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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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