a different place, but know that.
Every one [has a door].
”
”
Xilaristw
“
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date
”
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John C. Maxwell
“
Predictions have an expiry date. Action is needed before predictions expire.
”
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Dr Shitalkumar R. Sukhdeve (Step up for Leadership in Enterprise Data Science & Artificial Intelligence with Big Data : Illustrations with R & Python)
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But acknowledging a desire means acknowledging the what-if of the want. I wanted it and that meant I was terrified of never having it. Of never getting there.
”
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Rebecca Serle (Expiration Dates)
“
[A]cknowledging a desire means acknowledging the what-if of that want. I wanted it, and that meant I was terrified—of never having it. Of never getting there.
”
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Rebecca Serle (Expiration Dates)
“
If God or Buddha, or whoever the higher power is, has decided to put an expiration date on the relationships we have with our loved ones, then
we just make the best out of every day we have left.
”
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Grace Liang (Finding Grace: How to navigate the journey from tragedy to triumph.)
“
The truth is we all have an expiration date. Your time here on earth is limited. It’s precious. It’s valuable. God doesn’t want you wasting another second with meaningless habits that are derailing your dreams. What if God placed a big stamp on our “passport to life” showing us how much time we have left? I mean, it’s sorta creepy, but it would certainly motivate us to live each day with purpose.
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Terri Savelle Foy (5 Things Successful People Do Before 8 A.M.)
“
Another word I’ve added to “the list” is “conversation,” as in “We need to have a national conversation about_________.” This is employed by the left to mean “You need to listen to me use the word ‘diversity’ for an hour.” The right employs obnoxious terms as well—“libtard,” “snowflake,” etc.—but because they can be applied to me personally it seems babyish to ban them. I’ve outlawed “meds,” “bestie,” “bucket list,” “dysfunctional,” “expat,” “cab-sav,” and the verb “do” when used in a restaurant, as in “I’ll do the snails on cinnamon toast.” “Ugh,” Ronnie agrees. “Do!—that’s the worst.” “My new thing,” I told her, “is to look at the menu and say, ‘I’d like to purchase the veal chop.’” A lot of our outlawed terms were invented by black people and then picked up by whites, who held on to them way past their expiration date. “My bad,” for example, and “I’ve got your back” and “You go, girlfriend.” They’re the verbal equivalents of sitcom grandmothers high-fiving one another, and on hearing them, I wince and feel ashamed of my entire race.
”
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David Sedaris (Calypso)
“
At its core, the collection is built around a very wise line from a Beatles song: I want to hold your hand. I want to hold your hand with no further expectations. I want to hold your hand instead of telling you I understand when I don’t. I want to hold your hand although we don’t always get along. I want to hold your hand despite the calluses, scratches, and scars that get in the way. I want to hold your hand knowing I’ll have to let it go one day.
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Cheryl Julia Lee (We Were Always Eating Expired Things)
“
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
It is not the effort nor the failure tires.
The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
It is not your system or clear sight that mills
Down small to the consequence a life requires;
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
They bled an old dog dry yet the exchange rills
Of young dog blood gave but a month's desires.
The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
It is the Chinese tombs and the slag hills
Usurp the soil, and not the soil retires.
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
Not to have fire is to be a skin that shrills.
The complete fire is death. From partial fires
The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
It is the poems you have lost, the ills
From missing dates, at which the heart expires.
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
- 'Missing Dates
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”
William Empson (The Complete Poems)
“
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker said it all when he remarked, "I can give you a six-word formula for success: Thnk things through-then follow through.
”
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John C. Maxwell
“
I trust those with discipline much more than I trust those with motivation to get the job done.
Motivation often times shows an expiration date. Those with true discipline have the endurance, the dedication and the problem solving skills to make things happen.
”
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Loren Weisman
“
If someone is trying to sell you with only past credentials and older accolades without including present examples and up to date proof, you might be dealing with someone that is sharing expired information and does not have the up to date knowledge to help you.
”
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Loren Weisman
“
Relationships with expiration dates teach us that love doesn’t have to last forever to be meaningful. That someone doesn’t have to stick around to make an impact. That the best things in life are not always measured by their longevity but by their intensity. Their complexity.
”
”
Thought Catalog (Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too)
“
She dampened her lips. “I . . . I have defenses you don’t know of, and”—she gestured to the half wall revealing the kitchen beyond—“I have pepper spray in the kitchen.”
“Pepper spray in the kitchen,” he said tonelessly.
“All right, all right!” She dropped the bag with the box on a coffee table that held a few large picture books on the Old West and hurried into the kitchen, coming back with the pepper spray, which she stuck on a bookcase shelf next to the door. He took it down and checked the expiration date. “You should have tossed this two years ago.
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Robin D. Owens (Ghost Seer (Ghost Seer, #1))
“
Law 2: Question the Brules. Extraordinary minds question the Brules when they feel those Brules are out of alignment with their dreams and desires. They recognize that much of the way the world works is due to people blindly following Brules that have long passed their expiration date.
”
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Vishen Lakhiani (The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms)
“
You're returning to your room barefoot?" Tom asked.
"I have no choice."
"Is there something I can do to help?"
Cassandra shook her head. "I can sneak upstairs myself." She let out a quick little laugh. "Like Cinderella sans pumpkin."
He tilted his head in that inquiring way he had. "Did she have a pumpkin?"
"Yes, haven't you ever read the story?"
"My childhood was short on fairy tales."
"The pumpkin becomes her carriage," Cassandra explained.
"I'd have recommended a vehicle with a longer date of expiration."
She knew better than to try explaining fairy-tale magic to such a pragmatic man.
”
”
Lisa Kleypas (Chasing Cassandra (The Ravenels, #6))
“
they convinced me i only had a few good years left before i was replaced by a girl younger than me as though men yield power with age but women grow into irrelevance they can keep their lies for i have just gotten started i feel as though i just left the womb my twenties are the warm-up for what i’m really about to do wait till you see me in my thirties now that will be a proper introduction to the nasty. wild. woman in me. how can i leave before the party’s started rehearsals begin at forty i ripen with age i do not come with an expiration date and now for the main event curtains up at fifty let’s begin the show - timeless
”
”
Rupi Kaur (The Sun and Her Flowers)
“
We are committed to involving as many people as possible, as young as possible, as soon as possible. Sometimes too young and too soon! But we intentionally err on the side of too fast rather than too slow. We don’t wait until people feel “prepared” or “fully equipped.” Seriously, when is anyone ever completely prepared for ministry?
Ministry makes people’s faith bigger. If you want to increase someone’s confidence in God, put him in a ministry position before he feels fully equipped.
The messages your environments communicate have the potential to trump your primary message. If you don’t see a mess, if you aren’t bothered by clutter, you need to make sure there is someone around you who does see it and is bothered by it. An uncomfortable or distracting setting can derail ministry before it begins. The sermon begins in the parking lot.
Assign responsibility, not tasks.
At the end of the day, it’s application that makes all the difference. Truth isn’t helpful if no one understands or remembers it.
If you want a church full of biblically educated believers, just teach what the Bible says. If you want to make a difference in your community and possibly the world, give people handles, next steps, and specific applications. Challenge them to do something. As we’ve all seen, it’s not safe to assume that people automatically know what to do with what they’ve been taught. They need specific direction. This is hard. This requires an extra step in preparation. But this is how you grow people.
Your current template is perfectly designed to produce the results you are currently getting.
We must remove every possible obstacle from the path of the disinterested, suspicious, here-against-my-will, would-rather-be-somewhere-else, unchurched guests. The parking lot, hallways, auditorium, and stage must be obstacle-free zones.
As a preacher, it’s my responsibility to offend people with the gospel. That’s one reason we work so hard not to offend them in the parking lot, the hallway, at check-in, or in the early portions of our service. We want people to come back the following week for another round of offending!
Present the gospel in uncompromising terms, preach hard against sin, and tackle the most emotionally charged topics in culture, while providing an environment where unchurched people feel comfortable.
The approach a church chooses trumps its purpose every time.
Nothing says hypocrite faster than Christians expecting non-Christians to behave like Christians when half the Christians don’t act like it half the time.
When you give non-Christians an out, they respond by leaning in. Especially if you invite them rather than expect them. There’s a big difference between being expected to do something and being invited to try something.
There is an inexorable link between an organization’s vision and its appetite for improvement. Vision exposes what has yet to be accomplished. In this way, vision has the power to create a healthy sense of organizational discontent. A leader who continually keeps the vision out in front of his or her staff creates a thirst for improvement. Vision-centric churches expect change. Change is a means to an end. Change is critical to making what could and should be a reality.
Write your vision in ink; everything else should be penciled in. Plans change. Vision remains the same. It is natural to assume that what worked in the past will always work. But, of course, that way of thinking is lethal. And the longer it goes unchallenged, the more difficult it is to identify and eradicate. Every innovation has an expiration date. The primary reason churches cling to outdated models and programs is that they lack leadership.
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Andy Stanley (Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend)
“
Have you ever been in love?"
A huge smile breaks on his face. It is true and big and real, and it can keep me burning forever. I know as long as I see this smile every day, I will never be cold.
"Funny you should ask. Yes, yes, I have been. I still am. It started eight years ago, in the most unlikely event, and it has no expiration date.
”
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L.J. Shen (In the Unlikely Event)
“
There's a warmth to this relationship with Jake, a comfort that I've never really felt or known before. But sometimes I'm afraid it means I'm somehow fading - that all the bright and brilliant aspects of myself are diminishing in this cocoon. That I will not have the sparkle I once had - that all my edges are being worn down in this intimacy.
”
”
Rebecca Serle (Expiration Dates)
“
Double the population of a city, and it doesn’t simply double its productivity; it yields productivity and innovation that is more than doubled. These relationships have been found in patents, a city’s gross metropolitan product, research and development budgets, and even the presence of so-called supercreative individuals, such as artists and academics.
”
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Samuel Arbesman (The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date)
“
Who is Jesus? A non-vacillating friend. He perseveres. Heading into the final week of his earthly life, John’s Gospel tells us, “having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end” (John 13:1). Jesus binds himself to his people. No expiration date. No end of the road. Our side of the commitment will falter and stumble, but his never does.
”
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Dane C. Ortlund (Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners)
“
Change blindness in the world of facts and knowledge is also a problem. Sometimes we are exposed to new facts and simply filter them out. But more often we have to go out of our way in order to learn something new. Our blindness is not a failure to see the new fact; it’s a failure to see that the facts in our minds have the potential to be out-of-date at all.
”
”
Samuel Arbesman (The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date)
“
You have to make sure that you tell people while they're living what they mean to you because our time on the planet goes like that, and because none of us have expiration dates on our booties, we don't know when it is. So, try to remember to tell people you love them because if they go and you haven't, you're going to regret it. And that's what I'm so glad I'm not doing.
”
”
Whoopi Goldberg
“
Simkin and Roychowdhury conclude, using some elegant math, that only about 20 percent of scientists who cite an article have actually read that paper. This means that four out of five scientists never take the time to track down a publication they intend to use to buttress their arguments. By examining these mutations we can trace these errors backward in time, and understand how knowledge truly spread from scientist to scientist, instead of how it appeared to spread.
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Samuel Arbesman (The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date)
“
Do not use Tupperware to store cereal and other packaged goods. When used in a way that creates unnecessary extra steps, Tupperware becomes your enemy. For example, transferring your Cheerios to Tupperware containers when it already comes in a perfectly good box is a waste of time and energy. Do you really have all this extra attention to spend on repackaging all of your groceries? And are you planning to label each Tupperware with the appropriate expiration date every time you make this transfer? For heaven’s sake, I’m exhausted just thinking about it!
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Susan C. Pinsky (Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD, 2nd Edition-Revised and Updated: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized)
“
Thakur’s findings were not news to Ranbaxy’s top executives. Just ten months earlier, in October 2003, outside auditors started investigating Ranbaxy facilities worldwide. In this case, the audits had been ordered up by Ranbaxy itself. This was a common industry practice: drug companies often hired consultants to audit their facilities as a dry run to see how visible their problems were. If the consultants could find it, they reasoned, then most likely regulators could too. The fact-finding mission by Lachman Consultant Services left Ranbaxy officials under no illusion as to the extent of the company’s failings. At Ranbaxy’s Princeton, New Jersey, facility, auditors found that the company’s Patient Safety Department barely functioned and training was essentially “non-existent.” The staff had no written protocols for investigating patient complaints, which piled up in boxes, uncategorized and unreported. They had no clerical help for basic tasks like mailing out the patients’ samples for testing. “I don’t think there’s the same medicine in this medicine,” was a common refrain from patients. Even when there were investigations, they were so perfunctory and half-hearted that expiration dates were listed as “unknown,” even when they could easily have been found from a product’s lot number. An audit of Ranbaxy’s main U.S. manufacturing plant, Ohm Laboratories in New Jersey, found that the company, though required to report adverse events to the FDA, rarely did so. There was no system to capture patient complaints after hours, and no global medical officer to ensure that any potential negative consequences for patients were being monitored. The consultants from Lachman urged Ranbaxy to address these problems globally. Ranbaxy’s initial reaction to the findings was to question the number of hours, and the resulting invoice, that Lachman had sent for its work.
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Katherine Eban (Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom)
“
Cade quickly checked his cell phone.
Of course Vaughn, with his FBI superpowers of perception, had to comment.
“Got another offer on the table that expires soon?” he asked.
“Go away.”
Vaughn grinned. “You’re quite circumspect about this situation with Brooke. I find that very intriguing, don’t you, Hux?”
No reply.
“Hux?” Vaughn looked to his right, where Huxley was reading something on his phone. With an unmistakable smile, he tucked his phone into the pocket of his impeccably tailored Ralph Lauren suit, and then noticed Cade and Vaughn looking at him. “Sorry. What were we talking about?”
“Just giving Cade crap about a certain sexy general counsel. But never mind that.” Vaughn pointed suspiciously. “What’s going on here, with the phone and the sneaky smile?” He studied his partner. “Don’t tell me you actually have a hot date tonight.”
“Okay, I won’t tell you.” Huxley took a sip of his beer, deliberately leaving them hanging.
“Look at you,” Cade said. “With who?”
“Addison.”
“Addison? Who’s—” It took Vaughn a second, then his mouth fell open. “Agent Simms? When did this happen?”
Huxley swirled his glass, looking quite coy. “Things have been percolating for a while. But they shifted into high gear after our fake date at Sogna.”
Vaughn threw out his hands in exasperation. “First Morgan, now you. Plus McCall’s getting married next month, and Pallas is having a kid. Purposely. Am I the only one not getting laid as part of an FBI sting operation?”
Huxley pretended to muse over this. “Maybe you should take some time. Figure out what’s gone wrong with your mojo these days.”
“My mojo is perfectly fine,” Vaughn assured him.
Cade was curious. “Is it serious?”
Huxley smiled. “Yeah. I think so.”
Vaughn scoffed at this. “Come on. You’ve only been seeing her for, what, a month?”
Huxley shrugged. “I like her. She likes me. It’s not that complicated.”
Cade and Vaughn threw each other looks. Right.
“Amateur,” Vaughn said, with a conspiratorial grin.
“Amateur, huh? I’ll be sure to ask Addison tonight if she agrees with that assessment.”
And if his confident smile was any indication, Agent Seth Huxley wasn’t worried about the answer to that one bit.
”
”
Julie James (Love Irresistibly (FBI/US Attorney, #4))
“
The heart of rock will always remain a primal world of action. The music revives itself over and over again in that form, primitive rockabilly, punk, hard soul and early rap. Integrating the world of thought and reflection with the world of primitive action is *not* a necessary skill for making great rock 'n' roll. Many of the music's most glorious moments feel as though they were birthed in an explosion of raw talent and creative instinct (some of them even were!). But ... if you want to burn bright, hard *and* long, you will need to depend on more than your initial instincts. You will need to develop some craft and a creative intelligence that will lead you *farther* when things get dicey. That's what'll help you make crucial sense and powerful music as time passes, giving you the skills that may also keep you alive, creatively and physically. The failure of so many of rock's artists to outlive their expiration date of a few years, make more than a few great albums and avoid treading water, or worse, I felt was due to the misfit nature of those drawn to the profession. These were strong, addictive personalities, fired by compulsion, narcissism, license, passion and an inbred entitlement, all slammed over a world of fear, hunger and insecurity. That's a Molotov cocktail of confusion that can leave you unable to make, or resistant to making, the lead of consciousness a life in the field demands. After first contact knocks you on your ass, you'd better have a plan, for some preparedness and personal development will be required if you expect to hang around any longer than your fifteen minutes.
Now, some guys' five minutes are worth other guys' fifty years, and while burning out in one brilliant supernova will send record sales through the roof, leave you living fast, dying young, leaving a beautiful corpse, there *is* something to be said for living. Personally, I like my gods old, grizzled and *here*. I'll take Dylan; the pirate raiding party of the Stones; the hope-I-get-very-old-before-I-die, present live power of the Who; a fat, still-mesmerizing-until-his-death Brando—they all suit me over the alternative. I would've liked to have seen that last Michael Jackson show, a seventy-year-old Elvis reinventing and relishing in his talents, where Jimi Hendrix might've next taken the electric guitar, Keith Moon, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and all the others whose untimely deaths and lost talents stole something from the music I love, living on, enjoying the blessings of their gifts and their audience's regard. Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways. Plus, to those you've received so much from, so much joy, knowledge and inspiration, you wish life, happiness and peace. These aren't easy to come by.
”
”
Bruce Springsteen (Born to Run)
“
Drive to the expired home, take a photo. Have a unique letter saved in your computer that you can print out that morning. This letter will have the home owner’s name at the top of the page with the words “Your listing expired at midnight last night.” Include a copy of the expired MLS sheet. Hi-lite the date it expired. In your letter state they’ll be receiving a box from you in the mail in a few days. Insert this letter into a unique mailing envelope. I use white bubble wrap envelopes (9x12) and brown craft envelopes (9x12). Write the owner’s name on the front of the envelope and directly below that write “Confidential”. That’s all. Don’t write their address on the card. Then, back at the office or your home, enter the owner and address in the SOC contact manager. Upload photo of home to the SOC system. Send a custom greeting card with box of cookies or brownies. Follow up 3-5 days after you’ve sent the package with either a phone call, knock at the door or another drop off letter. They will remember you because they just received a custom card with brownies or cookies. It turns a cold call into a warm call every time. It works!
”
”
Jim McCord (A Revolution in Real Estate Sales: How to Sell Real Estate)
“
Muses don't come by everyday and most of them have an expiration date
”
”
Jolie Wolf
“
three thousand years ago a boy
ate honey off the ground and
his father would have killed him
for it–tell me, did you know
that honey doesn’t rot, doesn’t
age, that it’s possible for me
to come across three-thousand-year-old
honey and not die
in the eating
i raise my hand to my mouth, taste the
sweetness edged with alcohol, with
age.
three thousand years ago there was
a boy who loved another as
his own soul, that his soul was
knit to the other, and his love was
sweeter to the other
than that of women–
would that i had that honeyed love, that
which makes my hands sticky
with sugar, with something else
entirely
god made adam and eve and david and jonathan and
god made me, and her, and him and
my god, my god, all i ever wanted was
a love sweet as honey.
all i ever wanted was a love that didn’t have
an expiration date.
”
”
tambuli (@tumblr)
“
For the past three months I've been lodged in the staring-out-the-window-and burning-toast stage of grief.
According to Dr. Rupert, I had a depressive breakdown brought on by grief...as though showing up at the office in your bathrobe is perfectly understandable.
I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid of everyone else dying and leaving me behind.
You don't feel as though you're having a conversation, ore as though you're listening to a book on tape, the title "Steve the Sales Guy Goes on a Dinner Date".
Isn't there some way around having to start this new life without my husband?
I can't return Crystal as though she's an appliance that broke before the warranty expired.
I'm significant otherless.
By the time he calls, maybe I'll be a ndw person with self-confidence and cute comebacks. Straight hair, a better job, a smaller waistline.
How could I have managed to lose my husband, my job, my house, and my ass all in one year?
I'm so eager for intimacy, I would date a tree.
It's a myth that people experience grief for a certain amount of time and then they're over it.
Nine of the fifteen pounds I want to lose cling to me like an overprotective mother who doesn't want me to take my pants off until I'm married again.
Good-riddance list. It's a list of all the stuff you don't like about a guy. You're supposed to make it when you break up with someone.
It's funny how you don't have to be related to someone to love them like family.
Dangerous rebound guy.
My grief is diminished, but it feels permanent, like a scar.
Another grief gold star.
Marion & Crystal moved in with me.
How can I live happily ever after without loving someone again?
”
”
Lolly Winston
“
To Lovers out there
True Love has no date to expire.
True Love has no limitation or boundaries.
True Love does not need to be proven.
Love comes naturally, but True Love you have to make it in a relationship
”
”
D.J. Kyos
“
The set of upsides and downsides that characterize your organization have an expiration date.
”
”
Reed Deshler (Mastering the Cube: Overcoming Stumbling Blocks and Building an Organization that Works)
“
I want to call you but I can't because this thing we have has an expiration date...
”
”
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (Ace of Spades)
“
Your dreams have an expiration date if you don’t act on them.
”
”
Antonio Neves (Stop Living on Autopilot: Take Responsibility for Your Life and Rediscover a Bolder, Happier You)
“
As mentioned earlier, the 27th Amendment was one of 2 unratified amendments written by Madison that Congress sent to the states with the Bill of Rights. But here’s the story of how it was ratified. Unlike modern amendments, the proposed amendments in the Bill of Rights didn’t have expiration dates. So in 1982, 191 years after it failed, a sophomore political science student at the University of Texas–Austin named Gregory Watson noticed that some states had ratified it, but that it hadn’t expired. So he wrote a paper about the failed amendment and got a C from his TA. He appealed the grade, but his professor upheld the C. Pissed off, Watson started writing letters to various state legislatures. They noticed and began ratifying the amendment. Ten years after his C, Alabama became the 38th state to ratify it, giving it the ¾ (38) needed to add it to the U.S. Constitution.
In 2016, Watson’s paper was resubmitted for a grade change, with a request of an A+ for having caused an actual constitutional amendment. The University of Texas–Austin honored the change, but only gave the paper an A.
”
”
Ben Sheehan (OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?: A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work)
“
Mathison knew he would have to retire when he returned, and that was starting to concern him more than dying. Technology could only do so much, and he was past the expiration date on his birth certificate.
”
”
William S. Frisbee Jr. (Gods of War (The Last Marines #1))
“
When you look at the earth’s existence as a whole, we’re nothing. We haven’t even been here long enough to earn bragging rights. Yet humans believe we’re the center of the universe. We focus on the stupidest, most mundane issues. We stress about things that mean absolutely nothing to the universe, when we should be nothing but grateful that evolution even gave our species a chance to have problems. Because one of these days… humans won’t exist. History will repeat itself and earth will move on to a different species altogether. Me and you… we’re just two people out of an entire race that, in retrospect, is still way less impressive at sustainability than a dinosaur. We just haven’t reached our expiration date yet.
”
”
Colleen Hoover (All Your Perfects)
“
But some friendships don’t have expiration dates. Some friendships are stronger than time and distance and the wounds of life.
”
”
Kim M. Watt (Gobbelino London & a Melee of Mages (Gobbelino London, PI, #4))
“
And that's why they always kept their passports up to date and had them ready in their homes. Just as we always have our passports ready. You will never find an Orthodox Jew in this country - perhaps not even a liberal Jew - whose passport has expired. We're always ready to leave at a moment's notice.
”
”
Margot Vanderstraeten (Mazzel tov)
“
How much do you need?” “Grief doesn’t have an expiration date,” I snap. “And neither does forgiveness. You said you’d do whatever it took to win me back, but the second I mention needing some time to myself, you revert to your old self. If you really want to prove that I can trust you, you’ll let me go.” He lets out a laugh that holds no amusement. “I don’t fucking think so.
”
”
Morgan Bridges (Now You're Mine (Possessing Her))
“
It's hard to hold on to people the older we get. Life looks different for everyone, and you have to keep choosing one another. You have to make the conscious effort to say over and over again, you. Not everyone makes that choise. Not everyone can.
”
”
Rebecca Serle (Expiration Dates)
“
The Christ of Lembata Island
Lately my dreams seep out of me, I
who have a reputation of an airtight presence, I
guess I'm past my expiration date, I
fear both have gone out with the tide, and I
am left stranded, a beached whale surrounded by
a thousand curious and hungry eyes.
Impatient villagers, whale hunters of Lamalera,
carve slabs of meat and blubber from me before I am dead.
I am the Christ of Lembata island,
ready to feed the masses with my flesh,
to redeem them of their hunger
that goes beyond the flesh.
The old harpooner will attest
my heart's as large as a Sumo wrestler.
Take it.
My brain is five times as big as a humans.
Take it.
My heart and mind are yours.
Take my oil to fill your lamps
and I will give you light.
Please, take all of me.
That's why I'm here.
”
”
Beryl Dov
“
Love doesn't have an expiration date.
”
”
K.L. Grayson (A Lover's Lament)
“
Love doesn’t have an expiration date, Katie. There is no cookie cutter for it, and there sure as hell aren’t instructions. It just is. Who says you can’t fall in love with someone who’s already broken your heart? Who says you can’t move on and then fall in love all over again from thousands of miles away via letters and emails? That’s the great thing about love … it finds you. And when it’s true love, it doesn’t go away, and you just know. You don’t have to wonder or guess, because it just … is.
”
”
K.L. Grayson (A Lover's Lament)
“
WORDS HAVE NO EXPIRATION DATE;
YOU CAN EAT THEM WHENEVER YOU WANT.
SO BE SURE TO MAKE EM' YUMMY!
”
”
Qwana Reynolds-Frasier (Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One)
“
Useless Facts About Vodka (How dare you, there's nothing useless about vodka) Vodka does have an expiration date and will most likely go bad after 12 months. Sad but true. No matter, the stuff is usually gone in 12 hours anyways. Until
”
”
Daniel Ganninger (Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World, Volume 1 (Knowledge Stew Guides))
“
The Big Ben Problem suggests that introducing a limited time window may encourage people to seize opportunities for treats. Imagine you’ve just gotten a gift certificate for a piece of delicious cake and a beverage at a high-end French pastry shop. Would you rather see the gift certificate stamped with an expiration date two months from today, or just three weeks from now? Faced with this choice, most people were happier with the two-month option, and 68 percent reported that they would use it before this expiration date.25 But when they received a gift certificate for a tasty pastry at a local shop, only 6 percent of people redeemed it when they were given a two-month expiration date, compared to 31 percent of people who were given the shorter three-week window. People given two months to redeem the certificate kept thinking they could do it later, creating another instance of the Big Ben Problem—and leading them to miss out on a delicious treat. Several years ago, Best Buy reported gaining $43 million from gift certificates that went unredeemed,26 propelling some consumer advocates and policy makers to push for extended expiration dates. But this strategy will likely backfire. We may have more success at maximizing our happiness when treats are only available for a limited time.
”
”
Elizabeth Dunn (Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending)
“
Your dream doesn't have an expiration date.Take a deep breath and try again....
”
”
Usama Ghazi