I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
ANNE LAMOTTHere are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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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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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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Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
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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.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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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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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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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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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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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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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.
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No is a complete sentence.
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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.
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