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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

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
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
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
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
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Time Work Yourself
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Comfortable Empty Faith Light Mess Return
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 good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Better Deal End Goodness Marriage People 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
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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Dangerous Meaning People Stand Stay Warm Wind World
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past

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

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