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Hope begins in the dark.

Anne Lamott

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
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
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Holy Laughter One Liner
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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Myself Tree Understand Unity
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
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
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
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
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
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Different Grace Universe Yourself
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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Help Offering People Save Yourself
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence

Hope begins in the dark.

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