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 LAMOTTHuman 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.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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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Joy is the best makeup.
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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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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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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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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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Hope begins in the dark.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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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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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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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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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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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.
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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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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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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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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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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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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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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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I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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