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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.

Anne Lamott

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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Creation Expression Search Time Writing
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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God Need Water Woman Yourself
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
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
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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Explanation Hard Health Human Live Message Privilege Suffering
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Beginning Hope Right Work 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
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
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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Be Yourself Love Miracle Seek
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTT

Compare Side Yourself
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand
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
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
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
Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Different Grace Universe Yourself

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