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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.

Anne Lamott

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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Body Earth Fall Healing Live Love Rise Soul Sun
The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
ANNE LAMOTT

Miracle Morning Night Wake Up
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
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.
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Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Time Work Yourself
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
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God Himself Impossible Start Wonderful
My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Alone Mindset Myself Try
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
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
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.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

Holy Laughter One Liner
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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Difference God Thinking Yourself
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

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

Compare Side Yourself
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Forget Lose Mindset Time Yourself

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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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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