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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Born Mess Notice True Wild
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Goodness Grace Life Management
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

Children Existence Heart Place Remember
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTT

Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story 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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Creation Expression Search Time Writing
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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Carry Death Easy Greatness Life Mom Ourselves
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTT

Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
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

Carry Change Myself People Thinking
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

Holy Laughter One Liner
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
ANNE LAMOTT

Character Miracle Relationship 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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Assumption God Hate Image People Safety Yourself

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