We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.
– Anne Lamott
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- Keep dreaming,Keep hoping,Keep lovingKeep giving,keep motivating,Keep forgiving,Keep praying,Keep tithing,Keep sharing your testimony. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe. – Anne Lamott
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- Life is like the clouds we see everyday.The dark,white patches and its mixtures.These are what we see and experience everyday. – Seyi Ayoola
- They make me…they make me think of being stuck somewhere? I don’t know, like weighted down, but then these patches… – Kathleen Glasgow
- Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else. – Brian Spellman
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- Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air. – Gwendolyn Brooks
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- And when again it’s morning, they’ ll wash away. Here it’s safe, here it’s warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm – Suzanne Collins
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