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

Anne Lamott

Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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Age Heart Old Person Soul Young Yourself
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
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
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
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
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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Believe God Myself Prayer
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Experience Grace Resolution Strength Wind 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
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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Advice Animal Circus Town Yourself
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
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
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Holy Laughter One Liner
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
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious Understand

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