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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

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
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Care Message Moral Passionate Position Yourself
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
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
ANNE LAMOTT

Believe God Myself Prayer
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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Creation Expression Search Time Writing
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Holy Laughter One Liner
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Goodness Grace Life Management
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
I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
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Children Existence Heart Place Remember
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
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
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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Better People Story Warm Writing Yourself
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality 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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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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