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Ann Voskamp
Canadian Author
Born: Aug 10, 1973
God Good Life Weary World You
Related authors: Douglas Coupland Farley Mowat Justine Musk Malcolm Gladwell Merle Shain Michael Ondaatje Rob Pike Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. Ann Voskamp
Life God Good Nature Rain Good Things Song World My Life Thanks Pain Stars Nights Wild Neglect Summer Tell Run Wound Rise Give Only Gives Rivers Perfume Falls July Heavy Roses Lived Deepen Things Early
When grief is deepest, words are fewest. Ann Voskamp
Grief Words Fewest Deepest
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. Ann Voskamp
Life You Soul Own Else Beaten Pick Picked Stick Yardstick Up Just Anyone Against Your Measure
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world. Ann Voskamp
Thankful Beautiful Good Change Joy World Light Focus Thanks All The World All Things Give Small True Discover Brave Agents Who Fullest Even Now Things Bring Here
By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded. Ann Voskamp
Life Weary Live Dare Wounded Through Part Taken Simply Most Exist Survive Get Jaded Apathetic Us Grown Default Numb
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. Ann Voskamp
Truth Lie Worth Value Scale Scales Significance About Make Always Ever
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul. Ann Voskamp
You Soul Joy Thug Somebody Down More Beats Makes Than Your Who Even Comparison
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing. Ann Voskamp
Good You Writing Perspective Out Kind Visual Detail Details Runs Seeing Good Writing Like Know Reader Knows Were Lot Screen Experienced Create Really Credibility Need
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker. Ann Voskamp
Life Gratitude Natural Darkness My Life Spent Kin Posture Spoiled Prince Most Ultimately
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned. Ann Voskamp
Christmas Day Weary Christmas Day Kids Tempted Adult Perform Arrive Families Disillusioned Produce
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. Ann Voskamp
Something Sacred Real Romantics Deepening Imagine
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs. Ann Voskamp
Heart Bore Boring Another Real Romantics Hole Deep
A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus. Ann Voskamp
Christmas Focus Circumstances About Simplified Much
Sometimes God answers our questions with questions. Ann Voskamp
God Sometimes Our Answers Questions
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God. Ann Voskamp
God Creativity Chapter Think Mine High Bestowed Write Within Edit Then

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