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

Anne Lamott

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
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
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
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
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Character Miracle Relationship Yourself
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
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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Carry Death Easy Greatness Life Mom Ourselves
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
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 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
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
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Divine Dog Forever Side
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence

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

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