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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 Lamott

We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
ANNE LAMOTT

Another Oneself See
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Carry Change Myself People Thinking
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
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
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
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
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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God Myself Religious 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.
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Delicate Heart Myself Soul Stand Thinking
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
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Conscious Oneself Writing
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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Light Run Save Shine Stand
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Compare Side Yourself
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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Difficult Enlightenment Forget Road Yourself
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Myself Person Prayer
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
ANNE LAMOTT

Blessing Progress Small
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
Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

Holy Laughter

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.

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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.

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