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“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
― Ann Voskamp

“Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.”
― Ann Voskamp

“Act your wage.”
― Dave Ramsey

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“How good one feels when one is full -- how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. ”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“I used to spend a lotta time worryin that I was different from other people, even from other homeless folks. Then, after I met Miss Debbie and Mr. Ron, I worried that I was so different from them that we wadn't ever gon' have no kind a' future. But I found out everybody's different - the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us. The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless - just workin our way toward home.”
― Denver Moore, Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

“But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,' I said, 'cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else.”
― Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

“I found out everybody’s different – the same kind of different as me. We’re all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us. The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or something in between, this earth ain’t no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless – just workin our way toward home”
― Denver Moore, Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

“If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.”
― Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

“Good medicine always tastes bad.”
― Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

“I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.”
― Ann Voskamp

“The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless--just working our way toward home.”
― Denver Moore, Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

“The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.”
― Ann Voskamp

“Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.”
― Ann Voskamp

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
― Martin Luther

“Triump is just a little umph added to try.”
― Tim Owens

“If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.”
― Jeff Goins

“This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you'll find it easier to tackle another.”
― Jeff Goins

“If you're going to fall out of love with public approval, something interesting will happen: people will be deeply attracted to your work.”
― Jeff Goins

“Serving people is the best way to earn influence.”
― Jeff Goins

“That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God.”
― Ann Voskamp

“Hurry always empties a soul.”
― Ann Voskamp

“God gives us time. And who has time for God?”
― Ann Voskamp

“If you haven't lost Christ, child, nothing is ever lost.”
― Ann Voskamp

“The weight of God's glory, not illusory or ephemeral, but daily and everywhere, punctures earth's lid and heaven falls through the holes.”
― Ann Voskamp

“All new life labors out of the very bowels of darkness.”
― Ann Voskamp