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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’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
ANNE LAMOTT

Human People Togetherness 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
Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.
ANNE LAMOTT

Different Grace Universe Yourself
When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
ANNE LAMOTT

Breathe Kindness Prayer Reason
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Body Earth Fall Healing Live Love Rise Soul Sun
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

Holy Laughter One Liner
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
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
ANNE LAMOTT

Blessing Progress Small
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
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
ANNE LAMOTT

Dance Judgement Right Yourself
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
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
ANNE LAMOTT

Life Ourselves Soul Wide Writing
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
What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Difference God Thinking Yourself
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTT

Difficult Enlightenment Forget Road Yourself
I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Motivational Myself Yourself

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