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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

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
No is a complete sentence.
ANNE LAMOTT

Complete One Liner Sentence
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Born Mess Notice True Wild
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity 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.
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Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young
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
I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
ANNE LAMOTT

Myself Tree Understand Unity
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
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTT

Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTT

Difficult Enlightenment Forget Road Yourself
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
ANNE LAMOTT

Be Yourself Love Miracle Seek
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
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Myself Person Prayer
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Hope Right Work Yourself
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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Age Heart Old Person Soul Young Yourself
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking 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
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
ANNE LAMOTT

Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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Divine Dog Forever Side
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

Holy Laughter
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTT

Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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Dangerous Meaning People Stand Stay Warm Wind World
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Earth Light Myself Present Sun
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
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Comfortable Empty Faith Light Mess Return
Hope begins in the dark.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Darkness Hope
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself

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