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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.

Anne Lamott

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Beginning Hope Right Work Yourself
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
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
I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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Myself Tree Understand Unity
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
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Ourselves Present Thinking World
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
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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Care Message Moral Passionate Position Yourself
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
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
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Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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Time Work Yourself
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
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
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself

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