Hope begins in the dark.
ANNE LAMOTTWhen faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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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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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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No is a complete sentence.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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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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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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