First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.
– Anne Lamott
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- The path of love is not a tedious path. It’s a path of joy. It’s a path of singing and dancing. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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- Helping yourself is a privilege. Helping others is an honor. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others. – Ace Antonio Hall
- If you want success roll your sleeves up and fight for it! – Arlene Brown
- Wear your heart upon your sleeves and your soul upon your smiles. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- Briar stood, pushing up her sleeves. ‘It’s about to get all nonfiction in here’. – Shannon Hale
- Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. – Carl Sandburg
- That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears. – Peter Heller
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- Push to achieve your dreams. Don’t let anyone push you out of dreamland. – Christy Birmingham
- Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither. – Anne Rice
- …It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. – Anne Lamott
- Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath. – Anne Lamott
- She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91) – Anne Lamott
- Certainty is missing the point entirely. – Anne Lamott
- It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you’re burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. – Anne Lamott
- Resentments make even the best of us feel superior. – Anne Lamott
- A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal. – Anne Lamott
- 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
- I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness. – Anne Lamott
- I’ve given guys blow jobs just because I’ve run out of things to talk about.’Oh, Rae. Who hasn’t – Anne Lamott
- I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance. – Anne Lamott
- How alive am I willing to be? – Anne Lamott
- I’ll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can–until I die. – Anne Lamott
- …the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. – Anne Lamott
- 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
- Here are the two best prayers I know: ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you. – Anne Lamott
- [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
- You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness. – Anne Lamott
- 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
- grace is a small white ????erfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101. – Anne Lamott
- I know nothing, except what everyone knows–if there when grace dances, I should dance. – Anne Lamott
- God can’t clean the house of you when you’re still in it. – Anne Lamott
- Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. – Anne Lamott
- A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. – Anne Lamott
- 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