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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.

Anne Lamott

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
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
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Inspirational Myself Person Prayer
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Ambition Collection Love Order Personality Spirit Walk Yourself
Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Age Heart Old Person Soul Young 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 carbonated holiness.
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Holy Laughter One Liner
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
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
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’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Carry Change Myself People Thinking
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround 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

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