Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
ANNE LAMOTTTo love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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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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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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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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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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