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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.

Anne Lamott

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Forget Lose Mindset Time Yourself
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality Yourself
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
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
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story 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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself
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
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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Body Earth Fall Healing Live Love Rise Soul Sun
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
ANNE LAMOTT

Failure Follow Instruction Rule
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Explanation Hard Health Human Live Message Privilege Suffering
Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Need Water Woman 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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Action Mistake Thinking Yourself
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Myself Person Prayer
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
ANNE LAMOTT

Divine Dog Forever Side
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
ANNE LAMOTT

Help Offering People Save Yourself

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