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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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Manna today or I starve.
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