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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.

Anne Lamott

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Beginning Born Mess Notice True Wild
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
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
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
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
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
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
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
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
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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Creation Expression Search Time Writing
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Best Help Prayer Thankful
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

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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