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

Anne Lamott

Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
ANNE LAMOTT

Failure Follow Instruction Rule
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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God Hate Prayer Sincere Thinking Yourself
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Time Work Yourself
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
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
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
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
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
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Assumption God Hate Image People Safety Yourself
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
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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Body Earth Fall Healing Live Love Rise Soul Sun
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
I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Human People Togetherness Yourself
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Forget Lose Mindset Time Yourself

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