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I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.

Anne Lamott

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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Goodness Grace Life Management
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
ANNE LAMOTT

Drink Myself Start Struggle Thinking Time
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
ANNE LAMOTT

Help Offering People Save Yourself
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Time Work Yourself
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
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
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTT

Compare Side Yourself
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.
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Children Existence Heart Place Remember
Hope begins in the dark.
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Beginning Darkness Hope
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Children Healing Hold People Scary Yourself
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
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
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
Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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Big Ignorance Love Ourselves
Expectations are resentments under construction.
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Construction Expectation Regret
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Attention Beautiful Pay Surround Yourself

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