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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

Anne Lamott

The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
ANNE LAMOTT

Miracle Morning Night Wake Up
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Comfortable Empty Faith Light Mess Return
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
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
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
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
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTT

Ourselves Present Thinking World
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Need Water Woman Yourself
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
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Existence Heart Place Remember
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Delicate Heart Myself Soul Stand Thinking
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself

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