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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

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
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
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
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
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround 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
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Assumption God Hate Image People Safety Yourself
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Dance Judgement Right Yourself
I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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Myself Tree Understand Unity
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
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
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

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