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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

The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
ANNE LAMOTT

Miracle Morning Night Wake Up
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
ANNE LAMOTT

Dance Judgement Right Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Beginning Born Mess Notice True Wild
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Earth Light Myself Present Sun
I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.
ANNE LAMOTT

Ourselves Present Thinking World
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
ANNE LAMOTT

Invitation Prayer Relationship Silence Unique
Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
ANNE LAMOTT

Creation Expression Search Time Writing
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
I’m human, you’re human, let me greet your humanness. Let’s be people together for a while.
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Human People Togetherness Yourself
You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTT

Choice Kindness Practice Right Yourself
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTT

Dance Floor Mountain Prayer Religious
I don’t know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
ANNE LAMOTT

God Myself Religious Understand
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Finding Leaving Mystery Understand Yourself
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.
ANNE LAMOTT

Drink God Myself Thinking
The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
ANNE LAMOTT

Dangerous Meaning People Stand Stay Warm Wind World
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT

Holy Laughter One Liner

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

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