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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

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
Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
ANNE LAMOTT

Best Help Prayer Thankful
How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Decision Simplicity Yourself
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
ANNE LAMOTT

Better Forgiveness Hope Past
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
We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Another Oneself See
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Dance Judgement Right 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
Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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Gratitude Happiness Joy Secret Understand
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
People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.
ANNE LAMOTT

Help Offering People Save Yourself
And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTT

Inspirational Myself Person Prayer
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
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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Animal Creation Oneself Perfection
No is a complete sentence.
ANNE LAMOTT

Complete One Liner Sentence
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

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.

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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.

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