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One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Anne Lamott

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 don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Inspirational Myself Person Prayer
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
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Difficult Enlightenment Forget Road Yourself
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Beginning Born Mess Notice True Wild
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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Action Mistake Thinking Yourself
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
ANNE LAMOTT

Atmosphere Gift Self Care
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself

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