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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

Anne Lamott

A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
ANNE LAMOTT

Better Deal End Goodness Marriage People Yourself
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
ANNE LAMOTT

Better People Story Warm Writing Yourself
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.
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Body Earth Fall Healing Live Love Rise Soul Sun
I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
ANNE LAMOTT

Myself Tree Understand Unity
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
ANNE LAMOTT

Dance Judgement Right Yourself
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
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
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Attention Beautiful Pay Surround 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
You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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Assumption God Hate Image People Safety Yourself
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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Help Offering People Save Yourself
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Myself Person Prayer
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
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
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Funny Life Reality 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
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
ANNE LAMOTT

Cold Dance Herself Hungry Moments Old Young

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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