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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.

Anne Lamott

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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Drink Myself Start Struggle Thinking Time
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
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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Carry Death Easy Greatness Life Mom Ourselves
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
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
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
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
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
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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Help Offering People Save Yourself
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
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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Failure Follow Instruction Rule

When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.

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