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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.

Anne Lamott

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
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
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 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
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity 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
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
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
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

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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