Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
ANNE LAMOTTHope begins in the dark.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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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No is a complete sentence.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
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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.
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I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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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.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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.
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