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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

If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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Comfortable Death Safety Stay
I’m not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I’m not going to carry that in my backpack.
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Carry Change Myself People Thinking
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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Light Run Save Shine Stand
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there’s something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
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Believe God Myself Prayer
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
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.
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Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself
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.
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Beginning Hope Right Work Yourself
Joy is the best makeup.
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Best Happiness Joy Make Up One Liner
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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Earth Light Myself Present Sun
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
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Better Forgiveness Hope Past
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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Drink God Myself Thinking
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself
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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Best Help Prayer Thankful
No is a complete sentence.
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Complete One Liner Sentence
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
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Atmosphere Gift Self Care
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
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Carry Death Easy Greatness Life Mom Ourselves
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
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.
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Be Yourself Love Miracle Seek
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Assumption God Hate Image People Safety Yourself
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.
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God Hate Prayer Sincere Thinking Yourself
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.
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Explanation Hard Health Human Live Message Privilege Suffering
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
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Ambition Collection Love Order Personality Spirit Walk Yourself
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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Break Children Day Discipline Myself Need
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.
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Myself Tree Understand Unity

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.

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