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You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

Anne Lamott

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
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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Drink God Myself Thinking
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
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
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
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
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
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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God Himself Impossible Start Wonderful
A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Better Deal End Goodness Marriage People Yourself
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
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
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
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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Atmosphere Gift Self Care
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
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Ourselves Present Thinking World
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Experience Grace Resolution Strength Wind 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
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself

You can either practice being right or practice being kind.

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