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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.

Anne Lamott

Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Best Help Prayer Thankful
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand
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
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Character Miracle Relationship Yourself
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
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
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
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Carry Change Myself People Thinking
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

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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