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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

Anne Lamott

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Character Miracle Relationship Yourself
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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Body Earth Fall Healing Live Love Rise Soul Sun
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
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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Light Run Save Shine Stand
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
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 a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Ambition Collection Love Order Personality Spirit Walk Yourself
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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Comfortable Death Safety Stay
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
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Better Deal End Goodness Marriage People Yourself
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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Believe God Myself Prayer

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

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