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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.

Anne Lamott

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
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Dance Judgement Right Yourself
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
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Human People Togetherness Yourself
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity 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
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
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Holy Laughter One Liner
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
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
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
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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