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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

Anne Lamott

What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself
I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Carry Change Myself People Thinking
Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Best Help Prayer Thankful
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
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
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
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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Different Grace Universe Yourself
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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Carry Death Easy Greatness Life Mom Ourselves
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself

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