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Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Anne Lamott

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
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
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
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
I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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Law Myself Reminder Right Spirit
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
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
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
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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Body Earth Fall Healing Live Love Rise Soul Sun
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
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
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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Believe God Myself Prayer
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
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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Break Children Day Discipline Myself Need

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

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