The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTTHere are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
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I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.
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You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
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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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You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
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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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Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
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