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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

Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTT

Compare Side 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
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
ANNE LAMOTT

Better Forgiveness Hope Past
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.
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Different Grace Universe Yourself
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Care Message Moral Passionate Position Yourself
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
ANNE LAMOTT

Another Oneself See
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 own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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Story Yourself
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
ANNE LAMOTT

Advice Animal Circus Town 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
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
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
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Atmosphere Gift Self Care
Hope begins in the dark.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Darkness Hope

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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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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