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And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it’s that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.
– Anne Lamott

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  1. Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you. – Anne Lamott
  2. I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness. – Anne Lamott
  3. As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey. – Ruskin Bond
  4. The problem is people want help, but when help arrives you want to tell the help how to help you. Learn to RECEIVE help. – Bobby F Kimbrough Jr
  5. The Atonement has not only helped me be cleansed, and be healed, but it has also helped me live. – Jayda Skidmore
  6. Believe what you want. He helped me. He protected me. He kept me company. He slept beside me. He saw me naked. He helped me ??????. HE. LOVED. ME. – K Webster
  7. Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  8. Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin. – David W Earle
  9. Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. – Anne Lamott
  10. To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  11. Sometimes I guess it just feels better to know that you have someone to help you when you can’t even help yourself. ~ Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE) – Rebecca Gober
  12. Simplicity is complex. It’s never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking. – Richie Norton
  13. I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help? – CS Lewis
  14. We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  15. If you keep in secret what would have been used to help you, you will never be helped! Your gifts make way for you to lead; use them well! – Israelmore Ayivor
  16. It’s by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another. – Willa Cather
  17. Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  18. Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises. – Gary Hopkins
  19. …It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. – Anne Lamott
  20. Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath. – Anne Lamott
  21. She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91) – Anne Lamott
  22. Certainty is missing the point entirely. – Anne Lamott
  23. It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you’re burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. – Anne Lamott
  24. Resentments make even the best of us feel superior. – Anne Lamott
  25. A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal. – Anne Lamott
  26. There are really places in your heart that you don’t know exist until you love a child. – Anne Lamott
  27. How alive am I willing to be? – Anne Lamott
  28. I’ll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can–until I die. – Anne Lamott
  29. …the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. – Anne Lamott
  30. 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
  31. Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. – Anne Lamott
  32. [Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves. – Anne Lamott
  33. You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness. – Anne Lamott
  34. When I asked Father Tom where we find God in this present darkness, he said that God is in creation, and to get outdoors as much as you can. – Anne Lamott
  35. grace is a small white ????erfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101. – Anne Lamott
  36. I know nothing, except what everyone knows–if there when grace dances, I should dance. – Anne Lamott
  37. God can’t clean the house of you when you’re still in it. – Anne Lamott
  38. Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. – Anne Lamott
  39. A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. – Anne Lamott
  40. 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. – Anne Lamott

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