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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

Anne Lamott

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
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Beginning Born Mess Notice True Wild
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround 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
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
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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Earth Light Myself Present Sun
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
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
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
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
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Children Forget Lose Mindset Time Yourself
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Time Work Yourself

How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

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