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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.

Anne Lamott

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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Earth Light Myself Present Sun
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
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
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
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Age Heart Old Person Soul Young Yourself
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
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
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious 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
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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Explanation Hard Health Human Live Message Privilege Suffering
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality 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
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Divine Dog Forever Side

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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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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