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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

Anne Lamott

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
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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Action Mistake Thinking Yourself
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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Law Myself Reminder Right Spirit
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
A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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Better Deal End Goodness Marriage People Yourself
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
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
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
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
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Inspirational Myself Person Prayer
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
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround 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
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
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
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
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
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
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.
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Be Yourself Love Miracle Seek
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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Carry Change Myself People Thinking
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
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
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
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

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