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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.

Anne Lamott

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
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
ANNE LAMOTT

Failure Follow Instruction Rule
I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Existence Heart Place Remember
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
ANNE LAMOTT

Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn’t protect itself and it doesn’t hide. It stands out, like a baby’s fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.
ANNE LAMOTT

Delicate Heart Myself Soul Stand Thinking
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
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
ANNE LAMOTT

Another Oneself See
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
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Comfortable Death Safety Stay
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Believe God Myself Prayer
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Ambition Collection Love Order Personality Spirit Walk Yourself
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTT

Compare Side Yourself
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
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTT

Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
ANNE LAMOTT

Goodness Grace Life Management

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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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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