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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.

Anne Lamott

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 miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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Miracle Morning Night Wake Up
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
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
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
ANNE LAMOTT

Be Yourself Love Miracle Seek
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
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
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
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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Help Offering People Save Yourself
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

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