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Hope begins in the dark.

Anne Lamott

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
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Drink Myself Start Struggle Thinking Time
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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Better People Story Warm Writing Yourself
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
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
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Inspirational Motivational Myself 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
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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God Himself Impossible Start Wonderful
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
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God Need Water Woman 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.
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Assumption God Hate Image People Safety Yourself
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Comfortable Empty Faith Light Mess Return
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking 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
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
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Holy Laughter

Hope begins in the dark.

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