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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.

Anne Lamott

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story 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 get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Ourselves Present Thinking World
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Age Heart Old Person Soul Young Yourself
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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God Himself Impossible Start Wonderful
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
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
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
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
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
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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Help Offering People Save Yourself
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Experience Grace Resolution Strength Wind Yourself

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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