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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

I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Myself Religious Understand
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
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
ANNE LAMOTT

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

Failure Follow Instruction Rule
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
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
ANNE LAMOTT

Light Run Save Shine Stand
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
ANNE LAMOTT

Funny Life Reality Yourself
Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
ANNE LAMOTT

Compare Side 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.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Himself Impossible Start Wonderful
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
ANNE LAMOTT

Better Forgiveness Hope Past
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
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
ANNE LAMOTT

Story Yourself
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
ANNE LAMOTT

Comfortable Empty Faith Light Mess Return
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Earth Light Myself Present Sun

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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