Top 50 Nicole Deese Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Sunsets are a reminder that every day will come to an end. And no matter how hard, or how trying, or how all-consuming that twenty-four-hour period might feel... every day can be as different as every sunset.”

— Nicole Deese

2. “Success is a slow, long process of repetition.”

— Nicole Deese

3. “But more often than not, the best rescue plan we can offer someone we care abour is our support for each step they take forward.”

— Nicole Deese

4. “I’m listening now, God.′ Now that I have nothing left to give and nothing left to offer anyone.”

— Nicole Deese

5. “Love isn’t measured by what we gain. It’s measured by how much we give away.”

— Nicole Deese

6. “For the first time in my adult life, I want to give my heart to something that really matters – something bigger than what I could have ever seen for myself or for my future.”

— Nicole Deese

7. “Truth always leaves a trail.”

— Nicole Deese

8. “Grief is far more like a permanent squatter who doesn’t take no for an answer and who leaves your most cherished possessions ransacked and in tatters.”

— Nicole Deese

9. “You don’t honor God with your life by changing your personality and tossing out everything that is unique about who you are. You honor Him by offering those very gifts back to Him.”

— Nicole Deese

10. “It’s impossible to love someone and never feel pain. They’re a packaged deal. But when you’re committed to loving someone – you figure out how to work through the hard times.”

— Nicole Deese

11. “Summer had so much drive, so much ambition, but when she started focusing too much on what lay ahead, she missed out on everything that was right in front of her.”

— Nicole Deese

12. “Falling in love with you was not happenstance.”

— Nicole Deese

13. “Our town can learn a lot from the heartwood inside this beautiful old oak. Because its legacy is here – in this town, and in each other. It has lived a life we can be proud of, one of strength and purpose, one that continues, even now, to bring families and friends together.”

— Nicole Deese

14. “When you’re committed to loving someone... you figure out how to work through the hard times.”

— Nicole Deese

15. “Every opportunity worth pursuing comes with a price tag. Either sweat or sacrifice. Sometimes both.”

— Nicole Deese

16. “Hey, you over there – you who’s been on the path of adoption for more than a year, you who’s been trying to keep your mind occupied while still being an active member of society – well, guess what? Your wait’s about to be over! Only in the meantime, you get to wait some more!”

— Nicole Deese

17. “Consequences aren’t always physical. Not the ones that hurt the most anyway.”

— Nicole Deese

18. “Funny how differently time is prioritized when it’s in short supply.”

— Nicole Deese

19. “Love is more than flirty feelings and fun dates. It’s about what lives underneath the surface. The commitment you keep even when life gets hard and all the fuzzy feelings fade.”

— Nicole Deese

20. “If you waste your heart on hate, you’ll miss the good life has to give.”

— Nicole Deese

21. “Dreams bloom when the time is right.”

— Nicole Deese

22. “Before I can even attempt to lower my heart rate, she’s velcroed herself to me with the kind of hug one might extend if they held proof of a matched blood relation.”

— Nicole Deese

23. “God is often made visible by the hands and feet of the people He places in our lives.”

— Nicole Deese

24. “Character is built on every decision we make, especially those we make in secret.”

— Nicole Deese

25. “When you feel good in your own skin, it’s easy to help someone else feel good in theirs.”

— Nicole Deese

26. “Because we’ve both learned the hard way that falling in love is far simpler than staying in love.”

— Nicole Deese

27. “I supposed that was the thing about moving: A person could upgrade their location, their appliances, and even their tax bracket... and still find time to unpack their old habits.”

— Nicole Deese

28. “I felt it anew – the tireless tether that had bound us to one another since childhood. Clementine, my big sister, and the North Star to my wandering soul.”

— Nicole Deese

29. “I can’t erase the darkness for you, but I can be the one to hold the light when you’re ready to come home.”

— Nicole Deese

30. “It matters because you matter to Him.”

— Nicole Deese

31. “Losing a part of who you’ve been will take time to work through. And that doesn’t make you selfish or shallow or wrong. It makes you human. It makes you real.”

— Nicole Deese

32. “Bitterness can compromise a heart the way fireblight disease can consume an apple orchard.”

— Nicole Deese

33. “I’m learning that much like love, grief is meant to be shared.”

— Nicole Deese

34. “Nothing is easy without practice.”

— Nicole Deese

35. “I love you,′ I said, studying the extravagance and depth of her eyes. ‘Even the crazy, impulsive parts of you that I don’t always understand. Because those are the parts that have challenged me. That have changed me.”

— Nicole Deese

36. “Life was too unpredictable not to make a permanent declaration of what mattered most.”

— Nicole Deese

37. “Good character isn’t produced overnight; it’s grown over many seasons. In the same way you sort the good apples from the bad, the marks of poor characters are just as easy to detect.”

— Nicole Deese

38. “Our connection to art has less to do with talent and more to do with the emotion it stirs inside us. And perhaps our willingness to feel that emotion.”

— Nicole Deese

39. “I imagine standing beside you as a partner. I imagine supporting you as a friend. I imagine encouraging you as a confidant. And I imagine loving you in all the ways a devoted husband would adore his wife.”

— Nicole Deese

40. “Sometimes the happiest endings begin after a cliffhanger.”

— Nicole Deese

41. “Listen. Feel. Create. Always in that order.”

— Nicole Deese

42. “Perhaps this was what love did to a person: It slowly turned up the temperature from within so that eventually the outside of a person had no choice but to match the warmth of the inside.”

— Nicole Deese

43. “My mom always says God sees every tear we cry – that He collects them in a bottle. And I guess, when I think about it, it makes sense that God would use the ocean as His bottles.”

— Nicole Deese

44. “I’d much rather my life be defined by a thousand little moments of faithfulness than by one big moment of fame.”

— Nicole Deese

45. “You shouldn’t have to convince anyone of who you are – but I have a feeling you’ve spent most of your life doing just that. -Levi.”

— Nicole Deese

46. “In the nine years I’d worked with kids who’d come from hard places, I’d learned a few things about grace – and it was a lot easier to hand out when I didn’t hold it with a clenched fist.”

— Nicole Deese

47. “Gentleness is not a momentary act the way kindness can be; it speaks instead of a consistently soft and pliable heart.”

— Nicole Deese

48. “You’ve reminded me what hope for tomorrow feels like... and it feels like this. It feels like you.”

— Nicole Deese

49. “He says the ocean is the only place big enough to hold all the sorrow in our world.”

— Nicole Deese

50. “And I’m realizing more and more just how much I’ve neglected the most vital parts of who I am, of who I’m meant to be. When I’m focused inward, I miss out on divine opportunities to bless others – to serve, to help, to protect, to befriend. To love beyond my own capacity and capability.”

— Nicole Deese