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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

Anne Lamott

Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
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
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
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
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Dance Judgement Right Yourself
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’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
Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
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Explanation Hard Health Human Live Message Privilege Suffering
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Difficult Enlightenment Forget Road 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
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
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Blessing Progress Small
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Inspirational Myself Person Prayer
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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Break Children Day Discipline Myself Need
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself

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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