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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Anne Lamott

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
ANNE LAMOTT

Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTT

Choice Kindness Practice Right 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
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTT

Compare Side Yourself
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTT

Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
ANNE LAMOTT

Better People Story Warm Writing Yourself
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

Holy Laughter One Liner
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
ANNE LAMOTT

Goodness Grace Life Management
Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Hate Prayer Sincere Thinking Yourself
Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
ANNE LAMOTT

Different Grace Universe Yourself
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
ANNE LAMOTT

Experience Grace Resolution Strength Wind Yourself
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
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
ANNE LAMOTT

Delicate Heart Myself Soul Stand Thinking
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself

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