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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

Anne Lamott

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
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

Holy Laughter One Liner
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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Drink Myself Start Struggle Thinking Time
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Day Life Reason Tribe Work Yourself
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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Drink God Myself Thinking
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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Creation Expression Search Time Writing
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Goodness Grace Life Management
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Human People Togetherness Yourself
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Assumption God Hate Image People Safety Yourself
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing

How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

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