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If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
– Anne Lamott

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  2. Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe. – Anne Lamott
  3. Stay in church, stay in prayer, stay in the Word, and stay in fellowship with other believers. – Nancy Alcorn
  4. Nothing that is good can become stuck -“ and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good! – Silvia Hartmann
  5. I’ll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can–until I die. – Anne Lamott
  6. Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. – Anne Lamott
  7. You must stay away from the one who brings nothing but heartache and death. Do you hear me? He brings nothing but death. Always has. – Jennifer L Armentrout
  8. Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath. – Anne Lamott
  9. I know nothing, except what everyone knows–if there when grace dances, I should dance. – Anne Lamott
  10. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone. – Alan Lightman
  11. Maybe, it wasn’t stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn’t know how. – Shannon L Alder
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  14. Authentic people are so comfortable in their own skins they make us more comfortable in our own. – Susan C Young
  15. men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men. – Christina Escamilla
  16. Life isn’t about how comfortable I can be it is about learning how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable – Heather Gillis
  17. When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman
  18. I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn’t comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable. – Marjane Satrapi
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  20. Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don’t let anyone ever tell you you aren’t smart or brave or worthy enough. – Alex Hirsch
  21. Most people like normality because they feel safe and comfortable around it. – Euginia Herlihy
  22. Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe. – Lenore Kandel
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  25. Certainty is missing the point entirely. – Anne Lamott
  26. It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you’re burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. – Anne Lamott
  27. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it’s that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped. – Anne Lamott
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  35. When I asked Father Tom where we find God in this present darkness, he said that God is in creation, and to get outdoors as much as you can. – Anne Lamott
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