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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.

Anne Lamott

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
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 don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
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
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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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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Myself Tree Understand Unity
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
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Failure Follow Instruction Rule
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves

I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.

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