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

Anne Lamott

Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Best Help Prayer Thankful
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
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
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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Children Forget Lose Mindset Time Yourself
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
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.
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Creation Expression Search Time Writing
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
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
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
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
The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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Day Life Reason Tribe Work Yourself
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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Holy Laughter One Liner
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself

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