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“Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day.”
― Carrie Newcomer, A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays

tags: carrie-newcomer, gratitude, inspirational-quotes, spiritual-practice

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“A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.”
― Carrie Newcomer

tags: carrie-newcomer, dogs, gratitude, presence

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“Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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