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Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

Anne Lamott

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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Break Children Day Discipline Myself Need
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Care Message Moral Passionate Position Yourself
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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Action Mistake Thinking Yourself
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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Earth Light Myself Present Sun
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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Atmosphere Gift Self Care
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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Better People Story Warm Writing Yourself
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Beginning Hope Right Work Yourself
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Character Miracle Relationship Yourself
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself

Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

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