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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

Anne Lamott

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
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
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
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
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
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
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Holy Laughter One Liner
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
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
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
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
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Divine Dog Forever Side

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