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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

Anne Lamott

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
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Character Miracle Relationship Yourself
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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Children Existence Heart Place Remember
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Children Forget Lose Mindset Time Yourself
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
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
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
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Delicate Heart Myself Soul Stand Thinking

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